Affadavid of Support

[madtownguy 164]

So I'm just starting the K1 visa process with a girl I met a year ago who I have fell in love with. I'm kind of finding everything online but I am wondering about this support paperwork saying what I make. My last 2 years of taxes show losses (self employeed), but this year I started a new job and will get a w2 and taxes are taken out of every check. Do I need to give them my previous taxes or will just this years check stubs and a letter from employer suffice? I'm at about 60k for the year could go up depending on commissions but that is well over poverty levels.

Also when I met my fiance I had no intentions of getting married and didn't want to bring a camera because I didn't know if the philippines was safe. Anyway I never took any pictures so I am wondering if passport stamps, emails, messengers, and phone will be enough to support a relationship? Thanks for the help!

[Operator 1,927]

Have you submitted your petition yet? If not, I suggest you start by studying the guides (Guides tab at the top of every page).

Once your petition is approved you will be required to provide your beneficiary with specific financial information for the visa interview. That process will be specific to the US embassy in Manila so you need to research what they require for documentation.

Good luck!

Edited July 17, 2012 by Operator

[Tahoma 2,291]

Your fiancée will have to submit one of your tax returns. Depending on when she interviews at the U.S. Embassy Manila, she will either submit your 2011 return or your 2012 return. If she interviews before you complete your 2012 return, she will submit your 2011 return.

However, the consular officer will not only look at your 2011 income level, but he will also look at your current paycheck stubs and your employer's letter, and he will see that you are above 125% of the poverty line for your household size when your paychecks are annualized. In other words, he will see that your current sustained income is at the $60000 level when taken on an annual basis.

If the consular officer doesn't notice your increased income, then you and your fiancée need to bring it to his attention.

As for photos, I understand that they are only secondary evidence of a relationship. I hope the USCIS is OK with you not sending in any photos. However, the consular officers in Manila usually like to look at them. Can you make another trip to visit your fiancée before her interview? Or, better yet, can you attend her interview?

[C-ma'am 684]

While pictures are secondary evidence, you will have to include, at least, a couple of pictures of the two of you together.

Is there a friend or a family member that may have taken a picture of the two of you while you visited? If you don't send a couple of pictures, they will ask you for those. Because the pictures will back up the passport stamps and all other primary evidence you listed.

Read the guide http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide and take Tahoma's advise related to the Affidavit of Support (especially because this last part is Embassy specific).

Good luck on your visa journey!

[Bryan and Isabel 29]

Since you are at 60k + this year you deff meet the poverty requirement (18k) but as for the pictures, they are very helpful, even though people have made it through without them, but there other supporting evidence was very very good. GOODLUCK

[madtownguy 164]

I will try to go for the interview that would be best case scenario, although not knowing if it will be 6 months, 8 months, 1 year... It's hard to know for sure if it will be possible. There are definitely no pictures of us together, I hate being in photos and can remember every photo I have been in for probably the last 5 years...ha ha. When I met her I never in a million years thought I'd be doing a fiance visa for her. The first round of papers should be filed within a week. This isn't my first dealing with USCIS but it is the first fiance visa, they seem more laid back than the stories I've heard but I guess it depends who is looking at your file. Hopefully I will have to go to Asia for work before the interview. Lots of waiting to look forward to I guess.

[renecherubs 18]

yes, the consular in manila like to look on pictures. they always, ask for those. it would be a great help to take some while there's still enough time.