How much evidence to include for Indonesian fiance?

[Skyl3r 0]

Hello,

 

I hope this is the right place to ask, since my question is more region specific.. - I'm working on preparing my Form i-129F packet for my Indonesian fiancé. I was trying to figure out how much evidence to include for in person meetings and it sounds like that heavily depends on what country your fiancé is from, as some consulates are much tougher than others.

I'm hoping to find out here how much effort I should go through to frontload my application with as much evidence as possible?

 

For reference, I currently have in my packet:

• Scans of my passport showing visa stamps
• Boarding passes of my travel there
• Itineraries from a couple flights we went on together which list both of our names
• ~16 Pictures with names, dates and locations 

 

Additional things I can include, but I'm not sure how strong of evidence they would be:

• Hotel & AirBnB reservations which include both of our names
• Card statements that show purchases in Indonesia
• I didn't keep most receipts from restaurants and stuff, but I have a few

 

I'd be grateful to hear from anyone with experience applying for a K1 visa for an Indonesian citizen!

 

Thanks!

[Mike E 11,739]

1 hour ago, Skyl3r said:

I'd be grateful to hear from anyone with experience applying for a K1 visa for an Indonesian citizen!

 

Can’t give you an Indonesian perspective. I would and did document each in person meeting with:

* flight ticket

* hotel reservation

* photos 

[Skyl3r 0]

21 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Can’t give you an Indonesian perspective. I would and did document each in person meeting with:

* flight ticket

* hotel reservation

* photos 

Thanks for responding. It sounds like I'm headed in the right direction with what I've got so far then.

The only thing I was hesitant with about AirBnB/Hotel reservations was that I have 8 reservations from one visit and 7 from the other. I was just a little worried about inundating whoever gets my packet with documents.

 

EDIT: Out of curiosity, did you provide a large amount of evidence of an on-going relationship aside from proof of an in person meeting in the past two years? I've been trying to figure out if it's a good idea to include screenshots, emails, etc.

Edited July 25, 2023 by Skyl3r

[Mike E 11,739]

4 minutes ago, Skyl3r said:

The only thing I was hesitant with about AirBnB/Hotel reservations was that I have 8 reservations from one visit and 7 from the other. I was just a little worried about inundating whoever gets my packet with documents.

Tough for that ISO then.

 

Too many I-129Fs / K-1s die because of lack of evidence of bonafide relationship. 
 

6 minutes ago, Skyl3r said:

EDIT: Out of curiosity, did you provide a large amount of evidence of an on-going relationship aside from proof of an in person meeting in the past two years? I've been trying to figure out if it's a good idea to include screenshots, emails, etc.

Absolutely. I documented every meeting whether before the 2 year statutory period or not.  

 

[Skyl3r 0]

13 hours ago, Mike E said:

Tough for that ISO then.

 

Too many I-129Fs / K-1s die because of lack of evidence of bonafide relationship. 
 

Absolutely. I documented every meeting whether before the 2 year statutory period or not.  

 

 

Thanks again for the input. It's helpful to hear from someone who has gone through the process already.

From what you're saying, it sounds like a situation where I'd be much better off to include too much than risk not including enough.

 

I've been talking with my fiance for over 10 years now, so I have hundreds of thousands of messages and emails and stuff. I've stayed with her family and she talks to my family regularly. I don't think it would be too difficult to establish that we have a real relationship, but I wasn't sure how much to frontload the application with. I somewhere read someone saying "Including too much will slow down processing time. Just prove you've met in the past 2 years."

[Mike E 11,739]

2 hours ago, Skyl3r said:

 

Thanks again for the input. It's helpful to hear from someone who has gone through the process already.

From what you're saying, it sounds like a situation where I'd be much better off to include too much than risk not including enough.

In general that is true. 
 

2 hours ago, Skyl3r said:

 

I've been talking with my fiance for over 10 years now, so I have hundreds of thousands of messages and emails and stuff.

This can easily add up to 100s of thousands of pages. I would have at most one message session or one email per quarter for the past 10 years. So no more than 40 such artifacts. To the extent possible, multiple artifacts per page.
 

2 hours ago, Skyl3r said:

 

I somewhere read someone saying "Including too much will slow down processing time. Just prove you've met in the past 2 years."

When started with visajourney in 2017, the dominant school of thought was to front load.
 

Sending thousands of pages will not help. Documenting each meeting should not require that many pages.
 

Your I-129F case materials will be seen by the embassy.