Last few questions before filing :)

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

#1. Should we include a copy of my (beneficiary) passport bio page? Some say yes (RFEs) , some say no.. would it hurt if we do?

#2. I still haven't legally changed my name (will soon). All the forms are in my married name. And in "all other names used" I put my maiden (still current) name. Just want to make sure that's correct?

#3. As an evidence, we are gonna include copies of his passport stamps. Should we copy ALL PAGES of his passport , or just the ones with stamps+bio page?

We are also gonna include a copy of his BC (proof of citizenship).

Ughhhh.... I've been having I-130 related nightmares!

Thanks!

[Ryan H 3,790]

Answers:

1. No to the copy of your passport bio page (additionally, do include a copy of your birth certificate)
2. Shouldn't be an issue
3. Since you are going to include a copy of his birth certificate, you only need the pages with the stamps.

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Thank you.. My husband still wants to include my passport bio page so we just will. Not gonna hurt right?

So, this is our cover letter. Did we remember about everything???

USCIS

Attn: I-130

131 South Dearborn-3rd Floor

Chicago, IL 60603-5517

Nature of submission: I-130, Petition for Alien Relative (Original Submission)

To Whom It May Concern:

Enclosed please find my Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative for my wife, "Blueberry Pancake", and supporting documentation.

Included in this petition are the following documents:

· Cover letter

· G-1145, e-notification of Application/Petition acceptance

· Check in the amount of $420 USD

· I-130 Petition for Alien Relative

· G-325A (Petitioner)

· Passport-style Photos (Petitioner)

· Copy of US Birth Certificate (Petitioner)

· Copy of Judgment for Termination of previous marriage (Petitioner)

· G-325A (Beneficiary)

· Passport-style Photos (Beneficiary)

· Copy of Polish Birth Certificate, including translation (Beneficiary)

Copy of Passport Bio page (Beneficiary)

Evidence of the Bona Fides of the Marital Relationship:

· Evolution of Relationship letter

· Copy of our Facebook communication history

· Copy of our Skype communication history

· Copy of our WhatsApp (free texting application) communication history

· Copy of Email communication history

· Copy of our Marriage Certificate(s) and supporting letter from Swedish Authorities (w/ translation)

· Copy of Wedding Dinner receipt

· Copy of wedding rings purchase and shipping confirmation

· Copies of our wedding announcement and photos of cards and gifts

· Copies of Facebook wedding well-wishes from friends

· Copies of boarding passes, train tickets and itineraries

· Copies of passport pages showing entry stamps for visits (Petitioner)

· Copies of Petitioner’s email communication with Mother-in-law

· Photo pages as evidence to our bona fide relationship and marriage

· Miscellaneous evidence of trips abroad together (trips taken and trips planned)

· Copies of shipping labels from packages and cards we have sent to each other

Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date. Thank you for taking the time to review my documents. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or require additional documentation. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

[signature]

(about 200 pages total.. )

Thanks!

[Boggy1974 124]

Thank you.. My husband still wants to include my passport bio page so we just will. Not gonna hurt right?

So, this is our cover letter. Did we remember about everything???

USCIS

Attn: I-130

131 South Dearborn-3rd Floor

Chicago, IL 60603-5517

Nature of submission: I-130, Petition for Alien Relative (Original Submission)

To Whom It May Concern:

Enclosed please find my Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative for my wife, "Blueberry Pancake", and supporting documentation.

Included in this petition are the following documents:

· Cover letter

· G-1145, e-notification of Application/Petition acceptance

· Check in the amount of $420 USD

· I-130 Petition for Alien Relative

· G-325A (Petitioner)

· Passport-style Photos (Petitioner)

· Copy of US Birth Certificate (Petitioner)

· Copy of Judgment for Termination of previous marriage (Petitioner)

· G-325A (Beneficiary)

· Passport-style Photos (Beneficiary)

· Copy of Polish Birth Certificate, including translation (Beneficiary)

Copy of Passport Bio page (Beneficiary)

Evidence of the Bona Fides of the Marital Relationship:

· Evolution of Relationship letter We did not include this.

