Gerry
Sorry to hear this-I know it can be a hair pulling ordeal to say the least. I hired a lawyer...well I'm not sure if he is a real lawyer, but seems to know his stuff. He ask me to provide the following info/evidence-
Proof of meeting/relationship:
5 pictures of you two taken together better to be film-dated
Copy of flight itineraries, tickets, boarding passes, and receipts to show you were together.
Emails between you two select 5 of each(select those not mentioning about dating website)
Personal Letters (regular mails if any)
Engagement Ring receipt if any
Phone Bill if any
Flowers Order
Money remittances if you have sent money to her
This is what I sent them-
18"x18" box with copies of over
1500 e-mails from Me to Ping and Ping to Me
over 100 pages of telephone records
300 pages of instant messages from QQ
Copy of flight itineraries, tickets, boarding passes, from my two trips -not to mention all restaurant and hotel receipts
all receipts from our travels while in China
Receipts from Ping's ring and Wedding dinner
over 1000 photos of my trips (get the copies in China)
all personal letters and Western Union receipts of the monies I sent Ping
I also sent the receipt from The U.S. consulate and all the proof they had requested(One US passport style picture, 2"x2", white background, lightly print your name on the back- One copy of your U.S. birth certificate- One copy of your passport and visa to China with exit and entry stamps- Copies of documents showing that each prior marriage was legally terminated, for example divorce, death decrees)
When I went to China to marry Ping, I had two pieces of luggage -my checked bag and the bag I carried with four big binders (the big 4" ones) These binders had the originals of the above-these I left with Ping after we spent one whole day at a Chinese photo shop getting all of our photos copied and making copies of all the e-mails, phone records, ect. ect. ect. for me (to carry back to the States) I am right now preparing the fifth binder to send to Ping for her interview in three weeks. She is worried, but I told her to act American and slam the binders down on the desk and ask "Where's my Visa?"-(I know she won't do it)
I swear I am not bragging- but want any new members to know SAVE EVERYTHING -SAVE EVERYTHING -SAVE EVERYTHING
I filed May 15th (Chicago office) got a notice that it had been received and that my case had been shipped to the California Service Center. We got approved by the USCIS in 3 months -I just got the notice today that the NVC will take 3 weeks before Ping's interview in Guangzhou.
New members please remember this SAVE EVERYTHING
Give the originals to your bride, but make copies for yourself
If your not sure if it should be included...send it anyways
and keep saving everything even after you are married
and the most important thing to remember....
if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance -baffle them with your........
Good luck to you Gerry -I hope you get good news soon-I know you both deserve to be Happy