I-130 Need help for assembling required documents

[Rabka 1]

I am a US citizen and filling petition for my husband, he is living in Abu Dhabi and we recently got married in Pakistan(where we born) on 20-Jun-19 and we spend 20 days together. I am listing all the documents what I have so far. 

 

Kindly give your feedback and suggestions like what else we need to include;

 

1. Cover letter
2. Check of $535 filing fee
3. Form G-1145
4. Completed and signed form I-130
5. Completed and signed form I-130A
6. Copy of my U.S Passport to prove U.S citizenship
7. Copy of my birth certificate
8. Copy of Naturalization certificate
9. 2 photographs of petitioner
10. 2 photographs of beneficiary
11. Copy of our marriage certificate
12. Copy of beneficiary’s birth certificate and passport
13. Marriage story letter & Wedding invitation card & wedding pictures Include (Bridal shower Function + Henna Function + Wedding Event) 
14. Other photographs (time spend together)
15. Social media conversation
16. Payment receipt and other details of gift received
17. Evidence of traveling for marriage (Stamps on Passport, Travel Ticket, Boarding Pass)
18. Copies of affidavits written (from my mother and other from mother in law)

 

Is this enough evidence or not? share your thoughts with us and thank you in advance.

[arken 4,197]

List looks good. 7. and 8. are not required.

 

If not now, later on, you can add your spouse as beneficiary to your banking or retirement accouts, add as authorized user to credit card accounts to sidelod more evidence during NVC phase.

 

[Rabka 1]

16 minutes ago, arken said:

List looks good. 7. and 8. are not required.

 

If not now, later on, you can add your spouse as beneficiary to your banking or retirement accouts, add as authorized user to credit card accounts to sidelod more evidence during NVC phase.

 

Thank you and now I'm excluding point 7 & 8 from my packet... Is it necessary to include beneficiary to banking accounts or anything like that for NVC stage? 

Edited August 13, 2019 by Rabka

[Ryan H 3,812]

***Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.***

 

**Moderator hat off**

 

I've lined out what you don't need and my responses will appear below:

 

On ‎8‎/‎13‎/‎2019 at 7:00 AM, Rabka said:

1. Cover letter
2. Check of $535 filing fee
3. Form G-1145
4. Completed and signed form I-130
5. Completed and signed form I-130A
6. Copy of my U.S Passport to prove U.S citizenship
7. Copy of my birth certificate
8. Copy of Naturalization certificate
9. 2 photographs of petitioner
10. 2 photographs of beneficiary
11. Copy of our marriage certificate
12. Copy of beneficiary’s birth certificate and passport
13. Marriage story letter & Wedding invitation card & wedding pictures Include (Bridal shower Function + Henna Function + Wedding Event) 
14. Other photographs (time spend together)
15. Social media conversation
16. Payment receipt and other details of gift received
17. Evidence of traveling for marriage (Stamps on Passport, Travel Ticket, Boarding Pass)
18. Copies of affidavits written (from my mother and other from mother in law)

 

Answers:

1. required per form instructions
2. required per form instructions
3. if you want electronic notification of receipt, otherwise optional (FYI, will not extend past notification of receipt)
4. required per form instructions
5. required per form instructions
6. required per form instructions
7. addressed in prior posts
8. addressed in prior posts
9. remove if not required per form instructions
10. same as #9
11. required per form instructions
12. Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport not required; submitting now does no good
13. focus on the wedding, other items are of little to no use
14. This is goes to evidence of time spent together in-person, your strongest evidence
15. Evidence of ongoing communication
16. worthless
17. Evidence of time spent together in-person
18. Not required and carry little to zero weight in the overall evaluation of the file

[Rabka 1]

On 8/18/2019 at 8:48 AM, Ryan H said:

***Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.***

 

**Moderator hat off**

 

I've lined out what you don't need and my responses will appear below:

 

 

Answers:

1. required per form instructions
2. required per form instructions
3. if you want electronic notification of receipt, otherwise optional (FYI, will not extend past notification of receipt)
4. required per form instructions
5. required per form instructions
6. required per form instructions
7. addressed in prior posts
8. addressed in prior posts
9. remove if not required per form instructions
10. same as #9
11. required per form instructions
12. Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport not required; submitting now does no good
13. focus on the wedding, other items are of little to no use
14. This is goes to evidence of time spent together in-person, your strongest evidence
15. Evidence of ongoing communication
16. worthless
17. Evidence of time spent together in-person
18. Not required and carry little to zero weight in the overall evaluation of the file

Thank you for your feedback and I'll keep your highlighted points in my mind... 

[aus2tx 168]

If the photos/card are loose, I would take those out as well. There are many stories I've come across where detached photos have not helped and could cause a delay. I did include a Relationship Timeline as well and provided passport stamps & travel documents to help substantiate our visits. If you already have the affidavits, I don't see how they could hurt. But if you haven't requested them yet then I wouldn't worry about those either.

[pushbrk 12,898]

My personal preference is to include the Naturalization Certificate and not your passport copy.  Only provide copies of pages that show your time together in person including copies of HIS passport pages showing time together in the same country other than his country of Nationality.

 

Otherwise I agree with Ryan H.  Note, I'm expressing only a preference with regard to the Naturalization Certificate but you may need his passport pages as evidence you were in the same place and for how long.  Certainly, your marriage certificate is evidence of where you both were for the marriage date, but not for how long you were both there together.