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Hello,

After waiting for almost six months with no update from CHC-London, my wife decided to send them an email and she got a reply. This is the reply.
[COLOR="Red"]Please be advised that it has been deemed necessary that you attend a formal interview with an Immigration Officer. A time and date have yet to be arranged. You will be contacted once a schedule for interviews has been organized.
When you attend, you will be required to bring the following:

- PROOF OF CONTINUING CONTACT WITH SPONSOR.[/COLOR]

We have all the phone records, a copy of my ticket from my last visit to her in March, some email and chat records..What else can she bring to the interview. Also I was wondering if my presence there will make any difference, I am thinking about going over to be with her for the interview process. I will appreciate any inputs, advices or recommedation from you good folks over here. Thank you all.

An interview is not good news. It is not fatal news either.

The request for the interview should specify what the "issue" is, but I've seen various reports suggesting that this is not done on more than a few occasions. "Proof of continuing contact with sponsor" is about the genuineness of the relationship, so yeah, you are on the right track in terms of taking additional information and evidence to bolster the evidence supporting the genuineness of your relationship. Phone records and evidence of a visit seem, to me, to be strong evidence. I hope you took some photos in March, some photos of the two of you together. I might include a testimonial support letter from family or friend who saw you together in March and who can otherwise offer affirmation as to the genuine and continuing nature of your relationship.

If you can visit her prior to the interview and she can take evidence of the visit, copies of tickets yes, but photographs of the two of you together being better, that would be great.

Someone else will have to answer about whether you being there for the interview, or during the time the interview takes place, will help . . . I don't know but seems I recall seeing that you would probably not be allowed to be present during the interview.

In the meantime, she should prepare for the interview by thoroughly reviewing the application the two of you submitted, and by becoming prepared to discuss your life, your family, your employment, your circumstances, and so on, to show that she has the sort of knowledge and information about her partner that is common for a marital partner to have.

Thanks dpenabill, we will try and get any proof we can to make things easier..