Interview Evidence required for CR1/IR1 spousal visa

[Steve2022 41]

Hi, I'm a US citizen, and as such, I am culturally used to a certain right to privacy.  The US Supreme Court has ruled over and over that we have a right to Privacy.  Some people use social media conversations as "evidence" for the Embassy interview, but it is my understanding that this is not required, although it seems to be more required for fiance visas.   We're already married, not doing a fiance visa, so I'm trying to tell my wife that our social media conversations are not actually any of their business.  Furthermore, we don't even have them going back to the start of the relationship.  I was trying to quit facebook at some point so i deleted my account.  Facebook is an evil time waster.  Turns out it is impossible to function in the Philippines without Facebook, even government agencies expect you to use it.  We might have some old Skype conversations, not sure how far back.   Our original conversation was on dateinasia dot com, and since my wife deleted her account there, there is no way we can prove that, as when she deleted her account, our conversation disappeared from my account.    So I'm just here to ask, should we be worried about providing social media conversations for her interview, or is this not something to worry about?  We have a lot of pictures going back 5 years, arranged with date stamps, and I have airline tickets to show that I visited the Philippines 5 times to see her.  And the records of remittances since we we got married.  I think that should be enough?  Thank you. 

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[Chancy 6,243]

32 minutes ago, Steve2022 said:

So I'm just here to ask, should we be worried about providing social media conversations for her interview, or is this not something to worry about?  We have a lot of pictures going back 5 years, arranged with date stamps, and I have airline tickets to show that I visited the Philippines 5 times to see her.

 

No need for social media conversations for the visa interview.  As always, best evidence of bona fide marriage is how much time you spent together in person.  If you visited after filing the petition, your wife should bring evidence (scans of passport stamps, photos together) from that visit instead.

 

Edited May 11, 2022 by Chancy
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[Steve2022 41]

4 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

No need for social media conversations for the visa interview.  As always, best evidence of bona fide marriage is how much time you spent together in person.  If you visited after filing the petition, you wife should bring evidence (scans of passport stamps, photos together) from that visit instead.

 

Thank you.  I stayed 2 weeks after we got married, and I visited her twice more since we got married, braving pandemic restrictions and all, for a total of over 5 months spent together since we got married. 

[top_secret 2,495]

We submitted nothing whatsoever from any social media though we did list it in the DS-260 where it is asked.  We submitted one brief chat conversation of us where we were planning the details of a trip along with her daughter, and included it with receipts and bording passes reflecting the actualization of what we planned.  Nothing was asked about discussed in any way about any social media at the interview. 

 

I would add however that on two occasions over the years, Philippine Exit immigration asked to go through chat in my wife's phone.  She let them.

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[Chancy 6,243]

1 hour ago, Steve2022 said:

I stayed 2 weeks after we got married, and I visited her twice more since we got married, braving pandemic restrictions and all, for a total of over 5 months spent together since we got married. 

 

That's great.  If any of those visits are after petition filing date, tell your wife to bring scans of your passport stamps and your photos together during the visit.  Hopefully, the additional evidence would help ease her mind, even though the CO will likely not ask for them at her interview.

 

I also want to add that I did actually bring excerpts of our chat messages to my visa interview, but our circumstances were different from yours.  My husband and I had not seen each other for almost 2 years prior to my interview, and those chats were all the evidence we had after petition filing.  Turns out the CO didn't care about the extended period without visits and didn't ask for any additional evidence of our bona fide marriage.

 

[Steve2022 41]

39 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

That's great.  If any of those visits are after petition filing date, tell your wife to bring scans of your passport stamps and your photos together during the visit.  Hopefully, the additional evidence would help ease her mind, even though the CO will likely not ask for them at her interview.

 

I also want to add that I did actually bring excerpts of our chat messages to my visa interview, but our circumstances were different from yours.  My husband and I had not seen each other for almost 2 years prior to my interview, and those chats were all the evidence we had after petition filing.  Turns out the CO didn't care about the extended period without visits and didn't ask for any additional evidence of our bona fide marriage.

 

I will be there, so she can just take my passports, old and new, in with her.   We'll also have air ticket reservations printed out.  I'm not organized enough to have kept track of most of my boarding passes.  I did try to, but usually lost them anyway.  Only thing I'm good at is remembering the password for my email, where all the flight reservations are stored.

Edited May 11, 2022 by Steve2022

[Chancy 6,243]

57 minutes ago, Steve2022 said:

I will be there, so she can just take my passports, old and new, in with her.

 

Bringing your actual passports is even better.  No need for print-outs of the tickets.

 

[RO_AH 1,662]

18 hours ago, Steve2022 said:

I will be there, so she can just take my passports, old and new, in with her.   We'll also have air ticket reservations printed out.  I'm not organized enough to have kept track of most of my boarding passes.  I did try to, but usually lost them anyway.  Only thing I'm good at is remembering the password for my email, where all the flight reservations are stored.

Pictures and some sort of proof that you are in communication regularly will help. All that really matters is you passport stamps for proof of travel. Make sure your wife's birth certificate does not say delayed registration or she will need more documentation that is not listed. If it is just ask here and people will let you know what is needed.