Bona Fide CR-1 HELP PLEASE!!

[Nestor15 1]

Hi, I am recently getting everything together for my CR-1 application. I am right now stuck in the evidence of a bona fide marriage section; I have a bank account, but since she doesn't live here or have a SSN, I can't add her. In Mexico, we tried to make a bank account with both names, but since I don't have their identification card, I wasn't allowed to be in her account. I do send her money, and I have the receipts. Also, I don't have any property or anything like that other than a car. I have been knowing my wife since I am 8 and have pictures of us. Also, we dated when we were 15 and also have a couple of those. I have conversations of when we were dating at age 15 and now, I have probably more than 500 pages of conversations we have had. I mainly have pictures (kid pictures, dating pics, wedding pictures, and as a married couple pics), money receipts, conversations of years back, plane tickets of the times I've gone) and I don't know what I can send in. I really need help. Thanks!

[Eric & Idalia 56]

Just to give you an idea of what I took to the interview, I share the part about bona fide marriage:

1. Evidence of bona fide marriage

1. Documents of Eric trip to Mexico

2. Mexico Reentry permit of Eric

3. Copy of Mexico authorization for change of condition of Eric from visitor to temporary resident through marriage

4. Copy of Mexico temporary resident card of Eric

5. Copy of Mexico CURP of Eric

6. Original and Copy of I-130 petition payment made in Monterrey, Mexico by Eric

7. Copy of form to request a work permission in Mexico of Eric and supporting documents

8. Copy of denied work permission notification of Eric

9. Documents and copies of Idalia trip to Santa Fe, NM, USA to visit Eric

10. Copy of health insurance of Idalia and Eric

11. Copy of life insurance of Idalia stating Eric as one of her beneficiaries

12. Banorte joint account contract and bank statements from the last five months of Idalia and Eric

13. Wells Fargo joint accounts bank statements from the most recent month of Eric and Idalia

14. Affidavits from friends and Eric

15. Photos documenting relationship with descriptions next to each photo

16. Document of Skype history

My husband was a temporary resident in Mexico and we had two joint accounts, but they just asked to see some pictures and that was it.

This is what I found in a cover letter from another VJ member who had an interview in Ciudad Juarez consulate as well:

1. Evidence of bona fide marriage

1. Affidavits from friends and family

2. Photos documenting relationship with descriptions on the back of each photo

3. Document of text and Facebook message history

Her husband was approved as I was.

You can add the boarding passes/bus tickets from the times you two visited each other, pictures describing your relationship (our photo album had pictures of 2011-2015), affidavits from people who know about the relationship, the receipts of when you sent her money, the skype log, text log, if she added you to her insurance, insurance document, Wedding invitation.

Also you can prepare a cover letter. Here a link to the VJ example:

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/I-864_Cover_letter

In our cover letter I added the bona fide section I pasted above.

Let's see what other VJ members can add.

Edited July 24, 2015 by Eric & Idalia

[RF_COK/JFK 7]

This is what I send to nvc as proofs

1.marriage certificate

2.church marriage certificate

3.wedding pictures

4.marriage invitation

5.my name added to his passport

6. We filed taxes as married with his name in my tax returns

7.other pictures of us together

This is all I send, I thought of sending chat history and call logs but too many pages so saving that for interview

Send all the proofs you have, it really depends on the person checking your file...

[mallafri76 1,012]

Bona fida proof for the I-130 petition would usually be chat/phone/email logs, pictures of you together and of meeting family plus passport stamps/boarding passes of visits to see each other. Most people living apart won't have joint accounts, joint leases etc, so don't worry about that.

Good luck with your visa journey.

[Eric & Idalia 56]

Oh to file it! What I mentioned was for the interview.

When we filed it in Monterrey Consulate, the lady just accepted the marriage certificate. She said the other documents we should take them with us to the interview.