Opinions on our proof of relationship?

[Kivin]

My bride and I are looking to have our paperwork out the door and we've assembled a list of all of our proof. She isn't comfortable that it will be enough, but at the end of the day, it's going to have to be. I'm sponsoring her in Canada and she's a USA citizen.

Our evidence is:

Photos: About thirty in total; only a small number with us together in the photograph. No wedding photos. Some (5-10) photos of each other or both with family.

Bank Account: Proof that we have converted my Canadian bank account to be joint.

Rings: Photos and photocopies of engagement and wedding ring purchase.

Computer screen shots: Screens illustrating how we chat to each other frequently on the internet, frequently share small (usually cell phone style) pictures, email each other, play online games together, etc.

Phone records: Cell phone records indicating calls to and from each other. We seldom
use the phone and this amounts to only 1-3 calls a month.
Greeting cards: Cards from each other, cards from family congratulating our marriage.

Financial support: Bank trail illustrating a large monetary withdrawal from my account and receipt of a car purchase shortly thereafter in Bride's name.

Chat Logs: This is the big one, and one we're really conflicted about. We have an enormous number of chat logs... They date back to 2007 (though we have only been romantically involved since summer 2009), and number about 27,000 pages of chat. We have elected to include only choice samples illustrating a deeply close friendship (ie joking about marriage years ago as casual friends, romantically involved later, etc), but are unsure what is the sweet spot between not enough and too much. We both feel the chats, by volume, are our biggest asset since we don't really converse by other means. On the other hand, we don't want to send so many logs that they wont get looked at and given their worth.


-edit-:
First meeting: Plane tickets, hotel reservations + payments, various other payments made during a trip. Bride flew to Toronto, where we spent a week.

So, to conclude, if anyone has any thoughts regarding the chat log situation, and whether or not there is anything else we could include (or if we even need to?), advise would be muchly appreciated.

 

[maulikpatel35]

i think it is ok but do you have any honeymoon photos?

 

[lands]

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/proof-of-relationship-is-this-sufficient-t40846.0.html .. this thread will help answer your question..

 

[Kivin]

@maulikpatel35,

Unfortunately not. We've decided to postpone our honeymoon until the conclusion of PR for various reasons, all of which are explained at length in the immigrant's application during the question regarding "Was there a honeymoon?"

@lands, thanks, I'll read it.

 

[abumawada]

Hi

as far as my knowledge this is more than enough in my case i gave them only 5 photos and they acepted it based on that only i got my approval letter so don't worry at all.

 

[BeShoo]

As for "chat logs" I think I would include some sample chats, but also a list of when you chatted if you can do that. They are concerned about the frequency of contact, so it would probably be useful to have an indication of how often you chatted.

In our first 18 months, we have about 35,000 pages of chats. I haven't even looked at the one year after that after I was forced to change IDs! We haven't picked any out to send yet. I'm thinking it might be a big job just to select stuff.

 

[sbwv09]

Some people take a screen cap of just a list of their emails and send a few sample ones. Could you do that with your chat logs somehow.. just showing the time stamps and stuff without the whole message so it won't take up as much paper? I don't have so much chat activity in my file, but we do the phone.. since you aren't on the phone so much, the chat logs are particularly important.

 

[Kivin]

Thanks for the replies.

We actually opened our complete condensed chat logs in a variety of programs (like MS Word, Metapad, etc) and took screenshots of the toolbar showing five-figure pages and six-figure of lines of chat.

We've also elected to go through them and crop out meaningful moments, like birthdays, days we talked about the development of our relationship, etc. But even those add up to a LOT of paper.

Would about 50 pages of chat be too much? Each time we select some chat, we place it in a word file, well formatted, with a page header showing the date and the event that caused us to select it. "We discussed our feelings about the relationship" or "We talk about [My] mother in the hospital for stomach surgery" and stuff.

 

[lands]

When I sent my application, I sent it with 120 double sided pages of emails...I did not hold back, yes I ended up paying a bit more to mail it..but better be safe than sorry...

 

[sbwv09]

I'd say to send it, since that's your main mode of communication. Better to have too much than not enough, I'd say.