Those who have successfully applied for a spouse visa, how much evidence did you send to prove that your relationship was genuine?
I've been with my fiance for nearly 8 years. It will be ten years together, with us living together for 3-4 years, and maybe 1.5-2 years being married, when we apply for my spouse visa. So, that's a long time! I could probably provide hundreds of pages of e-mails, a pretty good amount of photos (I'm pretty camera shy, but we do have photos together spanning the years,) plus the official stuff like marriage certificate, rental contracts of our shared apartments, separate phone bills in both our names coming to the same address, a few letters, postcards, and wedding invites addressed to both of us, and even more.
I'd REALLY like to avoid the dreaded in-person interview if possible. From what I've read, it seems like they only interview those who don't provide enough evidence that the relationship is real. Is this correct?
So... am I going overboard? How much (and what kind of) evidence did you guys send?
Also, most of our stuff from living together (bills, rental contracts, etc,) are in Japanese. Our names are in English, and sometimes our address is, but most of it's Japanese. Do you think that will be a problem? I mean, it's easy enough to compare the kanji characters and numbers and see that two addresses are the same...
That was a billion questions... sorry! I just stress about everything... Thanks a lot!