Phone bills and Conversation Evidence

[Saffy]

Hi there,

I know that to sponsor your spouse, when you send in the application, they also want conversations between you and your spouse, whether
it be online conversations or phone bill records showing that you called them...

Now my question is, I have all my phone bills for the past 2 in a half years, I can print those just fine, but the msn convos we had, I didn't save them every day, I just have about 5 convos we had online from the beginning of our relationship.

So now, how much of this convo evidence should I send in with my application? All of it? Some of it?

I also am sending in more than 100 photos of us together.

Any advice?

 

[Saffy]

I am just not sure of the amount of conversation online they actually want.. I mean, one of the ones I printed came out to 29 pages (and this was just one convo!) are they really going to read through it one by one?

how many convos and phone records did our fellow sponsors put it? Please let me know as soon as possible, thanks

 

[Isometry]

I sent:

One page of each months' phone bill, with conversations between us highlighted

Maybe 6-10 IM conversations, spanning about 3 years of time.

About 2 dozen pictures, some from every visit, with captions.

Screenshots of his email inbox, showing 30-40 emails, spanning a few years. We don't email much, but didn't have much evidence that went that far back.

Itineraries/boarding passes/passport photocopies for each visit. Also, a copy of the paypal receipt for each visit (we split the cost of plane tickets, and I'd send him my half via paypal)

One letter from a friend.

Receipts for our wedding rings.


It's not very much of each thing, but it was several different kinds of things. We dated everything, and with each type of evidence wrote a note like: "Here are some of our conversations via aim, showing the development of our relationship. More can be provided upon request"

 

[Isometry]

I should add that if we'd printed out all our aim convos in 10-point font, it would have been about 2400 pages.

 

[Saffy]

So do you think it will be an issue if I do not have msn convos from every day we talked? like i just have them from the beginning thats it, but i do have phone bills from every month... I didn't think at all about constantly saving our convos throughout the months!

 

[mroliveland]

If you review the federal court appeals and see how they assess the contact between the sponsor and the applicant, you can realize that:

- The bills have to show the applicant's number and the destination country. Only formal or official bills can show this (such as Skype or cell phone bills).

- They also pay attention to the length and frequency of these calls.

- They give much weight for the visits or travels between the sponsor and applicant. If your application is under processing for more than a year and they have contacted you at the time of review about any updates or additional proofs, be ready to submit a proof of visit. In other words, do your best to visit your spouse within a year or so. If you show no visit, this might be not a good sign (reference: federal court appeals).

- They don't give big weight for the e-mails or written letters compared with the phone calls but they should help.

Be cautious that phone cards are not accepted as a proof of contact.

For the pictures, see my previous post.

 

[Isometry]

I don't think it will be an issue as long as you can show that you were talking a lot. I'd include a few excerpts from the early conversations, just to give them some content, but probably not entire 30-page convos.

You can also send emails, texts, facebook comments, postcards, screenshots of video game chats, etc, depending on what you have.

Best of luck!