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denokarter

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I'm sponsoring my wife who's american. I attached wedding photos, engagement shoot, honeymoon, family photos, joint bank account ect.

Do i really need to attach a chatlog from Whatsapps,skype ect ?
 

Shabbar

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Jun 1, 2014
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denokarter said:
I'm sponsoring my wife who's american. I attached wedding photos, engagement shoot, honeymoon, family photos, joint bank account ect.

Do i really need to attach a chatlog from Whatsapps,skype ect ?
It is always better to share as many evidences as possible to show that your relation (especially spousal) is genuine in nature. However, the attachments that you've already gathered for the application is a good enough proof of your relationship.

In a nutshell, its your call!
 

GG and B

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I'm at the same stage right now trying to gather everything I can. I've been with my wife since 2006, married since 2014 and we have sooo many pictures, entrance tickets, itineraries etc. But, just in case, I will add e-mails, facebook posts and also some WhatsApp, Facebook messenger and Skype messages. Of course not all of them, but just a selection throughout the years.

It's better to be safe than sorry.
 

Gary_87

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GG and B said:
I'm at the same stage right now trying to gather everything I can. I've been with my wife since 2006, married since 2014 and we have sooo many pictures, entrance tickets, itineraries etc. But, just in case, I will add e-mails, facebook posts and also some WhatsApp, Facebook messenger and Skype messages. Of course not all of them, but just a selection throughout the years.

It's better to be safe than sorry.
My wife and i rarely send each other emails or facebooks. We text daily but otherwise always together. So im only including photos, joint bank account, old love letters.

Dont have any other proof of correspondance.
 

Mybarbiehead

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I just printed out one whatsapp page from the beginning of each month and explained that i had 1200+ pages, so I just sent a representative sample. I also included a screen capture of Skype call logs.
 

htquach

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I think you should send it as it adds to your application. I had hundreds of pages of Skype and text messages. I included the first few and last few pages and stated that I can make the entire document, if needed. Just not environmentally friendly to print all that paper.
 

MRheaB

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We included only the chat logs from the time we were apart ie. times when we were travelling separately for work otherwise we would have included hundreds of pages which I doubt CIC would even attempt to sort through!
 

keesio

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There have been several known cases where people sent in hundreds of pages of chat logs and found out (when they ordered the GCMS notes) that CIC simply shredded most of it without looking. One even had in their notes something along the lines of "applicant submitted excessive amount of pages of chat logs - majority of which was shredded". As always, choose quality over quantity.
 

canadianwoman

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You don't need to attach this extra evidence, since it sounds like you have enough other evidence. It wouldn't hurt to include a few pages of each, stating that you have ___ pages more if the visa officer wants to see them.

Keep in mind that the visa officers might complain when people send in too much, but no one has ever been refused because of too much evidence. They have been refused for too little.

An American-Canadian couple does not need as much evidence as a couple where the applicant comes from a country where marriage fraud is commonly suspected. Still, I would include a few pages of this other evidence.