Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums, I'll give a brief story of our plan then go into my main topic.

I am a US citizen working in China for a US company (although paid in RMB). My fiance and I (she's Chinese) met back in graduate school a few years ago and came to China to work about 8 months ago. We are planning to get married in China soon and will be applying for the immigrant visa I-130. My only concern at this point is proof of income, since we graduated and directly came to China and are on semi-local salaries paid in RMB I haven't had a lot of cash going back to the states. We are however well educated (we both have Masters degress in electrical engineering from one of the best engineering schools in the states). My company will be sending me back to the states to work soon, and of course will pay me my full salary when there. Is it enough for the I-134A to show my degree certificate and my accepted offer letter from my company? Clearly with two masters degrees in electrical engineering there will be plenty of money to live on. I have kept offers from other companies when I applied for jobs when I only had my bachelors, is all of this stuff enough to prove to them my ability to provide for my future wife?

Best!
Nick

To clarify I meant the I-864 affidavit of support, not the I-134A cosponsor form. Also, after reading some more I feel it would be a good idea to simply have one of my older family members to be a cosponsor, just for some extra backup. Anything wrong with that?

Nick

You might get by with the offer letters but since you can get a co-sponsor, it's a good idea. Are you planning to do a direct consular filing (DCF)? Since you work in China, once you are married you can save a lot of time going the DCF route. Your offer letter will help satisfy the US domicile requirement but you'll need a US address. You can use a family member if you need to stay with them temporarily. Alternatively you could return to the US and lease a place before the interview. There a lot of things to look into between now and then.

For more China specific support, I recommend www.candleforlove.com Tell them Pushbrk sent you.

Nick,

There is no such thing as an I-134A cosponsor form.

Yodrak

Thanks for the great info,

Yeah we will do DCF while here in China, we need to make sure the timing is right however if I want to show them the offer letter from work. Also, my fiance was in the US for four years prior as a student so she has a tax record there, internships and whatever income the school gave her, not much however it was income. Right now I feel though her credit record isn't perfect since while in China she forgot one credit card back in the US, she's recently paid it off though, do they really care a lot about the credit record though?

I will use one of my sisters as a co-sponsor, then we should be all set, it wont hurt to have a nice offer letter in hand to show them too. As far as an address goes we both still receive mail in the US, it all goes to my dad's address so there is a lot of proof of residence there as well. My work will give me the offer letter a few months before I return to the US, so we can DCF before I go back to the states, then while back in the US hopefully I'll have time to get a few pay stubs sent back to China in time for her interview. That plus a co-sponsor should do it, am I being to careful? Like everyone that does this I just don't want to mess up.

After talking on here and hearing everyones knowledge its really helped to ease my mind!

Yodrak, thanks for clarifying the form info.

Best,
Nick