Bona fide evidence in my I-130 package

[alejandreska 136]

Hello everybody. I've been preparing my I-130 documents, and now I'm almost finished .

I've read tons of posts, FAQs, step by step guides, etc..

I am applying for CR-1 visa since my husband and I have only been married for 6 months. I am the beneficiary, and my husband is the petitioner. He is a US citizen (from birth) but we've both lived in Venezuela our entire lives (our native language is Spanish).

I would like to know your opinion about my enclosed "bona fide" evidence:

1.Proof of a joint bank a account, translated (it's just a letter that certifies that both of us have a checking account in the institution)

2. Proof that I am an additional card holder of one of my husband's credit cards. (We included a snapshot of the online banking website and a Bank statement that includes both of our names, plus a photocopy of both credit cards. All of this was officially translated.

3. Three affidavits of support from the best man, one bridesmaid and a close friend.

4. Translated religious wedding certificate with Spanish copy.

5. One of our religious wedding invitations with a non-official translation

6. Honeymoon tickets and cruise confirmation / Tickets of our last trip to Florida last year (Disney, yay)

7. Screenshots of all our emails (just recipient, title and date- what you see in your inbox). This is about 10 pages long.

8. One snapshot of a Facebook chat log. you can read "loading older messages (4747).. Do you think this is good evidence? I don't think that it would be useful to print all our conversations.. First, they are all in Spanish, and second everything is too long!!

9. Letters... we are only attaching those that are in English, or should we attach all of them? We only have 3 cards in English: A Christmas card (from him), a birthday card and our first anniversary card (from me) which is in "spanglish".

10. We are sending 10 pictures: one of our engagement, 3 of our religious wedding, one of our legal marriage, three of our honeymoon, one in our last trip to the US, and one on Christmas. Is that enough or should i send more with family? Maybe I could add one with family after our legal marriage, a couple of pictures on our birthdays (with a cake), and a picture with his grandmother and brothers???

Do you think this is enough evidence?? Do you think we should include a letter of 'our story' and how we met? Actually our friends mention this in the affidavits, so maybe it's not necessary?

We don't have joint properties, leases, children, or mail with our Venezuelan address...Also, here in Venezuela, mobile phone carriers don't register who calls who... So we can't show evidence of our calls to each other.

Thank you for your opinions and your time, we are really nervous!! My husband left Venezuela last month in order to rent an apartment (so we could have an US address to put in the forms), buy a car and start a new company... So I've been feeling very lonely I hope that the process doesn't take too long so we can reunite soon

Edited October 9, 2013 by Alejandra Perez E

[Ryan H 3,834]

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**Moderator hat off**

IMO, your list looks good.

[Aidee Alcantar 5]

Sounds good. All I sent was a copy of our rental lease, joint bank statements, joint utility bills and our marriage certificate and had no problems. Your very prepared which is good

[alejandreska 136]

Thank you!

Today I sent everything to my husband who's in the US, he'll send the package with USPS on friday. *Fingers crossed*

This website has been incredibly helpful!

Edited October 10, 2013 by Alejandra Perez E

[Silvietta86 2]

I had my visa even without having joint properties/bills/accounts, I just sent some pictures, few flight tickets, an affidavit by my priest who was organizing the Catholic wedding and some screenshots showing we were talking daily on skype.

So your list seem amazing to me!