"Gap" in communication

Hi

There are some chunks of time when we don't have electonic communication.

These are namely in May of last year when we were travelling together and one of us didn't have a phone. We have bus tickets and plane tickets together though during this time.

Also while we were hiking the PCT in July-August we were literally side by side with each other in the wilderness and we didn't have any communication via text at all. There wasnt even any service anyway. We could include complete certificates of the Pacific Crest Trail, our permits and also a detailed plan of what we actually hiked and so on, but these little details and holes are starting to show up now we have the magnifying glasses out on our communication.

Do we include a short to the point explanation that we hiked the trail and provide additional proof. We have bording passes to show that we were in the pacific north west and photos by the ton.

Presuming this is for your first spouse visa? .
It is a while ago I did it, but I logged every flight we took on an excel spreadsheet for about 10 years and provided documentary evidence where possible too (mostly visas).

You don’t need electronic evidence for the times you were together.

You simply provide your boarding passes/flight tickets to show you were together for that time and therefore could communicate in person instead of electronically.


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So, for example, say you were together a year and visited each other 3 times, for a month at a time, in February, May, and October.

You might send this evidence:

January: 1 email/text per week
February: boarding passes
March: 1 email/text per week
April: 1 email/text per week
May: boarding passes
June: 1 email/text per week
July: 1 email/text per week
August: 1 email/text per week
September: 1 email/text per week
October: boarding passes
November: 1 email/text per week
December: 1 email/text per week

So, you would send about 40 emails/texts (covering 9 months), plus 3 sets boarding passes (covering the other 3 months).


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And as we were living in the same country for most of our relationship - Mexico.

We can provide copies of our permanent residence visa cards and work contracts and the like as well as electronic communications. Would this be good? Also scanned pages of our entry visa stamps - dozens for going to and from Mexico in that time.

I don't have any bills or residence contracts in my name because I was renting a room from friends. Rules just aren't very strict in mexico

You don’t need any bills or anything anyway, because you were not living together... the only reason to provide bills is to prove you were living in the same house as each other. You were not, therefore bills are irrelevant.

What you need for the time in Mexico is evidence of regular, personal communication between the two of you, and evidence of time spent together in person, to prove that you were in a genuine and subsisting relationship.

Job contracts do not show this. Your residence cards do not show this. Passport stamps do not show this.

What WILL show it are things like:
- boarding passes/flight tickets showing you were travelling together to the same place and/or that you were travelling from different cities to meet up with each other
- public transport tickets to show you went to see each other while living in the same city
- tickets from activities you did/events you went together
- emails/texts/calls to show you talked to each other when you weren’t spending time together in person.



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The only reason you would need to send a residence card would be if she is applying from Mexico as you need to send proof of legal residence in the country you are applying from.

If she is a USC applying from the US, she doesn't need to send her Mexican card.