How can i prove ongoing relationship ?

[karvee2005 0]

This is been bothering me all night, i coudnt sleep. Ok, here's my situation, ive been living with my fiance for seven months and i dont have anything to show to prove our relationship. All we have is pictures and a joint bank account. Everything is in her mom's name, so our names are not on anything. We dont have a interview date yet so we still got a couple months to prepare, so i was wondering is there anything we can do to help make our case more solid ?

[Chuckles 0]

This is been bothering me all night, i coudnt sleep. Ok, here's my situation, ive been living with my fiance for seven months and i dont have anything to show to prove our relationship. All we have is pictures and a joint bank account. Everything is in her mom's name, so our names are not on anything. We dont have a interview date yet so we still got a couple months to prepare, so i was wondering is there anything we can do to help make our case more solid ?

How about you get a letter from her mother (translated) then have her signiture certified/notarized or whatever you can do there in Thailand?

[ufkenmill 0]

I currently live with my fiance in Thailand also. We used emails, pictures and plane boarding passes to prove our relationship was real and had no problems with the VSC.

I wouldn't worry about it, you have the same address, that's pretty solid info that you've met if you know what i mean...

[Jaylen Brit 0]

Do you have a place of your own with like a rental agreement or mortgage papers you can get translated, notarised, and send?

ANY papers sent to your residence in joint names would count as well - bills, official letters, anything like that would assist.

[Jenn! 918]

We had the same problem. We had lived together for over a year before we submitted the K1 application and I was getting stressed about evidence. Reading VJ tends to give you the impression that you need hundreds of pages of emails and internet chatting to provide as evidence. We had never written even one email to each other!

We relied more on photos as evidence. Lots of photos of us together in our apartment, and with friends and family. We had no problems. In fact, they didn't even want to see the phone records from the most recent 6 months when we weren't living together. They were only interested in the pictures.

I think you'll be absolutely fine, but of course Thailand could look at things differently.

Good luck!

[Jasman0717 9]

Neither of you receive any mail with the same address? Are you working there? If so does your comany have address? What kind of petition are you filing?

Neither of you receive any mail with the same address? Are you working there? If so does your comany have address? What kind of petition are you filing?

Sorry, didn't look at your timeline.

[Mand 1]

We lived together aswell, and included some e-mails that we would send to each other during work....just ones about every day things. We had more photos than anything else...with my family, our friends, at parties, pubs, at our apartment.

You have a joint bank account together, I would say that is a big piece of ongoing relationship evidence!

[Yodrak 7]

karvee,

Are you concerned about your petition or her visa interview? I suspect the latter, since you use the word 'interview' in your post, and don't mention the petition at all, but some other posters seem to have a different impression so clarification would be helpful to know what it is you need evidence of.

If I'm correct that it's the interview that concerns you, how are you supporting yourself while living in Thailand? More to the point, how do you propose to support yourself and your fiancee when you return to the USA? That may be a bigger concern to the consular officer than the relationship with a woman with whom you've been living for 7 months.

Yodrak

This is been bothering me all night, i coudnt sleep. Ok, here's my situation, ive been living with my fiance for seven months and i dont have anything to show to prove our relationship. All we have is pictures and a joint bank account. Everything is in her mom's name, so our names are not on anything. We dont have a interview date yet so we still got a couple months to prepare, so i was wondering is there anything we can do to help make our case more solid ?

[jmoon87 0]

The best way to prove a ongoing relationship is to be at the interview if possible and just to be able to answer all normal questions about each others jobs and familys .good luck

[karvee2005 0]

Hello,

Thanks for all your replies. Yes, its the interview i am worried about, i dont have a job, i just brought alot of money with me when i came here and ive been living with that. I was going to go back home and start work and prepare for everything but the process has moved along a little quicker than i expected and i thought maybe it would be better if we could fly back together, if possible.

I dont have my own place or anything (in America), but my parents want to sponser for her and want us to live with them, they have the extra room and could use us around the house. In my line of work jobs are easy to come by and i know i could pick one up as soon as i got back, but i dont have anyway to prove this at the interview. So yeah, im kind of confused as to what i should do at this point.

Thanks,

Karvee

[Yodrak 7]

Karvee,

Have your parents prepare a sponsorship package with the necessary financial documentation and hope that the consular officer does not insist that you have a source of income back in the USA before they will issue the visa.

