spouse visa essay

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1. Wrote how we met, how long we dated, where/when we got married, when she moved to the states to live with me, when we had our child, why she moved back to japan without me (family medical issues), why I was applying for a spouse visa to go be with her in Japan, and photos of some of the key moments.

2. If possible, include pictures of you and her with her parents. Those score extra points.

3. Essay? Was never asked for one.

4. Two sentences. Incorporate:

   * Stability
   * Work
   * Family
   * Buying home

   Ain’t nobody got time to read an essay.

5. I think I put “my wife is Japanese’ and nothing else.

6. I didn’t do one but then again I had been married a long assed time with 3 kids. Also am unicorn, I thought I was applying for a CoE and the embassy called me like an hour later and told me my visa was ready to pick up.

7. It was quite superficial.
   “Met online in 20xx. I went to visit him in Japan on a tourist visa, stayed for xx days. He came to visit me in my country in 20xx and met my family. I decided to relocate to Japan to be with him. Came in with a tourist visa and we married.”

   I think we added a couple of conversation screenshots and some photos taken together at different dates just to be on the safe side.

8. My husband did it and it was just a page of ‘she came as a tourist. we met x date, dated 1 years, I visited [my country] on x. ‘

   And then like all pictures of us with both our families.

   With covid though I wonder if a screen shot of talking to overseas family would be ok.

9. I didn’t write anything. My wife did. Then I gave them a printed out paper with a bunch of pictures of us and what we were doing at the time.

10. Isn’t it your spouse that writes the essay, not yourself? Mine mostly wrote how we met, significant moments together (moving in), and about how I met her family.