Whatsapp chat history - spouse visa application

[Traveller74]

Can anyone advise what is the best format to provide whatsapp chat history. Me and my fiancé have been chatting daily since Decemeber and have an enormous amount. So far I have exported last 10,000 messages (maximum possible) to email. This is only 1 month of messages! This format shows date and time of messages but not details of the phone numbers. Does anyone know if UKBA accept this as proof? Should I take some screenshots too to back this up?

Also I have been calling my fiancé using talk home calling cards. Does any one know if Talk home will provide call histories for these ?

[noajthan]

Can anyone advise what is the best format to provide whatsapp chat history. Me and my fiancé have been chatting daily since Decemeber and have an enormous amount. So far I have exported last 10,000 messages (maximum possible) to email. This is only 1 month of messages! This format shows date and time of messages but not details of the phone numbers. Does anyone know if UKBA accept this as proof? Should I take some screenshots too to back this up?

Also I have been calling my fiancé using talk home calling cards. Does any one know if Talk home will provide call histories for these ?

Back in the day I provided date/time history of text messaging.
There is no requirement I'm aware of to expose highly personal message content to HO officials.

[Bucki]

My issue is that, me and my wife been talking since OCTOBER 2013 but DO NOT have all the conversations.
I have some bits of it ...

and not sure if it is really relevant to sent ALL OF YOUR TALK
I think it is ok to send small sections of each year ...
example: jan / may / july / Dec,

would not think it has to be soooooo detailed or am I wrong?

Besides, whatsapp and viber can be exported in excel sheet, showing phone number and date.
I will keep that format I suppose.

On top of that, I will make some screenshof of my facebook showing our highlights on the wall.

I cant think of anything else really.
I used viber , whatsapp and FB only!
I never called from fone but called via viber.

[noajthan]

My issue is that, me and my wife been talking since OCTOBER 2013 but DO NOT have all the conversations.
I have some bits of it ...

and not sure if it is really relevant to sent ALL OF YOUR TALK
I think it is ok to send small sections of each year ...
example: jan / may / july / Dec,

would not think it has to be soooooo detailed or am I wrong?

Besides, whatsapp and viber can be exported in excel sheet, showing phone number and date.
I will keep that format I suppose.

On top of that, I will make some screenshof of my facebook showing our highlights on the wall.

I cant think of anything else really.
I used viber , whatsapp and FB only!
I never called from fone but called via viber.

Sounds acceptable I adopted a similar approach; plus details/photos/receipts (& etc) from fleeting trips abroad for visits.
The visa of interest at the time was granted successfully.

[shakoorh]

Whatsapp chat history, export all the chat and delete everything except first few days/last few days of each month. Explain that at the top.

Print out all your viber history, and you can screenshot Skype history etc. Your spouse will be able to get incoming call history that will show up your number when you used the phone cards. You can print out your own records and highlight the number you've called on the phone cards, and stick the cards in with documents.

[Bucki]

hmmmm

chats of every and each month from 2013 till 2015
is a bit tooooo much, in my opinion.

and I can say with 99% asurance that they will not really look at each day / time / date
of the conversation taken place, nor even being able to understand the language LOL.

*hope they do not want a translation of it haha

My thinking is to do like few days or weeks from random months.
Screenshots of some of our talks in Facebook
Screenshots of hightlights on FB, when we met, when we got engaged, married, when we went to Turkey + Dubai, when we got done our wedding.

In my case, we got officially married in March 2015 but did the wedding in August.
Hope they will not question this .. why there is a gap?!

Reason: cos I started new job in March and had to wait for 6 month payslip,
since the previous job was only 3 month, and before this one ; unemployed + student + worked cash in hand!

But yeh...


ps: there is no feature to store / save CALLS in VIBER at all!!#
only got recent calls, which can be taken "screenshot" but no older calls available!

Also, facebook does not offer SAVE CONVERSATION option, taking screenshots will be pain in ..

[shakoorh]

hmmmm

chats of every and each month from 2013 till 2015
is a bit tooooo much, in my opinion.

and I can say with 99% asurance that they will not really look at each day / time / date
of the conversation taken place, nor even being able to understand the language LOL.

*hope they do not want a translation of it haha

My thinking is to do like few days or weeks from random months.
Screenshots of some of our talks in Facebook
Screenshots of hightlights on FB, when we met, when we got engaged, married, when we went to Turkey + Dubai, when we got done our wedding.

In my case, we got officially married in March 2015 but did the wedding in August.
Hope they will not question this .. why there is a gap?!

Reason: cos I started new job in March and had to wait for 6 month payslip,
since the previous job was only 3 month, and before this one ; unemployed + student + worked cash in hand!

But yeh...


ps: there is no feature to store / save CALLS in VIBER at all!!#
only got recent calls, which can be taken "screenshot" but no older calls available!

Also, facebook does not offer SAVE CONVERSATION option, taking screenshots will be pain in ..

There is an option to export call history in Viber, but it does it for all your chats. You need to go press the three lines in the bottom right hand corner of the app, Settings, Calls and messages, then "Email Message History". This will export it as a spreadsheet.

[fielddrive]

how about screenshots? pain but you can put 9 on a paper and look more legit ?

[SoHopeful]

I agree - I had screenshots of all my online/mobile communication rather than spreadsheets because 1. it was much easier than downloading and editing logs and 2. much harder to state that communication was forged.
I used to screenshot what's app convos 2x month over the 6-12 months prior to the application.

[Bucki]

trouble is!

I backed it up as spreadsheet
and the message on my viber got deleted < so cant make any screenshots,

unless my wife has got any!

By the way, I did screenshot of my FB Wall with our highlights 50 pages
then I also did screenshot of our Fb Chat from day one / but had like few days/weeks/month in betweeen instead of showing each day or each week or each month *would take me long time to do it otherwise*

so this came to 20 pages, whereby there are 2 screenshot on each page!


Also got some SMS that I had saved, from 2014
I did screenshot them!

Now, the only thing I am left with is VIBER but ... again.
i am left with the spreadsheet only.

[shakoorh]

trouble is!

I backed it up as spreadsheet
and the message on my viber got deleted < so cant make any screenshots,

unless my wife has got any!

By the way, I did screenshot of my FB Wall with our highlights 50 pages
then I also did screenshot of our Fb Chat from day one / but had like few days/weeks/month in betweeen instead of showing each day or each week or each month *would take me long time to do it otherwise*

so this came to 20 pages, whereby there are 2 screenshot on each page!


Also got some SMS that I had saved, from 2014
I did screenshot them!

Now, the only thing I am left with is VIBER but ... again.
i am left with the spreadsheet only.

Spreadsheet will be fine.