What can serve as evidence of relationship for spouse for proof of relationship

[chs2yyc]

My future spouse and I have know each other since 2009. For our first three years of knowing each other we were just friends. Things only recently turned romantic. We want to get married in December of this year legally and file our application, then have the ceremony later.

The outland spousal application's "Country Specific Instructions" for the U.S.A states for proof of evidence you can use "wedding photos or proof that you are partners, letters between you and your partner, and telephone bills between you and your partner."

We won't have wedding photos because we are going to get married legally and have the ceremony after we turn in the application. We have not been writing letters.

We have been using Skype, Gmail, Gmail chat, and text messages. Will any of this serve as proof?

What else can be used as proof?

 

[CharlieD10]

Yes, you can use your emails and other electronic communication logs.

I realize you're just doing the legal ceremony, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't make it a special occasion. Take pictures, dress nice and mark the occasion.

Bills/receipts for gifts, plane ticket stubs for visits taken to see each other, or vacations taken together if any, letters from family and friends who know about your relationship, all of these things can be proof of your relationship.

 

[newlife23]

Gather whatever evidence you have and when you write the letter relating how you both met and how the relationship progress, you could put in why there is not that many pictures and supporting documents. I believe if you are honest and truthful in your application, they will understand. The officers are trained to detect whether the case is genuine or not. I am still legally married but am in a common law relationship with my present spouse, have no support from my family as they disapprove my relationship before divorce, but being truthful and honest in my letter explaining the situation was not called for interview and granted a PR in a very short time. Good luck

 

[can_usa_97]

My husband and I only got married at the courthouse and had photos of that. Just because the ceremony is later does not mean your marriage is less valid and showing that event will have meaning. We've been married 15 years in October and still have never had a ceremony.

I put a document together pretty much spanning the entire time we knew each other, our pre-relationship time was much shorter though, and pretty much accounted for every month 'something' about us/our friendship, ect. With photos of us together and with oeach others family/friends, ect.

 

[Isometry]

You should send photos of you together, even photos that aren't wedding photos. Also, I think anything that's harder to fake it considered more strongly. IE, having a pile of boarding passes from visiting each other lots of times, would be considered stronger proof than having a pile of photos, where you could have theoretically gone around town and taken all those photos the same day. But include both if you have them!