Two year meeting requirement. Request for additional evidence

[Jaquelly 1,647]

Just now, Adam.T said:

Well, our RFE has been sent back to them. It includes scans of both our passports, with stamps from Japan from both our passports from when we were living there, scans of my passport stamps for the US,  our bank statements which show that we were together spending money at the same places and times, statements from family and friends saying that they have witnessed us together as a couple with picture evidence to back these statements up. We also have her written statement talking about how we met and my visits to the US. We have screenshots of messages referring to travel taken together, between us and between friends and some of these messages include pictures of us together in front of places which are highlighted on our bank statements. We also have confirmation emails from United and American airlines confirming that I did indeed travel on the flights indicated on the itineraries including the only surviving boarding pass that I have. We have email confirmations from hotel bookings, crossed referenced with transactions on bank statements and backed up with a picture of us at the hotel, which is mentioned in the email confirmation, with the name of the hotel clearly visible. We have email confirmations of ticket purchase for the US F1 last year, with campsite reservations, transactions on our bank statements and a picture of us at the track. 

So, I hope we have enough to prove to them we have met in person. If not it's too late as the RFE has now been sent!

Hopefully! It sounds like you gave them more than enough to chew on. I know how nervous we were when we were waiting to get our confirmation. The time will pass, and from what I hear, the London embassy is a breeze. Best of luck to both of you!!!

[GOOOOOB 4]

1 minute ago, Jaquelly said:

Hopefully! It sounds like you gave them more than enough to chew on. I know how nervous we were when we were waiting to get our confirmation. The time will pass, and from what I hear, the London embassy is a breeze. Best of luck to both of you!!!

Thank you very much. We both feel very good about the evidence that we have presented. Everything has been highlighted, crossed referenced and the statements have also been notarised. She has organised the evidence in a way that a four year old could work it out. So fingers crossed it does the trick. 

 

And thats nice to know about the London embassy!

Thank you!

[Bjh 39]

On 5/29/2019 at 2:33 PM, Adam.T said:

At the beginning of this month, while she was actually on a visit to the UK to see me and my family, the RFE was mailed out to her. 

 

The request for evidence was about the two year meeting requirement. The request goes as follows:

 

"You provided photographs, itineraries and the beneficiary's I-94, however this is not sufficient evidence for immigration purposes. USCIS cannot verify the dates the photographs were taken, itineraries indicate planned travel not actual travel and although you provided the beneficiary's I-94, it is unclear that you and the beneficiary were co-located in the same place at the same time during the two-year period prior to filing of this petition. Furthermore, you provided what appear to be foreign passport pages with stamps, but you did not provide a copy of the passport bio page which precludes USCIS from identifying who the passport page belongs to..."

This part is weird to me. Don't foreign passport pages with stamps generally have the visa on the page immediately preceding the stamps, which has all passport and biographic information of the person as well as a photograph? Why wouldn't this be enough?

[SmallTownPA 72]

17 hours ago, Adam.T said:

My passport, which is a late 2015 UK one, has the passport number perforated through every page. So with the bio page they can link the stamps to the picture with the passport number. 

 

US passports do not.  Other than the RFID and machine readable data on the bio page, and a bar code on the inside cover, there are no other identifying marks.  My passport is from 2014.

 

Since OP sent ITINERARIES and not boarding passes I think that's where the issue is.  You cannot come to the US without a boarding pass and gate agents will check for a valid passport/visa, otherwise you are not getting on the plane.   

 

It would be nice if people asking questions about RFE's actually posted the RFE, not make up an explanation about it.

[SmallTownPA 72]

57 minutes ago, Bjh said:

This part is weird to me. Don't foreign passport pages with stamps generally have the visa on the page immediately preceding the stamps, which has all passport and biographic information of the person as well as a photograph? Why wouldn't this be enough?

No.

 

When my wife and daughter came to the US (wife on B2 and then GC, daughter on B2) the US Customs picked the first open page with space.

 

The customs agents will stamp as per their regulations.  Some (like China) seem to just find the next open spot.  For some reason Hong Kong wanted their own page for EACH entry/exit visa.  So two pages wasted in HK.  Passports are expensive and only have so many pages.  

Edited June 6, 2019 by SmallTownPA