Fiance Letter of Intent - Notarized

[SuperDuper! 230]

I'm going to swim against the current here, and say that we DID have our letters notarized, but not for the purpose of proving the signature was authentic. We had them notarized at the US Citizen Services unit of the consulate in Vietnam as proof positive that we had actually met. There's no way USCIS could deny any evidence of our meeting if we had the signature of a US government witness.

BTW, our letters were dated twice - I entered the date when I typed them up, knowing which day we would be going to the consulate, and the consular officer who notarized them also dated them.

Good going. Passport stamps/scans at POE's, Plane Tickets, Hotel Receipts, Dam Hoi Pics are pretty sketchy evidence of having met. The Notarized letters of intent will put you over the top, and win over the HCMC CO's fo' sho'!

[pushbrk 12,106]

I'm going to swim against the current here, and say that we DID have our letters notarized, but not for the purpose of proving the signature was authentic. We had them notarized at the US Citizen Services unit of the consulate in Vietnam as proof positive that we had actually met. There's no way USCIS could deny any evidence of our meeting if we had the signature of a US government witness.

BTW, our letters were dated twice - I entered the date when I typed them up, knowing which day we would be going to the consulate, and the consular officer who notarized them also dated them.

Good going. Passport stamps/scans at POE's, Plane Tickets, Hotel Receipts, Dam Hoi Pics are pretty sketchy evidence of having met. The Notarized letters of intent will put you over the top, and win over the HCMC CO's fo' sho'!

Actually, I've heard a lot over the years but I've never heard of a Consular officer questioning whether a couple met in person. They leave that to USCIS and concentrate on whether the actual relationship is bona fide.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

I'm going to swim against the current here, and say that we DID have our letters notarized, but not for the purpose of proving the signature was authentic. We had them notarized at the US Citizen Services unit of the consulate in Vietnam as proof positive that we had actually met. There's no way USCIS could deny any evidence of our meeting if we had the signature of a US government witness.

BTW, our letters were dated twice - I entered the date when I typed them up, knowing which day we would be going to the consulate, and the consular officer who notarized them also dated them.

Good going. Passport stamps/scans at POE's, Plane Tickets, Hotel Receipts, Dam Hoi Pics are pretty sketchy evidence of having met. The Notarized letters of intent will put you over the top, and win over the HCMC CO's fo' sho'!

Actually, I've heard a lot over the years but I've never heard of a Consular officer questioning whether a couple met in person. They leave that to USCIS and concentrate on whether the actual relationship is bona fide.

Precisely. It was for USCIS, and not for the consulate that we got them notarized.

Yes, we provided all of the usual evidence - passport stamps, hotel receipts, boarding passes, photos, etc. After seeing a few people submit all of this stuff and STILL get RFE's for additional evidence of having met in person, I wondered what the heck it would take to convince an ####### retentive adjudicator that I wasn't faking the evidence. The question in my mind at the time was something like "What the heck do they want... a government witness?"

We were going to be in HCM anyway, and I wanted Phuong to see where the US consulate was. I also planned on bringing her letter and G-325's so she could sign them. Besides providing that "government witness", it was also an excuse for Phuong to actually go inside the consulate and see what it was like.