Change of status for the Petitioner

[Roger and Junhua 0]

Hi everyone from VJ! I came to the forum often to read posts by different memebers and found this website to be extremely useful. Like everyone, we are all struggling with the long waiting time which seems to be a toruring process. My Fiancee filed the petition in the middle of June and it has been over two months now, but we still don't get anything (apart from NOA1). He is coming over to China at the end of Sep, and this is his second visit to me. We got engaged in April, but filed the petition in June only because he just graduated from his university at the beginning of this year, and has to find a job before we start the process. Now it seems like we can't endure the waiting process any more and if he comes to China, it would make the waiting process shorter, in addition, he is crazy about China and learning Chinese. During the time he is here, he can find teaching job in the language school, but I am not sure whether that will affect our visa application process. Since the salary in China is much lower than that of the US and also if he stays, that means he lost the job and have to start all over again when we go to the States. Will the Visa Officer deny the visa because of this? What about my Fiancee has something like Afidavit from his dad for financial support for us? Is anybody in similar situation to us?

[no name 1]

Your fiance needs to fill out an I-134 for the interview. If he does not meet the poverty guidelines, you will need a co-sponsor.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

If your fiancee moves to China to work (legally of course) and you were to get married there, you can apply for DCF I think (waiting for the Gods of Chinese filing to refute). However, foreign income DOES NOT COUNT at all. You would indeed need a cosponsor.

Good luck, L.

[Roger and Junhua 0]

If your fiancee moves to China to work (legally of course) and you were to get married there, you can apply for DCF I think (waiting for the Gods of Chinese filing to refute). However, foreign income DOES NOT COUNT at all. You would indeed need a cosponsor.

Good luck, L.

Thank you so much for your reply. It seems like it would not be very good for my Fiance to find a job in China for the K1, but I am thinking about if he can find a suitable job as the foreign expatriate in China, maybe we will consider getting married in China and change the visa application type to K3, then we will wait together and live in China until the K3 is approved. For K3 visa, will the foreign income count? Can we change the visa type during the waiting process without doing the I-129F approval again? Or do we have to start it all over again? What is DCF please?

Edited September 3, 2007 by Roger and Junhua