questions on I-864 and transfers

[Justus Forever 85]

Good Morning all now i am not at the nvc stage yet but i like to be prepared plus i will be leaving soon to visit my husband and want to take all i need and get all i need done. I soon should hear something soon i have been looking all around in comments and other sites and i have been getting different information. i already confuse my self with the reading. as for the I864 i know i will do 3 separate forms but i have been told as i read not to add family if they have their own. Then i asked again after reading it over and over someone said i do add each one to each other forms. I am the petitioner sponsoring my husband and 2 daughters. I would like some feed back about this from someone that has moved on with no problems. I am very nervous at this point being i had to start all over because i didn't have the national archives from port au prince and i first filed in January 2019 and had to refile in oct 2019. So yes i am scared to wait longer it's not that i am not reading it's im confusing my self.

 

as for the transfer has any experience a transfer from potamac to texas. i have 3 cases and only one daughter went to texas my husband and other daughter stayed in potomac. I see the time frame for both tx is over due and im on my 8th month now for potomac. I just want to know why one would be transfered. Thank you in a dvance for help

[geowrian 22,335]

if you are a US citizen, then there would be an I-130 for each relative being sponsored.

There is an I-864 packet needed at NVC for each I-130. Each I-864 is completed separately.

 

There is no process to request a transfer of service centers. They are different petitions and are treated separately, and sometimes are adjudicated at different service centers.

If the issue is timing, you can wait until they are all at NVC and make sure they get combined there (you may have to ask NVC to do so).

 

If you really want to try it, you can call USCIS and ask that they transfer the petition to be with the others. Hope for the best but expect the worst.

[Justus Forever 85]

9 minutes ago, geowrian said:

if you are a US citizen, then there would be an I-130 for each relative being sponsored.

There is an I-864 packet needed at NVC for each I-130. Each I-864 is completed separately.

 

There is no process to request a transfer of service centers. They are different petitions and are treated separately, and sometimes are adjudicated at different service centers.

If the issue is timing, you can wait until they are all at NVC and make sure they get combined there (you may have to ask NVC to do so).

 

If you really want to try it, you can call USCIS and ask that they transfer the petition to be with the others. Hope for the best but expect the worst.

Thank you i am us citizen and yes all 3 were at potomac service center until when i called last week they told me one case went to texas i didn't request. i do know to request at nvc stage. i figured i would need three 864 forms but someone said no it's only one and put eveyone on there this is why i am confused as the instructions say don't include no one with seperate 130 forms. then it says to add the names to those who will be following so this is why i need someone that has recently had spouse and kids to join thast has been approve. I was also told that nvc is not like uscis with the payments but i read thast and got that part. thank you for your response

[geowrian 22,335]

2 minutes ago, Justus Forever said:

i figured i would need three 864 forms but someone said no it's only one and put eveyone on there this is why i am confused as the instructions say don't include no one with seperate 130 forms.

I can't speak as to why they said that. In your circumstances, you need an I-864 for each of them (1 I-864 per I-130).

 

It's possible they thought you had a family preference case and not an immediate relative (IR/CR visas) case (or they don't know the difference). Family preference cases allow derivatives, so there's only 1 I-130 needed there, and the I-864 listing all family members coming with the primary beneficiary.

But your cases do not allow derivatives, so each relative needs their own I-130 and I-864.

[pushbrk 12,106]

8 hours ago, Justus Forever said:

Thank you i am us citizen and yes all 3 were at potomac service center until when i called last week they told me one case went to texas i didn't request. i do know to request at nvc stage. i figured i would need three 864 forms but someone said no it's only one and put eveyone on there this is why i am confused as the instructions say don't include no one with seperate 130 forms. then it says to add the names to those who will be following so this is why i need someone that has recently had spouse and kids to join thast has been approve. I was also told that nvc is not like uscis with the payments but i read thast and got that part. thank you for your response

"Someone said" is not a reliable source.  The instructions DO tell you to file a separate affidavit of support for each intending immigrant in a case like yours.  Study harder. You don't need to hear from somebody with recent experience.  You just need to follow the correct instructions.  The instruction not to include anybody with a separate petition, trumps anything after it.  The children will be counted as dependents on the spouse's affidavit.  The spouse will be counted as your spouse on each child's affidavit.