Hi everyone,
With my husband, we are currently gathering our doc & info in order to apply for the visa 309 from France. My question is regarding our relationship statements : did you guys used paragraphs for each topic/section flowing like an university essay or did you use many bullet points following a thoughtful sequence?
Will appreciate all of your imputs. Cheers !
I've read about this being done multiple ways, but for my application I did the following:
First off, I broke all the statements into different documents. For example, I had one document that described the financial aspects, another that described the nature of household, and another that described social aspects, and joint travel, and so on. For all of these documents, including our personal statements regarding our relationship, we wrote them as one would an essay or book. I came at it from the mindset that I was telling a story of how we met, and how we set up our life together.
Regarding all of our evidence supporting these documents, anything that was a photograph was inserted into the relevant document at a suitable point in the story. in the end, the documents resembled a chapter from a book, in which pictures were scattered throughout. I did them all up in Microsoft Word, and when done made them into PDF files. In fact, some of the documents ended up resembling a photo album, with descriptive captions explaining the photo, who the other folks in the picture were, where and when it took place, and so on.
Remaining evidence, such as bank statements, vehicle registrations, beneficiary designations, and so on were submitted separately. One file had five or six bank statements over the past three years, another had five or six mortgage statements, and so forth.
It definitely took some time to compile everything, but I think preparing everything in a cohesive manner is time well spent. Above all, be consistent with details and dates and make sure the relationships between your various items of evidence are supported. If you are not using a migration agent to help you through this, you might consider using one to review your final product before you submit. I think many would offer that at a fair price, though in our case we used one for the entire process and it took so much stress out of the picture.
Good luck!
