Preparing to submit my I-130 Package Need Advice

[jpeach 0]

Ok guys,

I'm preparing all my documents to submit an I-30 for my Canadian spouse to move to the U.S. Here's a rundown of my situation. I'd really apreciate some advice!

I am a U.S. Citizen who is currently a PR of Canada, immigrated to Canada nearly 5 years ago on a family visa. My spouse has no prior history of travel to the U.S. and I have not maintained many ties. I file my U.S. and Canadian tax returns. No U.S. bank account, no driver's lisence. I have no U.S. address to list and no family member that I would be comfortable asking to use their address or sign any support. I currently have a job position until June 2016, at which point I hope to be well along with this process.

I am intending to return to the U.S. to establish a residence, bank account, driver's lisence, what have you - before my husband's interview date. I should not have any issue establishing a job and a residence (& all else) for him to move to within a month or so of my re-entry to the U.S. (say, by July 2016) and at that point will have no issue proving domicile. That being said, how would I go about filling out the forms to be able to even get us to that point? If I put my Canadian address and a U.S. address as "'to be determined', Arizona" or something like that with no U.S. income presently, will I even get an interview with that kind of ap? I have plenty of bona fide relationship evidence all in order. I'm wondering if it would be at all beneficial to write an intro letter stating basically my intentions. That I want my spouse to begin the process of getting a visa at which point I will re-establish my domicile before his interview date? I mean it wouln't hurt to just be up-front would it? It's allowed for me to re-establish the domicile at or before his entry, right? Not having any of that NOW (at application time) won't hold that up?

[MIA1129 0]

No it won't hold you up, just make sure to re-establish domicile before his entry to the US, say about a month or two before estimated interview date.

Good luck.

[NikLR 13,220]

The issue I see for you is the affidavit of support. If you do not have someone who would be willing to sign as a joint sponsor, you may want to move to the USA sooner than later to be able to establish 3-6 months of working at a particular job that qualifies, unless you guys plan on qualifying via assets.

[NikLR 13,220]

but you also need to show re-establishment of domicile before interview, not entry. Montreal is who you need to impress.

[jpeach 0]

Thanks guys. I'd like to delay the seperation for as long (and as short a duration!) as possible, of course. At this point I just want to get through the first steps and try to ensure I have the rest of it "in order" before the end of the process. Seems like it can take about a year from the first submission until the interview date. And yes, I intend to move back and re-establish my domicile before the interview date to show Montreal

Edited August 10, 2015 by jpeach

[Norway2Cali 5]

HI jpeach-- I noticed you already got your NOA1 on your timeline, but the date is in the future? Or was that a mistake?

[jpeach 0]

Oh that was just an anticipatory/estimated date so that the website would give me further estimates on my timeline