Must be english?

[s3loza 0]

Hellooo there!! Thanks here I'm almost done with my application for k1. But one more thing that I need help before I send it. I want to make sure if i need to send a proof for ongoing relationship. Well hopefully I wont get RFE or for later that i might get it anyway. For example: emails, letters, chat logs, etc. My fiance and I usually use non english in most of our conversation. So i want to know if I can still send it even though its not in english?

And another question, I want to make sure that if I need to send my birth certificate from my country even though I already copy my passport? :Sigh:

Thanks! hopefully i would get reply from you guys..

[Manaxsama 0]

As far as my understanding chat logs aren't required at the time of the I-129F filing, and they require that documents are in English (meaning getting them certified.) They only thing you need to prove is meeting in the last two years. The letter of intent, proof of meeting, and pictures of you two should be substantial at this point.

I believe this question was answered earlier:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=155719

So if you are going to include chat logs or letters, it would be best to use the ones that are already in English.

[Laura+Tom 2]

Proof of on going relationship is not needed until the interview.

[Jose Rizal 1]

If you use Skpe, MSN, Yahoo!, printout screen captures of your video conversations. It shows that you are really communicating and indicates your usernames / e-mail addresses. That helped a lot during my interview.

[s3loza 0]

thank youu!!!!!!!!!! =D

[Yader&Sarah 0]

Hi-My fiance and I communicate only in Spanish, and I had the same question. We ended up using a lawyer to help us apply for our K-1, and while submitting our proof for the initial app (as well as the interview-although we haven't had that yet), she advised us that any emails, chats, or letters that we wanted to use as proof should be translated into english.

I'm not sure what other people's experience has been with this, but as mentioned above there are ways around it-photocopies of the front of envelopes that have been sent internationally with your addresses as listed on the application are probably the most concrete proof, email inbox showing and exchange of emails and same with chats I'm sure are fine, but they are a little more ambiguous.

I ended up not using the emails or chats because it was too much work to ask someone to translate in addition to everything else. I did end up printing out several screens of my inbox, chat and skype log to show that we were communicating in other ways than through phone. Just in case.

Hope this helps! Good Luck!

[JBean 0]

Everything needs to be in English. With the initial application though you can translate the correspondence yourself and just sign a sheet verifying that your tranlations are accurate, but once you get to the consulate stage they will need to be official translations (although it may save time and money if you just have a translator quickly review and then put his/her stamp on your translations).

I would definitely include at least some of the correspondence, even in the initial application, although you will not need all of it for that. Once you get to the interview stage though you will want of it as much of it as you can possibly throw at them, so it probably makes sense to get some of the translating started early...