Question about financial support

[phalstaph2002 1]

Thanks in advance for those who contribute here, the information has been very helpful.

I am just starting to wade into this paperwork. I live in the US and my girlfriend (fiance now) lives in London, UK. I have several questions and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

1. My fiance currently resides in the UK and is a British citizen. However, she was born and raised in New Zealand and is also a citizen there. She has lived in London for the last 13 years. The question is...for the purposes of this paperwork should we file under her UK citizenship or her New Zealand citizenship? Or does it matter?

2. For proof of meeting in the last 2 years. I have plenty of photos of us together at various times and I have my boarding passes from a trip we took to New Zealand where I met her family. She has visited the US several times a year for the past 3 years, she has met my family, we have taken small trips together and I have pictures, but she did not save boarding passes from flights. We have the email confirmations for when the tickets were booked, but none of her boarding passes. She can make copies of her passport showing entry to the US and those dates will match with times I have labeled on the photos of us and with the passport stamps, but is that going to be sufficient?

3. Two years ago I moved back to the town I grew up in. My parents have a small business here and I have been learning the business and expanding it. However, I have not been taking a paycheck, so I do not have tax records to show support. Now that the business is growing I plan to start taking a paycheck soon, but I still have no way to show income of any substantial nature over the past 2 years. However, we (my family and I) have a substantial amount of real estate and stock that was left in a living trust by my grandmother and when she died that trust was rolled into a corporation. I have a 25% share in that corporation and the assets are around 1.5 million. When the corporation was setup the 4 members of my family that had interest were listed as equal owners and I have those papers. So, my question is...can I use that as proof of support? Or am I going to need to get someone to help me with support? My brother and I share a house together that he owns and it is worth about $180k so we could do that if needed? Any idea on this one?

Okay....I think that is all I have at the moment. I tried searching the forums, but kept getting lost in the sheer volume of information. Thank you again for any help you can offer.

[Girl from Celebes 588]

Thanks in advance for those who contribute here, the information has been very helpful.

I am just starting to wade into this paperwork. I live in the US and my girlfriend (fiance now) lives in London, UK. I have several questions and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

1. My fiance currently resides in the UK and is a British citizen. However, she was born and raised in New Zealand and is also a citizen there. She has lived in London for the last 13 years. The question is...for the purposes of this paperwork should we file under her UK citizenship or her New Zealand citizenship? Or does it matter?

2. For proof of meeting in the last 2 years. I have plenty of photos of us together at various times and I have my boarding passes from a trip we took to New Zealand where I met her family. She has visited the US several times a year for the past 3 years, she has met my family, we have taken small trips together and I have pictures, but she did not save boarding passes from flights. We have the email confirmations for when the tickets were booked, but none of her boarding passes. She can make copies of her passport showing entry to the US and those dates will match with times I have labeled on the photos of us and with the passport stamps, but is that going to be sufficient?

3. Two years ago I moved back to the town I grew up in. My parents have a small business here and I have been learning the business and expanding it. However, I have not been taking a paycheck, so I do not have tax records to show support. Now that the business is growing I plan to start taking a paycheck soon, but I still have no way to show income of any substantial nature over the past 2 years. However, we (my family and I) have a substantial amount of real estate and stock that was left in a living trust by my grandmother and when she died that trust was rolled into a corporation. I have a 25% share in that corporation and the assets are around 1.5 million. When the corporation was setup the 4 members of my family that had interest were listed as equal owners and I have those papers. So, my question is...can I use that as proof of support? Or am I going to need to get someone to help me with support? My brother and I share a house together that he owns and it is worth about $180k so we could do that if needed? Any idea on this one?

Okay....I think that is all I have at the moment. I tried searching the forums, but kept getting lost in the sheer volume of information. Thank you again for any help you can offer.

Passport stamps are fine. Don't forget to include biographical pages as well from both of you. Some people got RFE because did not include it.

[phalstaph2002 1]

Thank you for that information...I can check one more thing off my list.