How to Establish Travel Dates in RFE Response? Passport Stamps? Airfare Receipts? Air B&B Receipts? All of the Above?

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Just now, NMinLasVegas said:

Trip 1 Summer of 2023 - 106 days total, got engaged. Trip 2 Beginning of 2024, 152 days. Did an online Utah marriage before I left. Trip 3, Beginning of 2025, 152 days total. So 378 days across three trips, grand total.

 

I haven't taken her out of the Philippines, I have been paranoid of offloading. 

So, you have plenty of time together.  Now you know how to provide the evidence.  Just get it done.  No worries.

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20 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

boarding passes are primary evidence of time spent together in person.

So it is worth it to see if I still have my old boarding passes? Is there a way to get them if I do not still have them online if I do not still have the physical copies?  

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2 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

So, you have plenty of time together.  Now you know how to provide the evidence.

So how many pictures does it make sense to include? And should I be including excerpts of chat logs? I have enough to fill a library but I don't know how to go about using them for evidence. 

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2 minutes ago, NMinLasVegas said:

So it is worth it to see if I still have my old boarding passes? Is there a way to get them if I do not still have them online if I do not still have the physical copies?  

No it's not worth it.  One source of primary evidence is enough.

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Just now, pushbrk said:

No it's not worth it.  One source of primary evidence is enough.

So this means I should include photos of my passport stamps and not include things like airfare receipts and boarding passes?

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Just now, NMinLasVegas said:

So how many pictures does it make sense to include? And should I be including excerpts of chat logs? I have enough to fill a library but I don't know how to go about using them for evidence. 

You can add a few more photos if you want but they are still secondary.  Your time together in person trumps any photos.  Skip the chat logs for the same reason.  

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Just now, NMinLasVegas said:

So this means I should include photos of my passport stamps and not include things like airfare receipts and boarding passes?

You don't have boarding passes.  Scan the passport pages to PDF and print the PDF files to full sheets of plain paper.  Receipts for tickets are NOT evidence of travel.  I live in the Philippines. Every time I enter, it's on the return leg of a round trip ticket, so I have to buy an ongoing ticket.  I don't use the ticket, so you can see that buying it is not evidence of travel.

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1 minute ago, pushbrk said:

You don't have boarding passes.

I am fairly certain I do have them all, or at least most, I was saving all that stuff to make a scrap book someday. So if I have them does it make sense to scan them and include them?

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Just now, NMinLasVegas said:

I am fairly certain I do have them all, or at least most, I was saving all that stuff to make a scrap book someday. So if I have them does it make sense to scan them and include them?

Sure. It helps with interpretting the stamps, but don't worry about the ones you can't find.

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Just now, pushbrk said:

You can add a few more photos if you want but they are still secondary.  Your time together in person trumps any photos.  Skip the chat logs for the same reason.  

Passport stamps prove I was in the country but they don't prove that she was me. All I really have to prove that would be lots of pictures together. And I suppose the Air B&B receipts can show she was registered with me. But maybe the USCIS doesn't scrutinize it on that level. 

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Is there an overall page length I should be shooting for in my response? Is it okay to respond electronically or is it more advantageous to mail a hard copy?

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2 minutes ago, NMinLasVegas said:

Passport stamps prove I was in the country but they don't prove that she was me. All I really have to prove that would be lots of pictures together. And I suppose the Air B&B receipts can show she was registered with me. But maybe the USCIS doesn't scrutinize it on that level. 

The fact is that USCIS takes evidence of time in country as evidence of time together in person.  That's why passport stamps are primary evidence, and photos are secondary.  This ain't my first rodeo. If you want to add some photos great.  Add some reciepts showing both names, sure.  

3 minutes ago, NMinLasVegas said:

Is there an overall page length I should be shooting for in my response? Is it okay to respond electronically or is it more advantageous to mail a hard copy?

My recommendation is to keep it at less than ten pages.  Respond as specifically instructed in your RFE.

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Just go to the public library and scan your entire U.S. passport and upload it in one combined PDF with the photos as part of the RFE response (or photocopy and mail.)