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OTHER DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF YOUR FIANCE VISA
Another part of the package should be a short letter from you, maybe
one or two pages in length, stating in general terms, how you met your
fiance and your understanding and intention to marry her within ninety
days of her arriving in the US.
Besides the pictures of you together, you may want to make copies of
airline tickets and hotel reservations documenting your visits to meet
her.
You may also want to make copies of phone bills that show telephone
calls placed to her. You may want to make copies of money transfers and
gift purchases made on her behalf.
The idea is to demonstrate that you have a serious on-going
relationship with her. Evidence of financial and emotional commitment
to the relationship is the best way to support you claims of a serious
on-going relationship.
Do not send copies of actual correspondence between you and your fiance
as supporting documentation. Information in the letters may raise
questions in the mind of an interviewer or provide an avenue for the
INS or embassy personnel to broaden their investigation of you or your
fiance further than necessary.
Watch Out For Smoking Guns:
You may provide invoices to support expenditures for processing
correspondence as evidence. However, be careful about the appearance of
payments to marriage agencies that you submit as evidence.
If the INS or US embassy personnel see documentation from the marriage
agency that you have written to fifty or sixty different women (i.e.
the invoice from the marriage agency lists the names of all the women
you have been corresponding with on the invoice), this may raise
questions in the minds of INS and US embassy personnel as to the
sincerity of your on-going relationship with your fiance.
Also, I wouldn’t submit your invoice from Ed’s Cheap and Easy Russian
Babes Tour as supporting evidence in your fiance visa application as it
may appear to undermine the sincerity of your special relationship with
your future wife.
Don’t get paranoid, but understand that the INS and the US embassy
personnel are on the look out for fraudulent marriages or people trying
to scam their way into the US.
Use your best judgment in evaluating what makes for ‘excellent
documentary evidence of an on-going relationship.’ Look at your
documentation as they would.
Their whole process is designed to weed out the bad apples. It doesn’t
mean that you are not sincere in your petition. It means, don’t give
them a leg up by providing ways for them to question your petition.
Don’t paint a bull’s eye on your back. You want to try to make your
petition as strong, seamless, and bulletproof as possible.
Proof of a Long Term Relationship:
You want to provide compelling evidence as to your on-going
relationship, your meetings together, and the sincerity of your desire
to get married to each other. Everything you send in your petition is
designed to support that contention.
Consequently, leave out anything that may allow the authorities to
question your intent or provide avenues for them to probe deeper into
what they may think are potential discrepancies in your documentary
evidence.
You may also submit a letter from the priest, pastor, rabbi or
religious leader of the place where you are getting married. The letter
would indicate that you have discussed marriage plans with the person
who is going to marry the two of you when your fiance arrives in
America.
You may also include a wedding invitation as evidence, although this
may be difficult to produce at this stage in the game. It is difficult
to plan a wedding when you aren’t sure when your fiance is going to
arrive.
by John Kunkle
John has been to Russia and CIS countries many times. He has been successfully married to his Belarussian wife for over five years. He will show you how to meet her, how to bring her home, and how to successfully survive marriage to a Russian woman.
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