How strong are my evidence for the interview? What else do I need?

[cybermax 39]

My wife gonna have her interview very soon in coming April. We have an 8-year relationship. I met her in 2010 and 2 years later came to the US. We got married in 2016 and now we are waiting for the final step: Interview.

I'm not sure if our evidence are strong enough and the case should be straight forward easily. What she is gonna bring with her to the interview are:

 

-  A lot of pictures of me and her and our family in 2010 - 2012 (When I hadn't come to the US)

- All my airline tickets  in 6 years (5 trips).

- About 10 money transfer receipts between us since 2012.

- We didn't write many letters so we just have 5 letters with date and stamps on it.

- A lot of pictures of all trips I went to see her.

- Many pictures with our family for the wedding ceremony.

- All expense receipts for Wedding, Honeymoon, transportations, etc.

- I exported and saved our mobile messages since 2015 and so far we have around 70,000 texts were sent and received, I printed them all with a really small font and it still takes more than 1200 pages legal size. Every message with date and time detailly.

 

Are these good enough or I need to have something else more? Please let me know. Thank you

Edited January 14, 2018 by cybermax

[JFH 12,190]

Don't bother with 1200 pages of text messages. No one has time to read through that. And they are really not interested in pages and pages of "I miss you" and "I love you". 

 

I would also not bother with the receipts for money sent between you. 

 

Focus us on the time spent together - your travel history and the photos of you two and various family members are good. 

[SoManyCats! 0]

You seem to have quite a bit of good evidence there. I probably wouldn't bother with the 1200 pages of texts, unless you've already printed them out. If you have, then by all means bring them and offer them up if the officer asks what else you've got. When I had my interview, I did bring along copies of money transfer receipts but the officer didn't really need them. There's no harm in including them as long as the transfers go both ways. If they only show the immigrant spouse sending funds to the US citizen, it might look like they're payments for a scam marriage! Lol

 

You might need to include some more "official" type evidence - joint bank accounts, utility bills showing both your names, car insurance papers showing both names, life/retirement/disability documents showing spouse as beneficiary, health insurance documents, etc. 

 

Good luck. 

[bakphx1 789]

I took a random sample of messages, just to show a flow of communication.  Don't bring 1200 pages.  

[Ryan H 3,812]

16 hours ago, SoManyCats! said:

You might need to include some more "official" type evidence - joint bank accounts, utility bills showing both your names, car insurance papers showing both names, life/retirement/disability documents showing spouse as beneficiary, health insurance documents, etc.

 

Couples living apart in separate countries will not be expected nor required to have such items.

[SoManyCats! 0]

1 hour ago, Ryan H said:

 

Couples living apart in separate countries will not be expected nor required to have such items.

OP indicated that he came to the US in 2012 and they were married in 2016. If so, it won't be unreasonable to expect some evidence of joint finances given that they've been living together for some time by now. 

[Ryan H 3,812]

7 minutes ago, SoManyCats! said:

OP indicated that he came to the US in 2012 and they were married in 2016. If so, it won't be unreasonable to expect some evidence of joint finances given that they've been living together for some time by now. 

 

From what the OP has written and from what his timeline indicates, he is an LPR petitioning his wife.  There is nothing that indicates they are living together in the US.

 

**Moderator hat on**

 

***Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to US Embassy & Consulate Discussion, topic is about this phase of the process.***

[cybermax 39]

My wife is preparing for her interview in April. Beside her civil documents, we are not sure that what documents that I should provide her to bring to the interview.

Please see the list below and let me know which one are required and which are not and which are missing.

 

Petitioner (Me)

1.       I-864 Form

2.       Tax Transcript 2016 + W2

3.       Tax Transcript 2017 + W2 (If interview after April 15)

4.       Original Birth Certificate

5.       Copy of Birth Certificate (Translated)

6.       Copy of Marriage Certificate (Translated)

7.       Copy of Naturalization Certificate

 

Joint Sponsors (My aunt and uncle in law)

1.       I-864 Form (Husband)

2.       I-864A Form (Wife)

3.       Copy of Birth Certificate – Husband (Translated)

4.       Copy of Birth Certificate – Wife (Translated)

5.       Copy of Marriage Certificate (Translated)

6.       US Passport – Husband

7.       US Passport – Wife

8.       Tax Transcript 2016 + W2

9.       Tax Transcript 2017 + W2 (If interview after April 15)

10.    Letter of Sponsorship

 

Thank you.

[Ryan H 3,812]

~~~Similar topics merged.~~~

[cybermax 39]

1 minute ago, Ryan H said:

~~~Similar topics merged.~~~

This is obviously another topic. I don't know why you merge sponsor documents with the evidence? No one gonna go here and answer my questions.