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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Germany
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Hello,

how long did it take y'all to gather all the information you needed for the CR1 visa?

also, what kinda evidence for a bonafida marriage did you guys include?

thanks in advance!

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ireland
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Took me a day for the info, because we really had everything already (birth and marriage certs, photos of us together, birthcert of kids etc), just needed a couple of things translated.

The best proof of bonafide marriage is face time- time spent together. So passport stamps and boarding passes, and back that up with photos together, ideally with family too. Phone bills and exerpts of chat logs/ emails are good too. Co-mingling of finances are good, but if you life apart, they understand you may not have that.

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Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Took me a day for the info, because we really had everything already (birth and marriage certs, photos of us together, birthcert of kids etc), just needed a couple of things translated.

The best proof of bonafide marriage is face time- time spent together. So passport stamps and boarding passes, and back that up with photos together, ideally with family too. Phone bills and exerpts of chat logs/ emails are good too. Co-mingling of finances are good, but if you life apart, they understand you may not have that.

same like ours... just a day..

i also included marriage cert, birth cert of our child, fewa pictures together, passport stamps...

we did not even included chat logs i think...

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: France
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We had a lot of the stuff ready, since we had just applied for a CRBA for our daughter.

For the bonafides of the marriage, all I included was our marriage certificate (copy), translation (copy), daughter's birth certificate which includes both our names (copy) along with a copy of her passport page.

At that point we had been married for 3 years and had a kid together. I didn't feel that any further proof was needed, and apparently USCIS and NVC agreed. A child together is pretty strong evidence, if we did not have this I would have shown a copy of our rental lease showing both our names, proof that we attended school together at the same time (transcripts/diplomas) as a way of showing that we met in a "legitimate" way. I also have numerous stamps in my passport showing visits to my husband's home country; I could have shown this but didn't.

Basically, I think that how many items of proof you need to provide depends on how long you've been married and how strong your proofs are. If you have children together with both parents names on birth certificate, no need to bother with things like photos and chat transcripts in my opinion.

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