Lagos Consulate and call records

[romnick 15]

Hello Everyone!!!

Our interview is coming on in December unfortunately we do not have all the call records most especially in the beginning of our relationship since we were using calling cards because it was the cheapest means as at then although we have considerable amount of the call records but the first few months are missing which has us worried since we are up against a very tough consulate and to make the matter worst, call records seems to be an issue with the consulate, we have tried all we could to get the records but no luck.However, we have all the emails from the day one till date, 10 of her family members came to Nigeria for the wedding,post cards from both parties, Western union receipts from me{The Husband} to her in which I went to Togo couple of times to do the wires since one could only receive in Nigeria and finally hers to me,emails from family and friends from the moment our relationship assumed a better shape,wedding website in which a lot of people signed on, foreign trips together,we went as Far as Japan with the exception of USA,to our understanding, we have everything but we are cautious cos of the call records.We need your help at this Juncture on what to do, we are so much in love and as such there is nothing fictitious about us.God bless you all!!!!!

[canadian_wife 1,823]

You cannot submit call records if you don't have them. Go armed with anything and everything you can. Lagos is a VERY difficult consulate

Good luck

[romnick 15]

Thanks a lot Canadian_wife,We will..Still need people that went through without all the call records to comment from.Thanks

[canadian_wife 1,823]

Then perhaps posting in the regional forum is what you need

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/89-africa-sub-saharan/

Good luck

[patient2010 93]

Hello Everyone!!!

Our interview is coming on in December unfortunately we do not have all the call records most especially in the beginning of our relationship since we were using calling cards because it was the cheapest means as at then although we have considerable amount of the call records but the first few months are missing which has us worried since we are up against a very tough consulate and to make the matter worst, call records seems to be an issue with the consulate, we have tried all we could to get the records but no luck.However, we have all the emails from the day one till date, 10 of her family members came to Nigeria for the wedding,post cards from both parties, Western union receipts from me{The Husband} to her in which I went to Togo couple of times to do the wires since one could only receive in Nigeria and finally hers to me,emails from family and friends from the moment our relationship assumed a better shape,wedding website in which a lot of people signed on, foreign trips together,we went as Far as Japan with the exception of USA,to our understanding, we have everything but we are cautious cos of the call records.We need your help at this Juncture on what to do, we are so much in love and as such there is nothing fictitious about us.God bless you all!!!!!

Personally I think you should be ok....as long as you have some call logs the only thing you can do if asked about the calls in the beginning is explain just as you did here that you used calling cards and didnt keep the calling cards however if you made the calls using a mobile phone or landline then the calls to the 800 number calling card should be on you call log history on the mobile or landline whichever you used to call. If I were you I wouldnt worry as long as you have most of them you should be ok. good luck

[Tero 105]

Besides the call records you seem to be armed with other evidence. Go with the little call records you have and support with all the other documents you have. At the interview, you can defend the reason your call records are not as bulky as you would want. I think with amount of evidence you already listed they would be convinced there is a legit relationship.

[romnick 15]

Tero and Patient2010,I am very grateful for your constructive comments.

[M2MarryN 2]

You should be fine-as you are new to the VJ-start going through consulate reviews-there you will find what questions were asked. Often phone records are not even asked for. As long as you have evidence of other forms of communication-you should be fine-ie. emails, Instant messaging, skype, and the plain calling cards themselves. Our interview is on the 19th-in four days, and I am a PhD student, poor, and I just sent in some of my calling cards, I am not worried about that part because we have so much other evidence. I think you should be fine-just have explain the situation, and give as much evidence of communication in other forms that you can. I am sure you will be fine.

[romnick 15]

Thanks M2MarryN',My only concern has to do with the Lagos consulate cos they seems to be a lot particular about the call records so its good that one is fully armed with everything, one of our colleagues here was denied last week simply because they dont have call records.I know that God is in control and as such we will be fine.I have been reading through all the reviews as well.

[M2MarryN 2]

I just wanted to update you-regarding our interview-where my fiance was accepted. They asked about communication with calls, etc. My fiance just explained that we do majority of our communication online. I know the person who was denied without phone records, but my guess is that they had another red flag and did not sound confident that they communicated often. When my fiance was asked, he started to show our Yahoo Messenger archives, he had printed out emails -I think 8 for every month for the last two years, all in order categorized by month/date. He explained that we do not talk by phone due to it being expensive but we communicate on a near-daily basis, and that is through emails, skype and yahoo messenger-I have archives and records of all of this-what month and year would you like to see first and through which communication system? He just showed that he was fully prepared-and the truth, and switched the phone calls to other forms of communication in two seconds-but had the evidence to back it up. She said-show me an email from May of this past year-he asked how many and she said just one, and from that she was satisfied.

I think being confident, and going in there ORGANIZED with evidence says a lot.

Hopefully you guys can do the same-just get ready to print a lot. Put it in a binder-with sticky tabs or some way of knowing each month etc.

When you have evidence and it is organized-I think it shows a lot-that the person is really taking all of this serious. I have often heard of people taking plastic bags of evidence in-that's great they have the evidence-but it doesn't show how important each piece is if you are putting it in a plastic shopping bag. Make it look good and like they care and and are taking this very serious.

With this and a quick detour from phone-to however you guys communicate, you should be fine.

Best of luck!