i-130 Petitioner Employment History

[ayestaci 121]

Hey everyone!

 

Firstly, VisaJourney has been such an amazing resource so far to lurk on. But now I have a specific question and after searching the forums, I can't find an answer, so I'm asking directly!

 

We're filing for the CR-1 visa right now (yay) after getting married in May. One of the questions on the i-130 is the petitioner's employment history.

 

Not a problem... except that my husband works in film & TV. In the past few months alone, I can think of 3 shows he's worked on, so it's probably 10+ a year at points. It's a long employment history and as he has tax records, it's not a problem in terms of knowing where he's worked, but the dates. We know the year. His memory is uh questionable and some of the months may be off.

 

I guess my question is, how big of a problem is this likely to be if a lot of the dates, especially of much shorter stints, are wild estimations (but at least we know the year?). Has anyone else dealt with a frustratingly bitty job history and come out fine?

Edited July 1, 2019 by Cosmering

[Wuozopo 4,285]

12 hours ago, ayestaci said:

Hey everyone!

 

Firstly, VisaJourney has been such an amazing resource so far to lurk on. But now I have a specific question and after searching the forums, I can't find an answer, so I'm asking directly!

 

We're filing for the CR-1 visa right now (yay) after getting married in May. One of the questions on the i-130 is the petitioner's employment history.

 

Not a problem... except that my husband works in film & TV. In the past few months alone, I can think of 3 shows he's worked on, so it's probably 10+ a year at points. It's a long employment history and as he has tax records, it's not a problem in terms of knowing where he's worked, but the dates. We know the year. His memory is uh questionable and some of the months may be off.

 

I guess my question is, how big of a problem is this likely to be if a lot of the dates, especially of much shorter stints, are wild estimations (but at least we know the year?). Has anyone else dealt with a frustratingly bitty job history and come out fine?

I would just say self-employed film actor and not list all the specific job dates/places. You can use the additional information sheet to elaborate if you want. 

[ayestaci 121]

45 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

I would just say self-employed film actor and not list all the specific job dates/places. You can use the additional information sheet to elaborate if you want. 

He's not an actor, he works on the crew, so he's not self-employed — he does actually have employers, I believe, so I'm worried this might count as misleading! However, I can see if there's a way he can list at least all the TV/films as one job somehow and just elaborate on them in the extra information, might be an idea. Thanks!

[pushbrk 12,106]

If he is a Union Member earning W2 income, (Quite Certain he is.) just list the union and occupation, along with applicable dates of being in the Union.  If he gets 1099 forms for his work, then he IS self employed...

[ayestaci 121]

1 minute ago, pushbrk said:

If he is a Union Member earning W2 income, (Quite Certain he is.) just list the union and occupation, along with applicable dates of being in the Union.  If he gets 1099 forms for his work, then he IS self employed...

Great, thank you so much! He definitely is a Union member earning W2 income, so this is absolutely what we needed to know it was fine to do.