I130 Married Not living together LGBT Consular Processing

[RebeccaG 8]

I dont have evidence of joint documents because we do not live together, my wife is living 75miles away from the border in Mexico, so we visit each other during the weekend twice a month. We had a nonplanned small wedding party but i do not have pictures of it because my family wasnt happy about it, they even tried to stop the wedding; my family inlaw does not know about the relationship, after what happened with my family, i called her and i said to my then fiancee "dont tell them about the wedding". My exattorney told me that the few evidence i have is sent until requested and that there's a high chance to get rejected, but i did some research and the instructions for i130 ask for evidence and affidavits. Now I am completing my i130 packet by myself through consular processing(my attorney did not help us at all), do i need to include the pictures of us (mostly selfies at restaurant, but they are many), conversations, gifts receipts and few money transfers in the initial packet? O should i wait untill they request it as my exlawyer said? I have phone logs for ten months and they are like 100 pages, should i include all of them? Do I need translations even if the interview is going to be in mexico(the instructions ask for them)? The only hard evidence i have is a postnuptial agreement signed by a texas notary to joint assests and liabilities, an holographic testament and a life insurance, but i dont know if these documents are going to be enough. I wanted to include a letter of my situation but i know that when family is not aware of the marriage is a red flag, so i am unsure about it, my inlaw family was not present at the wedding party so they eventually will know about our family problems. We love each other but the distance and our families are making this process difficult.

[Crazy Cat 42,393]

1.  The best evidence you can provide is that of having spent time together along with a legal marriage certificate.

2.  Including a few pictures if fine.

3.  Any documents sent to USCIS must be either in English or accompanied by a certified English translation. Anyone fluent in both languages can translate.

4.  DO NOT send 100 pages of online or phone conversations.  You can include selected conversations spanning the relationship.

5.  The "family situation" does not have to be addressed.

Good luck.

[JeanneAdil 6,671]

u have stamps for crossing the border,   send a photo copy of several of these (the clearer readable ones)

don't send the money transfers 

for the next step (NVC) do taxes as Married (as u r in eyes of US)  MFS is fine

otherwise do as crazy cat suggests

best to u both

[Dsam 1]

16 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

1.  The best evidence you can provide is that of having spent time together along with a legal marriage certificate.

2.  Including a few pictures if fine.

3.  Any documents sent to USCIS must be either in English or accompanied by a certified English translation. Anyone fluent in both languages can translate.

4.  DO NOT send 100 pages of online or phone conversations.  You can include selected conversations spanning the relationship.

5.  The "family situation" does not have to be addressed.

Good luck.

If I may ask = For the proof of call logs on WhatsApp, any ideas how one can get the call logs from WhatsApp because WhatsApp doesn’t keep call logs more than 2 weeks in the call  history bar .. any idea how to go about this ?

[RebeccaG 8]

On 2/22/2022 at 7:21 AM, Crazy Cat said:

1.  The best evidence you can provide is that of having spent time together along with a legal marriage certificate.

2.  Including a few pictures if fine.

3.  Any documents sent to USCIS must be either in English or accompanied by a certified English translation. Anyone fluent in both languages can translate.

4.  DO NOT send 100 pages of online or phone conversations.  You can include selected conversations spanning the relationship.

5.  The "family situation" does not have to be addressed.

Good luck.

I visited another attorney today and told me the same thing than my previous attorney. He also told me that because we do not live together he was going to send only the marriage license and a picture of the wedding (which i dont have) and no other evidence was needed because we only have secondary evidence and all of that could be fake. I do not if i should trust any attorney, or if that they are correct

[Chancy 6,243]

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[pushbrk 13,133]

4 hours ago, RebeccaG said:

I visited another attorney today and told me the same thing than my previous attorney. He also told me that because we do not live together he was going to send only the marriage license and a picture of the wedding (which i dont have) and no other evidence was needed because we only have secondary evidence and all of that could be fake. I do not if i should trust any attorney, or if that they are correct

Copies of passport stamps that show you visiting Mexico are not "faked" and are PRIMARY evidence of time spent together.  Secondary evidence like photos together are always advisable.  That being said, near the border relationships of good duration are seldom scrutinized very closely.