Beneficary's employment history, how important is it?

[Vladislav 0]

Hello everyone.

I'm 22, male from Russia. I'm new to this forum.

 

My girlfriend from US is filling out I-129F for k1.  I'm the beneficiary.

 

We have a few concerns about 'Beneficiary's employment history' part.

 

The thing is, it's very difficult to find an official job (job where you have a contract and paperwork with your employer) in my country even in big cities, and I live in a small town where it's almost impossible, ALL jobs I had were unofficial, you don't sign any papers when you get hired, they just pay you with cash and you don't have any proof of working there. 

 

So, is it ok for USCIS that I never worked legally? Will they call my previous employers and ask if I actually worked there? Because in such places, employers don't remember their employees, no paperwork or history. They might tell them that I didn't work there.

 

And another thing we are worried about. I don't remember the exact dates of when I was hired and quit at my previous jobs. Is it ok if I make up the dates? I can't call the employers  and ask them the dates, they don't care and don't remember, no history. Is it ok if I write  dates that I make up?

 

I'm really concerned that it might affect our chances for the visa. 

Your answers are appreciated, and sorry if my English is bad, I tried to spell sentences as I could.

 

Edited October 3, 2018 by Vladislav

[Ben&Zian 4,397]

19 minutes ago, Vladislav said:

Hello everyone.

I'm 22, male from Russia. I'm new to this forum.

 

My girlfriend from US is filling out I-129F for k1.  I'm the beneficiary.

 

We have a few concerns about 'Beneficiary's employment history' part.

 

The thing is, it's very difficult to find an official job (job where you have a contract and paperwork with your employer) in my country even in big cities, and I live in a small town where it's almost impossible, ALL jobs I had were unofficial, you don't sign any papers when you get hired, they just pay you with cash and you don't have any proof of working there. 

 

So, is it ok for USCIS that I never worked legally? Will they call my previous employers and ask if I actually worked there? Because in such places, employers don't remember their employees, no paperwork or history. They might tell them that I didn't work there.

 

And another thing we are worried about. I don't remember the exact dates of when I was hired and quit at my previous jobs. Is it ok if I make up the dates? I can't call the employers  and ask them the dates, they don't care and don't remember, no history. Is it ok if I write  dates that I make up?

 

I'm really concerned that it might affect our chances for the visa. 

Your answers are appreciated, and sorry if my English is bad, I tried to spell sentences as I could.

 

 

No. Not really.

[Vladislav 0]

Just now, Ben&Zian said:

 

No. Not really.

What is not ok exactly?

[Chris Duffy 1,256]

It is not important to list you (beneficiary) jobs or if you ever had a job.

[debbiedoo 2,339]

they dont care about the benficiaries work history

[mc962 55]

2 hours ago, debbiedoo said:

they dont care about the benficiaries work history

That's not quite true, it's a section on the I-129f form.

However, my impression from past research is that it's more of an accountability thing. They do want to know roughly what you were doing in the past X years, especially I think if you are in a field for which they might want to do extra background checks (like handling dangerous chemicals or working on weapons contracts for the local military or something...I'm making up these examples). But they care less that you were paid $20 USD to mow the neighbor's lawn every now and then.

 

If you browse around more, you might be able to track down the specific USCIS law/guideline concerning that section (or someone who knows more can give better information). But that was my impression when filling this section out, do the best you can, and give the reader an idea of what you've been doing for the past X years. I imagine that, at 22 years, this would especially be true if you were a student...I think we even wrote that she was a student during certain time periods to explain periods without work.

[SunflowerSweet 1,321]

Yeah, I think providing job history is more something they use to assist in general information gathering and background checking. My husband never worked a day in his life and our I-129f was approved in under 30 days.

[wiltonh3 1]

For what it is worth, we just finished the process and have appointment for interview. My fiancé has never has a "normal" job. We said no on the 129F and  stated that she did odd jobs, make jewelry, did makeup for weddings. This was all true. Formal jobs are very hard to find. 

No problems at all on approval.

So just be honest, don't make up stuff. Just tell that she did odd jobs, etc. and all will be fine.

Will

[TM92 527]

15 hours ago, Vladislav said:

My girlfriend from US is filling out I-129F for k1. I'm the beneficiary.

