"High fraud" country - Is our evidence of a bonafide marriage sufficient?

[IntrusiveThief 2]

Hey everyone, my wife and are about to file our I-130 online. I'm from India. Our proof of bonafide marriage pdf is 40 pages long. This is what we have in there:

 

Table of Contents on the first page

A small paragraph that is an introduction to us and how we met, with a picture. 

Proceeds into our first meeting and month long trip together in SEA in April 2022 -- before we got married -- which includes: boarding passes, passport stamps and our airbnb bookings. Followed by 3 pages of pictures of us. 

 

Then our second two-month long trip abroad, from Oct 2022 to Dec, during which we did get married, this includes: boarding passes, passport stamps and our airbnb bookings. Followed by 4 pages of pictures of us in these countries. 

 

We had a Utah zoom wedding while we were together in Dec, we've included two pages of pictures of the ceremony where we had two close friends as witnesses, and of us exchanging rings. 

 

Finishing it off, are our boarding passes going back home, and a few simple sentences noting our sadness at being apart again. 

And then two pages of chat logs from snapchat and discord,  followed by about 5 months worth of consistent call records, birthday cards and finally, two pages of reciepts/movie tickets/etc. 

As we don't have joint bank account statements, insurance or long-term leases etc that show financial comingling, we've tried to supply an abundance of evidence in other areas like in time spent together.  

 

Do you think this will be enough to satisfy UCIS and potentially avoid an RFE later on? Are we producing too much evidence and slowing things down? We'd be grateful for any advice. 

Edited January 11, 2023 by IntrusiveThief

[pushbrk 12,873]

50 minutes ago, IntrusiveThief said:

Hey everyone, my wife and are about to file our I-130 online. I'm from India. Our proof of bonafide marriage pdf is 40 pages long. This is what we have in there:

 

Table of Contents on the first page

A small paragraph that is an introduction to us and how we met, with a picture. 

Proceeds into our first meeting and month long trip together in SEA in April 2022 -- before we got married -- which includes: boarding passes, passport stamps and our airbnb bookings. Followed by 3 pages of pictures of us. 

 

Then our second two-month long trip abroad, from Oct 2022 to Dec, during which we did get married, this includes: boarding passes, passport stamps and our airbnb bookings. Followed by 4 pages of pictures of us in these countries. 

 

We had a Utah zoom wedding while we were together in Dec, we've included two pages of pictures of the ceremony where we had two close friends as witnesses, and of us exchanging rings. 

 

Finishing it off, are our boarding passes going back home, and a few simple sentences noting our sadness at being apart again. 

And then two pages of chat logs from snapchat and discord,  followed by about 5 months worth of consistent call records, birthday cards and finally, two pages of reciepts/movie tickets/etc. 

As we don't have joint bank account statements, insurance or long-term leases etc that show financial comingling, we've tried to supply an abundance of evidence in other areas like in time spent together.  

 

Do you think this will be enough to satisfy UCIS and potentially avoid an RFE later on? Are we producing too much evidence and slowing things down? We'd be grateful for any advice. 

Sounds like plenty to me, but the few simple sentences about sadness etc. I would delete.  Probably won't hurt, but I would not include it.

 

Actual evidence of time spent together in person will carry the day but itself.

[IntrusiveThief 2]

8 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Sounds like plenty to me, but the few simple sentences about sadness etc. I would delete.  Probably won't hurt, but I would not include it.

 

Actual evidence of time spent together in person will carry the day but itself.

Yeah, we decided to remove those sentences. We'd been hoping to get your opinion on this. Thanks, pushbrk! 

[carmel34 3,621]

The US citizen can add a spouse who lives abroad to many things, such as US health insurance, approved user on a credit card, beneficiary on life insurance and retirement accounts, etc.  We also filed a US tax return, married filing jointly, with a W-7 for an ITIN, and included that.  You can also upload additional evidence like this, as well as documents showing additional time spent together (passport stamps, original boarding passes, hotel receipts), at the NVC stage after the I-130 is approved.  Good luck!

Edited January 11, 2023 by carmel34

[IntrusiveThief 2]

13 hours ago, carmel34 said:

The US citizen can add a spouse who lives abroad to many things, such as US health insurance, approved user on a credit card, beneficiary on life insurance and retirement accounts, etc.  We also filed a US tax return, married filing jointly, with a W-7 for an ITIN, and included that.  You can also upload additional evidence like this, as well as documents showing additional time spent together (passport stamps, original boarding passes, hotel receipts), at the NVC stage after the I-130 is approved.  Good luck!

We just finished filing the I-130 yesterday,  so we'll look into adding these documents at the NVC stage. Excellent idea with the ITIN, I didn't realize the spouses of US citizens were elgible for them. Thanks for the advice and good luck with your I-751!