DCF Australia- Rules about having a US job?

[girly25 0]

Hi, I am wondering what the current rules are for doing DCF in Australia. That thread stickied to these forums is outdatted unfortunately.

If the American citizen has lived in Australia for 6 months, do they have to have a job in the US for the DCF to work? How does that balence out? WE dont want to go through getting co-sponsors, so considering that, how does the US citizen be an adeqquate sponsor?

Does anyone have a current list of rules and requirements for DCF Australia?

Edited January 25, 2011 by girly25

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

I can't answer the Australia specific stuff, but if you don't want a co-sponsor, you have two options for DCF:

- file on assets (savings, property etc); that is what we did.

- Have the USC return to the USA as soon as the I-130 is approved, find a job, and send the proof of that and paystubs to the beneficiary in time for the interview.

[girly25 0]

Hey thanks for that... Regarding assets.. Were there any problems when you filed with your assets or did it run smoothly? How much will you need in assets, is there a specific figure?

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

It ran smoothly for us, I believe for two reasons:

- We transfered our money to the USA prior to interview (most embassies like assets to be US based).

- We had well over the poverty line.

We also used some of our savings to buy a house here in Arkansas; this way, we could show the deeds for three parts of DCF: assets for I-864, intention of the USC to re-establish domicile in the USA, and bonafide relationship. If you file on assets, you need three times the 125% poverty level. So if it's just the two of you, that would be about 56'000.