Unsolicited info about CR-1:

Below is an analysis by @missileman:

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This is my analysis of a K-1 vs a CR-1:

K-1

• More expensive than CR-1
• Requires Adjustment of Status after marriage (expensive and requires a lot of paperwork)
• Spouse can not leave the US until he receives approved Advance Parole (approx 3-4 months)
• Spouse can not work until he receives EAD (approx 3-4 months)
• Some people have had problems with driver licenses, Social Security cards, leases, bank account during this period.
• Spouse will not receive Green Card for many months after Adjustment of Status is filed.

CR-1

• Less expensive than K-1
• No AOS required.
• Spouse can immediately travel outside the US
• Spouse can start work if desired
• Spouse receives Social Security Card and Green Card withing 2 or 3 weeks after entering the US
• Spouse has legal permanent Resident status IMMEDIATELY upon entry to US.

All-in-all, the CR-1 is superior to the K-1 imo.

If the marriage process in Russia is too cumbersome, you can apply for a Schengen visa and marry in a city where tourists can marry easily (e.g. Copenhagen, Reykjavík, etc.). If you don't want to apply for a visa, you can marry in a visa-free country (e.g. Hong Kong, Macao, etc.): https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=us&p2=ru&fl=&s=yes

[DiegoRlz 2]

I had the same doubt, and i think this might help you because it is based in my experience. When i sent my i-130, i had also those kind of jobs when i was younger (not record abour it) because i was working for my family business, and for like 5 years i had a business on my own about importing stuff, i had it with my ex gf in my country (no my  wife) and we were using her mom's credit card and all the money we got from it, we got it in cash so there was no proof about it. Then i had an almost one year job as an engineernig intership in my country while i was still studying. I am in my last semester of university and i wanna focuss now so i am rejecting some formal engineering jobs (i dont know if the nvc will see bad that i am not working but i am planning to leave after college so failing a class is not an option to me, if someone could help me it would be great). So, when i applied  my wife told me that the US goverment sees that kind of jobs pretty bad because it is like you are avoiding taxes. I didnt put them at all (something i was not quiet sure about because it kind of looks bad) so i jut presented the formal works i had (which doesnt really represente the whole time i have been working).  And they approved my petition. So i dont think you should worry, it might be better to have a job. But not presenting info about it is not a reason to deny you. 

I am worried actually, about nvc because since i am rejecting works due my college (i dont know if they will see that as bad and deny me) according to the waiting times i should be done with nvc in the first week of december, and i would have my intervire like january or first days of february and  i dont know if i would get a job by that time. So in the interview i wouldnt be working either because i finish college in december and i dont think it is enoug time for me to get a job. So does anyone knows if not having a formal job in the interview would be a cause of denial? I hope someone could help me  .  And good luck, i would say the uscis is not the hardest stage so just be honest and complete carefully your form.

[CM&KV 72]

I think for the listing of jobs is so they are able to help pin point the right Vladimir with a common last name, that might be born on the same day as you and live in the same city etc.

 

My husband was asking me the same thing and I told him what I am telling you now. He's done some side work but we didn't listed them, besides that work was more than 10 years ago. There is a small handful of people with the same 1st and last name as him.

 

He was also asking about addresses, so we placed what was in his internal passports (Ukrainian and Russian) from age 16 to current age. Sadly for the last 4 years he was couch surfing at friends of the family's extra rooms in their apartments, never was registered, and nevered listed them since how I understood the instructions was to list permanent residency and not temporary. But we listed his parents house since thats where he was registared still at till a month before I submitted our petition. And right now we are waiting for Moscow/NVC to schedule our interview.  If we get denied this won't be the reason, but I won't go into details of why I think we could be deinied till it happens or not.

[stacyt 209]

I'm from Ukraine and not all my jobs were official but I still listed them, had no issues with the applications, no RFE's.

[Visitor User 236]

Will the interviewer asked for the beneficiary employment history in USA? It’s also looked at for last 5 years right? What about w-2 and federal tax returns? 

Edited October 3, 2018 by Visitor User

[Visitor User 236]

13 hours ago, debbiedoo said:

they dont care about the benficiaries work history

Even if the employement was in USA?

[Visitor User 236]

Anyone?