Hi, my fiancée [27F from the US] and I [28F from the UK] have been together in a long distance relationship since the beginning of 2018. Due to her being in university until 2020, and then the pandemic where she was living at home, it wasn't appropriate to begin a K1 visa until more recently.
I proposed to her in the summer of 2024 and we are currently working on our initial I-129F petition/K1 visa packet. I have seen many people include evidence of every time they have met each other in person, photos and plane tickets etc. However, we have met in-person a total of 14 times over 7 years, and 5 times in the last 2 years.
I'm very confused over how much evidence of meeting we need to include. I considered only including evidence of the last 2 years, but is this enough to tell the story of/prove our bona fide relationship? A lot of big events happened before the last two years like expensive trips together, meeting each other's families etc.
I'd really appreciate advice on how to narrow this down or help with what we should absolutely keep -- whether we should give a list of every meeting perhaps even if we don't include evidence for all of them, or is that pointless? Right now we've got photos from every meeting, receipts from a few big events, and our plane tickets from the two last times we visited each other, but it's feeling like absolute overkill with far too many pages. I'm just worried about taking out something we need.
We are also both women and in a lesbian relationship so we feel a bit more anxious about 'proving' our relationship is real and not just gals being pals.
If anyone has been in a similar situation with a long-term relationship finally applying for a K1 visa, I'd really appreciate the insight. Thank you!
