Worried my Spousal Visa evidence is not enough... please help!

[Romin 1]

I am a US citizen who recently married my wife who lives overseas. I plan on filing I-130/spousal visa.

We have been in contact via text/pictures for over 3+ years and got married two months ago in her country. I am worried that we don't have enough evidence despite knowing each other for so long. Due to covid and me being in healthcare I could not travel as often.  

 

Our evidence consists of- 

Picture of our marriage outside the court we got married

Pictures of our time in vacation together

Pictures of our chat messages/me sending her gifts

 

I can also add a letter statement from a family/friend member but not really sure who would be appropriate? Her friends/family? I am not very clear on this step 

 

What else could I add? Would adding pictures or receipt of the ring I bought her etc be helpful too? 

[Chancy 6,241]

10 minutes ago, Romin said:

What else could I add?

 

Answers would depend on which interviewing consulate.  Please update your VJ profile with the beneficiary's country of residence.

 

[Romin 1]

It would be from Nepal

[hunny&me 274]

Seems our story is similar, but just husband is the beneficiary for me.  Here are the evidence I provided.  1.) Evidence of Relationship - 49 pages - consist of 14months of video call logs, FB posts, receipts of cargo shipments, flowers, food deliveries, greeting cards (just envelopes showing stamps) we send each other, then receipts of my travel and boarding passes.  Then our Wedding Day, and after wedding day photos with family (both sides) and friends we visited (dated and named people in pictures). - 5 separate PDFs.   I also added him as my spouse for my health insurance at work, so I provided the the verification pf coverage.  And lastly, when I filed the I-130, I used my married name.

[Romin 1]

Thank you for the reply, did you file online or via mail? And did you decide not to file a letter/statement from a family member or friend validating the marriage?

[hunny&me 274]

1 minute ago, Romin said:

Thank you for the reply, did you file online or via mail? And did you decide not to file a letter/statement from a family member or friend validating the marriage?

Online.  No statement from anyone.  I am confident, I can prove that our relationship and marriage is legit

[pushbrk 12,882]

3 minutes ago, Romin said:

Thank you for the reply, did you file online or via mail? And did you decide not to file a letter/statement from a family member or friend validating the marriage?

Skip the letters.  You traveled to Nepal.  Use your passport stamps as primary evidence of travel.  In your circumstances, evidence of time spent together in person is most important.  Passport stamps are primary evidence and the dates of the stamps tell how long you were there.  Photos are important but they are secondary evidence.

[JeanneAdil 6,498]

Marriage certificate in native language with an English translation

just a few photos / should show the family from Nepal with the USC

 

statements from people are useless and not needed

see the guides above for family visas and follow them (also is on USCIS site)

 

https://www.uscis.gov/family/bring-spouse-to-live-in-US

[Romin 1]

The problem is I could only visit for 2 weeks on my last visit when we got married (due to work), I visited her 3 years ago but that's when we were just getting to know each other so I don't have many pictures together of then. Just the stamped passport from that time. 

[arken 4,197]

My supporting evidences of our bonafide relationship were following if that helps:

 

1. A short statement on timeline of our relationship (met - marry - petition)

2. Receipts of some gifts sent to my then gf..

3. Receipts of some small personal expense sent to her.

4. Evidences of travel - flight itineraries, passport stamps

5. 401k - added my wife as sole beneficiary

6. banking- added her as beneficiary

7. credit account- added her as an authorized user

8. Life insurance by employer- added her as beneficiary

9.Two Affidavits of relationship

 

I didn't even include photos during i130 but it's not a bad idea to include a few at different timelines.

 

I sideloaded a bunch of additional documents during NVC.

[pushbrk 12,882]

53 minutes ago, Romin said:

The problem is I could only visit for 2 weeks on my last visit when we got married (due to work), I visited her 3 years ago but that's when we were just getting to know each other so I don't have many pictures together of then. Just the stamped passport from that time. 

So two visits documenting at least a three year relationship.  No worries.

[African Zealot 1,455]

9 hours ago, Romin said:

The problem is I could only visit for 2 weeks on my last visit when we got married (due to work), I visited her 3 years ago but that's when we were just getting to know each other so I don't have many pictures together of then. Just the stamped passport from that time. 

Two visits to a far off land in a period overlapped by Covid is very reasonable. Many people in long distance relationships didn’t even travel during the period.

 

Plus you could possibly make another trip before her interview.

 

Don’t stress.

Edited January 15, 2022 by African Zealot

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

As others have stated you can add your wife to insurances, bank accounts, credit cards... you can set up wills and power of attorney. Things that basically show you trust each other and are serious about the marriage. 

[pushbrk 12,882]

5 hours ago, Letspaintcookies said:

As others have stated you can add your wife to insurances, bank accounts, credit cards... you can set up wills and power of attorney. Things that basically show you trust each other and are serious about the marriage. 

Yes, they can do this but it's really not necessary for a couple that's never lived in the same country.  In this context, "that they trust each other" is not really what is being evaluated regarding a "bona fide relationship".  It really boils down to an evaluation of whether the foreign spouse is in it for the right reasons.  Evidence for US Citizen is serious is secondary.

[randy32 165]

6 hours ago, Letspaintcookies said:

As others have stated you can add your wife to insurances, bank accounts, credit cards... you can set up wills and power of attorney. Things that basically show you trust each other and are serious about the marriage. 

Adding someone to accounts some of these accounts can be problematic because beneficiary does not have a SSN.

Filling your tax as joint carries more weight.