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Unless your lawyer is Marc Ellis or John Roth, I have to think their experience with GZ is minimal at best. By not frontloading, there is no guarantee that any of that evidence will be seen by a CO as they may not ask for it or give it right back without so much as a glance if your husband tries to give it to the CO unsolicited. What should I do now? I'm pretty worried.... So this is what we submitted with the I130 which was filed more than a year ago... Joint bank account statments. 25 pictures 6 months of call history... That lawyers told me I130 is a quickie that does not need much evidence. She even said she had clients send in applications w/o ANY evidence and she had no problems with it!!! Btw, I did FIRE that lawyer due to a whole bunch of other issues we had... (Not only she charged banks for simple paper work, her prices were also not set in stone. She would charge one client one price and the next client another price. Her prices also changed from day to day... It has happened twice where I call her couple of weeks later and inquire about the same service but some how the price was few hundred dollars more expensive... the list goes on....) So as of now, I just express mailed my husband 4 lbs worth of evidence including call records, emails, letters, receipts of hotels stays, plane rides and vacations, pictures... I was hoping to drop off all this during the document intake day but I just found out that the embassy will not accept any of it until the actual interview day! I just hope the VO will have a chance to even look at it during the 15 minutes of face time. Any suggestions?

Oh man.. our I130 case was handeled by a lawyer and we did not FRONTLOAD anything! I mean it was very minimal! It was only a couple of pictures, few months of phone records and some travel documents. The lawyers said not to send to much documents in and told us to bring it to the interview! So now, my husbad have 4 pounds of evidence to show the VO. His interview is on July 11th... Do you think not frontloading at the I130 stage would hurt us right now?

Congrats! My husband have his on the 11th... Hopefully things go smooth for him.

Wow! very detailed! Love it! haha

Hi Xiaozhu, I have a question regarding the interview. My husband is having his interview on July 12th with the11th being the document drop off day. The appointment letter states to bring "any potential evidence proving the applicant(s) relationship to each other (as applicable) as well as the petitioner" to the interview. So I assumed that we can drop off all our evidence of relationship documents (phone records, chat records, email, letters, receipts of hotel stays and vacations etc... ) during the document drop off day so that the VO can look at it prior the interview. However, I was just asking someone and they had told me that the embassy has a new policy and that they no longer accept any EORs during the document intake day. For electronic processing, I was told that they will only take in all the necessary documents (original DS 230, I-864, taxes etc...) during the document intake day and all EOR docs will be looked at during interview day. Is this true? If so, when should we submit them? In the beginning of the interview or when they ask for it? I have 4 lbs worth of EORs and the interview is around 15 minutes. I am worried that what if the VO doesn't even look through everything and just denies my husband? Any suggestions?

Thanks for this thread!! It is very very very informative and helpful! My husband has his interview on July 11th and I will pass this onto him I do have a question for you tho... I was told by the lawyers to photocopy all our EOR docs (phone records, plane tickets, traveling docs.. etc.) and drop off both sets (original and photocopies) during the document drop off day? Is that necessary? And do they return the originals to you after the interview? Thanks Beachey!