Hi,
I'm in the process of getting together documents that provide evidence that my husband (his is my sponsor--I am the applicant) and I are in a committed and continuing marriage. I have about 250 emails, several wedding photos, photos of us together at family holidays and vacations, etc., emails between us and our families related to wedding planning, planning trips to visit for holidays. I also have receipts from purchase of our wedding rings, my engagement ring, a copy of our wedding invitation, several cards people gave us accompanying wedding gifts, copies of leases we're on together, a narrative describing how we met and the years that we were dating, how he proposed. Does this all sound good so far?
Are photocopies of most of these documents OK (I don't want to send in the original of our apartment lease, for example)??
For the photos, can I copy several of them into a Word document and type captions under each one (eg "Joseph and Amelia visiting the Washington Monument with Amelia's mother, June 2006") and print the whole thing on a color printer? Or should they be printed on traditional photo paper?
I want to also include records showing that we have joint bank accounts--I assume a copy of a statement showing both of our names is OK for this.
I also want to show that he's a beneficiary on my retirement account and life insurance--is a printout of the website with my online beneficiary information sufficient for this, or do I need an official document from my insurance company?
Is there anything else I am forgetting? Should we ask his parents and my parents to write letters describing our relationship and their relationship with their son-in-law/daughter-in-law?
I feel like I could go on and on with this. How much is enough? One issue is that we've been together for 9 years but I only have emails from about the last 4 due to changing email addresses, changing computers, etc.... is that something I need to provide an explanation for?
Thanks for any tips!!
I'm in the process of getting together documents that provide evidence that my husband (his is my sponsor--I am the applicant) and I are in a committed and continuing marriage. I have about 250 emails, several wedding photos, photos of us together at family holidays and vacations, etc., emails between us and our families related to wedding planning, planning trips to visit for holidays. I also have receipts from purchase of our wedding rings, my engagement ring, a copy of our wedding invitation, several cards people gave us accompanying wedding gifts, copies of leases we're on together, a narrative describing how we met and the years that we were dating, how he proposed. Does this all sound good so far?
Are photocopies of most of these documents OK (I don't want to send in the original of our apartment lease, for example)??
For the photos, can I copy several of them into a Word document and type captions under each one (eg "Joseph and Amelia visiting the Washington Monument with Amelia's mother, June 2006") and print the whole thing on a color printer? Or should they be printed on traditional photo paper?
I want to also include records showing that we have joint bank accounts--I assume a copy of a statement showing both of our names is OK for this.
I also want to show that he's a beneficiary on my retirement account and life insurance--is a printout of the website with my online beneficiary information sufficient for this, or do I need an official document from my insurance company?
Is there anything else I am forgetting? Should we ask his parents and my parents to write letters describing our relationship and their relationship with their son-in-law/daughter-in-law?
I feel like I could go on and on with this. How much is enough? One issue is that we've been together for 9 years but I only have emails from about the last 4 due to changing email addresses, changing computers, etc.... is that something I need to provide an explanation for?
Thanks for any tips!!