Ok so i've been to visit him 5 times,we barely took any pictures....I'm trying to track down ticket stubs,phone records. Do letters from family and friends help? We are married so we can show that.Our emails I have but some go pretty deep so not sure if I shoud show those?
Hi
You can send them everything you have......wedding pics, letters from family members, any tickets, long distance phone records, you can send emails without the body of the email just TO AND FROM AND THE DATES.
I submitted a attached letter with mine indicating that we visited back and forth but we weren't picture takers therefore we don't have alot.
Bunny
Five visits is strong evidence. Documentary evidence of those visits is best, including photos, but if you give detailed accounts of the visits in response to questionnaire items (using a supplemental page to elaborate), details like specific dates, means of transportation, places stayed, activities engaged in together, and so on -- again, focusing on precise details -- just your narrative accounts of those visits will indeed carry substantial weight. Letters of support from persons generally will help, but in particular if during those visits one of you met with family or friends of the other, letters from such third persons referring to the specifics of such meeting are very strong evidence.
Overall it is credibility of the story you give that really matters. The additional, documentary or physical evidence you submit mostly needs to support and corroborate that story, and if it does, you are in a strong position.
As for emails: we carefully screened our emails. We did not include intimately personal emails. We focused on emails which, again, corroborated our story as to the highlight events, and fortunately we had many which were short emails in which we discussed both upcoming plans to meet, including making arrangements for transportation and such) as well as post-visit discussions about our time together; we also focused on emails that referred to contact with the other partner's family or friends, as well as discussions about each other's family and friends (the sort of thing people in a genuine relationship would indeed be interested in, knowing more about not just the other person, but who they were in context of friends and family and work and so on).