US Immigration from Germany

Hi everyone,

For the I-130 is it ok to upload the petitioners passport as a proof of citizenship? I read about thag people were scanning every page of this passport. Is it not ok to only upload the two pages with their name on?

Thanks for helping
Sabrina

Hello everyone,

i have a question regarding the Class of Admission on I-130 online form.

I only travelled to the US through an ESTA from Germany and i m currently not in the US. Would my answer be correct?

Thanks

Sabrina

I m in the process of submitting my petition packet and as the petitioner I have 5 counts of control substance BY FORGERY. I plead guilty and the outcome of the charges were NOLLE PROSEQUI ALL COUNTS. On question 2c. below I answered no because it says 3 or more arrest which mines was 1 arrest did I answer this question correctly? I did answer YES to the question regarding all other arrests.

2.c. Three or more arrests or convictions, not from a single act, for crimes relating to a controlled substance or alcohol?

Hi,

So... We have submitted our AoS using an assets only approach (this thread, if anyone is interested). With our assets we are very comfortably over the 3x min. income requirement. We just got two notes though, timestamped identically:

Case FE Review Note 1:

 This case does not meet the minimum income requirement to sponsor the intending immigrants. To avoid delays, an additional Affidavit of Support Form I-864 from a joint sponsor may be submitted. For more information visit https://nvc.state.gov/aos. The consular officer will make a decision regarding this requirement at the time of the interview. For more information, please visit https://www.uscis.gov/i-864p. 

Case FE Review Note 2:

 Please submit XXXXX's Evidence of Income. For more information, visit https://nvc.state.gov/fin.

Our Status for AoS now reads: "Paid, Accepted". So We are not sure how to interpret the review notes now..

• Is submitting the above (income or/and joint sponsor) still optional and we can just wait until the DS-260 is accepted as well to get an interview appointment?
• Do we HAVE to submit anything now in order to proceed? As we don't have a US based income (yet), we cannot submit anything regarding note2 ...
• Would submitting a Joint Sponsor delay the case or help? Would we simply bring a completed form to the interview or do they want you to submit it online first?
• Should we bring a completed joint sponsor application to the interview "just in case"?

I have read in the following thread that this seems to be normal. But I am not sure if this still applies to us as well. Our interview would be in Germany.

Hello,

I have a difficult tax question and hope someone knows the answer here:)

1. I got a house gifted in Austria from my parents in 2013.

2. I got my green card in 2019 and became PR during that tax year.

3. I am now selling the house in 2022.

4. The tax treaty between Austria and USA says that taxes for real property sales need to be taxed in the country of the property.

5. Based on other similar threads on VJ, I assume that If capital gain tax is calculated in USA, it is on the profit calculated based on the house worth on the day of my immigration (2019)

and the difference to the sales price.

Now my questions:

a) Is there a link to IRS that says the basis of the house is the worth of the date of immigrating? I could not find anything like that to be honest in writing although it has been mentioned as a rule on VJ.

b) Do I still need to pay capital gain tax in USA if the double tax treaty says that taxation is made in the other country? I assume in that case I can deduct the tax paid abroad but the double tax treaty should

actually prevent paying taxes in 2 countries.

c) I do not know the exact worth of the house in 2019. Is it ok to estimate as follows: house sales price 2022 - average price increase of similar properties in Austria for 2021,2020,2019? I would check how much similar properties appreciated in that period of time and estimate the worth based on that?

Thanks for the help!