US Immigration from Belgium

Hi everyone,

I have a couple of questions regarding DCF and the affidavit of support.

I am from Belgium and my wife is from the USA.

Married 2+ years.

We now live in belgium and my wife has a residency permit here since last year.

We want to move to the USA in '26. We have not started any procedure yet but are in information gathering fase.

Direct Consular Filing seems like a nice option.

A problem for us i expect will be the affidavit of support:

- in 2024 for a couple of months my wife worked, from belgium, for a USA company (online). I don't know exactly how much income she can show, but i think around 30K

- She collected USA unemployment for a couple of months, although technicaly she shouldent have because living in belgium.

- she payed USA taxes on that income (technicaly should have payed belgian taxes)

- since oktober '24 she works for a belgium company and makes about 80K/year

- she has, due to an issue with an inheritance in the past, an openstanding tax debt of about $40K

- she has savings (cash) of maybe 30K. combined we have savings (including stocks etc) of around 60K

- she has a property abroad, south america, that is in a process of being sold, but its a long procedure and it may take 1-2 years

- my wife hasn't lived in the states for 7 years, but kept a domocile (like a legal adress) there, it's at a friends house;

So my questions are:

- can she outright qualify for an affidavit of support?

- if not: what is the easiest way to do it?

- at what stage of the process do you have to produce the affidavit of support? if it is at the end, it could be an option for her to move to the states a couple months ahead of me, and get a higher paying job there.

- Does tax debt / past unemployment benefit matter a lot?

- should she file taxes for 2024 also in the USA? (we file in belgium since we live here)

Also:

- does anyone have experience with DCF from Belgium: brussels? How long does the process typicaly take?

- is it an option to start with the DCF route, but possibly change to another method (fly there on ESTA, or IR1 visa) should my wife get for example an amzing job offer soon.

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