NandV

You're making this way too complicated 1. Your wife needs to get pregnant - you may be lucky and it happens in the first go or it may take longer 2. The baby born in Canada = sooo many benefits - Canada + US (through you since you're a US citizen parent) dual citizenship - Part of the commonwealth - cheaper education, ability to study in Canada/aus/uk, travel freely 3. Pregnancy - many many appointments - Initially - once every 3-4 weeks + many blood tests - 3rd trimester - once every 2 weeks and then once a week imo it's a disservice to both the mom and child if the child is born in the US. I think you're looking at it rather selfishly. Once the child is born, you'll probably qualify for paternity leave. You can go spend time with the child + mom for an x amount of time. It's better than separating the mom and child

We brought a copy of the photos we submitted with original app (although officer told us it wasn't needed since she had that info already) and then 4-5 photos from that point until AOS. In our case, our officer cared more about our wedding picture than anything else. Those were the ones that were saved with our file. Of course we brought electricity, internet, insurance bills, etc, but photos were the heavy weight. Definitely bring photos since you have no clue what your officer is interested in. FYI we got a senior officer who was notorious for rejecting apps