Affidavit of Support (I-134) and Living abroad

[superbob 0]

My fiancee and I are currently filling out our paperwork before the interview for the K-1 visa. We are both living together in Shanghai, and plan to return to the US this year. I have been working in China for the last 2 and a half years, and am earning more than the poverty line now, with a lot in my (Chinese) bank account, and stocks worth about as much as 6 months salary. I don't have a job lined up yet once I return, though.

Will this be okay for my I-134? Should I ask relatives to sponsor her instead?

[Darnell 8,478]

I-134 is for showing:

1. prior years tax data on income in the USA and

2. current annual income on income earned in the USA

since you not have that, you can (pick one or more)

1. get a co-sponser

2. prove up assets (cash and other things listed in the I-864 instructions.. yes, I said I-864) but cash must be in a USA bank account in yer name

other issues you will have:

1. proof of USA domicile or

2. proof of re-establishing USA domicile

3. showing cash out value of your stocks - this is not current value, but cash out value.

Study I-864P as well - your co-sponser will need to 'meet the bar' on the poverty guidelines

Edited May 22, 2014 by Darnell

[superbob 0]

I did declare my foreign earned income on my tax return, but since it is less than $90,000, it isn't taxed and is not considered US-based income.

How much in assets is needed? I could transfer my money from my Chinese account to my American account, and while my cash on hand is just short of the poverty line, if I include my stocks it is several times the poverty line.

I am still registered at my parents' address for voting and tax filing purposes (since I left the US to work abroad shortly after finishing college), and I have been accepted to graduate school in the US. Would these count in my favor for the US domicile?

[Gabi and Uri 0]

I did declare my foreign earned income on my tax return, but since it is less than $90,000, it isn't taxed and is not considered US-based income.

How much in assets is needed? I could transfer my money from my Chinese account to my American account, and while my cash on hand is just short of the poverty line, if I include my stocks it is several times the poverty line.

I am still registered at my parents' address for voting and tax filing purposes (since I left the US to work abroad shortly after finishing college), and I have been accepted to graduate school in the US. Would these count in my favor for the US domicile?

I can't speak for sending money home and keeping money in savings, however, I too have worked in China and now returning home with my fiance. We are going through an agency and because I do not have income in the states I must have a co-sponsor. They said that my Chinese income does not work because it can not prove I can support him when we return back to the states. Again I am not sure how that works for money saved up in China but that is what our agency told us. We are also in the process of the I-134 and the agency said the copies of my bank account have to be my US ones. They do not need any statements from China. I am hoping to have a job lined up for when I return back to the states and will bring my contract to the interview as proof (if I get a teaching job). However, we were advised to still have a co-sponsor just to be safe.

[Darnell 8,478]

How much in assets is needed? I could transfer my money from my Chinese account to my American account, and while my cash on hand is just short of the poverty line, if I include my stocks it is several times the poverty line.

Please study the I-864 instructions, as the answer is in there

and

the Vice-Consuls use that thresh-hold to determine if you are above it, or no.

Yes, you are only required to fill out the I-134, but asset rules are used from the I-864.