CR1 Visa application initial required documents (merged topics)

[joykid7 2]

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[Crazy Cat 41,291]

14 hours ago, joykid7 said:

 

 

 

Thank you all, really appreciate and it helps to ease my anxiousness now.

I have a question, after we got married in Taiwan, I stayed for like 2 weeks at my wife’s place, does it count and has to be included in this section of 59.a. -60.b.?? I only stayed 2 weeks with her after married because after that I had to go back to US to work.

I wonder if I write “never lived together” it will lessen our chance to get approved since maybe USCIS or NVC will think it’s weird why we never lived together before (I hope not and maybe I'm being too cautious/paranoid about this due to anxiety/stress).

 

 

Sounds like a visit to Taiwan for marriage to me....you can say that you never lived together because you did not set up a household.  It will have no effect on the I-130.

[joykid7 2]

16 hours ago, carmel34 said:

Here's what we sent with the I-130 petition:

 

a few photos of each visit together, date stamped, from multiple visits over time (4 before filing petition)

four or five photos from the wedding, date stamped, some with family and friends

passport stamps, boarding passes, hotel receipts, restaurant receipts as evidence of these 4 visits

joint credit card account statements showing that we are already co-mingling finances

documents showing my Brazilian husband as my beneficiary on life insurance, retirement accounts, investment accounts

evidence of my husband's health insurance, dental insurance based on my US employer's plan

evidence of my husband as my emergency contact at work, statement that he is my husband on employer's HR website

wills and living wills

Christmas cards addressed to both of us at my US address

copies of cards and letters we have exchanged since the beginning of our relationship

wedding ring receipts

email logs, phone call logs, video call logs to show continuous daily communication

representative chat records (only a few pages of sample chats) from WhatsApp, Messenger

printout of our Facebook relationship with a few photos, comments from friends and family, words of congratulations on wedding day

affidavits from family members attesting to the nature of our relationship

brief statement of relationship history, how we met, how the relationship developed over time

 

required civil documents, marriage certificate, proof of US citizenship for petitioner, passport photos, payment of fee, I-130 completed, everything stated on I-130 instructions, plus I-130A application

 

All of the above well-organized on plain paper, binder clips, with a cover letter/table of contents listing everything by page number, all pages clearly numbered for easy reference for the officers.

 

We uploaded additional evidence of three more visits since filing the petition, at the NVC stage.

 

We just finished the CR-1 process--my husband's visa is on its way to him this week by courier.  Time from filing the I-130 petition to visa approval was 11 months.

 

Good luck!

thanks so much!

 

I have a question regarding "affidavits from family members attesting to the nature of our relationship"  and "brief statement of relationship history, how we met, how the relationship developed over time"

Is it mandatory requirement that has to be included when submitting the i-130? because I didn't see it listed in the list of requirement on USCIS site.

[joykid7 2]

4 hours ago, missileman said:

Sounds like a visit to Taiwan for marriage to me....you can say that you never lived together because you did not set up a household.  It will have no effect on the I-130.

Thanks! did you file i-130 and i-485 concurrently/at the same time? because I saw suggestion online that it's possible to do so to save time.

[Crazy Cat 41,291]

12 minutes ago, joykid7 said:

Thanks! did you file i-130 and i-485 concurrently/at the same time? because I saw suggestion online that it's possible to do so to save time.

Where did you see that?  The I-485 is ONLY used when the immediate relative is already in the US.  It does not apply in your situation.  

[joykid7 2]

16 minutes ago, missileman said:

Where did you see that?  The I-485 is ONLY used when the immediate relative is already in the US.  It does not apply in your situation.  

Ah I missed the "already in US" part when I was googling it. Thanks. Will just submit the i-130 for now as a first step then.

[joykid7 2]

On 6/18/2019 at 11:37 AM, missileman said:

Get the English-version  marriage certificate which is available at your wife's household registration office.  I would get several certified copies.

