Bank account, phone bills- Questions??????

[nguyentu2001]

I am applying to sponsor my wife to come to Canada.

I was wondering if in my case, do I need to submit phone bill, bank account to the CPC?

All evidences we have are e-mails (printed out), photos taken together.

Is it possible that CPC will ask for our mutual bank account which we don't have one since my wife lives in Vietnam and now I live in Canada. And obviously, we do not have any international phone bills since we talked on the Internet using Yahoo Messenger and Skype for free (i stated this on the application)

Are e-mails, photos taken together along with marriage certificate good enough as evidence of a genuine relationship???

Thanks so much for your time and assistance,

Nt2001

[welshiess]

You don't need to submit bank account information as you would not need to have a joint account if you have been living in different countries and even many married couples do not have joint accounts!

It is about proving that the relationship is genuine and how you have kept in touch whilst being apart etc.  I did not use Skype but I believe that you can access some logs or request the information from the company.

You may also want to include letters you have sent and maybe letters from your friends and families supporting the relationship.

[mitamata]

Did you have logging enabled on Skype? If yes, then you can get the history of made calls. There's a program available (SkypeCallExporter) that exports it for you in an html file so you can print it. I sent the logs for all our calls in the last 1.5 years to show my husband and I talk every day. It was a total of 26 pages. Probably overkill, but oh well ;)
The program is free, but if you need it and can't find it, let me know and I'll send it to you :)

Yahoo can keep a history of your chats too. I printed some chat logs from 5 yeard ago to show how we talked when we started out.

If you have the history turned off, then turn it on, now. It won't be much, but at least from now until you submit the application, you will have some records of you two talking.

Did you send each other any cards? Christmas cards, birthday cards? Include copies of those as well. I even included the cards my mother-in-law sent me.

[nguyentu2001]

How do I get logs from Yahoo messenger? Please help

Thanks,

[mitamata]

By default, I believe keeping an archive is turned off I'm afraid.

If you go to 'Contacts' and select 'Message Archive', you might see some messages there.  There, look under 'Message' and then 'Preferences', you will see what your setting is. By deault, it seems that all the logs are cleared when you log out. So unless you changed that, you won't have anything saved :(