How many pages was your application?

[Love_Young]

Mine is at 337 pages and I haven't even included some the required stuff yet, like answering on additional sheets of paper where applicable. I told my husband that I need to stop but what we have should be enough and if not they can ask for more later on. He said, "See I told you, you were over obsessing." Lol. Husbands, what can you say.

Anyway, on average, how many pages do you think your application is, was, or is going to be?

P.S. To anyone that may be starting out, please in no means feel like you HAVE to have this many. It is not a competition and is about "Quality over Quantity." Always remember that and everybodies evidence will be different. I hope I have made myself clear and not made anyone feel unaccomplished in there efforts to apply. Best of luck to everyone going through this process. <3

 

[fallenstar831]

Ours was about 350-400.

It was thick.

 

[bobshynoswife]

Uh....about 640.

We're processing through Accra though which has a 40% refusal rate. We also didn't want to delay anything by having documents requested, which can put your app back 2 months or more.

We had 417 pages of communication evidence (which included phone bills, skype logs, text messages, emails, email inboxes and 100 pages of photocopied letters, postcards and greeting cards.) We also included 225 photos. In all our application was 5" thick and weighed about 13 pounds!

Certainly most people processing through 'nicer' visa offices don't need nearly this much. I thought 'better be safe than sorry'!

 

[nyssa]

My original application was about 10 folders, 8-10 lbs.... probably over 1000 pages. Which is silly for us, honestly, because we lived together for 2 years and have photos to prove it so we certainly don't need as much evidence! Now I'm re-doing it, and my application will be primarily photos, plane tickets and communication proof. Hopefully about 4 lbs.

 

[nyssa]

How are you configuring your pages? All the photos, loose? Phone records too? I don't even want to count, lol!!

 

[Love_Young]

How are you configuring your pages? All the photos, loose? Phone records too? I don't even want to count, lol!!

My supporting documents have chapters.
For example: Chapter 1: Communication
Section A: Text Messages
Section B: Phone Records
Etc.etc..

My photos are going to be categorized by events such as:
Birthdays, Special Events, Outings, Family and Friends. Then I will have the wedding photos in the chapter for wedding and will be a section of its own. The pictures have descriptions and I am putting them together in a word document that way. ALL pages will have a neon color tab which will list my name, my sponsor's name, my client id number, chapter of that support document, section title and page number. If they say they lost it, they cannot say I did not label it for them clearly and brightly. Lol.

My organization is probably worse than alot others but I figure why confuse myself putting it together and just do my best to label everything.
It is also probably unnecessary but I will be putting a post it note on everything and describing why it was essential in the application. I used card stock paper for each chapter title and got post it tabs to attach to each chapter so they can go straight to each chapter. I will make a table of contents for the application as a whole and for the supporting documents itself. Hope I didn't confuse you too much. I hope someone else can also describe what they have done or are doing.

 

[jillandmat]

hmm i think mine was less than 100 pages.. maybe well all of the gov. pages plus.. supplementary things maybe another 20 pages with pictures included.. and then -- the birth certificates, and other things.. it was 600g

the visa office has me on file already for requesting passport renewal, citizenship applications for my kids, and passport requests which dates back to 2005.

i wasn't too worries before joining this forum.. but now maybe i should have added a bit more information..
well we have it if they need it i guess..
8)

 

[michaelab]

I think ours only weighed about 2.1 lbs!! Why the others have so many pages? Am I missing something??
Not sure how many pages..we just filled out the typical outland application for the US residents. I had like almost 50 pictures with it.

 

[angelbrat]

Mine was just the application, plus 5 extra pages of notes and the copies of birth certs etc. No photos nor letters were sent.

I think it weighed 15lbs, well only cost 12 dollars to send it by signed delivery via Canada Post.

I was sponsored Inland, common law and it took just under 8 months to get my PR.

I don't think weight nor pages matter. Its how the IO perceive the application that counts.

Just my experience

 

[canadianwoman]

My supporting documents have chapters.
For example: Chapter 1: Communication
Section A: Text Messages
Section B: Phone Records
Etc.etc..

My photos are going to be categorized by events such as:
Birthdays, Special Events, Outings, Family and Friends. Then I will have the wedding photos in the chapter for wedding and will be a section of its own. The pictures have descriptions and I am putting them together in a word document that way. ALL pages will have a neon color tab which will list my name, my sponsor's name, my client id number, chapter of that support document, section title and page number. If they say they lost it, they cannot say I did not label it for them clearly and brightly. Lol.

It is also probably unnecessary but I will be putting a post it note on everything and describing why it was essential in the application. I used card stock paper for each chapter title and got post it tabs to attach to each chapter so they can go straight to each chapter. I will make a table of contents for the application as a whole and for the supporting documents itself. Hope I didn't confuse you too much. I hope someone else can also describe what they have done or are doing.

This sounds great. It is good to organize the supporting evidence as well as possible, and make it as easy as possible for the visa officer to understand the organization and where/what everything is.
But how do people join all the pages together? Did you put everything in a binder? With hundreds of pages, you can't just staple things together. Or did you number all the pages, but just leave them loose?

 

[michele_b]

Wow. I've been reading this forum for quite some time now for insight, and this topic really opened my eyes to how difficult the process is.
When I opened it I expected people to say ~50 pages, and I thought that would be on the high end-- granted we haven't started the process yet, I haven't seen the actual application. I had nothing to base that number on. This just shows me how much work this is going to be. Thanks everyone

 

[spsponsor]

lol i wouldn't be too concerned with the numbers mentioned here. Rest assured when you take photcopies of all the personal ID's as well as travel docs, relationship docs, photos, and the actual forms, it should easily be around a 100 pages... but 300+ is just stretching it too far.... maybe the call logs have the actual words spoken in there

My call logs for 5 months are just 2 pages per month and they state the number i called to and duration of the call. Plus i have 50 photos and maybe 3-4 pages of supplemental info to some of the forms... Rest of it is just the actual forms and docs.... So maybe i'll be around the 100-150 mark if at all.

 

[can_usa_97]

The bulk of ours consists of 84 pages of 'relationship history' that being a month by month recount with photos of the last 13 years with over 100 photos in a 2 1/2 inch height. Then we have supporting documents for our intent, like family letters, joint accounts, ect. So I'd say in total it's between 150-175 when said and done.

 

[jma]

hi every body
what a number 1000 page
just to funny
mine is just the application forms and 4 page of hotel and resturent receipt two month of my outgoing calls and three latters frommy family and friend and one from my wife's mother two form my wife's friends
and around 30 photos i think this is enough
no need to panic just a few pages and the officer will appreciete that
isn't it?
c'mon guys

 

[AllisonVSC]

200 pages, but we included a year's worth of pay stubs for my sponsor (about 36 pages) which we didn't need because we got the Option C printout. Geez, and I thought our was long.