US Immigration from Canada

Hi all,

I have a question about the RFE deadline. On January 26, we received a status update saying a Request for Evidence was to be sent to our mailing address. On February 9, we had still not received the Notice, so we submitted an e-request to request a resend of the Notice. It is now February 26, and we have not received the first nor the second Notice. I am getting anxious because our application will be abandoned if we are unable to respond to the RFE by the deadline stated on the RFE notice, but as we never received any notice, we have no idea when the deadline might be. Does anyone know, generally, what the deadline to submit a RFE is from the date it was sent?

Hi everyone,

I noticed my approval for my I-29f petition will be exipiring in March 2021. I have not yet heard from the NVC regarding the next steps (Though I do have my case number and invoice number as I called them). I have submitted an inquiry on the Ask NVC form online inquiring about how to renew my petition but have not heard back. Does anyone else know how I ca get the petition approval extended? I would hate for it to expire but am unable to move forward as the Montreal Embassy is not taking any more cases at this time.

Apologies if there is a better forum for this to have gone under - I did a check but couldn't see anything that applied and didn't see any questions about it asked before.

My fiance's income is$38k annually. I know that that is well above the required amount for a K1 visa, but for the AOS income RapidVisa's calculator indicates 43k a year is the "safe zone". In anyone's opinion, it likely that we will need a co-sponsor when it comes tome to file for my AOS? If it is I'll have to start broaching that subject with him now, as I know he is very hesitant to want to ask anyone for help with this.

Thanks!

Whoops - edited to add that it is just him in the household (he is living at home but provides for himself, so it would just be 1 plus me as he doesn't need to factor his family into it as he is not financially responsible for them even though he lives there?)

Hello, Very new just starting the K1 journey but was curious is it going to be possible once I hopefully get my K1 visa for my fianc and I to get married in Mexico (she enjoys Cabo) and if not we also like St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. She likes the idea of a beach wedding somewhere very warm. I guess Hawaii is another option? Thank you, sure I will have many more inquiries along the way.

Hi All,

We could use some advice on what evidence to give, specifically affidavits.

We have a ton of visits over the time period but unfortunately we didn't plan ahead well enough and there's not an abundance of evidence to submit. We visited each others families for Christmas 2019 and got just two photos with more than just us in them, which is more than can be said of the other trips, so we figured that would be the trip to focus on. Canada/USA crossings don't typically get passport stamps and for this Christmas trip we drove across each way so no airline receipts either. Because of the lack of stuff, we included our Google Timeline histories in the packet which show us traveling together for the whole trip of almost two weeks. We're thinking USCIS didn't really know what to do with the Google Timelines though, 'cause they sent us an RFE.

In hindsight, we could've done a better job of presenting the evidence. The Google Timeline screenshots had her name and email but mine didn't. The photos where in the packet but didn't have the date and place info handwritten on them (though the info was typed elsewhere in the packet, referencing the page with the photos.) So we're fixing what we think needs it but we also want to add a bit more, specifically affidavits from our families saying we were there. I haven't been able to find much additional info on what's needed for affidavits though. Most of the info I have is from the RFE packet itself, which has some decent info on what the affidavits should contain but doesn't say anything about how they should be structured.

Anyway, these are the questions I have.

The RFE says affidavits are, "Written statement sworn to or affirmed by two persons, other than [yourselves]..." Trying to not take it too literally, it sounds like we should have one affidavit signed by everyone at a particular event. So we'd have one affidavit for Christmas with her family and one for Christmas with mine. Having one affidavit for everyone involved is not what we should do. Does that sound right?

Looking up the definition of 'affidavit' it sounds like they need to be notarized. The RFE doesn't mention notarization at all though. Is notarization necessary?

Any other comments or suggestions are totally welcome.

Thanks everyone!