Evidence of Bona fide marriage

[Skyyy 7]

Hello friends,

I am in the process of applying for a CR1 visa and filling out the I-130 form online these days.

 

My concern is on how to upload the evidence of a bona fide marriage.

 

1) I have pictures of our marriage registration event and pictures taken during trips and special events like family gatherings and friends meet-ups.

 

2) Air tickets and boarding passes of visits to meet my foreign spouse outside the US.

 

3) WhatsApp chat, call history screenshots.

 

4) Letters sent with birthday cards to each other through postal mail.

 

5) Receipts of hotel bookings, gifts purchased for each other.

 

6) Third-party affidavits to support our relationship and marriage.

 

My Questions:

 

a) How to upload these things to the online form? Should I include all the evidence mentioned in points 1 to 6 above in one PDF file and upload it, or should I upload 6 separate PDF files? Please suggest any recommended method other than this, if any.

 

b) We don't have any joint financial assets or liabilities. What else do you recommend I include as evidence?

c) How many affidavits would be better?

[Timona 4,207]

 

Affidavits are weak evidence.

Can't submit what you don’t have.

1 PDF, upload

[Team A Forever 59]

Hello,

 

My suggestion is to upload each item of evidence separately. You want to make sure that your upload files aren’t so large that you have issues uploading them. Also, if I remember correctly, you can “map” out your documents. For example, if you have a marriage certificate, there is an option for you to label it as such. Hope this helps (and makes sense)!

[Ryan H 3,812]

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On 10/19/2023 at 10:10 PM, Skyyy said:

 

6) Third-party affidavits to support our relationship and marriage.

 

 

c) How many affidavits would be better?

 

 

Skip the affidavits, they're not required and as mentioned by another poster, they're weak evidence to begin with.

 

On 10/19/2023 at 10:10 PM, Skyyy said:

 

b) We don't have any joint financial assets or liabilities. What else do you recommend I include as evidence?

 

Joint financial assets or liabilites are not required either, don't stress this.  You have evidence of time spent together in-person, focus on that since that is your strongest evidence.

 

[pushbrk 12,803]

Sounds like you have plenty of evidence already.  Concentrate on evidence of time spent together.  Receipts and passport stamps are "primary evidence" while photos are great "secondary evidence".  A few pages of evidence should be plenty.  Skip the affidavits.

 

Note you are referencing a list that follows the words, "In addition to the required......" and "one or more", so not required and not All.

[Skyyy 7]

thank you all. I submitted