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Thanks so much!

That's good to know, thank you. I already took one, but then I realized my ears not showing, so I wanted to double check 🤭

Ok, that makes sense. So your hair down or having bangs should be no problem then? May I ask what you did?

I'm aware, but it doesn't say whether you need to be able to show your ears or not. Where I'm from it's normal to do so, but I can't find any guidelines on it for US passport standards.

Hi, does anyone know if your ears need to be visible or not in the passport style pictures? Thank you.

Oh my god, so many amazing tips and feedback! Thanks everyone!! One more quick question. I keep reading how people signed and dated every single page of their package (including photos, birth certificate and other evidence). How has done this and who hasn't? When you didn't, was this a problem and did you get an RFE?

That sounds like a great idea, thanks! I'll definitely take a birth certificate and school information, hopefully that will be fine then. Especially since I can show our return tickets too 😊

Thank you so much for the detailed information, I appreciate it! That really must help me put something together. I have had jobs in the past, just not the last 5 years. I donhave ties to this country still since I have a son who goes to school here, so I'm hoping they won't see that as a problem then. We wanna file next month and hopefully visit in July on ESTAs we already have. This will be our only trip there until we get approved. My fiancé will come and visit us instead after our summer trip 😊

Thanks for the info!

That's so useful!! Thank you so much! I read in your profile that you or your husband had the interview in Frankfurt. Do you know if you're allowed to go to the interview together?

Thanks for the tips!! Do you have any suggestions on how to put the package together? Like with staples, paperclips or punch holes?

Thank you so much for your feedback! I'm trying to tone it down a bit since 8 years of evidence might be a bit much for them to go through 🤭 I was wondering if the passport pictures were fine that way, that's good to know, thanks!!

Hi everyone, My fiancé and I are putting are package together to file for a K1 visa. But I have a few questions about a few things, maybe you can help 😊 First of all, I'd like to apologize! I feel like I've been posting way too much on this forum because we're putting our package together but I think I'm slowly losing my mind doing so, haha. I've looked up information on all kinds of website on how to put a package together, I've been on this forum, and I've read the K1 visa guide on here as well, and I'm kind of at a lost right now. I read a lot of people say that including too many documents or too much "evidence" might be too much for the USCIS officers to read, or it could even raise red flags. Yet the guide tells you the more evidence you show (plane tickets, hotels, train tickets, receipts, real photos, boarding passes). What we have done so far is show our 10 trips as a collage on 1 page per trip. On every page we have a few photos of us together, screenshots of our boarding passes and Airbnb stays. Will this be good enough? Are real pictures on photo paper better? Right now it's on normal printing paper. Also, I read it's best to put our names on every page, has anyone done that? Do passport style pictures, do they have to be professional pictures or can you take them yourself too? Anyone who's taken them themselves, were they approved or did you have to send in new ones? Also, does it make a difference what order you put all the evidence and documents in? What did you guys do? And then one final big question about the form itself. I'm the beneficiary, it asks about my employment over the last 5 years but I haven't had a job. I've received state benefits and I've done volunteering work, do I mention where I got my income from (so the state benefits), do I mention actual work I've done (so my volunteering), or nothing at all since I didn't have a paying job? I'm so sorry for all the questions. I know it's a lot and I appreciate everyone's help so much. We just can't wait to be together (we've been a couple for 8 years), and we don't wanna mess anything up with forms and documents because that might mean we have to wait even longer. Agh, all the anxiety!!

Thank you so much!!

So far what we've done is put our boarding passes, our Airbnb bookings and some pictures of us together on a page per trip 😊

Thank you so much, I was wondering if a combined one would be good too, so that's good to know. Are stamps still needed with a I-94 form and boarding passes on the trip pages we made, you think? It seems unnecessary to include them if we already show other proof but I wasn't sure.

That's great to know, thank you!! Making sure to keep it to a minimum then 😊 Thank you so much, that's very helpful! I'm gonna work on the letter right now 😊

Thank you so much, that helps a lot!!

Hi everyone, My fiancé and I are putting are package together to file for a K1 visa. But I have a few questions about a few things, maybe you can help 😊 First of all, the letter of intent to marry, do we both have to write our own letter or can we write one together and both sigh that one? As for evidence of getting married, other than us having our rings and me having my dress, there aren't concrete plans since we don't know when it will be approved. Our plans are to get married as quickly as possible once I arrive by going to a courthouse, and a little bit later we are planning on doing a ceremony and party for our friends and family, but we don't know when that will be yet, so how can I show our intent to marry the best? Also, do we need to show our stamps in our passports? I have my I-94 form and we've added copies of all our tickets when we've visited each other. I'm sorry for all the questions. I'm so worried I might be overlooking a little thing that could potentially delay or mess up the process, so I wanna make sure we do everything the right way 😊 Thanks!!

Thanks!

I like what you did what the screenshots and how you've edited them, that's really not a bad idea at all! I'll try and make sure to do it 1 page per trip. I saw on the USCIS website that they would like all forms and documents on letter paper size. Over here we use A4 size paper which I think is slightly smaller. Has anyone ever used a different paper size than American letter size, and was this a problem or do they just not accept it unless it's the right paper format?

Great! Thank you so much, you've been a great help!! 😁

So would you suggest we show evidence of all our trips instead of only the ones in the last 2 years then? I've read somewhere that friends or family writing letters saying your relationship is real is considered a good thing too, what's your opinion on that?

Thanks 😁

That's very useful! I'll be sure to be selective with the screenshots. I think I'll just stick to screenshots of our phone logs from the mist recent month. I'm the beneficiary and would have to go to Germany, but I'm from The Netherlands.