Form I-134 need for declaring assets (vs Form I-864)

[J586 0]

tl;dr question: Is tax and employment info enough? Don't want to provide tons of sensitive personal and financial info if not necessary.

We recently received our NOA2 for K1 visa and I'm trying to complete everything that I can while awaiting the NVC case number. I am filling out the Form I-134 "Declaration of Financial Support". I'm a little confused by what's needed for the income and assets. For income, I've added my W2 and tax return documents in addition to a letter from work stating my occupation, salary, length of service, etc all on official letterhead and signed. 

 

So... do I need to include an exhaustive list of assets? I don't plan on using any of these assets to support my fiancee during her < 3 month stay before getting married and filing for AOS. For the Form I-864 (Affidavit of Support) that I will need to file in the future to sponsor her for green card, it explicitly states that it doesn't require assets at all if you are a certain level above the poverty line so I'm confused as to why it seems required for I-134. 

Thanks 

[OldUser 10,731]

22 minutes ago, J586 said:

tl;dr question: Is tax and employment info enough? Don't want to provide tons of sensitive personal and financial info if not necessary.
 

Just to let you know, throughout the process there may be multiple occasions when you will be asked to provide sensitive and personal information of all sorts, including how you live, how your intimate life is, finances and many more. USCIS can in some cases even visit your place. So if you're not ready for this, I'd think twice before sponsoring somebody. The expectation is you're very transparent with agency about everything, and will eventually comingle finances or share other things with your future spouse and provide proof of that 

Edited October 1 by OldUser

[Edward and Jaycel 2,252]

If your tax transcripts / income are enough to prove that you exceed the threshold, you do not need to include assets. My income was more than enough and I did not include assets in either the I-134 or the I-864 and had zero issues.

[rbv_shard 26]

On 10/1/2025 at 1:57 PM, OldUser said:

Just to let you know, throughout the process there may be multiple occasions when you will be asked to provide sensitive and personal information of all sorts, including how you live, how your intimate life is, finances and many more. USCIS can in some cases even visit your place. So if you're not ready for this, I'd think twice before sponsoring somebody. The expectation is you're very transparent with agency about everything, and will eventually comingle finances or share other things with your future spouse and provide proof of that 

There's a big difference between providing the information to USCIS and putting it in the hands of non-US staff at the embassy.  Corruption levels vary wildly around the world and some countries don't prosecute (or investigate) identity theft.

[TBoneTX 48,191]

1 minute ago, rbv_shard said:

There's a big difference between providing the information to USCIS and putting it in the hands of non-US staff at the embassy.

There actually is not.  The LES (locally engaged staff), the natives employed at the consulates, receive the same information that USCIS has seen, plus more.  They are stringently screened and vetted, and penalties for violating privacy standards are severe.  Please avoid posting inaccurate information.

[rbv_shard 26]

1 minute ago, TBoneTX said:

There actually is not.  The LES (locally engaged staff), the natives employed at the consulates, receive the same information that USCIS has seen, plus more.  They are stringently screened and vetted, and penalties for violating privacy standards are severe.  Please avoid posting inaccurate information.

How would they see information that's not provided until after the visa is used to enter the USA, (AOS application or home visits)?  As you correctly said, they see what USCIS has seen, past tense, not what you disclose to USCIS later in the process (like OldUser's example: descriptions of being intimate in a genuine marriage).

As an example, consider Benghazi.  Some of the locals were incredibly loyal and valiantly died trying to protect the US ambassador.... while others mysteriously chose not to show up for work that day.
Second example: Pakistan.  The stringent screening to work for the US wasn't considered good enough background check to issue visas to come to the USA when American troops pulled out.  Result was that a lot of very good people got left behind and murdered.  I am definitely not saying that all or even a large number are criminals, but it only takes one to cause a ridiculous amount of trouble.

And beside the staff working in the embassy, any documents carried to the interview are at risk during travel to/from the embassy.

Thanks for the "correction", but there's only upside to being circumspect about including non-public records.  When it comes to vital statistics, like birth and marriage certificates of parents, those are public anyway, bring them all.

[Ryan H 3,925]

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