Several questions regarding I-130 evidence uploads (merged topics)

[STDEV 0]

Hi, we have a few questions on this. I'm writing this post as the USC petitioner.

 

1. Marriage certificate, translation, and certification
   • should these three all be in one PDF, or three separate PDFs?
   • Is there a preferred format of the translated document? For example, should we make text boxes that replicate the text positioning on the original marriage certificate? Or take the original, and then paste text boxes with English over it?
2. Additional Evidence - financial beneficiary on bank accounts
   • Separate PDFs for each bank's beneficiary confirmation page, or a single combined PDF?
3. Additional Visual Evidence: we are mostly finished with a PowerPoint (for PDF export) containing ~100 chronological pages of (a) pictures of the two of us, with friends/family, etc.; (b) plane tickets, screenshots of hotel bookings, passport stamps; (c) greeting cards (e.g. birthday/valentines); proof of my (USC petitioner's) former residence in the beneficiary's country.
   • Should we also be uploading the screenshotted document-type items (b) as additional PDFs, or is just in the PowerPoint sufficient?
   • Some items here are in Dutch, such as a few greeting cards, my former Dutch residence card, etc. I am providing translations of these within the PowerPoint, but should I also upload these as separate documents so that each translation can be certified separately?
   • Example: on slides with a greeting card, the slide will have [picture of greeting card in Dutch] on the left and [English translation of greeting card] on the right. I did the same thing for my old residence permit/card as well, so far.
4. USC Passport PDF
   • I'll be uploading this as my proof of citizenship. Per above, we took some snippets of my passport stamps for the Visual Evidence document. Should I also be including the full passport stamp pages? (i.e. beyond the ID page) Asking because I have a temporary visa in a foreign language that we'd rather not deal with translating since it doesn't add any benefit to the petition.
5. 2x2 photos of petitioner and beneficiary. The instructions say to write names on the back of the photos.
   • Does this mean we need to (1) get physical passport photos, (2) write names on the back, and then (3) scan fronts/backs and upload as PDF? Rather than just uploading digital originals

 

Many thanks in advance!

[OldUser 7,570]

I'd hire somebody to do translations. There's tons of cheap services who do this professionally and have all necessary templates.

 

My translation was side by side document with original on left and translated version on the right.

 

If the stamps in passport show entries to the country your spouse is from, this is actually valuable evidence for spousal visa.

 

[STDEV 0]

Hi, I tried searching this but couldn't find specific guidance on this. Does anyone know whether it's preferred to have translated documents and translator's certification in the same upload as the original or not?

Thanks in advance.

[OldUser 7,570]

I don't know if there is a preference, but agency that translated my docs had original and translation in one PDF side by side. It worked.

Edited January 1 by OldUser

[STDEV 0]

@OldUserThanks

[STDEV 0]

@OldUserThanks. We ended up submitting just today.

[pushbrk 13,121]

One PDF makes it more difficult for either to be overlooked.

[top_secret 2,509]

We put it all together and named the file like "Marrige_Certificate_and_Certified_English_Translation.pdf".

[Ryan H 3,834]

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