US Immigration from New Zealand

Hi team,

Okay so my questions is, when assessing adequate means of financial support, is current income the only factor or can you make a claim based on net savings and assets?

My husband and I currently both live in NZ (beneficiary's home country) with full time incomes (both well over the $21,677 income requirement) - we will make moves to start looking for work in the U.S. before heading over but would like to move as soon as possible regardless of job security. We have healthy savings and we've also discussed taking our time to find new employment and maybe doing a bit of traveling around the U.S. before settling back into the ole 9 to 5. We are confident we can sustain ourselves through an unemployment gap and I'm not really looking to leave my husband to go secure work in the U.S. before he can join me.. so... thoughts?? If this is our plan (to potentially go over jobless and look for work after we've arrived) will we definitely have to get a joint sponsor or is there a way to prove self sufficiency with other financial evidence outside of current income. Seems silly to have to rely on joint sponsorship with plenty to keep ourselves afloat but I'm unsure how immigration will look at it.

Note: We are still waiting for I-130 approval (lodged Feb 2021) so have not begun filling out I-864, it's just been one of my worries and I wanted to get some thoughts now.

Cheers

Hi there,

My spouse and I are currently filling out our I-864 for my CR-1 visa (she's the sponsor, I'm the immigrant). As a bit of background, we've both been living together in Canada and then New Zealand for the past few years. We realise that because her income has not been US based for this time, she cannot sponsor me and so we've found a joint sponsor - her grandma who has filled out an I-864 and provided the required tax documents etc.

We are filling out the I-864 for my wife now and upon reaching Section 6, 23.a - 24.c realised that she didn't submit her taxes for the 2019 tax year. We have her tax returns for 2020 and 2018, but in the chaos of moving countries amongst other things 2019 was forgotten about. To solve this we were going to do the obvious thing and just file for 2019, however it's proving frustratingly difficult to get all of the required tax information for both Canada and New Zealand during that year in order to report it on the US tax return.

We already know that her US based income for the 2019 tax year doesn't meet the sponsorship requirements (or 2018 or 2020) which is why we have a joint sponsor. Will it be enough to provide her 2020 tax transcript, and the total income reported for 2020 and 2018 given that we are relying on a joint sponsor anyway? Or will it be absolutely required that all three tax years are there?

Thanks for your help!

My fianc is trying to contact NVC so far he has emailed with no response so he called (603) 334 0888 was told The number above can t discuss immigration and the number they provide is an answering dead end same statement all day, no chance to speak with anyone

anyone have any advice or other way to contact NVC please??

Not sure if anyone can answer this but here goes. My spouse beneficiary worked in the US three times in the mid to late 2000s, the first two times on H-2B visas and the third on a Q1. It was the same position for the same employer, although the Q1 also involved additional training and participating in a cultural exchange program. A few months after the Q-1 petition and visa had been approved and my husband started work in the US, his employer told him that the petition (which was for more than 100 workers, not just him) was undergoing administrative review. Later they were told that USCIS had recommended revoking the petition (based on a determination that the program didn't actually meet the requirements of a Q-1) and his employer was initiating an appeal. By that stage he had nearly finished his contract and was about to leave the US anyway, still within the period of the approved visa in his passport. We found out that the petition was eventually revoked several months after he left the country, although he never received any communication from USCIS regarding his visa which had long since expired. He has been back to the US under the Visa Waiver Program at least 10 times since then and never had an issues.

We were upfront about this in his DS-260 and also still had a copy of the approval notice for the petition and a photo of his visa, which we provided to NVC. Does anyone know if/how this might affect his IR-1 application and interview process? There's obviously nothing to hide as he did everything right and in accordance with the terms of the visa he was issued, but technically his Q-1 was revoked. Any insight would be appreciated!

Hi! I'm a US citizen moving back to the US with my husband and kids after 10+ years living abroad. We will have an awkward period of 3-4 months after we move before the sale of our current house is finalized, giving us the ability purchase a house in the US. All of our belongings will also be at least 60 days behind us when we arrive. We can stay with family for the first several weeks but eventually would like to go to the area where we plan to settle down to get the kids started in school, etc. There are plenty of furnished houses on AirBNB that are rented month to month so this seems to be most obvious solution. Does anyone know if it's possible to enroll kids in public schools with this kind of short term housing arrangement?? Any other tips for negotiating this transitional period? Thanks in advance