· Copy of our Facebook communication history

· Copy of our Skype communication history

· Copy of our WhatsApp (free texting application) communication history

· Copy of Email communication history

· Copy of our Marriage Certificate(s) and supporting letter from Swedish Authorities (w/ translation)

· Copy of Wedding Dinner receipt

· Copy of wedding rings purchase and shipping confirmation

· Copies of our wedding announcement and photos of cards and gifts

· Copies of Facebook wedding well-wishes from friends

· Copies of boarding passes, train tickets and itineraries

· Copies of passport pages showing entry stamps for visits (Petitioner)

· Copies of Petitioner’s email communication with Mother-in-law

· Photo pages as evidence to our bona fide relationship and marriage

· Miscellaneous evidence of trips abroad together (trips taken and trips planned)

· Copies of shipping labels from packages and cards we have sent to each other

Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date. Thank you for taking the time to review my documents. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or require additional documentation. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

[signature]

(about 200 pages total.. )

Thanks!

See comments in red above.

Looks very well put together! You've included more than enough evidence to get a one-shot straight approval (Note: we only had 80pages total).

Last thing, we included Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport biographic page, even though some have said it is NOT required at this stage. As you can see some members have gotten RFE'd for this lately so IMHO, it won't hurt to add.

Good Luck!!!

Edited August 23, 2013 by Boggy1974

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Thank you Boggy!

[Boggy1974 124]

You're welcome BP. Best of luck!

[r060106 109]

Thank you.. My husband still wants to include my passport bio page so we just will. Not gonna hurt right?

So, this is our cover letter. Did we remember about everything???

USCIS

Attn: I-130

131 South Dearborn-3rd Floor

Chicago, IL 60603-5517

Nature of submission: I-130, Petition for Alien Relative (Original Submission)

To Whom It May Concern:

Enclosed please find my Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative for my wife, "Blueberry Pancake", and supporting documentation.

Included in this petition are the following documents:

· Cover letter

· G-1145, e-notification of Application/Petition acceptance

· Check in the amount of $420 USD

· I-130 Petition for Alien Relative

· G-325A (Petitioner)

· Passport-style Photos (Petitioner)

· Copy of US Birth Certificate (Petitioner)

· Copy of Judgment for Termination of previous marriage (Petitioner)

· G-325A (Beneficiary)

· Passport-style Photos (Beneficiary)

· Copy of Polish Birth Certificate, including translation (Beneficiary)

Copy of Passport Bio page (Beneficiary)

Evidence of the Bona Fides of the Marital Relationship:

· Evolution of Relationship letter

· Copy of our Facebook communication history

· Copy of our Skype communication history

· Copy of our WhatsApp (free texting application) communication history

· Copy of Email communication history

· Copy of our Marriage Certificate(s) and supporting letter from Swedish Authorities (w/ translation)

· Copy of Wedding Dinner receipt

· Copy of wedding rings purchase and shipping confirmation

· Copies of our wedding announcement and photos of cards and gifts

· Copies of Facebook wedding well-wishes from friends

· Copies of boarding passes, train tickets and itineraries

· Copies of passport pages showing entry stamps for visits (Petitioner)

· Copies of Petitioner’s email communication with Mother-in-law

· Photo pages as evidence to our bona fide relationship and marriage

· Miscellaneous evidence of trips abroad together (trips taken and trips planned)

· Copies of shipping labels from packages and cards we have sent to each other

Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date. Thank you for taking the time to review my documents. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or require additional documentation. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

[signature]

(about 200 pages total.. )

Thanks!

Wow great package! I'm sure everything will be fine. Just stay positive. We'll be sending ours in at the end of this week hopefully.

Just out of curiosity, how did you get a copy of your email and skype history? Did you just take screenshots of all of the dates you sent and received messages/calls? I'm trying to figure out how to best do this and at this point have just taken screenshots of our email history showing all income and outgoing messages, along with screenshots of the program SkypeLogView detailing income and outgoing calls. Please let me know if you can. I'm really curious.

Dziekuje!

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Wow great package! I'm sure everything will be fine. Just stay positive. We'll be sending ours in at the end of this week hopefully.

