My parents cases are also at NVC.

Hi IT,

Can you help me filling out the form I-864. Total no. of household should be 3 right? you and both your parents? how did you fill up the I-864 Part 5 household size

Persons you are sponsoring in this affidavit is 1
where will your other beneficiary (parent) be counted?

Thanks a lot for your support.

I belive house hold will be only your children and ur spouse...

Hey ignore my ist reply. Ya you need to enter 1 parent on each I-864 house hold, because you will be completing 2 I-864 one for each.

Persons you are sponsoring in this affidavit:
a. Enter the number you entered on line 10.

Hi IT,

Thanks for your response. When we fill up each I-864 form, each I-864 total household member should both be total of 3.
My question is, where are we going to enter the other beneficiary:

For an instance:

Filling up I-864 form for mother:

Part 5. Sponsor's household size.

21 Your household size - DO NOT COUNT ANYONE TWICE

Persons you are sponsoring in this affidavit

a. Enter the number you entered on line 10 --> 1

Persons NOT sponsored in this affidavit:

b. Yourself --> 1
c. If you are currently married, enter 1
d. If you have dependent children, enter the number here.
e. If you have any other dependents, enter the number here.
f. If you have sponsored any other persons on an I-864 or I-864 EZwho are now lawful permanent residents, enter the number here.
g. OPTIONAL: If you have siblings, parents, or adult children withthe same principal residence who are combining their incomewith yours by submitting Form I-864A, enter the number here.

IF you are filling this form for your mother, where will add your father on this household?
He might fall on letter f but the phrase "EZwho are now lawful permanent residents, enter the number here." confuses me.

Please advise.

Thanks a lot.

howd you go with it?

hope it was successful!

anyway, hi guys... i am bored... i miss metro too! come baaack metro!!!

anyway, i got my AOS bill today and hubby paid it, we also emailed off the DS3032 so its moving along again. woo hoo.

will send off the I864/I864A when the barcode is generated after the payment goes into "complete" and then all we need to do is pay the DS230 and send it, then CASE COMPLETE!

oh god, i cant wait.

in other news, hubbys mother is being a pain in the *%$^#%&&(^* and she is making life for him hard over there in the USA.

god i cant wait til we can control our OWN lives... ugh.

hi all! long time since i posted on this thread. just an update. received the noa2 hard copy in the mail on monday . "patiently" waiting for the case number. my boss told me they will not let me off work if he has his interview this year because i do not have enough pto time, and our policy is no negative balance can carry over to the next year, although hr says it is possible, but only with manager's approval it's ok, as slow as NVC is moving as of late, he may get his interview next year anyways. which he is not planning on coming until the end of january either way spending valentines together in the usa this time. 2009 it was in the himalayan mountains

Wow that sounds romantic!

I'm starting to lose hope of being with hubby on our one year anniversary but time will tell.

Sydney is only taking three or four weeks for interviews, but I'm still at NVC.

K, your case number might take 2 weeks, most peoples are at the moment...

I'm at the stage where ds3032 has been sent, also aos bill paid, now just waiting on a barcode for hubby to send i864 and i864a off...

Good luck all.

Hello Kush and Donna,

Hope you all are ok. K nice to see you after a little break . Donna I also received AOS fee/Ds3032. I paid AOS fee and also send ds3032 email. WIll be seding AOS next week. K you are also going to be busy with NVC..Goodluck

D you are on your way..keep your hope alive...

thank you D and IT. i am excited not to have to worry about uscis lately. immigration has insisted that we make waiting our new hobby but as they say, the best thing comes to those who wait. i have decided the hubs is worth waiting for

Lately I've been fearing the worst because hubby has no job when I get there, neither will I, then we have to try and escape his parents who drive me mad from the other end of the globe.

I wish I didn't feel that way but after three months in their overly religious annoying house, I'm going to punch one of them if they drive me nuts again!

They gave us nooo space and just try to control my hubbys life something chronic.

