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Just a quick follow-up question. I have my appointment with the Civil Surgeon tomorrow to transcribe from my DS-3025 so we will be posting everything off after that. The reason we can't use my income as currently I am employed by Company A and contracting for Company B. However, Company B has already let me know that they will be taking me on full-time early next year. What this means though is even though I will be working for the same company, the income which now comes from Company A (which they obviously get from Company B) will be coming from Company B.

My question: is it worth even mentioning in a cover letter that I have been employed since September and what the current situation is with it or is extraneous information like this just disregarded?

Many thanks.

Thank you once again for your helpful response Hypnos. Given that my employment won't be a little more straight forward until early next year, we're just going to stick with using my father-in-law as the joint sponsor. Now just have to wait until we hear back from the Civil Surgeon about transcribing from my DS-3025.

Hi Hypnos - thank you so much for you detailed and helful response; it means a lot to us at this time. If you have a chance, I have some follow-up questions just for some further confirmation before we proceed:

- Proof of citizenship of joint sponsor (send in another photocopy of his birth certificate, or a photocopy of his naturalisation certificate (if a naturalised citizen) or the bio page of his US passport.

- Copies of his tax returns (have the joint sponsor call the IRS at 1-800-908-9946 and request tax transcripts of whichever years you need. These transcripts are accepted by USCIS, and are even preferred since they're single documents that give all details of the tax filing for that particular year).

Your income can be included on your wife's I-864 if it will continue from the same source once the green card is issued. If this is the case then your income can be listed on your wife's I-864 under Part 6.

In response to the above, if I can include my income on my wife's I-864 under Part 6, we would no longer need joint sponsorship as we would be well above the minimum with our combined incomes. The NOID states "You may submit a complete new I-864 with support evidence from a different joint sponsor if you choose". However, it doesn't mention anything about my wife re-submitting a new I-864. Would this be acceptable? This would negate the need to get my Father-in-law's information and having him as the joint sponsor. My only concern with this route is, from the I-864 Instructions "evidence that his/her income will continue from the current source after obtaining lawful permanent resident status must be provided." Does source mean the same employer, or is it referring to the source of the income such as employment in general versus either sources of income? Given that I don't know when I would obtain lawful permanent residence, I am not sure I can provide such evidence but I will talk to my employer at work tomorrow to see if anything can be arranged.

So my wife (US Citizen) and I (Australian) got some horrible, unexpected mail from USCIS yesterday - a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). The details leading up to this point have left us incredibly confused. I haven't had my AOS interview so the NOID is not for the reasons I have discovered online that others have received a NOID for such as not having a bona-fide relationship etc. They request:

• Proof of citizenship of our joint sponsor (my father-in-law)
• Copies of his tax returns and W-2's for 2011 and 2012
• Evidence that I am current for ager spefiic immunization (Please submit a properly completed Form I-693)

I had my full visa medical by a doctor on the certified list in Australia in November of last year. I received my K-1 Visa at the end of January and arrived in the US in the middle of February. We were wed on April 5 and filed my I-485 (Adjustment of Status) and I-765 (Employment Authorization) several weeks later. On May 5 of this year, we received an RFE requesting proof that our joint sponsor was a US Citizen, US National or Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States. We returned a photocopy of his US Birth Certificate and on May 30 we were advised that the USCIS had received our response to their RFE. Also in May I received my biometrics appointment notice and attended it as scheduled in the notice.

Fast forward to the start of July and I receive my Employment Authorization card in the mail. And then on August 2 I received another letter from USCIS: "Notice of Potential Interview Waiver Case" implying that they may not need to schedule me for an interview to complete my application. After receiving these two letters I had assumed that we had satisifed all of the requirements until yesterday when we got the NOID.

We are so confused as we sent in his birth certificate when we got the RFE and they acknowledged receipt of it. There may have been some issues with what we submitted initially in terms of his tax returns and W-2's (and we are addressing that now, thankfully we kept a copy of the packet we sent) but why would something like this pop up after an initial RFE?

As per the instructions on the I-485, I realized that as I was filing within one year of having my overseas medical, I did not require another medical in the US. As my packet was surrendered at POE, I did not have any copies of my medical forms and so I requested a copy of my DS-3025 from the Sydney Consulate which they were able to supply. I included this in the original AOS packet. As per the post http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/428381-i-693-report-of-medical-examination-and-vaccination-report/?p=6206232 my DS-3025 is filled out in it's entirety.

We are both very distraught and upset and not 100% on what to do. We are in the process of getting the information they requested together but unfortunately there is no address indicated as to where to send it to. My wife is going to call USCIS tomorrow morning to see if we can find out anything additional.

Also, I was able to get a job about 2.5 months ago which felt great after a month of searching. I assume that my income cannot be included for the I-864? At what point is the sponsor relieved of that responsibility?

