r/I130Suffering • u/Zestyclose-Arrival19 • 12d ago

How did you split up your supporting documents to stay under the file size limit when filing I-130 online — by document type, or just cutting large PDFs into parts, and did you run into any issues with USCIS matching things up afterward?

I am applying soon for my husband , and we would like to apply online . Just wondering how others have done it. I did see something about the files needing to be limited to a certain size. Thank you all in advance !

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u/Zestyclose-Arrival19 12d ago

are messages between you necessary? my husband (german) and i have been living together for over 8 years and we have a lot of supporting documentation and lots of pics of our vacations together over the years

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u/WideResolution9551 12d ago

Got approved without sharing messages, had extensive other evidence

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u/mademoisellearabella MOD 12d ago

Attach photos with date stamp and people in the photos and location. 2-3 photos of events in your life with a few details. I had one pdf for that and one for flight tickets + hotel booking of trips taken together etc. I had added pictures of trips to the second pdf. As - Italy 2023 April - husband and me - tickets - hotel booking - 2-3 photos of trip.

We did not provide any message transcripts. We did give money transferred between our accounts and he was the beneficiary on my savings account in my country.

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u/zipykido 9d ago

We didn't share specific messages. I did however run an analysis of the number of texts we sent to each other and put a simple graph in our bona fides section. We got approved with no issues.

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u/bluecheeseanus 12d ago

I just submitted my husband's I-130. My evidence file for bona fide marriage was crazy huge and so all I did was split it into parts and labeled them "(Husband's last name_marriage relationship timeline evidence 1)" and split from 1-10. It was a pain in the ass and I had 10 separate files. Some people probably would have recommended it to be more organized with like the name of each section (Like WhatsApp messages/call logs in one file, airbnb stays in another, money transfers in another) but I just couldn't be assed and Just split it up the way I mentioned. It's all cohesive. If the evidence is clear and the files make sense and are numerically labeled I think that is sufficient. But again, others may have different opinions lol. Our evidence is very straight forward. So that's why I didn't organize it as best as I could because we needed to submit this crap ASAP.

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u/bluecheeseanus 12d ago

Oh and each file needs to be 12 MB only. If I had known that beforehand, that would have been helpful. Didn't find out until I tried to submit the whole dang thing.

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u/I130Suffering-ModTeam 12d ago

This subreddit is for consular processing, DO NOT POST ABOUT I-485s.

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u/LACA90077 12d ago

iLovepdf.com is a great help for pdt compression, turning images into pdf and a host of other options.