barryfaetheus
Registered Users (C)
Hello,
I have held a green card for about 2.5 years and recently travelled to India to get married. Now that I have returned, I want to start the long process of sponsoring my wife's immigration, starting with the I-130. I have a couple of questions:
1) Since we have not lived together yet, we do not have joint bank accounts, insurances etc to provide as evidence of a bona-fide marriage. Would the following be solid enough evidence? Print outs of flight tickets for me to visit India, once for the engagement and 6 months later for the wedding. Print outs of the flight ticket for both of us to travel to our honeymoon destination. Photographs from the engagement, the wedding, and the honeymoon. My cellphone bills showing hundreds of SMS to my wife's number, and vice-versa. Calling card summaries showing thousands of minutes of total calls.
2) If this is still weak, how about statements from 2-3 of my US citizen relatives who travelled to India to attend the wedding, and know me well? What format is best for these to take? Do they need to be notarized, or just in the form of a letter?
3) There is some possibility that my wife may come to the US on an L1 from her employer, before this I-130 is approved. Given that this is a possibility but not a certainty, how should I complete the I-130 (there are sections which relate to AOS)?
4) Question 21 asks for the last address at which we lived together. We only have lived under one roof for a few days while I was temporarily in India, so should I just put N/A? Will this look very unfavorable?
I have held a green card for about 2.5 years and recently travelled to India to get married. Now that I have returned, I want to start the long process of sponsoring my wife's immigration, starting with the I-130. I have a couple of questions:
1) Since we have not lived together yet, we do not have joint bank accounts, insurances etc to provide as evidence of a bona-fide marriage. Would the following be solid enough evidence? Print outs of flight tickets for me to visit India, once for the engagement and 6 months later for the wedding. Print outs of the flight ticket for both of us to travel to our honeymoon destination. Photographs from the engagement, the wedding, and the honeymoon. My cellphone bills showing hundreds of SMS to my wife's number, and vice-versa. Calling card summaries showing thousands of minutes of total calls.
2) If this is still weak, how about statements from 2-3 of my US citizen relatives who travelled to India to attend the wedding, and know me well? What format is best for these to take? Do they need to be notarized, or just in the form of a letter?
3) There is some possibility that my wife may come to the US on an L1 from her employer, before this I-130 is approved. Given that this is a possibility but not a certainty, how should I complete the I-130 (there are sections which relate to AOS)?
4) Question 21 asks for the last address at which we lived together. We only have lived under one roof for a few days while I was temporarily in India, so should I just put N/A? Will this look very unfavorable?