US Immigration from France

My fiance and I are currently in the middle of the K1 process and he has an interview at the embassy next week.

However I didn't fully understand the I-864 requirements. I had thought he'd be permitted to work as soon as we were married and that his salary would be counted as income for support.

I now understand this is not the case. I make enough for the I-134 requirements but I'm just shy of 5k per year for the 125% requirements of the I-864.

If he's able to work, we'll be fine.

OR If I'm able to use my home equity as collateral for the difference, we'll be fine. (It was suggested on the K1 forum that the home the immigrant lives in can't be used for this, but there's nothing to that effect on the instructions and I'd technically be using the home's equity.)

Barring that... I need to start looking into the CR1 I guess.

My question is this: if he comes on the K1 visa and we don't get approved for the AOS but we're already married... then what? does he go back to France while we file for the CR1?

He'd have to quit his job to come... so that might not be the best option.

Or if we decide to scrap the K1 process to avoid that possible mess... how do we swtich to CR1?

Where would we get married? I mean, you have to have a marraige license to marry here... I'm not sure that PA approves those for non-US citizens.

Should I go there (to France) to marry him? Would USCIS accept that for the CR1 application?

If we do decide to pursue the CR1 instead... what do we do with his embassy appointment next week? If he goes and we're approved but are concerned with what happens once he's here... does he just contact the embassy and say 'on second thought...'?

How do we switch over?

I feel gutted with the idea that we've gone this far and could have to begin at 1... and it doesn't seem any less complicated.

TIA for any help/info...

My fiancee has an appointment for Wednesday 2/26 at the French embassy.

For this appointment, is he obligated to bring an original certified copy of MY divorce? (i.e.- not a scan of an original certified copy) What about his? Does this appointment take scans?

I read something on here recently that made me worry over this.

What about the I-797C, Notice of Action Form and the I-797? They were sent to me and I scanned them and sent to him the scans. Does he need the originals?

We're under the wire here and now I'm very worried.

We've been laboring under the impression that scans were acceptable. Now I'm unsure. Should I have mailed the originals to him?

I might be able to overnight stuff to him and get it there by Monday (his flight to Paris is early Tuesday.)

Does anyone know exactly which originals, if any, are needed for this appointment?

Oh, and what about my letter of intent to marry... I was going to print it, sign it and scan it back to him. Does that need to be an original as well (as in the scan isn't acceptable?)

Sorry for alll the questions, I'm freaking out a bit now.

TIA for any help!

The subject has it all.

I can't figure out if I'm supposed to file the I-134 Declaration of Financial Support for my Fiance and his daughters K1 and K2 applications or the I-864.

Do I submit my W2 from last year as proof? Part of my income is child support from my ex (until my kids are no longer my dependents.) Do I just show the court agreement showing that?

Thank you in advance for any help. There's SO much to all this!

Is there a way for my Fiance to shedule the K2 interview for his daughter on the same day as his K1 interview?

Are these scheduled separately or should he just bring his daughter with him to the K1 interview along with the DS160 completed?

I know now that the K1 is a non-immigrant visa. Is the K2 considered an immigrant visa?

He's trying to schedule these now and running into some difficulty. He's 6 hours from Paris so he'd like to get it all done in the same day if possible.

TIA for any help here!

So my husband's GC is expiring in a little less than 6 months (April 2025) so we applied for his GC Renewal through a I-90 Form submitted online.

I read that it would take in average 2 years to get the new green card (USCIS Processing Times for I-90 / Renewal on the website), but to our surprise, after only 2 business days, we got a notification that the I-90 Form was approved and the new card is being produced.

When we got the notification email that the case status had changed, we expected that it would be the appointment for biometrics, but no.

It was a nice surprise!