A few format/organization questions

[Imatoucan 0]

Hello! Im filing my I-130 on Friday, and while I'm confident I have all the neccecary documentation, I have a few last minute questions that might sound dumb, but I'd rather be safe than have to do it all again!

1. For copies of birth certificate & marriage certificate: I am printing color copies to be included, my question is do they only need to see the front, or do I need to scan the back too? If so, do I print double sided? (The back of both documents doesn't have any info on it, but I want to be sure!)

2. For evidence of bona fide marriage: my husband and I do not share any accounts, own any property, or have any children. I can easily provide photos, conversations (with dates on them), and affidavits of support. My plan is to show documentation of each of our visits (example: flight itinerary from MN to UK, a photo of us from that trip, and a hotel recipet.) This would mean I have 4 pages, each page being in that format, documenting a visit. My question then, is do you think that will be enough? Should I include affidavits? If so, how many and frkm friends, family, or both?

3. Ok last question, how did you mail your info? I mean did you put it in one big envelope (in order of course, and labled,) or a fancy folder/ binder? Im sure im just overthinking it, but i want to look well prepared and organized!

Thank you so much for your time and help!

-Libby

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

1. If the back side is blank, then what's the point of copying it? Send the side with information.

3. No to fancy binders. Extra work for the contractors to take them apart and throw away your binder, dividers, etc. I put mine in an old, coffee stained file folder just to squish the loose pages together better so I could easily slide it into one of those cardboard type Priority Mail mailers.

[A'n'L 735]

1) You need to copy both sides of the birth certificate, double sided or not doesn't matter. They for some reason want to see that the back is empty.

2) Are you recently married? If so, they understand the lack of co-mingling. Send some pictures from your wedding if you have it.

3) Just put it in the right order, no fancy binder needed.

[Imatoucan 0]

Thanks so much! I saw on some thread that they want to see both sides, just thought that was weird but I'll be sure to do that anyway. We were married on april 28th 2015, so I will include pictures of that and a couple visits since then.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Thanks so much! I saw on some thread that they want to see both sides, just thought that was weird but I'll be sure to do that anyway. We were married on april 28th 2015, so I will include pictures of that and a couple visits since then.

People are seriously overthinking and saying "they" want to see it. Isn't that just another rumor? Use your logic. They say both sides in case there is anything to show. If there is nothing to see, they don't need it. They need data, not blank paper.

Edit: Now I am laughing because my husband agrees with copying a blank page. He's British and overthinks everything. LOL. I did all our paperwork and no backside of our birth certificates were submitted. No RFEs ever.

Edited April 27, 2016 by Nich-Nick

[Imatoucan 0]

Haha I'm probably over thinking it too! I'd just be so mad at myself if I got a rfe for something stupid like that!

[Thesmiths2016 117]

Thanks so much! I saw on some thread that they want to see both sides, just thought that was weird but I'll be sure to do that anyway. We were married on april 28th 2015, so I will include pictures of that and a couple visits since then.

They will want evidence of trips together, etc for your whole relationship, not just since you were married .... just checking you're sending those too :-)

Affidavits are just in addition to your evidence if you don't think you have enough of it... it can't hurt, but genuine evidence is always better. We did similar to you where for each trip we did the flight itinerary or tickets, hotel bookings, and a selection of photos. I used a collage program on my computer to drag and drop photos in for each trip and put a heading on them etc. Then just printed them as PDFs. Less pages that way :-)

Don't go too fancy with folders. I put mine in clearfile folders with a table of contents and "section" cover pages and even Im worried mine was too complex :-/ Straight forwred and easy to read is good, and a list/table of contents helps so they know what's included.

All the best and welcome to the waiting game :-)

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