I'm so sick of it, but considering his dad is co sponsor, ugh

hahahahaha Don't worry, Donna--one problem at a time, right? When my wife comes here I will still be finishing my MBA, under staggering amounts of debt, and trying to keep my startup company afloat, so when I try to think down the road to the future, I get freaked out too. But I know that once she gets *here*, the simple reality of being FINISHED with immigration will make my life 100000000000000000% easier. The amount of stress this process confers upon those undergoing it is just horrifying. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemies!

I figure, once she's here, I can freak out about the rest of my life. But none of that stuff is worth anything without her, so I don't see any point in worrying about it until I clear this hurdle. One mountain at a time.

I wish I had someone positive like you around, my husband is getting like me lately, everything is bringing him down and I fear he will never get a job either. At least you have education and a career ahead of you. I have that here, but not in the USA. I won't even have my own space there. I'm starting to really worry about that.

Of course I love him and care, but it's a whole lot more than that now, and even the tiniest of things I've asked for help on with this immigration crap have been such a big stress on him and I think shiiit I've done most of it, and haven't complained, and then now, when I ask one tiny thing, it's hard for him.

Thennnnn when I get there and he doesn't get work??? I can't deal with that.

I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or freaking out over nothing. I'm scared as hell right now.

I don't think you're being unreasonable--I had an argument with my wife over almost the exact same thing, last week. (Essentially, that I was doing all of the work for her visa and that she was dragging her heels on very simple things that I'd asked her to do to prepare for the interview.) I think the most important thing for those situations is to address them head-on. This ordeal has been a HUGE education in communication, for me, because I tend to internalize when I'm upset and not talk about it, but that just doesn't work when you're far away from the person you love.

As far as your education goes, don't sell yourself too short! The job market sucks for everyone. I am fully planning on moving back in with my parents after I graduate, and I already know that's going to be very stressful. But you do what you have to for those you love. I can't profess to understand the challenges facing your husband in finding employment, but all I can say is keep talking to him about it. (It sounds like terrible advice, I know. ) Also, you're fully qualified to work once you get your greencard, and we like Aussies here. Your accents make us smile.

hello every one...husband got our case number and gave email sept 21..the case number was assigned sept 18 but until now we did not hear anything from NVC...i cant wait to start the NVC journey

Hi IT,

Can I ask you a favor? Can I see how you count your household Part 5 No. 21 question of I-864?

You are petitioning both your parents right? Please help me as I am confuse on how to count no. of household since I am petitioning my wife and mom.

Thanks a lot.

Donna, I really hope things go well for you and your husband, and things will always improve. Just don't let them get worse!

I can relate that I've done almost the entire immigration paperwork even though I'm the...immigrant. And my husband...takes his time doing what he needs to do when I tell him he needs a letter of employment, to sign papers and send it, etc. I want to maul him...but you find ways to make it work.

I'm sure things will improve for you. Have you been job searching while in Australia? Maybe try and get something lined up? <3
Good luck =)

Thanks Spec and Bern....

I'm seriously so depressed right now...

Some days it all seems too much, and believe me, today is one of those days.

Spec, you understand my situation so well, it's scary!

I feel so overwhelmed and I just can't even put it into words right now. I don't know how to verbalise it koz my hubby is depressed too now, maybe I'll write him an email or something....

But it's cute you like our accents! I did get a lot of attention over mine in Kentucky! Lol

it is true, americans love accents of course, none of us think we have accents when we go to other countries hehehe. i even like listening to accents from different parts of the usa.

cheer up, job market is difficult in the usa right now but they seem to be working on it around the clock to fix it. i believe that things will look up soon. gas prices aren't where they used to be, thank God. last year it was $4 or more a gallon. now it stays around half that. stocks are finally rising back up, very slowly, but still on the rise for the most part.

immigration is very stressful on both sides, no matter how smooth it seems to be going for other people, they still feel the stress of it all. i think it is the fear of the unknown and the only thing you do know is that some other human holds your fate in their hands.

