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I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and offer advice. I think I'll hold off on submitting anything right now, and make sure we bring the more substantial evidence to the future interview (hopefully!). Thank you!!

Oh of course, nothing would ever move forward and things would never get approved. Idk why I haven’t thought of the logistics of it until now

That sounds scary 😂😫

Thank you! I will definitely hope for the best then. I could always add more evidence during the NVC stage just to confirm continued relations with my partner

Thank you for explaining! I was wondering why it would take several months for them to look at a case 😂

Thank you for the response! So you don't think it's necessary at this time to try to post additional unsolicited evidence even without having personal photos of us together? I suppose I could wait to see what decision USCIS makes, but I worry it'll delay the process.

Hi everyone! I’ve been a silent reader on here and have found all of your posts to be really helpful and insightful, but I could really use some additional advice for my particular situation. Background- I’m a USC who filed a petition for my husband living in Algeria. We got married last summer August 2023, PD 11/2023, and case actively reviewing since 12/2023. At the time of filing, I really struggled to put together solid evidence of our bona fide marriage. We’ve been together doing long distance for 10 years- I was young and still in school when we first met, so we would wait for summers I was able to visit with family in order to spend time together. I come from a pretty conservative family, and as you can imagine with our religious background, we never got the chance to really do things alone (like traveling)- but we spent a lot of time surrounded by each other’s families. During those 10 years, I never knew what the immigration process would be like in the far future once we got married, so I never in my life thought to take photos of us together. The only type of evidence I put together were our marriage contract, passport stamps and some flight tickets from all the times I visited (4 times), 3 affidavits from family and friends who know about our relationship, personal narrative, and tons of photos of call logs and chat messages over the last 10 years (confiding in my sister when I first met him and liked him, us sharing things we like, sharing photos with each other, taking photos wearing gifts we got each other, all the times we supported one another during happy/difficult times, convos regarding our future/goals/marriage expectations, our love for one another). Literally anyone who reads those can tell we love each other, but I know that means nothing in the eyes of a consular officer. We also only had a civil ceremony with our dads and other witnesses present, but not an actual wedding celebration because I wanted my whole family to be there. We planned to have it next summer so he could take wedding photos with him to the interview (if he hopefully gets one). It has already been 10 months and I am terrified that at the time I’m expecting a decision from USCIS, I’ll end up getting an RFE which will delay the process even more. Trust me, I really understand that my case isn’t strong, and I’ll do anything right now to increase our chances. So a couple of questions for you guys: Will submitting unsolicited evidence right now actually be helpful? Or does it push back your case to the end of a pile? Do you have any suggestions for what I could gather and submit to help support our case? I’ve been seeing people online say that adding a spouse as a beneficiary to your bank account can be helpful. We have also sent each other surprise birthday gifts this past year that I could include receipts/evidence of. I know a lot of you say that USCIS understands that long distance couples will rarely have anything joint, but I fear I need more substantial evidence. If anyone has any genuine advice, I would greatly appreciate it. I really don’t want to be discouraged this far into the process. Thank you!