Letters for proof of relationship, original or copy?

[Clémence 0]

Hi everybody

so my lover and I decided to start K1 and about proof of relation ship I want to be sure of something, I read the forum carefully but didn't find answers to my question... We both do have a lot of letters one from each other and postcards, do we have to send originals of them or just copies?

Is is a plus? I mean I have one year of phone bills (5 pages each), photos of him and I in America and also in France, stamps on passports that he came to visit and I did too, skype logs, what else can I add? I didn't kept my flight tickets or boarding pass (coz i didn't know at this time we will need them one day, but I got bills from travel agency)

I'm pretty nervous about forgetting something and got our file send back any support is welcome

Thanks for answers guys that would help a lot

Clémence

[MaggieT 4]

You have to include proof that you two have met - not proof of ongoing relationship.

Skype logs, emails, letters are for the later stage - the interview.

Now you need to include copies of stamps in your passport, boarding passes, that travel agency bill, hotel receipts etc.

Good Luck

Edited February 24, 2012 by MaggieT

[Mariya and Tim 5]

Always copies! Your fiance will need the originals for their interview.

If you don't have your boarding passes - copies of your passports - make sure the stamps are visible!

We also added Birthday cards we've sent to each other, receipts from different places we've been (none of them kept on purpose lol) with pictures of us there, a couple of phone bills and chat logs. A letter from his brother stating our relationship is bona fide =D

Basically whatever you can think of that will prove your relationship, BUT not too much - 60 pages of phone bills is too much

Good luck!!!

Edited February 24, 2012 by Mariya and Timmy

[Moomin 292]

You gotta determine what kind of embassy you'll be going through later on. When it's a fairly standard embassy(not a high fraud country), you don't have to frontload the petition with unnecessary amounts of paper.

Initial evidence is crucial to having the petition approved. The other posters have already covered that one. Passport stamps are usually from a trusted 3rd party with no interest in your relationship. That kind of evidence is what is looked at with USCIS goggles on, and what lands you an approval(along with the rest of the petition, of course). When using passport stamps, you'll need a copy of the biographic page in the passport as well.

Next up is secondary evidence. It supports the primary, and becomes more "personal"(hey, the petitioner/beneficiary have faces, aww). You may handdate these pictures with date, year and names of people in the pictures; they'll support that you met each other at the time stated on the passport stamps(if that's your primary evidence). The pictures also serve the purpose of forcing the embassy to look at them in your petition when it's received. I(we) included 6 pictures.

Ongoing relationship is usually needed at embassy stage, not petition stage. Anything that happened since you filed the petition, you may bring to the interview, whether it's visits and/or skyping, screencaptions, phonebills, texting, snailmail etc.

[Clémence 0]

Thank you guys so much for your answers, it's gonna help a lot.

I'm so glad there is such a place to communicate between people going through the same process! I promise I'll help too in a few months!

[Moomin 292]

The only promise you need to make is marrying your future spouse. Good luck on your journey.

[didopage 337]

Hi Clemence,

I suggest you to read and follow this guide to prepare your I-129F petition package: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

You will find answers to most of your questions!