sorry i don't know what to say about inlaws. i am pretty satisfied with mine. maybe because they live 7000 miles away and they do not speak english. but other than that, we get along pretty well. i am sure that will change when i start to learn hindi, or mom starts to learn english. also, we will bring mom over in about 10 years or after dad passes away so i have a feeling things will definitely change. until then my husband plays the go between. am sure he sugar coats things in the translation

i am also worried because right now, my husband has a good job in india. i don't want him to be resentful that i asked him to leave because of me. and what if he doesn't get the job he wants when he arrives? would he really take whatever he can get like he told me? or will he secretly resent coming? i tell him i worry about him all of the time. he just thinks i worry too much over nothing. maybe i am the one who will feel the most guilt if the job market isn't up to par on his arrival. he has worked for the same company i am in in the past (which is how we met), so i am going to have him apply when he gets here. hoping that his experience will help him. but they are not even hiring right now prayerfully, things will change in february or march.

Sigh...immigration does put on extra stress and pressure that I don't even notice myself until i keep getting sick recently and it's affecting my Fibromyalgia...

Anyway, my husband in Hong Kong is taking his time with gathering his documents for the DS 230 package too....we applied for the certified marriage certificate the date we got married back in May, and he still hasn't pick them up yet. I told him he will need to go back to China to get his certified birth certificate, to find his passport, and well, he still hasn't done any, and now he has a really bad cold and sore throat that he can't even talk, let alone sending the DS3230 form/email...

Sigh...sometimes, I feel guilty that because he met me and now he needs to work on all these extra paper work and process to move here to the USA...he makes very little money in Hong Kong because of the economy there and his education level, and all these immigration expenses is making him very stressful and depress sometimes. He feels bad that I have to pay for all that and go through all these, but then, to me, it all worths it at the end, so it's ok.

But sometimes, I get depress too that there's just so much to do, and so many more expenses that's coming our way---medical, moving expenses, plane ticket...and well, I guess I will have to go to China with him during my 1-week trip in November to Hong Kong as well for his birth certificate....

I guess we all just need to take a deep breath, and as the other member said---one problem at a time...eventually, it all worths it....

Thanks a lot every one....I have no one to talk to about my stress/pressure and it seems like you guys will understand...my hubby is still too sick to talk....

Hey K and D,

You guys are just worry and i do understand. When I came here, I didnt find a good JOB. But I did what i found and never feel bad. I know one thing its matter of time. I hope how ever is coming from outside will be ok, just will take time. K i know your husband will need little time and will adject. I think he gona have prob with the food, like me in starting . Good luck to you both

D dont worry to much, No one knows future. But we can make our future to workout things..

funny you mention food. my husband is weird. doesn't care too much for indian food. rather have american, chinese or mexican. i am the one who wants indian food mmmm, naan, butter chicken, chole batura, hehehe. he thinks i only come to india for the food, and he is just an afterthought

Thats good to hear, so better get ready for pan cakes...Also ask him to learn chicken/muton curry ....forget to said buy a welcom gift 4 hime..a clay owen to make NAN/Roti + Tandori Chicken.....hehhe

I love Indian food!

My favorite is Japanese though and there's no chance of getting that in Kentucky!!!

Hubby hates it too... :/

I just had a breakdown tonight on the phone to hubby. He is so worried about me, heck I am too!!!!

he has promised to teach me how to make the indian dishes. so i guess i will just have to wait . we have only one indian restaurant where i live, but i cannot convince any of my family members to go with me. so again, i will have to wait

stop by missouri, girlie, there are a couple of japanese restaurants here. food cooked right in front of ya. ooooo, that sounds good. it must be lunch time

for D (((hugs)))

Hey Donna,

Sometimes I feel the same way. I am still studying and don't have a lot of money and when my husband gets here he has to start from scratch. He doesn't have education from USA either. It's frustrating, but it will be ok. I am willing to do all sorts of work if I just get to be with him, I can't live my life without him, no matter how hard it gets when he comes here.
Don't worry about the parents. HOpefully you will get a job and save enough money to move out within a few months. I wish you luck. I still haven't assembled all my 864 stuff. So I am worried about that.

Your husband dont need only USA education to get a good job. Pakistani education is vaild here. In starting maybe hard to find a good job, but once he undrstand how the things work here he will have no prob. But again its depend on his education level..

But no worrys..after hard time good things happend.

