K-1 financial co-sponsor CAN-USA

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I have tried searching this topic, and the general consensus is that it is consulate specific. I was wondering if anyone had any insight on financial co-sponsor when the petitioner is American and the beneficiary is Canadian? I believe our case would be going to the montreal consulate as it is closest to my province.

Thanks!

[Ash.1101 1,755]

Are you more so asking what the cosponsor would need?

Pretty much the same as you lol.

If you/they claim you/they make money then you/they have to prove it by either providing a tax return transcript or a tax return with relevant W2's, also to help are paystubs from your/their job and a letter from your/their employer. The letter from employer and paystubs can help prove current income if you/they don't have a tax return from last year either due to not making any money and/or not being required to file due to low income. If you/they claim to have any assets or savings, you/they will have to provide proof of that with bank statements and such if you're claiming savings. If your/their yearly income is more than enough though then you/they don't need to write down savings and skip the whole bank statement thing.

But in the order of importance and giving them what they want I'd go with: Tax transcript, tax return + W2, pay stub, employer letter, bank statement. At the MINIMUM you want at least the employer letter and pay stubs.

Recently it seems that Montreal has been taking just the tax return without W2's. Tax return transcript covers everything and is free.

Remember though, it ALWAYS depends on the CO you get that day, you should always plan to get the guy that's by the book. While -normally- they aren't too incredibly strict as people have only had to give the tax return and/or just the employer letter and paystubs, I wouldn't risk them to not ask for everything.

Personally, My mother is cosponsoring for my fiance, we'll be providing her tax return for this year, her W2, an employer letter, and paystubs. More than enough, they might not even take all of it, but there's no reason to not be prepared, especially if you have time to prepare.

When my fiance has his interview next month I'll put what papers they took from him at his interview so people can get a good heads up, but again, it always depends on the CO.

Edited August 18, 2015 by Ash.1101

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so basically, the USA/CAN government looks on co-sponsorship favourably? My fiance (the petitioner, USA) has been unemployed for a little while (largely due to our visits, hes been living off of savings) we are worried he wont have enough for us to be approved so we wanted to explore the option of him having a co-sponsor for our application. I'm the beneficiary and I'm Canadian

[Ash.1101 1,755]

Oh you're fine.

Canada has no problems with co-sponsors. The only ones that generally do are of countries that are considered high fraud. I think the only one straight up making it really hard for cosponsors right now is Manilla, but Canada is good to go.

Ya'll should be fine, as long as the cosponsor meets the requirements for everything you're good. You have plenty of time to for him to find a job, so there's that too. When they ask you what he does for a living, you can simply say he's unemployed but looking for full time work. It can help ease any worries, but again I think the only K1 denial I've seen in Montreal (here on VJ atleast) was due to criminal charges and that was march of this year.


With that said, I'm unemployed as well and the USC/Petitioner, my mother makes about 5k over the needed amount per year to sponsor my fiance. So far I haven't seen anything about any Canadians being turned down due to using a cosponsor, but there are a good number of unemployed people either in school or just a string of bad luck that have successfully used cosponsors for Canada and other generally low fraud countries as well. =]

Edited August 18, 2015 by Ash.1101

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that is AWESOME news!!! thank you so much!!!