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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.

Thanks so much for the info! It's so helpful seeing what other people have sent. I would send a few screenshots of our first conversations and phone calls, but unfortunately we've lost those details since my fiancé changed his number a few times, and on top of that my phone broke, which meant losing all that info. Our oldest stuff is from 2018, not 2017. Also, we're on the phone all day long (literally), so if I take screenshots of our WhatsApp call and video log, will that be fine too you think?

Thank you!! I'll try to put more on one page and mainly add the most important information then. Thanks so much for your help and good luck to you as well 😁

It's so hard not to overdo though, haha. In total we've met up 10 times over 6 years. About 5 times in the last 2. So I was wondering if I should only do the last 5 trips then since they require information of the last 2 years 🤔😅 You mentioned a page of video calls, how did you do that? We're on the phone for hours a day, and have been since the beginning. That would be a lot of screenhots. I dunno how to trim it down to just one page then, so if you have some ideas there I'd love to hear them. Have you had any RFE's with everything youve provided? Do you know when your interview is? Thank you so much for all the information! It's so much appreciated at such a stressful time, we really wanna get things right 😁

I'd have the go to the consulate in Germany, I'm not sure how they operate there or how much they would want. I did read the requirements but I might be overthinking here a bit to be honest. We've been together for many years so there technically is a lot that could be shown, which is why I considered sending it all up front so they might not ask for more info. But my fiancé is of the opinion that if it's too much the process might take longer and it could be unnecessary too to send that much. I'm definitely thinking of tickets, hotel conformation, pictures, and letters by friends. I'm starting to consider to maybe not add receipts of gifts and PayPal payments and maybe narrowing down our phone logs a bit.

Yeah maybe 1000 pages is a bit much 😅 What would you suggest is a definite must to put in there for filing the form? Not even the interview 😬

Hi everyone, filling out the I-129F form is giving us more stress than we hoped. Both my fiancé and I think slightly differently out what "evidence" we might have to include. He's a lot more practical, and I'm a lot more in my head and want to send absolutely everything including train tickets, zoo tickets and all that. So I guess we're just wondering what the right thing to do is. We've visited each other at least 9 times, so we want to include all information (plane tickets and hotels) of all those trips. But what else would be good to share? Would PayPal payments we made to each other good? Or presents we bought for each other? Or is all of that considered irrelevant? We were gonna attach our phone call logs but even of the last year that's already over 500 screenshots. We want to make sure we give them a lot of information but we also don't wanna send 1000 pages of stuff they might find unnecessary and draining to go through. Who could give some insight of what to include, and how much? Thanks so much!!

Great, thank you so much.