Financial support

[Lcris]

Hi I am in the process of gathering proofs for sponsorship application. I need some advice regarding financial support section. Me and my wife are not really sending each other money every month because she is stable in Japan and I was a student in Canada. What we have are just gift receipts and boxes (with declaration form that includes prices) , shared expenses for our trips like hotel, theme parks, concerts (no receipts but we have the ticket), I have sent some money but it is not really significant amount ($100 at best). She also spend some money for me as well but idk if that will count as financial support since i am the sponsor. I need advice regarding this because most of some applicants I noticed have sent money to their loved ones in which is not in my case. Also, what counts as a financial support?

Another question I have is that, I have no pictures of a wedding since we got married through civil wedding in Japan. Part of the reason also is that I just graduated ,and I just got my nursing job this year. We have no significant savings to do traditional wedding so we are hoping to do traditional wedding in the future. What I have is the photos of us together during our outings, pictures with family and friends at different events (dinner and outings). All we have is photo of signing a marriage paper at a ward in Tokyo. We also don't have engagement photos (pls don't judge me on this) what is important for me is closing the distance for us both and also I just got my nursing job so I was still broke at the time. Our marriage is just recent. We've been together for 4 years before we got married this year.

 

[armoured]

Hi I am in the process of gathering proofs for sponsorship application. I need some advice regarding financial support section. Me and my wife are not really sending each other money every month because she is stable in Japan and I was a student in Canada. What we have are just gift receipts and boxes (with declaration form that includes prices) , shared expenses for our trips like hotel, theme parks, concerts (no receipts but we have the ticket), I have sent some money but it is not really significant amount ($100 at best). She also spend some money for me as well but idk if that will count as financial support since i am the sponsor. I need advice regarding this because most of some applicants I noticed have sent money to their loved ones in which is not in my case. Also, what counts as a financial support?

Another question I have is that, I have no pictures of a wedding since we got married through civil wedding in Japan. Part of the reason also is that I just graduated ,and I just got my nursing job this year. We have no significant savings to do traditional wedding so we are hoping to do traditional wedding in the future. What I have is the photos of us together during our outings, pictures with family and friends at different events (dinner and outings). All we have is photo of signing a marriage paper at a ward in Tokyo. We also don't have engagement photos (pls don't judge me on this) what is important for me is closing the distance for us both and also I just got my nursing job so I was still broke at the time. Our marriage is just recent. We've been together for 4 years before we got married this year.

-If you have not been 'supporting' each other because you're both self-sufficient, should not really be an issue - just write a short letter of explanation to that effect. Then include some of the small things that you have done and mentioend above.

-Having a big public wedding acc to local traditions is effectively required for arranged marriages, and can be important for those who marry in socieities where it's very important and esp eg when the applicants have not known each other long/never lived together.

I'm not in a position to comment on Japanese culture (assuming you are both Japanese which I don't know either), but my personal impression is that it's rather secular in that respect, and wouldn't be unusual there to just have civil wedding. If that is more or less correct, then just write a short letter of explanation that you were both happy with the civil wedding. Includ photos and proofs for other events and time together.

 

[whiterabbit]

Hi I am in the process of gathering proofs for sponsorship application. I need some advice regarding financial support section. Me and my wife are not really sending each other money every month because she is stable in Japan and I was a student in Canada. What we have are just gift receipts and boxes (with declaration form that includes prices) , shared expenses for our trips like hotel, theme parks, concerts (no receipts but we have the ticket), I have sent some money but it is not really significant amount ($100 at best). She also spend some money for me as well but idk if that will count as financial support since i am the sponsor. I need advice regarding this because most of some applicants I noticed have sent money to their loved ones in which is not in my case. Also, what counts as a financial support?

Another question I have is that, I have no pictures of a wedding since we got married through civil wedding in Japan. Part of the reason also is that I just graduated ,and I just got my nursing job this year. We have no significant savings to do traditional wedding so we are hoping to do traditional wedding in the future. What I have is the photos of us together during our outings, pictures with family and friends at different events (dinner and outings). All we have is photo of signing a marriage paper at a ward in Tokyo. We also don't have engagement photos (pls don't judge me on this) what is important for me is closing the distance for us both and also I just got my nursing job so I was still broke at the time. Our marriage is just recent. We've been together for 4 years before we got married this year.

Your goal is to essentially present a realistic story of your relationships, and ALL documents that are not not mandatory are only meant to be a support of this story. Just look at your case from an officer's prospective - how do you tell that it's real? It's all about how you explain things and that your explanations match whatever documents / proofs you provide.

All couples are different, and properly explained absence of transfers is better than unnecessary fake transfers just for the sake of "we need to show something". Same for the wedding: just show whatever proofs of marriage you have and explain why exactly you chose to do it like that.

 

[canuck78]

Hi I am in the process of gathering proofs for sponsorship application. I need some advice regarding financial support section. Me and my wife are not really sending each other money every month because she is stable in Japan and I was a student in Canada. What we have are just gift receipts and boxes (with declaration form that includes prices) , shared expenses for our trips like hotel, theme parks, concerts (no receipts but we have the ticket), I have sent some money but it is not really significant amount ($100 at best). She also spend some money for me as well but idk if that will count as financial support since i am the sponsor. I need advice regarding this because most of some applicants I noticed have sent money to their loved ones in which is not in my case. Also, what counts as a financial support?

Another question I have is that, I have no pictures of a wedding since we got married through civil wedding in Japan. Part of the reason also is that I just graduated ,and I just got my nursing job this year. We have no significant savings to do traditional wedding so we are hoping to do traditional wedding in the future. What I have is the photos of us together during our outings, pictures with family and friends at different events (dinner and outings). All we have is photo of signing a marriage paper at a ward in Tokyo. We also don't have engagement photos (pls don't judge me on this) what is important for me is closing the distance for us both and also I just got my nursing job so I was still broke at the time. Our marriage is just recent. We've been together for 4 years before we got married this year.

Do you have photos from the time you got engaged? No professional photos are required but that is typically a time where you may take some pictures. How much time you have spent together in person over 4-5 years will be a big factor in your case. For example if you only met in person after a few years of dating online and then got engaged and married soon after meeting in person it is viewed very differently then if you met every year for a few weeks and got engaged one year and married the next year that would show a slow progression of your relationship.

 

[Lcris]

Do you have photos from the time you got engaged? No professional photos are required but that is typically a time where you may take some pictures. How much time you have spent together in person over 4-5 years will be a big factor in your case. For example if you only met in person after a few years of dating online and then got engaged and married soon after meeting in person it is viewed very differently then if you met every year for a few weeks and got engaged one year and married the next year that would show a slow progression of your relationship.

Hi thank you. Yes we’ve met in person when she was in Canada as a student and after that we’ve been visiting each other’s countries multiple times. We stayed weeks to months together within those visits. We have tons of photos including photos with family members. However, we did not do any engagement, we just got married right away this year.