I-129F Petition: Bank statements showing we have spent money in the same place

[simonschus 58]

Hi all,

We are sending off our I-129F soon enough and we’re just putting together the documentation at the moment.

We have various pieces of evidence for having met in the last two years but I still have a question

So far, we have:

1) electronic receipts/booking confirmations and a few boarding passes flying to/from each other in either direction (her 5 times; me 10 times);

2) electronic receipts/booking confirmation of us having flown together on three occasions (when we went on vacation together).

3) photographs of us.

My two questions are about bank statements showing that we have spent money in the same places (either in the same city or the same restaurant).

1) I have my credit card statements which I am submitting in full. My partner is submitting screenshots from her online banking website. None of those screenshots really show her name or address though. Will this be a major problem? It is just a list of some transactions. She doesn't want to submit her full bank statements at all and isn't the most technically minded to do this herself

2) My credit card statement is in .pdf format which I’ll print out. However, I am going into the .pdf and electronically highlighting some example transactions by drawing a red rectangle on around them. It seems fair that we do this given we’ll be submitting quite a bit of documentation. Will this be okay, or is this considered inappropriate altering/defacing? We are using the cover letter which states that "Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents. I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date.”. I wouldn't want our whole application to get rejected over adding red rectangles to help.

Hopefully those are simple questions but I’d really value your thoughts and input so we can get this right first time. I'm quite happy for somebody to say "its best not to submit the bank statements at all than do it the way you're suggesting".

Simon

Edited November 22, 2015 by simonschus

[ch3john 308]

I'm not sure bank statements and proof that you spent money at the same place and time is necessary.

You didn't mention it but entry/exit stamps in your passport will help as well.

Good luck on your journey

[simonschus 58]

I'm not sure bank statements and proof that you spent money at the same place and time is necessary.

You didn't mention it but entry/exit stamps in your passport will help as well.

Good luck on your journey

Thanks for your reply ch3john. I appreciate your help and response.

This was an intentional omission. We hope to include the passport entry/exit stamps for our visits to one another (we won't have joint stamps for our trips together to places because I don't get stamps when travelling within the EU). I'll definitely be submitting mine but she might not submit hers - she has submitted her passport for renewal and hasn't had the old passport back yet. She got the new passport back already but we are waiting on her old passport in order to take photographs of it for submission as evidence. It all depends on if we get her old passport back in the next week.

Does anybody else have any thoughts about submitting the bank statements in the form described above?

[Darnell 8,478]

I would include the two statements with a letter of attestation outlining exactly what you are attempting to prove...

Ie....

We were together from 26 aug to 16 sept, buying various things together in shops [see attachments 11 and 12]

[simonschus 58]

I would include the two statements with a letter of attestation outlining exactly what you are attempting to prove...

Ie....

We were together from 26 aug to 16 sept, buying various things together in shops [see attachments 11 and 12]

Thank you for your suggestions Darnell. Yes, I am including a letter prior to every major set of evidence explaining what the evidence is and what we intend to be gleaned from that evidence (note: the letter won't be notarised, hopefully not a problem). I've not got into the level of detail in the letter that I have written the exact dates and what we were doing. However, this is a really good idea so thank you. I shall add it in as another bullet-point list!

If anybody has any thoughts about the problems I mentioned above then that would be lovely, namely:

- my girlfriend's statement being partial screenshots without her name/address, rather than the full statement;

- whether highlighting the transactions of note on statements is considered problematic (I intend to put a red-bordered rectangle around each transaction of note).

Simon.

Edited November 22, 2015 by simonschus