Letters as part of evidence

[FAW 12]

When petitioning for your spouse to join you in the USA (from another country)... is it suggested for both parties to submit a letter about your story and intent (As part of your evidence) or would that do more harm than good?  Thanks.  

[MrHanky 1,377]

48 minutes ago, FAW said:

When petitioning for your spouse to join you in the USA (from another country)... is it suggested for both parties to submit a letter about your story and intent (As part of your evidence) or would that do more harm than good?  Thanks.  

It's not going to help much, and you'll see this come up a bit in the forums, you need evidence of time in person and evidence of a relationship.

Photos are better than a letter, but only part of the larger story, together with boarding passes, etc, those things together telling a story rather than one you wrote that anyone can make up (not that you are but they don't know that)

 

What do you mean by intent? usually that's something for K1 of your intention to marry.

[pushbrk 12,883]

17 minutes ago, MrHanky said:

It's not going to help much, and you'll see this come up a bit in the forums, you need evidence of time in person and evidence of a relationship.

Photos are better than a letter, but only part of the larger story, together with boarding passes, etc, those things together telling a story rather than one you wrote that anyone can make up (not that you are but they don't know that)

 

What do you mean by intent? usually that's something for K1 of your intention to marry.

Good answer above.  One letter from the petitioner explaining the evolution of the relationship can be helpful but not a substitute for other evidence, as suggested above.

[JFH 12,190]

If you do, keep it brief. We submitted an outline that was half a page long. It was just a basic timeline of when we met, how many visits I had made, which family members I had met, etc. No need for a full love story. Did our letter help our case? Probably not and we had plenty of other forms of good evidence too. But it didn’t hinder it either. 

[FAW 12]

Ok - that’s fine.  We have time spent in person.   I just didn’t know if the letters would help or not.  Thanks for the responses 🙂

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

Just now, FAW said:

Ok - that’s fine.  We have time spent in person.   I just didn’t know if the letters would help or not.  Thanks for the responses 🙂

If you have sufficient amount of other evidence of being together in person and your relationship then a short letter like @JFH stated above will suffice. What we see here on many occasions is that people try to use letters or affidavits to make up for the little evidence they have often to no avail. 

[FAW 12]

42 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

If you have sufficient amount of other evidence of being together in person and your relationship then a short letter like @JFH stated above will suffice. What we see here on many occasions is that people try to use letters or affidavits to make up for the little evidence they have often to no avail. 

Makes sense - thank you