Skype logs at interview

[WaitingStill 24]

Hi all,

I'm putting together our embassy package and started printing out screen shots of our skype logs. I am printing 3, 4, or 5 pages from each month since we began using Skype, last November. Is this enough??? There must be a thousand pages in there....

thanks

[X Factor 1,112]

Yes there are hundreds and hundreds of pages. I am planning of copying to a word document and printing out the page summary of each session that shows how much time each session lasted. Then the rest of the pages I will save on a memory stick and mail to her to bring to embassy to show if needed. It is just too much to print every single page.

[Vicomi 31]

We printed a page per month as part of evidence. There are hundreds of pages when you skyping for more than two years.

[WaitingStill 24]

Yes there are hundreds and hundreds of pages. I am planning of copying to a word document and printing out the page summary of each session that shows how much time each session lasted. Then the rest of the pages I will save on a memory stick and mail to her to bring to embassy to show if needed. It is just too much to print every single page.

I don't know about Phillipines but in Kiev the instructions state "no electronic media." So in Kiev, they will only look at what I have printed.

[Phil & Alla 26]

I am not saying that this is "right", but what I did and it went through fine. I saved all of the full conversations (just for sentimental reasons) and added to a log each day.

I made a word document for a log, cutting and pasting the start of a conversation and the end of every conversation. Example

[8/26/2011 5:29:37 AM] alla.: were are you?

[8/26/2011 5:35:40 AM] ._235: I have been here How was ur day?

[8/26/2011 7:57:36 AM] alla.: :* go i'll be thinking about you

[8/26/2011 7:58:44 AM] _235: I always think about u :*

[8/26/2011 7:59:59 AM] alla.: :*

[8/26/2011 8:01:39 AM] _235: :* :*

NOTE- Word did not capture the emotions that are contained on Skype that is why there is :* instead of something like

I did a "screen shot" every 2 weeks and did it at the end of one conversation and the beginning of another, that way it showed to dates of conversation on the same screen shot. I put them into paint, saved them then cropped them to fit. If there was ever a question of the log, it could be verified by the screen shot.

The requirement is to show an "ongoing relationship" and there is not an exact definition of this, is it everyday contact, once a week or once a month. I am going to make a comment and probably get blasted by some members I was so intent to prove an on going relationship I burnt up a high yield ink cartridge, thinking the more evidence the better. I wanted NOTHING to go wrong or someone to be able to question the relationship. I read the embassy reviews as each member went to their interview and read that most of the proof of relationship things were not even looked at, but hard headed I thought Alla would be the one they pressed for more information/documentation. I sent so much stuff with Alla that she was teased by the guards about it. The thing that interested the I/O the most was a photo taken at All's mothers birthday party with me and her family. He wanted to know who everyone was. I made 3 trips there in 7 months and took a lot of specific photos wit her family and friends , knowing this was good evidence, I think I went way overboard on a lot of the things-- 9 months of phone bills, 95 pages of Skype logs (we Skyped every day), 29 pages of screen shots. I am not sure of the answer, but there has to be a happy median on some of it, for most of us 5 to 9 months of communicating with our future wife's --is a lot of communicating

Glad to see you read up on things, bringing a USB would have made things real easy--but not in Kiev

Were you able to get the police certificate on the way from Argentina?????

[WaitingStill 24]

I am not saying that this is "right", but what I did and it went through fine. I saved all of the full conversations (just for sentimental reasons) and added to a log each day.

I made a word document for a log, cutting and pasting the start of a conversation and the end of every conversation. Example

[8/26/2011 5:29:37 AM] alla.: were are you?

[8/26/2011 5:35:40 AM] ._235: I have been here How was ur day?

[8/26/2011 7:57:36 AM] alla.: :* go i'll be thinking about you

[8/26/2011 7:58:44 AM] _235: I always think about u :*

[8/26/2011 7:59:59 AM] alla.: :*

[8/26/2011 8:01:39 AM] _235: :* :*

NOTE- Word did not capture the emotions that are contained on Skype that is why there is :* instead of something like

I did a "screen shot" every 2 weeks and did it at the end of one conversation and the beginning of another, that way it showed to dates of conversation on the same screen shot. I put them into paint, saved them then cropped them to fit. If there was ever a question of the log, it could be verified by the screen shot.

The requirement is to show an "ongoing relationship" and there is not an exact definition of this, is it everyday contact, once a week or once a month. I am going to make a comment and probably get blasted by some members I was so intent to prove an on going relationship I burnt up a high yield ink cartridge, thinking the more evidence the better. I wanted NOTHING to go wrong or someone to be able to question the relationship. I read the embassy reviews as each member went to their interview and read that most of the proof of relationship things were not even looked at, but hard headed I thought Alla would be the one they pressed for more information/documentation. I sent so much stuff with Alla that she was teased by the guards about it. The thing that interested the I/O the most was a photo taken at All's mothers birthday party with me and her family. He wanted to know who everyone was. I made 3 trips there in 7 months and took a lot of specific photos wit her family and friends , knowing this was good evidence, I think I went way overboard on a lot of the things-- 9 months of phone bills, 95 pages of Skype logs (we Skyped every day), 29 pages of screen shots. I am not sure of the answer, but there has to be a happy median on some of it, for most of us 5 to 9 months of communicating with our future wife's --is a lot of communicating

Glad to see you read up on things, bringing a USB would have made things real easy--but not in Kiev

Were you able to get the police certificate on the way from Argentina?????

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the input. I haven't made a Word doc...I just took screen shots of the actual Skype pages and printed them. I'll try to keep it under 50 pages!!!

As for that police certificate...DHL should deliver the docs to our attorney tomorrow, Wednesday, in Buenos Aires. Then we'll see what happens. Valentyna said that the embassy person took her fingerprints FIVE times and still was not satisfied with the "best" one of the bunch. It seems that there's ALWAYS a source of stress in this visa process.

thanks again....

Jim