Has anyone experienced anything like this? Dare I ask what happens in the event of a denial? Is it uncommon to receive employment authorization, a notice of potential interview waiver and then to receive a NOID?

Where did you do your medical in Australia? Could you possibly contact them and ask them to send you a copy of the DS-3025? Dr Waks did my Medical in Sydney and he was great and really helpful, he gave me a copy of the DS-3025 on the day of the Medical, as well as including one for the Embassy. Hopefully getting another one from your Dr is an option if they still have a copy of it. Good Luck!

We put an email in to his doctor requesting a copy, we are just concerned now with how long it will take to get it as his I-94 expires May 12th. The USCIS people aren't very helpful on the phone but I think we would have to schedule an appointment to extend his stay if it comes to that.

Not a K-1 process, moved to adjustment of status forums.

Apologies - thanks for moving the topic. My now husband had come to the US on a K-1 Visa

Hey,

My husband and I are working on our I-485 Adjustment of Status package and have become stuck on the i-693. He had his medical examination in Australia 5 months ago and the only vaccine required was for the flu. The DS-3025 was filled out however he never received a copy (I think it is in the yellow envelope that comes with the Visa? This was surrendered to immigration at POE) How do we go about doing the vaccination information on the i-693 for our i-485 or is it not required as they already have his medical examination and vaccination information? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Amen to Sydney getting it together. Your weddings a week after ours yeeaaa. Hope we both get to the US with some time to spare beforehand lol. Are you doing a ceremony and reception or just courthouse?

We are doing a full on ceremony and reception, cant believe its less than 3 months away. Its so crazy how quickly its getting here!

yeah this is the most frustrating part of the process by far. If we are able to get an interview date in March and my fiance is then able to get over here in the same month, it will have been a 12 month process for us from NOA1 to POE in the US. So much for that 7-8 month average processing time

I'm sure its a big pain for you eden with kids to try to get into schools, etc. Sydney needs to get it together! Our wedding is planned for April 5!

Just received an email from Sydney but not the one I want lol. Got the standard you'll hear from us within 30 days. Surely it can't take much longer!!!!

Drat, hopefully it will be the one we are waiting for asap!!

yeah it's a National Police Certificate based on Fingerprints and Name ($175), done at local police station, passport required and takes 2-3 weeks to get mailed to you

The medical is done beforehand and you mail the results with the rest of the documentation on the packet 3 checklist to the consulate

Hope that helps.

Hey all, is anyone aware of why the Sydney consulate is so delayed?? It seems like the majority of us that sent our packet 3's in December are still waiting for an interview date and those that have heard are getting February and even March interview dates. That's way beyond the 4-6 weeks I've seen for the majority of October and November filers. We have emailed them and we were given the same generic response we had gotten to another email which was you should receive packet 4 within 30 days...well we are at day 24 and are growing increasingly frustrated at no packet 4. Anyone heard what is going on there to slow them down so much??

Thank you!!! I'm going with the N/A (K-1 VISA PROCESS FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE)!!!

Are you going to check intend or just leave that blank?

now looking at this, found it on the forums:

http://www.visajourney.com/examples/Form-I-134.pdf

I guess we are supposed to put what they have listed on the sample.

We were a little confused about that too. For ours, I put I do intend and then stating to help out with food/groceries as needed until fiance is able to work. We had a co-sponsor, my dad, who also put I intend, and to supply a place to stay until my daughter's fiance is able to work. I hope that is correct. Can anyone shed some light on that for us?

Yes ma'am

Great, thanks for your help!

oops, I meant to write future son in law. After re-reading the form, I believe now that future son-in-law would be correct?

Hey all, we are filling out the I-134 and my dad is going to be our co-sponsor. On page 1 #3 it says "This affidavit is executed on behalf of the following person": my fiance is listed here. My question is in that same section it asks for the "Relationship to Sponsor". Now is that asking what my fiance's relationship to my father is i.e "future father-in-law" or should I put fiance as I am technically the sponsor, my dad is co-sponsor. Unsure as to how to answer that.

Also do we need to write "co-sponsor" on the form somewhere or is it relatively obvious since there are 2 I-134's being sent and my dad's is the one meeting the income requirements?

Thanks!

Hey,

I would go with Fedex or DHL. The reason I say this is I've had extremely bad experiences with the Australia Post AND USPS namely with losing original documents and not being able to track them. At least with a private courier company they are a little bit more stringent with their services.

Yeah that's what I was afraid of, I've sent a things to him previously using USPS and it would take between 2 weeks to 1 month with no tracking number available. His Valentines card actually took 6 weeks last year. I think I'll try Fedex. Thanks!

thanks guys, I'll check into the ones you have mentioned

Hey everyone, my fiance and I got our NOA2 on Sept 26, and are now getting the other documents together for his interview (I-134, birth certificate, etc) and wonder what is the best way to send my fiance these items? Definitely want a tracking number and a signature on delivery I'd imagine, maybe UPS? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.