I-130 Affidavit Sample for Bonafide Marriage (CR1 visa)

[pushbrk 12,998]

3 hours ago, Areeb Abdullah said:

Understandable.

 

How would I be proving someone had to travel out of country for our wedding? Would I be posting their ticket? 
 

I do have all the recommended photos and required documents for proof of bonafide marriage. Just stuff like lease, insurance and so are missing as we don’t live together yet. 

We haven’t known each other for a long time so we don’t have much old photos, but plenty of different photos at different occasions with different people. 
 

Questions, if you don’t mind answering. We would appreciate it.

 

How many pictures would you recommend? Did you label them with who’s on the photo? Give a description? How many photos in one page? 
 

I’d say I’d have about 30-40 pages of PDF which would include everything, how would one upload this huge file? Do I need to write a cover letter for each item I have? For example, my bank statement which has both of our names..do I write a small cover letter before the statement stating that on the next page we have our joint account which we put some of our savings in for our future so and so 
 

If not, How many pages of cover letter would you recommend for the main page? And what are they very key important points are needed to be added.

 

thank you once again, we greatly appreciate it.
 

 

My magic number is 27, and 9 per page.  Photos are secondary evidence though.  Your primary evidence of being together are passport stamps.

[Cw1977 109]

5 hours ago, pushbrk said:

My magic number is 27, and 9 per page.  Photos are secondary evidence though.  Your primary evidence of being together are passport stamps.

This is useful if you get your passport stamped. Not sure whether Canadians/US get that. 
 

my wife and I didn’t get stamps in passport for years due to using egates or global entry so my U.K. passport going into US or her American one going into Uk never got stamped. 

[pushbrk 12,998]

8 hours ago, Cw1977 said:

This is useful if you get your passport stamped. Not sure whether Canadians/US get that. 
 

my wife and I didn’t get stamps in passport for years due to using egates or global entry so my U.K. passport going into US or her American one going into Uk never got stamped. 

Then you use boarding passes and/or receipts.  Please complete your profile.  If it shows Canada,  you'll get different answers.  Relationship bona fides are not really a big issue for US Canada cases anyway.

 

[Cw1977 109]

22 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Then you use boarding passes and/or receipts.  Please complete your profile.  If it shows Canada,  you'll get different answers.  Relationship bona fides are not really a big issue for US Canada cases anyway.

 

I think you’re getting confused! I have nothing to do with Canada. I was just helping and replying to the OP

 

[pushbrk 12,998]

11 minutes ago, Cw1977 said:

I think you’re getting confused! I have nothing to do with Canada. I was just helping and replying to the OP

 

OK.  Yes, your response confused me.  Unless it's Canada or maybe Mexico, the US Citizen most likely has passport stamps for entry to the foreign spouse's country, and the foreign spouse's passport would be stamped OR an I-94 would be available for any visits to the US.  Also, if the OP would complete their profile, it would be helpful.

[Cw1977 109]

21 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

OK.  Yes, your response confused me.  Unless it's Canada or maybe Mexico, the US Citizen most likely has passport stamps for entry to the foreign spouse's country, and the foreign spouse's passport would be stamped OR an I-94 would be available for any visits to the US.  Also, if the OP would complete their profile, it would be helpful.

I was also just pointing out that my British passport and my wife American’s one were never stamped when we entered each others country for the last 5+ years

[Areeb Abdullah 0]

14 hours ago, pushbrk said:

My magic number is 27, and 9 per page.  Photos are secondary evidence though.  Your primary evidence of being together are passport stamps.

We don’t have any passport stamps, we travelled within US. 

 

I do have plane tickets receipts, hotel’s receipts, rent a car receipt, bus ticket from Toronto to Buffalo when I went to meet her and so. 

[pushbrk 12,998]

1 minute ago, Areeb Abdullah said:

We don’t have any passport stamps, we travelled within US. 

 

I do have plane tickets receipts, hotel’s receipts, rent a car receipt, bus ticket from Toronto to Buffalo when I went to meet her and so. 

That and being a US/Canada relationship should carry the day just fine.

[Areeb Abdullah 0]

1 hour ago, pushbrk said:

Then you use boarding passes and/or receipts.  Please complete your profile.  If it shows Canada,  you'll get different answers.  Relationship bona fides are not really a big issue for US Canada cases anyway.

 

Is the process smoother for US-CANADA applicants? I understand it varies however our case is not at all complicated as we both are in our 20s, well settled, no divorce or children, great travel history specially between US-Canada. 

[Areeb Abdullah 0]

48 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

OK.  Yes, your response confused me.  Unless it's Canada or maybe Mexico, the US Citizen most likely has passport stamps for entry to the foreign spouse's country, and the foreign spouse's passport would be stamped OR an I-94 would be available for any visits to the US.  Also, if the OP would complete their profile, it would be helpful.

Looking into completing my profile soon!

[pushbrk 12,998]

13 minutes ago, Areeb Abdullah said:

Is the process smoother for US-CANADA applicants? I understand it varies however our case is not at all complicated as we both are in our 20s, well settled, no divorce or children, great travel history specially between US-Canada. 

Not a lot of immigration fraud coming from Canada, so not much scrutiny of relationship bona fides.  Otherwise about the same as other western countries.  US Domicile for the US Citizen is the big issue coming from Canada, but a US Citizen actually living in the USA, makes that a moot point.

 

[Areeb Abdullah 0]

On 2/4/2024 at 6:50 PM, pushbrk said:

Not a lot of immigration fraud coming from Canada, so not much scrutiny of relationship bona fides.  Otherwise about the same as other western countries.  US Domicile for the US Citizen is the big issue coming from Canada, but a US Citizen actually living in the USA, makes that a moot point.

 

That’s true.

 

reading lots of posts stating Canadians getting ds5535 in Montreal!

[OldUser 6,990]

1 hour ago, Areeb Abdullah said:

That’s true.

 

reading lots of posts stating Canadians getting ds5535 in Montreal!

That's probably true for people not born in Canada, but originally coming from Middle East, Eastern European, African countries.

Edited February 6 by OldUser

[Areeb Abdullah 0]

On 2/4/2024 at 6:50 PM, pushbrk said:

Not a lot of immigration fraud coming from Canada, so not much scrutiny of relationship bona fides.  Otherwise about the same as other western countries.  US Domicile for the US Citizen is the big issue coming from Canada, but a US Citizen actually living in the USA, makes that a moot point.

 

Questions, if you can kindly advice.

 

When updating our employment history, my wife and I both experienced promotions within the same company. She transitioned from working with adults hospital to a children's hospital and different position, while I moved to a different office and got promoted to a new position.
 

Should we list these promotions as separate jobs, or combine them into one entry? Do we use our first initial start date as we are still present in the same company and there has been no end date just promotion.

[pushbrk 12,998]

20 minutes ago, Areeb Abdullah said:

Questions, if you can kindly advice.

 

When updating our employment history, my wife and I both experienced promotions within the same company. She transitioned from working with adults hospital to a children's hospital and different position, while I moved to a different office and got promoted to a new position.
 

Should we list these promotions as separate jobs, or combine them into one entry? Do we use our first initial start date as we are still present in the same company and there has been no end date just promotion.

No.  If it's all the same company, just list the company, start date, and current occupation.  Note that occupation and title are not always the same thing.  For example, MD is enough.  No need to enter Pediatrician unless you want to.  Surgeon, is fine even if you are chief of thoracic surgery.  RN is fine.  No need to enter more "titles".