 

On 6/18/2019 at 5:07 PM, carmel34 said:

Here's what we sent with the I-130 petition:

 

a few photos of each visit together, date stamped, from multiple visits over time (4 before filing petition)

four or five photos from the wedding, date stamped, some with family and friends

passport stamps, boarding passes, hotel receipts, restaurant receipts as evidence of these 4 visits

joint credit card account statements showing that we are already co-mingling finances

documents showing my Brazilian husband as my beneficiary on life insurance, retirement accounts, investment accounts

evidence of my husband's health insurance, dental insurance based on my US employer's plan

evidence of my husband as my emergency contact at work, statement that he is my husband on employer's HR website

wills and living wills

Christmas cards addressed to both of us at my US address

copies of cards and letters we have exchanged since the beginning of our relationship

wedding ring receipts

email logs, phone call logs, video call logs to show continuous daily communication

representative chat records (only a few pages of sample chats) from WhatsApp, Messenger

printout of our Facebook relationship with a few photos, comments from friends and family, words of congratulations on wedding day

affidavits from family members attesting to the nature of our relationship

brief statement of relationship history, how we met, how the relationship developed over time

 

required civil documents, marriage certificate, proof of US citizenship for petitioner, passport photos, payment of fee, I-130 completed, everything stated on I-130 instructions, plus I-130A application

 

All of the above well-organized on plain paper, binder clips, with a cover letter/table of contents listing everything by page number, all pages clearly numbered for easy reference for the officers.

 

We uploaded additional evidence of three more visits since filing the petition, at the NVC stage.

 

We just finished the CR-1 process--my husband's visa is on its way to him this week by courier.  Time from filing the I-130 petition to visa approval was 11 months.

 

Good luck!

 

On 6/18/2019 at 4:59 PM, givionte said:

There's no question that if you physically lived together that it should be filled out in this section, regardless if it was 2 weeks or longer.  Not filling that part out accurately would be falsifying the document.

 

Even better if you can match up some passport stamps and/or anything to prove your timeline had moments in Taiwan, to help prove a bona fide relationship.

 

On 6/18/2019 at 11:59 AM, USS_Voyager said:

There is no standard. But 30 is probably the most you want to send. I would go with 20. Spread them out over the period that you started dating until today. Do the same with the printouts from chat logs. Do not send in 20,000 pages of love notes. No one wants to read or care about that, except you too. Just a few representations. 

For photos as evidence of our bonafide marriage: do I have to print them into 6x4 glossy/matte photo papers , or can I just manually combine 4-6 of photo files (jpg) into one page 8.5 x 11 printout on normal copy paper?

 

 

[givionte 138]

11 minutes ago, joykid7 said:

 

For photos as evidence of our bonafide marriage: do I have to print them into 6x4 glossy/matte photo papers , or can I just manually combine 4-6 of photo files (jpg) into one page 8.5 x 11 printout on normal copy paper?

 

Both are ok, but they prefer everything be on standard paper since it's easier to scan everything in, however I recommend printing the pages with photos in color, since they look a lot clearer this way.  Add captions with dates, location and any other note if it was a photo from a special event or holiday.

 

You can always stick the glossy photos onto 8.5 x 11 paper to make their job easier, if you got that route.

[USS_Voyager 1,972]

1 hour ago, joykid7 said:

manually combine 4-6 of photo files (jpg) into one page 8.5 x 11 printout on normal copy paper?

Do that

[joykid7 2]

18 hours ago, givionte said:

Both are ok, but they prefer everything be on standard paper since it's easier to scan everything in, however I recommend printing the pages with photos in color, since they look a lot clearer this way.  Add captions with dates, location and any other note if it was a photo from a special event or holiday.

 

You can always stick the glossy photos onto 8.5 x 11 paper to make their job easier, if you got that route.

 

18 hours ago, USS_Voyager said:

Do that

Thank you, I think I will paste the 6x4 glossy photo into the 8x11 regular paper.