affidavit of Support Question

[RomeoNan 0]

Hi All

i dont know if you can get all information and our timeline from this post, but any way im jordanian and my wife Us. citizen and we reside since 8 months in Saudi arabia, in April 22 ,2007 we decide to prepare our I-130 and send it to the Us embassy here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

they approved the application and asked for the rest of the primary appointment ( G-325,Photographs, passports photocopies, marriage certificate, translation also)

also they asked us some questions like

1- how have you met

2- why have not you apply in US embassy, Amman

3- when will you resire from your job

4- are you going to the states to live forever or what

5- and another questions i'll provide as soon as possible

and they told us they will send our petition to the CIS in the US , so we have to wait for the approval,and before we left the embassy they gave us a package( i think it is packet 3) which contains

1-medical examinations

2- police certificate from jordan " GID : General Dept. of intelligence, since this the formal authority or department who is giving such a document the good conduct in jordan", i went to jordanain embassy here in riyadh and asked them for that document and they approved and will recieve it by 1st of june, 2007 since it takes a month

3- DS 230 part II Sworn statement

4- finacnial support " which is form I-864 from our sposor in the US

5- Educational Certificates

after one week the phoned me and said the approval has come from the US for your I-130 petition so you can proceed with your IV Package , i thanked them even they waked me up early to say so

now im a little confused about the Affidavit of Suppotr form I-864

1- who will fill that form for us? since i found that this form could be saved and send via e-mail so that our sponsor can fill it up and send it to us and my wife sign it as " Other than the Sponsor Preparer"

the question is , Is that applicable or the sposor should fill it up and print it out then notarize it from the responsible authorities their in the US

2- they asked me to bring the W-2 document and the tax return " a copy of those documents"

so is it applicable if our sponsor scan then send it via e-mail so we can print it out here in saudi arabia and staple it to our IV finished package.

3- what kind of visa they will issue on my passport is it K3 or Cr1 or there is no difference between both

thanks in advance for any help

RamRom Fofo

[homesick_american 1]

now im a little confused about the Affidavit of Suppotr form I-864

1- who will fill that form for us? since i found that this form could be saved and send via e-mail so that our sponsor can fill it up and send it to us and my wife sign it as " Other than the Sponsor Preparer"

The petitioner (the US citizen) has to fill one of those in even if he/she is not eligible to be a sponsor.

3- what kind of visa they will issue on my passport is it K3 or Cr1 or there is no difference between both

thanks in advance for any help

RamRom Fofo

A K-3 visa is a non-immigrant visa, a CR1 is an immigrant visa. You get the visa you applied for. I think an I-130 petition is supposed to ultimately result in the immigrant visa, though I could be wrong. If I am I'm sure people will jump in and correct me.

There is a HUGE difference between the two visas. With a K-3 you have to get permission to work and you have to adjust your status once in the United States, which takes more time and costs more money. With a the IR1/CR1 (unconditional and conditional, respectively) you may work immediately and do not have to adjust status, though you have to remove conditions after 2 years with a CR1. The IR1/CR1 visa is supposed to take longer to process, but I think it's by far the better choice.

[RomeoNan 0]

Thanks Homesick

you said that the US citizen ( my wife ) has to fill form I-864, even if she is not eligible to sponsor me which is true because she is not employed, but her US aunt who is a Policewoman in Chicago Police Department, will sponsor me, So, you suggest that i can get all information needed for I-864 form from her and fill it up .

1- But what about the notarization, i think such a document should be notarized from the US

2- the Embassy in saudi arabia asked me to bring them a photocopies of W-2, tax return and a letter of employer from our sponsor,is that means she ( my wife's aunt) could send such a documents via e-mail so we can print it out here and staple it to the whole finished package of my Immigration Visa, i hope so

3- Do you have any idea about when they issue a case number for some one's immigration process

till now they didn't give me a number for my case

4- You said CR-1 visa takes time more than K-3 visa, How many months, years you're talking about

5- Could any one direct me to the right place where i can find a Flowchart for cases similar for mine i.e. DCF from US embassy overseas for some one who has a legitimate residency at the same country where that US embassy resides.

thanks alot,