mrpeters

In my opinion as an experience person who has completed the whole immigration thing from fiancé to US citizenship for my British husband without a stumble--

1. More is not better if it overloads your file so much they can't find the relevant things that actually count. The important required things to document are:

--one is a US citizen (birth certificate)

--both are free to marry (divorce decrees if applicable)

--and intend to marry within 90 days (statements from each)

--have met in person at least once in the last two years

2. Nowhere in the actual USCIS instructions does it say you have to convince them of your undying love with a hundred pages of Skype messages and social medial fluff. Maybe there is a usefulness to showing some communication samples if one is American and the other is Chinese, but you two speak English as your native language.

3. Half a dozen photos is good. Twenty is clutter.

4. If any part of this process requires more than a Priority Mail (light cardboard) flat mailer, you are sending too much.

5. A color inkjet printer/scanner/copier is the BEST investment you can buy when you start immigration. This is just the beginning of years of paperwork. Don't depend on the office copy machine. Keep records of everything you mail off. But yes black and white will be okay for your photocopies.

Now I'll quit preaching because it isn't even Sunday. Good luck to you.

Thank you so much for this post. My fiancé is from Australia, so I think we're on the same level of how much we need to include and how we'll be scrutinized. I was panicking because I recently moved and lost majority of the boarding passes I'd been saving for this process. Knowing we technically only need to provide proof of ONE visit, not 7+ is extremely helpful.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Whether a foreign diploma is equivalent to a US diploma hinges on many factors. The two biggest are age of graduation and whether the secondary schooling was at least 4 years.

Here is a good link to a list of countries whose diploma is considered equivalent to a US High school diploma.

http://www.***removed***/immigration/high-school-diploma-equivalents.html

If, for any reason you need to have your diploma verified or translated, SpanTran is a great service: http://www.spantran.com

Hope this helps!

I have a similar situation: my fiancé is from Australia, living in Canada on his Working Holiday Visa. His visa is good through 2016... does anyone know if we can complete the process (interview and everything) while he is living in Canada or will he need to go back to Sydney

Congratulations! My fiancé and I are starting this process today... Hopefully will submit I-129F by the end of the month. Good luck everyone!

Hi Everyone,

So my fiancé and I just got engaged (yay!) and are starting the K-1 process (yikes).

I am filling out the G-325A biographic info form for my fiancé so he can sign it before he leaves today. It asks for addresses for the past five years. The challenge is, my fiancé has spent the last two years traveling. He had a visa in London, but spent most of that time traveling around Europe. In the last year, he lived in Canada staying in multiple places in Toronto, Montreal, and now Vancouver. He has lived in Canada and UK on "working holiday visas". So would he just list his permanent address in Australia? Or does he need to list this multiple, brief places he stayed at in Canada and the UK?

Thanks!