Aww thanks IT!
I hope it will be enough LOL. But everything makes me tensed, everybody's going through the same thing. My status on 864 is now PAID. But my 864 is not yet ready, so I have to send it by Monday.

I really understand your feelings, I do. I feel the same way sometimes that I am asking my husband to leave everything for me. It's really sad, but it's you who your husband wants to be with, so keep that in mind and everything will be ok. I am just trying to take one day at a time. Just focusing on what I need to do for the day. You have to pay the money so tell your husband he shouldn't feel bad and this is all so you both can be together soon. Take care and hope your husband feels better! You can always talk here about your stress and feelings.

Thanks for that, and also to miss K.

I will be alright in the long run I guess.

K, yummy! I need to move then!! Hehe

that said, there's sooo many Indian places to eat in Melbourne, oh and Japanese!!!

hehehe, sounds like we need to trade places told ya i have always wanted to go to australia

haha sounds good to me!

just popping in to say hello everyone.

today i noticed the AOS bill was shown as paid in the NVC online system so we sent off the I864 and I864A - this will be my most nerve wracking time as we have a co sponsor

well all that needs doing now is the IV bill to be paid and the DS230 to be sent off! wish us luck!!

in other news, i have had a horrible pain in my mouth all weekend and turns out i need to get a monster wisdom tooth removed. its being done today, in about 3 hours... so i am super nervous!

icecream for me soon!

xxxx

MY AOS bill showing pid too, will be sending AOS with docs tomorrow...

How come my I864 bill still show in process....sigh....still waiting...

Oops....just kidding....i didn't think they would update the status on Sunday, so I didn't even check the webiste. But now I just check it, my I-864 payment is showing "PAID" now!! Yeah, I printed off the cover page, and will make copies and sent off the I-864 package hopefully by Tuesday...Perfect timing! I have the next 2 days off!!

hey guys U r all moving fast to an end I wanted to ask where do you check the status for the AOS bill?I am a little confused,Does my husband needs to send the affidavit of support package than when it show's paid?Thank you for the response in advance Good luck !

On the NVC webpage where you pay for the I864 bill, it will show the status as either "in process" or "paid" after you paid online, then you can print the cover sheet from the website for your I864 packet to be mailed in.

My husband paid on Friday, so maybe it will show paid now Thank you yuenashleys for response

Anyone else from June or earlier still dont have their NOA2 ?

I see many ppl who filed AFTER us getting approved while no news on our case and it's driving me crazy .
Someone tell me we're not alone with that please.

you are not alone, moonskin. and also, there are people still in may that have not received their approval. but i believe june filers will all have their approvals soon and very soon

Please guys whats the NVC webpage/website address? i got my case number on the 20th, it was assigned on the 15th. Hope to hear from you guys soon...

You're not alone Moonskin. I called USCIS 4 times in the last 5 days just to get some anxiety out of my mind! I'm really hoping that our approval will be granted soon if not sooner!

You are definetly not alone Moonskin. I'm one of the June filers, however I did Cr1 and K3 (According to USCIS it's a parallel process and does not speed up or slow down the two individual processes).

I've called USCIS just about the same as you, and they do not know anything and keep giving me the generic info; all it is is personal satisfaction that you're trying to do something to get them to go a little faster. Hopefully we will have approval soon.

I did email, write a letter, and fax my senator as to getting me some more information since USCIS gives out crap information. According to the I-130 Instructions the petitions are supposed to be processed in order received, but obviously not since we have not yet received approval.

Good Luck and hopefully we'll have our Approvals soon!

I agree with you all but don't worry guys our approvals are coming right up...this is just a calm before an APPROVAL STORM I am an August filer and i even saw a september filer approved so they definately are not working in order received but lets stay positive i can only imagine how you all feel i have only been waiting for a month and its very hard but i try to stay positive and not to second guess my case

case number is at nvc updated our addresses

Congratulations!

Your NOA1 date is same as mine! Did you file for K3 as well?

thank you

no, i just stuck with the cr1. it was very tempting to go ahead and send in the i129f. but in the end, we wanted the cr1. you will get your noa2 very soon

YAAAY!