Front loading DS 230

[Andrew_Qin 0]

With the exception of a marriage certificate, a couple of affidavits from friends and a letter I wrote detailing my relationship with my wife, I had very little evidence of a relationship to submit with my I-130 (which was approved last week). Since then, over the course of three more visits to China, I've accumulated enough evidence to convince any reasonable immigration officer. Since it appears that most cases are decided before the actual interview, it is important that the interviewing officer have as much evidence as possible before the interview. BlueWolf wrote a great guide, http://www.visajourn...ost__p__4100571, about to front loading the DS 230. In situations where more evidence to support the validity of a relationship may be needed, like mine, this is obviously the way to go. Now that I am preparing to do this, I wonder how much to front load with the DS 230??? If I sent the whole kitchen sink, I'd be sending attachment after attachment (I'll be opting for EP) of documents, photos, affidavits, etc. I fear that sending in too much would be counter productive, if it caused the party receiving the information to overlook much of it because it was simply too much to pour over. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience as to what the limitations should be and what would be the most effective things to send in?

[J e n n y 26]

With the exception of a marriage certificate, a couple of affidavits from friends and a letter I wrote detailing my relationship with my wife, I had very little evidence of a relationship to submit with my I-130 (which was approved last week). Since then, over the course of three more visits to China, I've accumulated enough evidence to convince any reasonable immigration officer. Since it appears that most cases are decided before the actual interview, it is important that the interviewing officer have as much evidence as possible before the interview. BlueWolf wrote a great guide, http://www.visajourn...ost__p__4100571, about to front loading the DS 230. In situations where more evidence to support the validity of a relationship may be needed, like mine, this is obviously the way to go. Now that I am preparing to do this, I wonder how much to front load with the DS 230??? If I sent the whole kitchen sink, I'd be sending attachment after attachment (I'll be opting for EP) of documents, photos, affidavits, etc. I fear that sending in too much would be counter productive, if it caused the party receiving the information to overlook much of it because it was simply too much to pour over. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience as to what the limitations should be and what would be the most effective things to send in?

I think you should only send in exactly what they ask for. The extra evidence that you have should be saved to take to the interview.

[bestofboston 36]

I agree with the previous response. I provided about 6 photos of my wife and I along with copies of the marriage certificate, etc.

You can also send in copies of 3 avadavits. Save original avadavits for interview process at embassy. When doing CR1 process, having a marriage certificate along with photos of you and wife along with photos of both with other relatives helps. I had avadavits but never had a need to provide them to USCIS, NVC or Embassy.

Good luck

[Darnell 8,479]

--utility bills in both names

--money transfer receipts (from you to her)

--trip evidence of any trips after the I-130 was filed

--telephone logs and/or telephone bills

now, as far as 'starting over' - I say start over, and remember - try to keep the output resolution (when printing to PDF file) LOW on the 'additional evidence' as this will give you MORE SPACE to send stuff in, per email. Try to keep the size of each email around 10 megabytes. So include what you sent in the first time with the I-130 submittal, plus the rest of it. Don't forget to make a NEW EOR, as (hopefully) you'll have new stuff to add to it (trips, etc)

As to anything 'passed over' - sorry - I feel the boon of 'adding to the case file' overweighs any concept of 'VO passing over the info'

to the prior posters - I'm sorry, GUZ IV is one hard sumb|tch to get through, and 'casefile evaluation prior to interview day' is a given, so whatever the VO can see, prior to interview day, helps.

Edited April 19, 2011 by Darnell