RFE Initial Evidence Request

[zyggy 9]

Not that this helps you at all, but I would like to ask if this makes sense to anybody else.

I get that pictures are apparently not good enough for immigration, yea, sure we could all be photoshoping it up... BUT why then are airline ticket stubs and other pieces of paper worth anything?? I sent in pictures and airline tickets, and some other receipts of things from visits, but doesn't all that paper stuff just prove I visited Ireland?

Airline stubs and passport entry/exit stamps are not easily forged, at least in the practical scheme of things. The stubs prove that you, and only you have travelled using that ticket because these days your identification is checked, and double checked before you're allowed onto an airplane.

Passport entry/exit stamps obviously aren't easily faked either. Frankly, these items can be faked but the cost and risk makes it not worth the bother and renders these options impractical.

If you're going to go to this extreme it would be cheaper and easier to just simply take the trip and meet.....

Not that this helps you at all, but I would like to ask if this makes sense to anybody else.

I get that pictures are apparently not good enough for immigration, yea, sure we could all be photoshoping it up... BUT why then are airline ticket stubs and other pieces of paper worth anything?? I sent in pictures and airline tickets, and some other receipts of things from visits, but doesn't all that paper stuff just prove I visited Ireland? In my case, most of the receipts weren't even from the county that James's address has always been as most of my visiting was done while he was at college and a secondary address. If you were to take the pictures out of my pile of evidence, I would not think that it proved anything other then that I was in the country he lives in. Sorry, just a little rant about immigration...

Don't you pictures that show date. I believe there are many digital camera that you can set the date and time before taking pictures. You should have the 2 of you together with date printed when you have your pictures developed. That would show the USCIS that you 2 have met in person along with your passport exit/entry stamps and boarding pass...very important.

good luck to you

Bill

Bill.

Photos can be easily faked with false dates superimposed. The USCIS understands this.

An excellent form of evidence that you were present in the beneficiary's city is an ATM receipt.. or the line on the bank statement that shows how much money was withdrawn and the location it was withdrawn at...

[Karol139 0]

I know its kind of hard, but i dont use my credit cards in Mexico, i always take cash, im just 30 min away from the border...

i dont know if they will accept my explanation as to why i dont have all those kinds of evidences.. i will send as much as i can my car permit, letter stating the circumstances we met, letter from a pastor that knows about our relationship, i dont know what else to send....more pictures...?

[charmac7 4]

try contacting the border where you normally cross.....they will have a record of each time and date your car crossed back into the US from Mexico...I am not sure if the Mexican border would have this info or not...I know here in Canada they type in your licence plates on both sides of the border ...I got a computer record from the US border crossing where I used to cross....it had every time my car crossed into the US....the the date and time and how many people were in the car.

Good luck

Char

[meddykomp 0]

try contacting the border where you normally cross.....they will have a record of each time and date your car crossed back into the US from Mexico...I am not sure if the Mexican border would have this info or not...I know here in Canada they type in your licence plates on both sides of the border ...I got a computer record from the US border crossing where I used to cross....it had every time my car crossed into the US....the the date and time and how many people were in the car.

Good luck

Char

This is true. It has gotten to the point where they dont even ask me questions when I cross into Canada anymore.

[AFQuaid 18]

My suggestions :

1. Perhaps you guys went shopping together and you may have stuffed a shopping receipt into your purse....(it happens)....

2. Perhaps you both went to a concert and have a photo of you two at it.....then they could check that the concert was on the date you said

3. Maybe you withdrew some money from the ATM

4. Perhaps you have a way to prove you bought alot of gas for the long journey

5. Maybe you bought engagment rings together

[motu 6]

Why not do the most logical and simple - Explain that you live only 2 hrs away and don't need a passport or airline ticket to go there. And then include statements from his friends and family to the point that you were there on such and such dates and were with him etc. - If you have pictures with his family that will help in proving the statements - maybe they can also be notarized - does Mexico does notarization easily like here? Good Luck