Declaration of how you met. Question 18 of 129F

[Dante & Geor 36]

I think is too long... we just used the two lines given and we were approved. They rely more on the evidence than in what you write.

Best wishes

[Mike B. 231]

telling him his is too long is discouraging to me, as mine was almost 3 pages...wasn't a member of this site at the time i was doing the petition...hope they don't put mine on the bottom.

There is a tendency on this forum to brag about what little evidence people provided and still managed to get married. If I had a nickle for every time I've read "We only enclosed two photos and a single sentence stating that we met at a bus stop" or whatever, I'd have about 75 cents. Even though the OP's thing is longer than needed, it'd be pointless to revise it to make it shorter. Having it be that long isn't going to hurt him at all. Don't worry about the length of yours.

"Well, we have all the evidence we need to show that legally we should approve the petition, but this guy's answer to question 18 is on an attached sheet of paper, in compliance with the general instructions we provided, rather than in the box. I guess we'll have to issue a denial." <-- These words have never been spoken.

[dwheels76 5,484]

There is a tendency on this forum to brag about what little evidence people provided and still managed to get married. If I had a nickle for every time I've read "We only enclosed two photos and a single sentence stating that we met at a bus stop" or whatever, I'd have about 75 cents. Even though the OP's thing is longer than needed, it'd be pointless to revise it to make it shorter. Having it be that long isn't going to hurt him at all. Don't worry about the length of yours.

"Well, we have all the evidence we need to show that legally we should approve the petition, but this guy's answer to question 18 is on an attached sheet of paper, in compliance with the general instructions we provided, rather than in the box. I guess we'll have to issue a denial." <-- These words have never been spoken.

Amen Mike B so so true. I so wish for Nigeria we just had to show a marriage certificate a picture or two and say give us Visa. We both wrote Letters of Internet (we are married) mine was 4 pages his was 3 pages. Our Relationship Timeline was 3 pages. We did all this by advisement of a lawyer and that is to deflate our red flag which is me (the USC woman) much older than husband.

Well the red flag really is no issue now (yes I am still older LOL) but I stayed with husband 6 weeks before marriage than stayed 6 months in his country.

It is disheartening people telling someone something is too much. Unless you know specifics of the Embassy why would you say that. And worst case they just won't read it. But return to bottom of pile, or throw away. No way.

Do keep to the facts of your timeline meet requirements if you need more room by all means what is wrong with an attachment. Unless you see PLEASE DO NOT ATTACH ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. do what you need to do. IMO

[Gosia & Tito 199]

telling him his is too long is discouraging to me, as mine was almost 3 pages...wasn't a member of this site at the time i was doing the petition...hope they don't put mine on the bottom.

At worst, your adjudicator will take 30-40 minutes to go thru your petition, instead of maybe 15 (all times are just guesstimates); at best, you have something to talk about at the interview. And hey, who knows, maybe they use your 3-page as a training exercise on how to quickly summarize and extract the pieces of info they need, and it gets approved faster.

Don't worry. In the context of of all us waiting or having waited months, I don't think this could signify a statistical significant delay if it does at all.

[esaltes 0]

At worst, your adjudicator will take 30-40 minutes to go thru your petition, instead of maybe 15 (all times are just guesstimates); at best, you have something to talk about at the interview. And hey, who knows, maybe they use your 3-page as a training exercise on how to quickly summarize and extract the pieces of info they need, and it gets approved faster.

Don't worry. In the context of of all us waiting or having waited months, I don't think this could signify a statistical significant delay if it does at all.

thanks for the encouragement! They returned my birth certificate to me (apparently it was an original) so hoping to get my NOA2 any day now. I am an Oct. 28th filer at CSC.

[NesCyntz 1]

Hi,

Just a consolation on your part, mine is a whole page...you're smart to ask before you start. I just found out about this website just after I filed. I hope I didn't messed up mine too much. I did sent copy of my passport that are date stamped. Good luck to you...

[VanessaTony 3,567]

There is a tendency on this forum to brag about what little evidence people provided and still managed to get married. If I had a nickle for every time I've read "We only enclosed two photos and a single sentence stating that we met at a bus stop" or whatever, I'd have about 75 cents. Even though the OP's thing is longer than needed, it'd be pointless to revise it to make it shorter. Having it be that long isn't going to hurt him at all. Don't worry about the length of yours.

"Well, we have all the evidence we need to show that legally we should approve the petition, but this guy's answer to question 18 is on an attached sheet of paper, in compliance with the general instructions we provided, rather than in the box. I guess we'll have to issue a denial." <-- These words have never been spoken.

While you're right, there HAVE been cases where people were issued crazyily large RFE's which included info they had already sent. They come on here saying, "I sent 5lbs of info and what they want is all there... why are they asking again?!" the answer the that is they can't be arsed reading through all that info so instead they ignore it and RFE you for EXACTLY what they want.

So for a country like the UK where front loading is not required (low fraud) I wouldn't write too much. It just complicates what isn't complicated.

If it was a high fraud country and you needed to front load I would be super organised by numbering pages of evidence, having a table of contents etc etc.

Again this is a country difference. Sometimes too much evidence IS too much. There has been evidence of that.