OK, so after 4 days of working on this, I finally turned in the requested documentation.
I will chronicle what I did so if anyone run into a similar situation as my fiance and I did, hopefully this thread / post will be helpful.
So the thing is the website, as of this writing 6/29/2024, only allows 2 uploads, with each upload limited to 3MB.
I have to get creative to squeeze in as much content as possible. For me, I converted all JPG and PNG images into WEBP images. Then I also decrease the size of the WEBP images. You can do this in any order (decrease size of JPG/PNG image first, then convert to WEBP ... or convert to WEBP first, then decrease size). As long as the chosen images are of acceptable smaller size and quality to you.
I also turn all final submitted documents into PDF and further decrease the PDF size. You can find these programs to convert and decrease the size of files online.
So basically, we need to submit online the following 3 items:
* Spousal relationship evidence form: this one we download online as listed on the OF-194 and fill out
- for the Relationship Timeline section, I tried to be detailed as possible while remaining succinct. This section turns out to be a little bit over 2 pages of writing for me.
* OF-194: scan the blue slip and attach it with the Relationship Evidence
* Relationship Evidence: for this, I've include the following
- 23 pictures of fiance and I, including: with family, on vacation in Viet Nam, engagement party/ceremony with both sides of the family. Pictures are from 2 separate in-person meeting since April 2023. Picture pages had 8 pictures per page (except for last page), each picture with date and caption underneath. In chronological order.
- 6 boarding passes with passport stamps (I saw my fiance in-person 3 times). In chronological order and captioned.
- money remittance summary through Remitly in chronological order and captioned.
- 6 legible receipts for purchases and hotel with date and explanation in chronological order, also captioned for each receipt
- 24 screenshots of selected Facebook Messenger messages, in chronological order and captioned for each screenshot
- 6 pages of audio/video call logs from Facebook Messenger, with Date, Time of Call, who called who, and Call Duration. In chronological order.
So the OF-194 (1 page) and the Relationship Evidence (21 pages) documents combined for a total of 22 pages. I was able to shrink the two combined documents into 1 PDF document under 3MB. I felt that the quality of the images were very acceptable (I had my fiance and some other people took a look to see if they can see the pictures and writing).