I-134 Timing - How Early Can I Provide Documents?

[Mk4562 0]

Hi, everyone! Here's the situation:

 

My fiance has been in the US since the beginning of December. We sent the I-129F a week after she arrived, and it was received on 12/28/17. She will be returning to Brazil on 2/15/18.

 

I'm wondering if I can send the original copies of the I-134 and supporting documents (employment verification, letter from bank officer) with her when she goes back, although we have no idea when the interview will be yet.  Does the consulate care if everything is dated in February but the interview doesn't actually happen until, for example, June?

 

If it makes a difference, I'm visiting her in Brazil at the end of March/early April.  Would it be better to bring everything at that time?

 

Thanks for the help!!

 

- Max

[TNJ17 1,329]

I would do everything as close to the interview as possible. 

[aleful 1,905]

exactly

 

you will need 2017 taxes, and if you are going to send paystubs, they should be closer to the interview

 

 

[Mk4562 0]

5 minutes ago, aleful said:

exactly

 

you will need 2017 taxes, and if you are going to send paystubs, they should be closer to the interview

 

 

I'm curious to know why people say that you need the tax return when the instructions only say that you need to provide it if you are self-employed?

 

"C. If self-employed:

(1) Copy of last income tax return filed; or

(2) Report of commercial rating concern."

 

 

[OutOfThisWorld 87]

5 hours ago, Mk4562 said:

I'm curious to know why people say that you need the tax return when the instructions only say that you need to provide it if you are self-employed?

 

"C. If self-employed:

(1) Copy of last income tax return filed; or

(2) Report of commercial rating concern."

 

 

On this one consulates make their own rules. Some consulates list, in the instructions, tax returns as prominent example of what they want to see.

[TBoneTX 46,994]

If you provide financial information some months before the interview, prepare and bring to the interview an applicable (and signed) statement:

 

-- "These changes affecting the I-134 have occurred since that document was prepared" (list them)

or

-- "No interim changes have occurred that would affect the validity of the information in the I-134."

Edited February 4, 2018 by TBoneTX