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Ok, so I need a sanity check over all of the documents for my CR-1 Interview in Auckland, New Zealand.

Please tell me if I'm missing anything super-critical?

In my "Interview" folder I have:

1) Appointment Letter

2) Passport (Original & Married name passports - original has my entry/exit stamps from USA on VWP)

3) Marriage Cert (Original)

4) New pay slips and tax information for my husband and my joint sponsor (changed employer) for AOS

5) My resume & proof of liquid assets (proof I can support myself over there as well)

6) Letter from my life insurance provider showing husband and my mother as 50/50 beneficiaries (Bona-Fide relationship)

7) Photos of our wedding (not annotated, but I can name everybody who was at our wedding if asked to point them out) (Bona-Fide relationship - that it wasn't a "secret" wedding)

8) 6 months of Skype logs from early in our relationship (Bona-Fide relationship).

9) Screenshots of phone & iPad FaceTime logs showing our video calls and phone calls since August 2014 (Bona-Fide relationship)

10) Chat logs from Google Hangouts (just shows the date of the conversation and how many messages were exchanged, not the content) in 2013 (Bona-Fide relationship)

11) Emails to/from hubby's family (his mum and dad) (Bona-Fide relationship - again, that I have a good relationship with his family, and it's not a "secret marriage")

12) X-Ray CD (I'm told they won't need it though) (Medical)

13) Tickets & Receipts for activities we did when I visited (Bona-Fide relationship)

14) Receipt for my wedding dress and hubby's wedding ring showing that we only bought that stuff AFTER we got the marriage license (I'm trying to show that we married on impulse - wasn't pre-planned when I visited, as I was only on VWP) (Bona-Fide relationship).

15) 4 extra passport photos just in case

16) Tracked courier bag - A4 size

I called the Consulate and they advised they have:

1) Original birth certificate

2) Original Police Clearance form

3) All AOS information

4) Original Marriage Cert (we were issued 4 by the courthouse when we married for some reason)

I'm worried about not having enough consistent evidence - we changed communication forms throughout our relationship a LOT (various apps, various phones, etc) and a lot of the records got lost during that process.

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Austria
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They didn't even look at any of our additional documents. We took about 200 pages of extra proof and he said do you really want me to add that because I'll have to make a new folder then. We said no it's fine. He talked to us for about 10 minutes and then approved the greencard. It's a piece of cake.

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: China
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You mentioned your husband and joint sponsor changed employers, was this after the I-864 was submitted to NVC? If so, then new I-864 forms will need to be brought to the interview.

Our journey:

Spoiler

September 2007: Met online via social networking site (MySpace); began exchanging messages.
March 26, 2009: We become a couple!
September 10, 2009: Arrived for first meeting in-person!
June 17, 2010: Arrived for second in-person meeting and start of travel together to other areas of China!
June 21, 2010: Engaged!!!
September 1, 2010: Switched course from K1 to CR-1
December 8, 2010: Wedding date set; it will be on February 18, 2011!
February 9, 2011: Depart for China
February 11, 2011: Registered for marriage in Wuhan, officially married!!!
February 18, 2011: Wedding ceremony in Shiyan!!!
April 22, 2011: Mailed I-130 to Chicago
April 28, 2011: Received NOA1 via text/email, file routed to CSC (priority date April 25th)
April 29, 2011: Updated
May 3, 2011: Received NOA1 hardcopy in mail
July 26, 2011: Received NOA2 via text/email!!!
July 30, 2011: Received NOA2 hardcopy in mail
August 8, 2011: NVC received file
September 1, 2011: NVC case number assigned
September 2, 2011: AOS invoice received, OPTIN email for EP sent
September 7, 2011: Paid AOS bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 9, 2011)
September 8, 2011: OPTIN email accepted, GZO number assigned
September 10, 2011: Emailed AOS package
September 12, 2011: IV bill invoiced
September 13, 2011: Paid IV bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 14, 2011)
September 14, 2011: Emailed IV package
October 3, 2011: Emailed checklist response (checklist generated due to typo on Form DS-230)
October 6, 2011: Case complete at NVC
November 10, 2011: Interview - APPROVED!!!
December 7, 2011: POE - Sea-Tac Airport

September 17, 2013: Mailed I-751 to CSC

September 23, 2013: Received NOA1 in mail (receipt date September 19th)

October 16, 2013: Biometrics Appointment

January 28, 2014: Production of new Green Card ordered

February 3, 2014: New Green Card received; done with USCIS until fall of 2023*

December 18, 2023:  Filed I-90 to renew Green Card

December 21, 2023:  Production of new Green Card ordered - will be seeing USCIS again every 10 years for renewal

 

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