How Much of Facebook Chat to include in Evidence of continuing relationship

[DagYng 0]

Hello,

I'm working on a K-1 application to sponsor my fiance from Indonesia. I have lots of photos, plane tickets, and other evidence from when we lived together in Indonesia for 9 months in 2015 (which was when we decided to get married), but to cover the time since I've had to return to the states for work while we've been planning everything (and I was processing divorce from my first wife, who I've been separated from for some time), I'm thinking I'll send a few chats from facebook to show that we're still in constant communication. In other people's experience, is it necessary to send an entire, potentially hours-long chat?

The only way to capture the chat and print it is by capturing each page, which only contains a minute or so of exchange. If the chat is an hour or two long, that's going to be a lot of pages, so I was thinking of just showing a few pages of the beginning, and then some at the end. But if necessary I could do the whole thing. Also, if the chat is in another language (ours are mostly in Indonesian), does it need to be translated, or is it enough to show that communication is happening regularly?

I will also send some skype records to show when we spoke on the phone, but we chat more often than skype-talk, because her internet signal is often not strong enough to talk smoothly on skype.

Thanks very much in advance for any help anyone can offer!

[ch3john 308]

Using a couple of lines from a conversation should be fine.

My wife and I chatted regularly using WhatApp. I just took a couple of lines from conversations around the 1st and 15th of each month. I had about 10 pages of chats that covered about 12 months and that worked fine.

[DagYng 0]

Thanks very much! that's what I needed to know

[meiliani 10]

Hi,

When I filled for my fiancé (now husband), I only submitted about 1 page of our Facebook conversation in Bahasa because I was not active in Facebook. We communicate via Skype and Blackberry Messenger. Also, when I talked to my husband on Skype, I tried to screen grab our image and I did include those along with the call records.

Hope this is help.

[Roy&Chanel 109]

Here's what I did, my husband and I do not use facebook. But we do have Skype and Whatsapp records.

We screenshot every week 1 screenshot of the conversation, try to pick those without pictures so you can save cost on printing.

As for Skype, we did 2 sections, Skype Call logs and Skype Chat logs.

Similar, we screenshot 1 per week for chat logs, and skype calls we screenshot the past years of call durations that we spoke on skype daily.

[nygnyy 7]

Just a tip for Facebook logs: use the mobile site -- you can manipulate the URL directly so that you can capture certain timeframes (there's a variable in the URL that has a timestamp, and other variables select messages immediately before/after that)