Interview Evidence

[masterpiece91 0]

I have a couple of questions. i am putting together the package i need to send to my fiancee so she could have all the supporting documentation for her interview. We have already received our NOA2 and i found out that all the documents got forwarded to Ecuador Consulate, But i have a couple of questions regarding them:

1. I don't know when her interview will be but if i'm guestimating that it would happen within the next 2 months, therefore is it going to be a problem that all my evidence only goes up to the end of February on the dates or do they understand that this takes time collecting and therefore there will be a gap in the dates?

2. I am sending all original documents that were submitted as evidence and new documents to serve as evidence of our ongoing relationship. Should the new orignal documents also be submited to the min the interview or is copy of those documents ok as long as my fiancee has the originals with her?

3. My last question is more of a concern. For new evidence we really don't have any letters or emails to provide as evidence since we speak on the phone every day practically. i do have as evidence a list of my call history with my calling card but that is as far as it goes for evidence other than photos from when she visited me here and when i went over there and our passports and airline tickets. Is this enough evidence?

[Jigi 0]

hi,

Yes you send the following details.

1. Your airline tickets and itineary

2. your Hotel, restaurant bills

3. Your fiance air tickets

4. Her hotel , restaurant bills when with you.

5. Detail Phone bills with Call History

6. Photos

7. Notarised Affadavits from friends & relatives mentioning that they know about your relationship with your fiance.

8. Notarised copy of your passport of all the pages showing visa page of you and your fiance

Jigi

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

7. Notarised Affadavits from friends & relatives mentioning that they know about your relationship with your fiance.

8. Notarised copy of your passport of all the pages showing visa page of you and your fiance

Umm.....I've never heard of these things needing to be notarized at all.....That's not required.

[mox 298]

hi,

Yes you send the following details.

1. Your airline tickets and itineary

2. your Hotel, restaurant bills

3. Your fiance air tickets

4. Her hotel , restaurant bills when with you.

5. Detail Phone bills with Call History

6. Photos

7. Notarised Affadavits from friends & relatives mentioning that they know about your relationship with your fiance.

8. Notarised copy of your passport of all the pages showing visa page of you and your fiance

Jigi

Items 7 and 8 are completely unnecessary. Only the affidavite of support should be notarized. Messages from friends/relatives won't even be looked at, and unless you are using the copy of the passport in lieu of a birth certificate you don't need it at all. In any case it doesn't need to be notarized.

Edited February 23, 2008 by mox

[SnowyTater 0]

Actually I'm a bit worried about the "evidence of a continuing relationship" stuff too. Sent our Petition in in January, loaded it up with a bunch of unnecessary secondary evidence like emails and letters and stuff.

But my fiance and I aren't planning on seeing each other again until he's HERE, with his visa. Usually we spend the summer together, but his graduate program runs until September-October, and I graduate in May and thought it'd be a swell idea to kind of hold down the fort here and go ahead and find work, be building us a nestegg and all that good stuff. We're really trying to save and be responsible for the long-run.

Another thing is, the university he's living at now is completely weird and annoying. Their security is hiked up really high because there was some kind of...terrorist...block there once, apparently. Meaning webcams don't work there, mics don't work, we can't use skype or vodafone or anything like that. We're basically restricted to email and messenger. Also, his phone doesn't get a signal there (it's northwest London but far out) and there's no phone jack in his room, so we can't call each other or have phone bills.

So basically...come late summer or fall when he goes for his interview, the only new evidence of an ongoing relationship we'll have is my new letter of intent, and some new emails, and anything we might mail each other I guess.

We've been together seven years so I'm hoping the solidity of our relationship will be apparent to the interviewers.

Do you guys think this is gonna be a problem?

[masterpiece91 0]

Well actually i do know what i have to send but what i am not sure about is whether or not me sending this now and having a month gap of no evidence will be a problem... well really i had 3 different questions which you could see in my original message. Can someone please break it down for me. thanks!

