NVC Filers - February 2020

[Mr & Mrs T 778]

5 minutes ago, Alix64 said:

what we were talking about the other evening 😉

Yep ! 😀
papeworks to  the last mn 😩

Edited February 28, 2020 by Mr & Mrs T

[NM2001 45]

3 hours ago, Alix64 said:

Hi NM2001,

I am trying to track that discussion on the "public charge form". Cannot find the first post about it in here.

Sorry to have you (probably) repeat yourself, but where can this form be found?

Thank you for your help.

Alix

I see someone supplied you with the form already. I couldn't find the form on USCIS when searching for it, only information about the new rule was on their site which is odd. I just googled the form and was able to find it that way. 

[LilyJ 1,258]

Hi everyone, this morning I emailed our consulate (Stockholm) to see if they are requiring DS5540 at interviews, even if DQd before Feb 24 and here is their response, they are requiring it unless it has already been collected by NVC. Even if you were DQ before Feb 24 I would bring DS5540 to your interview just to be safe and contact your consulate to see what they are requiring you do to for it 

[JuJu83 3]

Found below comment from this site: https://cliniclegal.org/resources/ground-inadmissibility-and-deportability/public-charge/state-departments-new-fam-public

 

The State Department has chosen to implement this new form and rule change in the most expedient way possible. Rather than giving immigrant visa applicants time to prepare for the changes and apply the DS-5540 only to those who are filing the DS-260 after the effective date, the agency is applying it immediately. In response to public comments on the DS-5540, the agency writes: ”once the DS-5540 is approved, consular officers may ask visa applicants orally or in writing (i.e., using the form) any or all of the questions from Form DS-5540 necessary for the consular officer to make the public charge determination.”

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Based on this announcement, and until we receive further clarification, clients should be prepared for heightened public charge screening when they appear for consular interviews beginning on February 24, 2020. Clients already scheduled for an interview, including those scheduled in the future and whose DS-260 was submitted before February 24, 2020, should bring with them a completed DS-5540 together with supporting documents. Practitioners should also prepare a letter/statement summarizing the positive public charge factors and explaining why the applicant is not likely to become a public charge based on the new FAM guidance. This is particularly important given the FAM guidance on when consular officials should designate a refusal based on INA § 221(g)—insufficient documentation—or based on INA § 212(a)(4)—public charge inadmissibility. It states:

Applicants who [sic] you determine are more likely than not to become a public charge at any time after admission even after the presentation of additional evidence, should be refused under INA 212(a)(4) instead of INA 221(g); however, you must provide applicants an opportunity to provide a completed DS-5540 before you refuse an application under INA 212(a)(4).

Given that there is little or no accountability regarding what an officer communicates to the applicant concerning the documentation he or she should submit in connection with the DS-5540, clients should come prepared to submit as much as possible. Practitioners should even have clients practice submitting the documentation during a mock interview, given that in many cases the officer will not specifically request it.

[Asquare88 18]

Got documentary qualified mail~28 feb 2020

first and only submission ~24 Dec 2019

[Mr & Mrs T 778]

Hi everyone , 

I have my interview in Paris in the 4th of March and now appear this public charge questionnaire .. 

so I will prepare it in order to bring it at my interview but now I am afraid to be put in AP for something I will not know the existence if I was not on VJ . 
 

nothing from the NVC or embassy about that . And even if I send a mail to the Paris embassy they will not answer ( they never answered at my emails ) 
will they look at it in front of me or will they take time to do it and put me in AP ..?

 

plus I have no assets or income for the last year , I am afraid to be denied because of that even if my husband meet more than 125% of the minimum income requirement for 2 people 

 

this process will drain me to the end ...

thank you for your answers 🙂

 

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by Mr & Mrs T

[Alix64 425]

1 minute ago, Mr & Mrs T said:

now appear this public charge questionnaire

so confusing...

[Mr & Mrs T 778]

1 minute ago, Alix64 said:

so confusing...

Honestly I don’t know what to think anymore ..

few days before the interview , another form .. really? 

[LOUHAMILTON 75]

I don't even know what to think about this new information. Is travel insurance okay in this case or not? Does anyone know?

[Tofu 343]

5 minutes ago, LOUHAMILTON said:

I don't even know what to think about this new information. Is travel insurance okay in this case or not? Does anyone know?

I also am not sure ! 

 

I was thinking travellers insurance is not appropriate since once we enter the US, we will be a permanent resident (no longer a traveller).

[LilyJ 1,258]

Just now, Tofu said:

I also am not sure ! 

 

I was thinking travellers insurance is not appropriate since once we enter the US, we will be a permanent resident (no longer a traveller).

 

6 minutes ago, LOUHAMILTON said:

I don't even know what to think about this new information. Is travel insurance okay in this case or not? Does anyone know?

Yep I don’t think travellers insurance works since you’re no longer a tourist and so traveller insurance won’t cover 

[LOUHAMILTON 75]

3 minutes ago, LilyJ said:

 

Yep I don’t think travellers insurance works since you’re no longer a tourist and so traveller insurance won’t cover 

I don't know how to prove I'll get coverage there, I'm super confused.  My husband will pay for my insurance and the I-184 insures that, even with a joint sponsor. But I don't have a tax return there, I've never been to the US and I don't earn enough in Brazil. What a mess! 

[LilyJ 1,258]

1 minute ago, LOUHAMILTON said:

I don't know how to prove I'll get coverage there, I'm super confused.  My husband will pay for my insurance and the I-184 insures that, even with a joint sponsor. But I don't have a tax return there, I've never been to the US and I don't earn enough in Brazil. What a mess! 

Same here, we don’t know how to prove it. My husband will purchase his own insurance once he’s here, but every company I’ve asked said he can’t purchase it before coming here, so I have no idea what to do to show that he will!

[Tofu 343]

6 minutes ago, LilyJ said:

Same here, we don’t know how to prove it. My husband will purchase his own insurance once he’s here, but every company I’ve asked said he can’t purchase it before coming here, so I have no idea what to do to show that he will!

Seems like there is a BIG untapped market in the insurance world!

[DeParaquedasBrasi 228]

8 minutes ago, LOUHAMILTON said:

I don't know how to prove I'll get coverage there, I'm super confused.  My husband will pay for my insurance and the I-184 insures that, even with a joint sponsor. But I don't have a tax return there, I've never been to the US and I don't earn enough in Brazil. What a mess! 

From what I understand on the form, you just have to prove that you'll have coverage within the first 30 days after you arrive.