Affidavit of Support & Evidence of Establishing Domicile at the interview...

[marisp 0]

Hi,

Am relatively new to the forums, and haven't really posted anything as a lot of the questions I had seemed to answered with some searching. There are some however, that I can't find clear answers on, more specifically for my case that i'd like to get cleared up before my interview this coming Friday in Montreal.

I am married to a US citizen for over 2 years, and we both live in Canada, and have lived here for our relationship (10 years+). I have all the documents in order, but the only ones I feel like I may not be 100% on, are the Affidavit of Support and the Evidence of Domicile, (in this case establishing domicile).

My wife is working (as am I) in Canada, we filed her taxes for the past 3 years and have her transcripts from the IRS, but her employer is Canadian, and she won't be working in the US immediately. I have a banking snap shot; i.e. evidence that we have savings and assets well over the poverty mark, that would easily be enough for us to live off for the next few years, if for whatever reason we did not have any work anytime soon post relocating.

We have a signed lease for a house, a few car insurance quotes, a moving quote, a US based cell phone and I have opened a bank account.

From your experiences, does what i've mentioned above qualify for proof of enough support, and evidence of establishing domicile, or should I be pulling together some more last minute supporting documents?

Thanks in advance!

[marisp 0]

Anyone?

[canadian_wife 1,795]

Evidence of establishing domicile has been an issue at the Montreal consulate recently so you'll certainly want to be prepared. take a look at the Canada forum (post your question there as well for excellent advice from people who have gone through it). Also look at the link I provided

Good luck.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164618

[trailmix 77]

Hi and welcome,

For domicile, your evidence may or may not be enough, it's really hard to say. Montreal has been taking a very hard line on this lately. If you follow the link canadianwife posted that should be helpful, in particular if you go to the last page of that thread you will find links to interview reviews from people who have tried to prove domicile, or reestablishing domicile.

As for the I-864, affidavit of support, you will probably need more than 1 snapshot of your bank account assets - they actually request 12 months worth, you should try to get as many as you can from the past year.

Assets are not counted the same way employment income is. For your assets to be used you must have 3 times the 125% of the poverty guidelines - (assuming it is just the two of you) that would be $18,212.00 x 3 for a total of $54,636 U.S. dollars (or equivalent in Canadian dollars).

Edited January 6, 2010 by trailmix

[marisp 0]

Thanks for the replies. The link above has lots of good info. Somehow through the search tools, it wouldn't come up. I have some more supporting documents regarding assets that I got from the bank today, and will have to work on some more for the Evidence of Establishing Domicile...although I don't ahve too much time as we leave for Montreal tomorrow night!