[masterpiece91 0]

Is there anyone out there that could help me? I don't want to have made it this far and now get rejected cause we were not prepared. Could someone please answer my 3 questions if you know the answer to them. thanks!

[mox 298]

1. I don't know when her interview will be but if i'm guestimating that it would happen within the next 2 months, therefore is it going to be a problem that all my evidence only goes up to the end of February on the dates or do they understand that this takes time collecting and therefore there will be a gap in the dates?

Don't guess. Send the evidence after you know what her interview date will be. Try to send it closer to the interview date than further out. Send it via FedEx or DHL, don't send it postal.

2. I am sending all original documents that were submitted as evidence and new documents to serve as evidence of our ongoing relationship. Should the new orignal documents also be submited to the min the interview or is copy of those documents ok as long as my fiancee has the originals with her?

Send all the originals to your fiancee to bring with her to the interview. You don't need to send anyone else any other copies unless your consulate specifically requires it. Go to your consulate's website, there is probably a wealth of information.

3. My last question is more of a concern. For new evidence we really don't have any letters or emails to provide as evidence since we speak on the phone every day practically. i do have as evidence a list of my call history with my calling card but that is as far as it goes for evidence other than photos from when she visited me here and when i went over there and our passports and airline tickets. Is this enough evidence?

It's going to be up to the interviewing officer to make a determination. The more evidence you have, the more likely there will be a positive outcome. Phone records *are* evidence of an ongoing relationship. But nobody can tell you for sure that this will be "enough." It is up to the officer to decide based on your evidence and her interview with your fiancee. Send every bit of evidence you have. If all you have is phone records then that will have to do.

[SnowyTater 0]

I haven't gotten this far yet but I think I know the answers, more or less:

1. I don't think the gap in the dates from now until the interview, if it's in a month or two, is that big of a deal. But I don't understand why you need a big gap in the first place? If you're worried about it. I imagine your fiance will be given at least a couple weeks notice of when her interview is. Why not just keep all your phone logs, emails, letters, whatever else up until that point and expedite mail it to her then? Don't forget too that you have to give her a new Letter of Intent from you, that you still want to marry her. But no, I think the interviewers understand it's a long process and a month's lag or so isn't going to be a big problem.

2. Your fiance is meant to take copies of the originals and the originals themselves both, of everything. Not just the new stuff, but the originals from all the things in the old petition too. In most of the cases I've heard they're happy with the copies, but I think I have heard of a couple cases where they wanted to hang onto the originals. I think this is one of those case-by-case things. I'd just offer them the copies and if they want the originals, ask questions about that and make sure it's absolutely necessary, and maybe get a contact number or something in case she ever needs them again.

3. Was the time she visited you here in the states after the filing of the Petition? If so then I'd say you have plenty, tons of evidence of the ongoing relationship. If not I still don't think it's a problem. The phone logs should be enough I would think, but again just in case you're worried...how long does it take to shoot off a few emails? Even if they're a bit 'staged' like that, why not just send a few emails from now until the interview, and maybe even a couple hard snail mail letters, just so you have more variable evidence to show?

I think you're fine. They're not going to out and out reject you for any of this stuff, and most of it sounds like things you can easily remedy if only for your peace of mind

[zeroland 0]

Is there anyone out there that could help me? I don't want to have made it this far and now get rejected cause we were not prepared. Could someone please answer my 3 questions if you know the answer to them. thanks!

Don't worry about the gap. Just get together as much proof as is reasonable. They understand that you have to stop at some point. But if there is time, a few more "snail-mail" letter won't hurt. And yes, phone logs from calling cards are another piece of the puzzle. If you have them, why not include them? You are basically trying to show a preponderance of evidence. Within reason, the more angles you can cover to show that you know each other and are staying in touch with each other, the better.

And SnowyTater, you definitely have time to send some more letters back and forth...

Edited February 24, 2008 by zeroland

[Jasman0717 8]

Claudeth took a three-ring binder full of letters, cards and pictures that the interviewing officer looked at.