Paperwork for Interview

[dj1206 0]

I've been reading some forum areas and I just wanted to ask a simple question about paperwork to send to my fiancée in the Philippines for her interview. I already have three four-part binders full of receipts and other paperwork, and I already have to use a fourth binder, it looks like. I will not be able to attend the interview later this year (hopefully) with my fiancée due to work and financial reasons, so she obviously wouldn't have me to carry all this paperwork for her. My question revolves around e-mails and printing them out for her...between the two of us, we have sent 3713 emails to each other since January 2, 2006, and we've also chatted many mornings/nights, too. I don't know about the rest of you, but assuming the e-mails were to average 1-2 pages in length, how on earth would I survive the tampo from my fiancee if I were to send her 5000 pages of nothing but emails for her to carry all by her ownsome to an interview!? Chats would probably be another 300-800 pages, estimation...sure, I could go through the emails and chats and select the "best" ones, which is kinda what I did with our original submission (I submitted approx. 10 emails), but 3700+ is an awful lot to go through. I know fraud is rampant in the Philippines, but Jacki is a genuine person and I'm sure she'll do fine in her interview...so my question is, should I even bother printing off reams and reams and reams of emails for the interview? Or alternately, I have the capability of converting my entire E-mail achives to a chapter-style PDF file. Would a consular officer be wary of a disc of a huge PDF full of emails? Would they even have a PC handy to open such a PDF? I'd hate to waste trees, especially if they don't even try to read the emails...one CDR seems a lot more practical (and much less heavy). Thoughts anybody???

[Dan J 277]

Due to security issues, they cannot take a CD or any document in electronic form.

Printing all of them out, would be way overkill. Not to mention you would go through a couple trees. For me, going through indonesia, 4 to 5 emails and 4 to 5 chats along with some calling card recipts and phone records was enough. Indonesia as far as i know doesnt deal with as much fraud.

But I think going way overboard can make you look like your overcompensating and covering for something else. Your best bet is to find a dozen or so emails/chats over the entire time period.

[dj1206 0]

Due to security issues, they cannot take a CD or any document in electronic form.

Printing all of them out, would be way overkill. Not to mention you would go through a couple trees. For me, going through indonesia, 4 to 5 emails and 4 to 5 chats along with some calling card recipts and phone records was enough. Indonesia as far as i know doesnt deal with as much fraud.

But I think going way overboard can make you look like your overcompensating and covering for something else. Your best bet is to find a dozen or so emails/chats over the entire time period.

thanks for the quick response. I'll probably just add 5 or so more emails between us since February when we submitted our I-129F packet and go with that. Selecting a chat or chats will be difficult, as there are a lot of those, too. I've archived the vast majority of them, thankfully, but going through each of them for "relevant fiancée-related content" would prove to be a vast undertaking, too. The good thing is we always say "I love you" at the end of everything, even text messages, because that is very true for both of us. Anyway, thanks much for the tip on "no electronic documents." And I'll elect not to burn up a forest printing everything! Best wishes-

[DavidEvgeniya 0]

Hello,

I was in sort of the same situation. This si how aI solved it. I went to my in box, and put the screen in view mode so I could see the e-mail that was hi-lighted on the right. But on the left it showed the e-mail, date and whom it was from.

I printed that. It was still 20-30 sheets, but each page had a sample of an e-mail. There they can see a date, whom it was from, and a sample.

Good luck.

'David

[dj1206 0]

Hello,

I was in sort of the same situation. This si how aI solved it. I went to my in box, and put the screen in view mode so I could see the e-mail that was hi-lighted on the right. But on the left it showed the e-mail, date and whom it was from.

I printed that. It was still 20-30 sheets, but each page had a sample of an e-mail. There they can see a date, whom it was from, and a sample.

Good luck.

'David

If you're talking about printing all the messages in Table Style withing MS Outlook, I just did that and we're looking at 69 pages of subject lines and dates only. There is no actual email content and I saw no way of printing partial email content that way...

[dj1206 0]

Hello,

I was in sort of the same situation. This si how aI solved it. I went to my in box, and put the screen in view mode so I could see the e-mail that was hi-lighted on the right. But on the left it showed the e-mail, date and whom it was from.

I printed that. It was still 20-30 sheets, but each page had a sample of an e-mail. There they can see a date, whom it was from, and a sample.

Good luck.

'David

If you're talking about printing all the messages in Table Style withing MS Outlook, I just did that and we're looking at 69 pages of subject lines and dates only. There is no actual email content and I saw no way of printing partial email content that way...

And if Autopreview of emails (first two lines) within each Outlook folder is turned on, we're looking at 182 total pages. Better than 5000, but still.

[L_n_O 3]

honestly, the consular guy isn't going to sit there and read through your emails.. so send a few and don't worry about it.

[de7wcc 0]

you dont need to send every single email all you have to do is prove a relationship try and relax but i do know how u feel my fiance interview is august 4th and i am nervous too hope all goes well

[dj1206 0]

you dont need to send every single email all you have to do is prove a relationship try and relax but i do know how u feel my fiance interview is august 4th and i am nervous too hope all goes well

I think I'll just print the 182 pages table view with the Autopreview of each e-mail and maybe send a few pages of that. It hardly gives any of the true content of the e-mail by doing that, but it'll at least give consular officer a feel for how much we communicate on a daily basis. I've known her for 538 days, and we've each 1500+ e-mails to the other, so 3 emails per day average is pretty good. I wish Jacki would get her interview soon. We just got our NOA2 on June 6, and I've been bugging the NVC many times per week since then to see if they have our petition on file yet. Nada yet. I hope she gets her interview before January!! I'm just working ahead and trying to get all this paperwork for us organized! It can be an agonizing, tedious, arduous task for a packrat like me who saves EVERYTHING. I even learned to demand an OR from restaurants and vendors, so now with this last trip, I have a receipt for just about everything we did or went to. I even have the old checked luggage name tags that you write up at the airport (but am not including that as it's irrelevant and shows no date)!!!