Request for Evidence

[jpborn 0]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a May 2013 filer of an I130 for my Taiwanese wife. We've been waiting forever and FINALLY received a letter on Saturday asking for more evidence of our marriage. I'm at a bit of ropes end here and am very angry and stressed about this. We sent in as evidence with the initial application, copy in English of our marriage certificate, isn't that proof enough??? I also submitted our lease for 9/2012 to 9/2013 which has my wife on it, unfortunately it was in Chinese, but we attached to it a signed Affidavit in English from our landlord saying that she had knowledge of our marriage, that my wife was on the lease, and that we had been living together. Of course, we were only married in 3/2013 so I don't know what good that will do.

My question is what more can I submit, I'm attaching the list of things they would like, but we don't have the financial things, I can send them printed copies of our texting this past year that we have been separated. Do you recommend having my parents sign affidavit's attesting to knowledge of our marriage? They will certainly do that although they didn't actually attend the wedding...is that ok? Do they need to be notarized?

The other thing is that they said we didn't submit passport photos, which we DID????!!! Could they have lost part of our application in the transfer? Should I call them and ask for advice? Get a lawyer?

I'm at my wits end here and any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

Edited April 16, 2014 by Kathryn41
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[PlingPlong 2]

I would send them emails you sent each other, cards, Facebook messages, Skype logs, Phone records...
Not necessarily all of this of course, but a selection of what you have.
They want to see that you have an ongoing relationship with her over a period of time.

[Novembro 1,763]

Do you have any proof of visitation? IE: plane tickets, itineraries, hotel bookings, receipts of said thing, etc? You will want to send that. It is possible that they have lost a part of your package, so I would send whatever they have requested. The more, the merrier.

[Boggy1974 124]

They clearly told you all you need to submit in order to get an approval. I.e.:
Itenaries, photos of you two together with family, lease agreement, insurance docs, affidavits, financial docs like western union receipts, bank statements, birth cert of child or children if any, joint credit card statements if any, and a host of others. Also, don't forget to submit passport pictures of you both.

See top of the page in the forum here for examples.

Hi Everyone,

I'm a May 2013 filer of an I130 for my Taiwanese wife. We've been waiting forever and FINALLY received a letter on Saturday asking for more evidence of our marriage. I'm at a bit of ropes end here and am very angry and stressed about this. We sent in as evidence with the initial application, copy in English of our marriage certificate, isn't that proof enough??? I also submitted our lease for 9/2012 to 9/2013 which has my wife on it, unfortunately it was in Chinese, but we attached to it a signed Affidavit in English from our landlord saying that she had knowledge of our marriage, that my wife was on the lease, and that we had been living together. Of course, we were only married in 3/2013 so I don't know what good that will do.

My question is what more can I submit, I'm attaching the list of things they would like, but we don't have the financial things, I can send them printed copies of our texting this past year that we have been separated. Do you recommend having my parents sign affidavit's attesting to knowledge of our marriage? They will certainly do that although they didn't actually attend the wedding...is that ok? Do they need to be notarized?

The other thing is that they said we didn't submit passport photos, which we DID????!!! Could they have lost part of our application in the transfer? Should I call them and ask for advice? Get a lawyer?

I'm at my wits end here and any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

Edited April 16, 2014 by Kathryn41
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[Kathryn41 3,205]

Hi jpborn,

First, since it is a dangerous idea to post personally identifying information on this very public website, it is a good idea to hide or remove names, case numbers, addresses or any such personally sensitive information from a document before you post it here. Just taping over a piece of paper is often sufficient. I have removed your attachment because it did contain such information.

That being said, when I read over the letter I saw that it is a basic form letter. They are not requesting you to send in more 'undifferentiated' type of evidence listed on the list. The important part of the letter is that very last paragraph immediately below the list of the type of evidence that may be submitted in support of an I-130. This tells you what they want:

"A review of form I-130 indicates that the photographs of yourself and the beneficiary were not submitted with Form I-130, therefore, please submit two passport style color photographs of yourself and the beneficiary taken within 30 days of the date of this notice".

So, basically, all they are requesting are the two photographs which are one of the required attachments to go with the I-130. Yes, it is very possible for them to have lost or misplaced the photographs, so just arrange for each of you to get these done (again), make a photocopy of the request letter, then return the photographs with the request letter to the contact information provided with the address. They are looking at your file right now and it is just set aside until they receive your photographs. Once they have those, they will continue with the processing of your file.

Good luck:-) and try not to worry. I suspect everything is going to be just fine once they get the photographs.

Edited April 16, 2014 by Kathryn41

[pushbrk 13,396]

And expect petition approval within a few days of their receipt of your passport photos.

Aside and for all, this is why we suggest passport photo be placed in Ziploc bags and stapled to full sheets of plain paper. It is common fallacy that the passport "style" photos are submitted in connection with the G325a. Anywhere in the package is fine, but staple a bag or envelope to a full sheet of paper so it's harder to lose them.