I have read and read and hope the answers to these questions haven't already been posted. I just mailed in an application for a fiance visa. If I wasn't already worried enough about living with my partner for two years and receiving an IS151A and wondering how much that will affect my application, now I'm concerned that I may not have included enough in the package I sent. I know it is better to apply in person, but my partner is a Postman and made just about money to get by on, but with not very much disposable income and about 1000 pounds in savings (not in an account, don't ask where, it's embarrassing) for an emergency, plus a pretty anemic credit card. It obviously was enough for us to live on, but certainly we didn't have money to take trips, apply for visas, etc. Well, I was made to come back to the US to apply for a fiance visa properly. The Home Office had to pay for that, if we had money for plane trips, I wouldn't have overstayed in the first place and he would have come with me, etc. We are so desperate to be together that he sold his motorcycle to send me money to pay for the fiance visa application. I had no money to fly to Chicago for an interview, so I included what the site said to include, plus letters from the two of us saying how me met, how much we love each other and didn't mean to do harm and how we can't live without each other, which is true. My partner had a mini-stroke because of this and I can't even be there right now to take care of him, he has a disabled son I was helping to take care of and all sorts. I didn't know we should've included pictures of ourselves together, because we don't have any...we both dislike having our pictures taken but surely would've taken some had we known. We didn't know that we should have included letters from friends and neighbors, etc. We didn't include a formal financial plan, we just put in some recent bank statements, which you can't really make heads or tails of, just that we have never been overdrawn. He obviously can afford me, if only barely, but at ages 52 and 58 who cares if you don't have gourmet meals and we never would need public funds. On the application it asks if you plan on working and i said no, only because I know you aren't supposed to until later, but of course I would try to help our financial situation at a later date by getting a job. They also ask if you get help from friends and family and we said no, because we don't, but what do they want to hear at the Consulate, that you have backup or that you can stand on your own two feet? I had covers from a magazine subscription that I received there, should I have included that? Surely they don't need all that to figure out that we know each other and have lived together for years? I included in my "begging letter" that if they had any questions or if there was something they felt was missing to please give me a call. My family had to scrape up the funds for my trip back to the UK whenever they make the visa decision. I don't even have a home in the US anymore or possessions, my life was in the UK totally and I'm incredibly depressed while waiting for the visa decision. I know this is a bit rambling, sorry
