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I did call my card company- it is Capital One. They said it was never flagged or anything. I've just checked my CC account again and the charge has now gone through, but my online USCIS acct says I still need to pay for the form- they didn't allow it to be submitted initially because it said the payment was declined. I can't seem to find who to contact at USCIS about this. What do I do in this situation?? UPDATED TO ADD: I just logged out of my USCIS account and logged back in, went to the end and tried to submit the form again and this time it accepted it and didn't prompt for payment! It must have registered that the payment had now gone through!

I am filing online and I tried to submit my completed i-130 last night. I reviewed the whole application and all evidence, did the "review and submit" and then I clicked to pay by credit card. It took me to the Pay.gov site and I entered all my information exactly as it appears only card which still has over three years validity. I clicked to submit the payment and the little blue wheel just spun and spun. I waited over three minutes and then it threw me back to the USCIS and said something like, "Your form was not submitted due to the payment being rejected or declined". I logged into my credit card account and it shows a USCIS charge pending for the amount of the i-130- no fraud alert or anything, just pending. I called my credit card company to see if perhaps it was flagged and I wasn't notified, but they told me there were no flags or concerns with the transaction on their end. They told me it would take 5 days to see if that pending payment would go through or be declined. I don't know what to do- if the payment goes through but they haven't accepted my form, what do I do about my money? I don't want to be out for twice the fees. If it doesn't go through, I don't understand what the problem would have been. I do live in China, so I was running a VPN at the time, but I didn't get any warnings about that- does online payment not work with a VPN? Thanks in advance!

Ok, so I've been editing/working on our documentation. I have the following documents: 1) Merged PDF of leases and tenancy info for last 7 years 2) My merged employment contracts from the last 4 years listing my husband as a dependent 3) A PDF of passport stamps and visas with annotations- my passport pages on the left, his on the right with a colored outline to identify the stamps we are referring to and a note with the location where we went and the date. Included all visa stickers and stamps from places we've lived together and visited. 4) PDF of the few AirBnB/ hotel bookings and flight itineraries that I have- I don't have this documentation for all trips. 5) PDF of emails with financial planner 6) PDF of a collection of wedding photos, 2-3 photos from every vacation since we started dating and 3 or so photos from each country we've lived in together showing daily life. Photos are varied in activities and poses and show us with family and friends. 8 pages total. Do I need evidence of texts/chats? Should I include whole PDFs of both of our passports here as well, since my stamps document is screenshots and cropped, or is what I have enough? Does this sound ok?

Hello! I'm working on the i-130 for my husband and getting together our evidence. We have lived together outside of the US since our marriage in 2017 and have only been apart for short periods of time when I have traveled back to the US to visit family. I am putting together lots of things, but I want to make sure not to include unnecessary elements and to keep it as concise as possible. So far, for evidence I have: 1) Marriage certificate with translation 2) Lease documentation with our names showing we have lived together for the last 6.5 years>> two of our leases are 5-6 pages each- do we include all pages, or just the signatures pages? 3) Copy of work visa information from Singapore showing that I was a dependant on my husband's visa 4) Copy of my current work contracts showing he is my dependent for all benefits>> The contract is 33 pages- do I need to include the whole thing, or just the page from the Schedule of Allowances where it states they consider him my dependant spouse? I have two separate contracts covering our current stay in China, so it would be close to 70 pages total for both docs. 5) Evidence of trips we have taken together ourselves and with friends and family Photos- 2ish photos per trip, with other people, with notable landmarks in the background E-tickets for some of the trips, AirBnB/Trip/Booking.Com receipts for some flights/hotels- do I just merge a big PDF, or put screenshots into a document and annotate this? Passport stamps showing we traveled together>> is this necessary? Is it better than photos? How would I organize this? Just scan both of our passports? 6) PDFs of a few emails with our financial planner with some details regarding our planning for retirement together- we do not have any joint financial accounts Photos question: I currently have 1 doc with photos that is 8 pages long. It includes one page with a collection of wedding photos (photographer shots and some from guests) and then the rest of the pages are photos of trips of ours starting from when we were dating and including two or three general "life" photos at sites and with friends and family both in Singapore and China. Should I keep these all together in one document because I think they kind of show our relationship story that way? All photos are dated and labeled clearly. Messages/Texts/Chats question: Should I still be including screenshots of texts/messages throughout our relationship even though we have been living together? If so, how many/ with what frequency? Thank you in advance for any advice/wisdom!!