US Immigration from Senegal

Hi all,

We've been married 2 years and are residing in my spouse's home country. We're filling out form I-130 and putting together the accompanying packet of documents.

I'm seeing references to the following forms all over the place - Do we need them?? Especially the travel document? Or are they for fiance visas or later steps?

• I-145 app to register permanent residence
• I-765 app for employment authorization
• I-131 app for travel document

Any other sneaky documents we don't know about?

Thanks!

Hi,

Just starting out on this journey. My husband and I have been married for over 2 years. I have lived in his home country of Senegal for 3 years. We have been "together" for 4 years, so that first year was a single visit + mostly distance.

Leases

I started out renting my own places in Senegal, then we moved in together the day after our wedding in 2018. The apartment was in my name until a couple of months ago, when I put it in both of our names. I included this new joint lease in the packet. Question: Should I also include my old leases proving I've lived here? One issue is that the very first apartment in 2017 had no lease, just the ones after, so there's a gap. But I have photo to prove I was here.

Plane tickets

Since I've been living here, my plane tickets have just been to visit the U.S. for up to 1 month, then fly back to Senegal. Everyone says plane tickets help with proof - I didn't keep any, but my mother may have old emails of flight confirmations and informal itineraries surrounding my visits TO the US and back. Question: Do I need to include all this, since I have my leases and photos?

Messages/Call Logs

We lost all our messages from June 2016 until July 2018 because we were using the app IMO and we both changed phone and lost the acct info..... I arrived in Senegal in 2017, so it's really 2016-2018 that was lost, which is 2 years, 1 of which was distance. That's a long time. Question: Is this a massive problem? We have plenty of photos from 2017 on... but not that year of distance...

Thank you for your help!

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