Cr1 declaration of meeting letter question ?

[Niblet & J 0]

I dont know much about the immigration process but here's my own personal experience -

Our lawyer asked my husband to write a letter too with a relationship timeline - in our case we got married with only two witnesses in a different city cause my family didnt approve of our relationship. When they finally accepted, we had a big wedding a few months later. We didnt submit it with i-130 but we sent it to the NVC as an additional document. 

The lawyer said it is better to include this cause my husband had to contact the US embassy here at one point for advice cause things had been pretty bad between us and my family and he felt unsafe. 

 

[Happy43 2]

4 hours ago, Niblet & J said:

I dont know much about the immigration process but here's my own personal experience -

Our lawyer asked my husband to write a letter too with a relationship timeline - in our case we got married with only two witnesses in a different city cause my family didnt approve of our relationship. When they finally accepted, we had a big wedding a few months later. We didnt submit it with i-130 but we sent it to the NVC as an additional document. 

The lawyer said it is better to include this cause my husband had to contact the US embassy here at one point for advice cause things had been pretty bad between us and my family and he felt unsafe. 

 

With us our family accepted it 

 

We just did it small Just like yours 

 

we ended up having a union gathering of family and friends. Just my husband side though my family couldn’t fly across the country 

but I plan on doing a Union gathering when he’s in the states - should I write this in the letter 

[Happy43 2]

8 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

is lawyer concerned you married on 1st meeting and wants an explanation of how u 1st met and communicated before getting married?

No we met 5 times before marriage .

 

I am just trying to write this letter 

[Redro 4,611]

14 hours ago, Happy43 said:

Like if I write on this letter we got married at ? with pastor ?  and two witness . Then few days later we had a Union at ?

 

two different cities 

 

 

You can say "had official/legal wedding on XYZ date at MNO" and  "had wedding celebration on ABC date at DEF".

A lot of times in SA the wedding venue and the celebration venue are in different places (church and then wedding hall). 

I've also gone to a few weddings in SA where the wedding celebration was in the morning and the reception was in the evening and different guests attended. 

You're overthinking things. Don't over explain the wedding process in the letter. If its an issue and the CO is curious your husband can explain it at the interview. 

 

 

 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Kor2USA

[Happy43 2]

2 minutes ago, Kor2USA said:

You can say "had official/legal wedding on XYZ date at MNO" and  "had wedding celebration on ABC date at DEF".

A lot of times in SA the wedding venue and the celebration venue are in different places (church and then wedding hall). 

I've also gone to a few weddings in SA where the wedding celebration was in the morning and the reception was in the evening and different guests attended. 

You're overthinking things. Don't over explain the wedding process in the letter. If its an issue and the CO is curious your husband can explain it at the interview. 

 

 

 

The MNO be the name of the church ?

[Redro 4,611]

4 minutes ago, Happy43 said:

The MNO be the name of the church ?

Sure name of church or place/city. 

We haven't received our NOA2 but we seriously just wrote the date and stated we got married. We didn't include any additional details about who married us or who we celebrated with. 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Kor2USA

[Happy43 2]

1 minute ago, Kor2USA said:

Sure name of church or place/city. 

We haven't received our NOA2 but we seriously just wrote the date and stated we got married. We didn't include any additional details about who married us or who we celebrated with. 

Gotcha 

i just feel overwhelmed and we haven’t even started putting together our pics and communications yet. Where did you get married at ?

 

 

[Redro 4,611]

42 minutes ago, Happy43 said:

Gotcha 

i just feel overwhelmed and we haven’t even started putting together our pics and communications yet. Where did you get married at ?

 

 

We got married in the States. No family attended. Didn't even think that would be a problem as neither of us wanted to organize a big wedding 😅

If you got married during covid times, small ceremony is totally understandable. Some couples are getting married via Zoom these days and their petitions have been approved. 

 

 

[Happy43 2]

1 minute ago, Kor2USA said:

We got married in the States. No family attended. Didn't even think that would be a problem as neither of us wanted to organize a big wedding 😅

If you got married during covid times, small ceremony is totally understandable. Some couples are getting married via Zoom these days and their petitions have been approved. 

 

 

Gotcha 

[dwheels76 5,468]

19 hours ago, Happy43 said:

Like if I write on this letter we got married at ? with pastor ?  and two witness . Then few days later we had a Union at ?

 

two different cities 

 

 

Like i said yesterday you are talking to much and want to tell to much. STOP IT. No one needs to know how many witnesses are there or who officiated. Why do you have  need to tell this when this has nothing to do with proving bonafide anything.

 

 

You are making something so simple complicated with talking and telling too much. It is so not necessary.

[Happy43 2]

Just now, dwheels76 said:

Like i said yesterday you are talking to much and want to tell to much. STOP IT. No one needs to know how many witnesses are there or who officiated. Why do you have  need to tell this when this has nothing to do with proving bonafide anything.

 

 

You are making something so simple complicated with talking and telling too much. It is so not necessary.

True I stop now 

[dwheels76 5,468]

3 minutes ago, Happy43 said:

True I stop now 

Not fussin but I have seen letters written about family not being there going south (Some embassies harder than others). 

I had to write a divorce timeline because I divorced and married 25 days later so I get you feel you need to write a letter. If lawyer says so let them write it you hired a lawyer not to have all this stress Yes? use what you paid for. 😃