Questions/advice for petition/ evidence of bona fide marriage

[Sapporo0603 0]

I'm going to be petitioning for my husband to come to the states from Japan, and trying to do as much as I can to make sure all goes smoothly.

 

*My first concern, will we have any problems since we married on our first visit?*

We met online on a language learning website in May of 2015 and have been talking almost every day since December of 2015. We have most of our old chats and skype call records, so a little over 4 years of chat logs and call logs. 

Due to finances and family circumstances we couldn't meet until May 1st of this year (2019). He lives with his mom and sisters so I stayed with him and his family the whole time, from May 1st to July 26th and we got married on June 3rd. 

He just came to visit me on November 28th and he'll be staying with me until he goes back to Japan on February 23rd.

 

*My second question is, do we have enough evidence of a bona fide marriage? Anything we should add or leave out?*

 

Pictures and gifts: We have pictures from our wedding day (courthouse wedding but we dressed up and took pics, and his family took us out to dinner). We have tons of pictures of our outings together, fishing trips and restaurants and aquariums, etc. Pics of us together with my family and friends, and his family (siblings, nieces, parents, grandparents, and great grandmother), a packing slip from a package he sent to me for my birthday in 2016 showing his name and address as sender and my name and former address as the one receiving the package. He has pictures of the package and homemade scarf, some American snacks and a card I made him for his birthday that same year, but we dont have the actual packing slip still.

 

Life Insurance: I have a life insurance policy through my employer with him as the beneficiary. 

 

While he's here, I'm planning on putting the deed to the house I recently purchased in both of our names. The mortgage would have to remain in my name only though.

Also planning on adding his name to my main banking and savings account, as well as possibly opening a travel card through Citi bank and adding him as an authorized user so he can use it in case of an emergency (My current credit card company let me get one sent to him with my name on it, and he had to use it to take out money for a doctors visit once, as well as to pay for an ESTA visa waver when he came here, but that particular CC company couldnt actually add him as an authorized user without a SSN).

 

I'll be getting a letter from my mom for the visa application, and possibly from my grandmother, his mom or sister.

I have screenshots from a pretty long facebook post that my best friend/childhood friend wrote to me and my husband congratulating us on our marriage.

 

Please let me know your opinions, advice, what you think we should add or leave out of our petition. 

 

Thank you.

[LilyJ 1,258]

Affidavits are basically useless. Other than that seems like a good line up to me

Some people do marry on the first visit, and get by with no problem. Most of the time, it becomes a problem when the beneficiary is from a high fraud country, along with other red flags. Japan is a pretty low fraud country so I don't see it being an issue on its own

Edited December 17, 2019 by LilyJ