Also, start collecting some things that show you and your fiancee are living together. Shouldn't be difficult, use your imagination. And don't be distracted by the kinds of evidence provided those where the two people are living apart in different countries. (Maybe you and Ken can get together and share ideas on the subject.)

Yodrak

Hello,

Thanks for all your replies. Yes, its the interview i am worried about, i dont have a job, i just brought alot of money with me when i came here and ive been living with that. I was going to go back home and start work and prepare for everything but the process has moved along a little quicker than i expected and i thought maybe it would be better if we could fly back together, if possible.

I dont have my own place or anything (in America), but my parents want to sponser for her and want us to live with them, they have the extra room and could use us around the house. In my line of work jobs are easy to come by and i know i could pick one up as soon as i got back, but i dont have anyway to prove this at the interview. So yeah, im kind of confused as to what i should do at this point.

Thanks,

Karvee

[karvee2005 0]

Yodrak,

By sponsorship package are you meaning the affidavit of support that came with the packet three, or do you mean something else ? Im curious if there have been any other members who went through the interview process while being unemployed ?

Karvee,

Have your parents prepare a sponsorship package with the necessary financial documentation and hope that the consular officer does not insist that you have a source of income back in the USA before they will issue the visa.

Also, start collecting some things that show you and your fiancee are living together. Shouldn't be difficult, use your imagination. And don't be distracted by the kinds of evidence provided those where the two people are living apart in different countries. (Maybe you and Ken can get together and share ideas on the subject.)

Yodrak

Hello,

Thanks for all your replies. Yes, its the interview i am worried about, i dont have a job, i just brought alot of money with me when i came here and ive been living with that. I was going to go back home and start work and prepare for everything but the process has moved along a little quicker than i expected and i thought maybe it would be better if we could fly back together, if possible.

I dont have my own place or anything (in America), but my parents want to sponser for her and want us to live with them, they have the extra room and could use us around the house. In my line of work jobs are easy to come by and i know i could pick one up as soon as i got back, but i dont have anyway to prove this at the interview. So yeah, im kind of confused as to what i should do at this point.

Thanks,

Karvee

[Yodrak 7]

karvee,

I mean all of the financial documentation that may be requested to show that the visa applicant meets the public charge provisions of the law - I-134 is only 1 item of that.

See form DS-2000, as provided by the consulate in Bangkok, here

< http://web.archive.org/web/20040327074622/..._8-1999_eng.pdf >

Yodrak

Yodrak,

By sponsorship package are you meaning the affidavit of support that came with the packet three, or do you mean something else ? Im curious if there have been any other members who went through the interview process while being unemployed ?

Karvee,

Have your parents prepare a sponsorship package with the necessary financial documentation and hope that the consular officer does not insist that you have a source of income back in the USA before they will issue the visa.

Also, start collecting some things that show you and your fiancee are living together. Shouldn't be difficult, use your imagination. And don't be distracted by the kinds of evidence provided those where the two people are living apart in different countries. (Maybe you and Ken can get together and share ideas on the subject.)

Yodrak

Hello,

Thanks for all your replies. Yes, its the interview i am worried about, i dont have a job, i just brought alot of money with me when i came here and ive been living with that. I was going to go back home and start work and prepare for everything but the process has moved along a little quicker than i expected and i thought maybe it would be better if we could fly back together, if possible.

I dont have my own place or anything (in America), but my parents want to sponser for her and want us to live with them, they have the extra room and could use us around the house. In my line of work jobs are easy to come by and i know i could pick one up as soon as i got back, but i dont have anyway to prove this at the interview. So yeah, im kind of confused as to what i should do at this point.

Thanks,

Karvee

[meauxna 15]

Im curious if there have been any other members who went through the interview process while being unemployed ?

karvee2005: Yes.

As Yodrak suggests, blaze your own trail; each case is unique.

I was living overseas and unemployed when we successfully completed our spousal visa process (foreign employment would not 'count' anyway), but the things we did would probably not apply to your case.

Our landlady wrote a brief statement about our cohabitation.

[diadromous mermaid 36]

Our landlady wrote a brief statement about our cohabitation.

And what a statement it was! Another case of those terribly thin walls, eh