Cranberry_anon

Early in our relationship I started scrapbooks our adventures. I'm very sentimental and had made a habit of collecting things like brochures, cinema tickets, little trinkets from gift shops in places we went on dates, receipts from dinners, etc. as keepsakes to keep in the scrapbook alongside pictures. Thing is... a LOT of recipts/tickets/etc. are in glued in here and double stuck down with things like stickers and having photos layered on top of them. I can't remove them from the scrapbook without destroying them. Is it acceptable to take the scrapbook with me to the interview? Or is that just me being cheeky? An example attached below. Face blurred for privacy:

I'm inclined to follow this thought process too. I'm very often told to keep my evidence minimal (this is partially because we're a straight foward case and I'm from Ireland), but I have so much available that I feel like I'd be holding myself back by not bringing everything I have. Ireland is generally successful but I too am worried about being assigned to someone having a bad morning and deciding that today is the day to be a stickler

We honest to god could be twins. This sounds so much like me. One question: what filled up a majority of 500 pages? I'm also going a tiny bit overkill but in my case it's proof of relationship evidence.

I'm a bit of a neat freak when it comes to documents. I get it from working in offices, always hate to see documents not in a file/folder/etc. The USCIS advises not to use a binder for application submissions but funny enough I don't think it says anything about not bringing a binder to the interview. Is it alright to organise documents for the interview in a binder or do they prefer it loose/envelope/etc? I don't want to look or feel messy

This is not for the i-129f. I am aware of that, as they did not ask for a timeline. The timeline in question is for people who have been asked to have a timeline prepared for the interview. The reason I'm asking is because there are Irish people online talking about bringing a timeline to the interview and then from looking into it I seen other people from other countries that also brought timelines and wanted to know if the one I prepared (just in case I am asked for one) is long enough since people have varying lengths for what they brought

No, he was asking about his timeline. I was wondering too because in my head I assumed a timeline could not possibly need to be longer than maybe a maximum of 3 pages, maybe 4 if it's a loooooong relationship, so I wanted to double check that I wasn't being naive thinking I could turn up with a few decent paragraphs Ours was also about 2 pages long which seems reasonable to me. I've seen some posts (multiple forums, not just here, and some experiences shares on youtube/tiktok/twitter) where their time lines were maybe 5+ pages but usually less than 10. The 40 pager was the longest one I've seen. I'm glad I'm coming into this with a decent 2 page draft From having read experiences of other Irish people marrying an American they all had time lines. It can't hurt to have one ready even if I'm not asked for, just in case

I thought I'd ask since I seen a variety of answers online ranging from 1 to 40 pages. I'll write a Silmarillion level account of what happened if I have to but I'll be embarrassed if I get there and they only want about 2 pages of basic details.

Thank you so much, this is very reassuring. I'm a sensitive person very much in the habit of working myself into a tizzy over hypothetical failures and I think as long as I keep what you detailed in mind then I should be alright going foward. At this point my packet is essentially exploding with everything I put in it so perhaps I have more going for me than I typically believe I do.

I'm so focused on it because when I announced the engagement a lot of people told me that a long distance relationship of 18 months is not a real relationship. As I said in an earlier post, these things are not well supported where I am, and for that reason I don't think it's really that strange for me to worry that someone reviewing our evidence would think exactly the same thing. It may come off as unusual and I acknowledge that but I put so much weight on this specific factor because it crushes me to think we could be denied approval based on our relationship being considered abnormal (relative to the relationship standard where I am from). I hope that makes more sense

Maybe a lot of my worries are because where I'm from (Dublin, Ireland) my relationship would be perceived as highly unusual. My immediate assumption is that it would be viewed by the people looking at our application would think the same. It's difficult to break out of that line of thinking as I was raised with that idea, it's very reassuring to have people tell me otherwise because god knows a lot of people around me would tell me right off the bat that 18 months is barely enough time to call it a longterm relationship, and that's if you're ignore the lack of family integration since it's so normal here to have your partner be in near constant contact with your family. I'd be very interested in heating some thoughts from people who are from similar backgrounds too

We're not as worried about those, our main concern is how we're going to legitimise our relationship when (at least by Irish standards) it's considered highly unusual to get married earlier than 5 or so years together and not be well integrated into eachothers families.

Yikes, do you think maybe it could reflect badly that we haven't lived together either? A lot of my concern stems from the fact we have a relatively short relationship compared to what would be considered normal in Ireland. Most couples are together for 5+ years before marriage, yada yada, and we haven't lived together yet/had any joint accounts

I already know what some people are going to say because I posted a similar thread a short while ago, but we're working with an immigration agency that has been guiding us through the process. We did quite a bit of research before we went along with the agency and we're a bit lost as the internet/people say one thing but then the attorney/""experts"" advising us will tell us another. We're still quite new to this so we're still finding our footing discerning what is absolutely true and what is a weird piece of misinfo we got from the agency (and on thay note if anyone is thinking of investing in an agency- don't choose Boundless)

Out of curiosity, is there a waiting period after being rejected for the K1 before we could try it through the CR-1 route? I know K-1 has a waiting period to try another attempts at the K-1 if the first was failed

We considered taking this route if the initial attempt at K1 falls through and we are rejected/denied permission to get married in the USA. It's sort of a back up plan (or potentially something we consider doing if the processing time for the K1 takes too long)