Just out of curiosity, how did you get a copy of your email and skype history? Did you just take screenshots of all of the dates you sent and received messages/calls? I'm trying to figure out how to best do this and at this point have just taken screenshots of our email history showing all income and outgoing messages, along with screenshots of the program SkypeLogView detailing income and outgoing calls. Please let me know if you can. I'm really curious.

Dziekuje!

Thanks!

I just took screenshots of everything

For email- we use Gmail, so I typed in my husband's name in the search box and got all the emails we sent to each other. It was almost 500 (50 on each page or sth) so I took a screenshot of each page. On the last one it showed the total count.

For Facebook- That was a pain cause we've sent each other about 35,000 messages and going way back to the beginning was pretty much impossible (browsers kept crushing on me haha). Luckily, I saved all the FB message notification emails. Then I knew what to type in the Facebook messages search box. It was also showing a date it was sent which was great. I was able to scroll up or down then to find something appropriate Then I took a screenshot . I included two from each month.

Also included a screenshot of the total message count.

For Skype- I used SkypeLogView for calls, and SkyHistory for chats. Again, screenshots. (I emailed Skype to get a full call log but they can only provide Skype-to-phone logs. Not Skype to Skype. So stupid)

For Whatsapp- (mobile app) Screenshots! then emailed images to myself and copied and pasted into a word document. Also found an app showing a total message count, so downloaded that and took a screenshot. (I am starting to hate this word! )

Powodzenia!

[r060106 109]

Thanks!

I just took screenshots of everything

For email- we use Gmail, so I typed in my husband's name in the search box and got all the emails we sent to each other. It was almost 500 (50 on each page or sth) so I took a screenshot of each page. On the last one it showed the total count.

For Facebook- That was a pain cause we've sent each other about 35,000 messages and going way back to the beginning was pretty much impossible (browsers kept crushing on me haha). Luckily, I saved all the FB message notification emails. Then I knew what to type in the Facebook messages search box. It was also showing a date it was sent which was great. I was able to scroll up or down then to find something appropriate Then I took a screenshot . I included two from each month.

Also included a screenshot of the total message count.

For Skype- I used SkypeLogView for calls, and SkyHistory for chats. Again, screenshots. (I emailed Skype to get a full call log but they can only provide Skype-to-phone logs. Not Skype to Skype. So stupid)

For Whatsapp- (mobile app) Screenshots! then emailed images to myself and copied and pasted into a word document. Also found an app showing a total message count, so downloaded that and took a screenshot. (I am starting to hate this word! )

Powodzenia!

Oh ok, that's great to hear and means I'm not the only one! haha I'll be doing the same thing you did with the emails and skype logs. For the skype chats did you take screenshots of every single chat??? If so, I'm impressed. Because that must have been a lot of screenshots.

Dziekuje znowu! Pozdro

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Oh ok, that's great to hear and means I'm not the only one! haha I'll be doing the same thing you did with the emails and skype logs. For the skype chats did you take screenshots of every single chat??? If so, I'm impressed. Because that must have been a lot of screenshots.

Dziekuje znowu! Pozdro

Oh, of course not every single chat! Two from each month

Pozdro back!

[Jon9205 1]

Great example of a cover letter. I will definitely follow your example but for my I-129f I'm submitting nothing regarding a wedding or even engagement ring receipts. I hope this isn't a problem. I also was thinking of submitting Google chat & been having trouble indexing them. Didn't think I could use screen shots. Good advice, thanks.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Jon9205

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Great example of a cover letter. I will definitely follow your example but for my I-129f I'm submitting nothing regarding a wedding or even engagement ring receipts. I hope this isn't a problem. I also was thinking of submitting Google chat & been having trouble indexing them. Didn't think I could use screen shots. Good advice, thanks.

Thanks

I don't know what evidence K-1 requires. But I'm sure K-1 filers will help you with that

I've spent quite a lot of time researching prior to putting this petition together. I've read people were taking screenshots of their chats (a few from each month) .. And so I did as well. It just seems like the best, if not only, way to do it. Well, other than submitting a total record of , as in my case, circa 50ooo messages

Not sure if you are using Skype, but if so, it's quite difficult to pull up a call log... I used this. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/skype_log_view.html

I'm hearing I-129fs are being approved super fast lately Good luck!!