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Not sure why you think it's a problem. Just follow the instructions and provide what the I-864 asks. Same for the joint sponsor. If income is sufficient, the joint sponsor can simply leave all the asset questions blank. That's an optional section. See the note above it on the form itself.

If you haven't had income, you weren't required to file a tax return. Simply hand write in that section, "Not required to file. No income."

Oh you are a life-saver. Thank you very much. Very concise and to the point too. This will make my wife happy to know as she has been bugging me the last hour or so to finish the papers, but I wanted to make sure we weren't missing anything first.

Thanks again for your help and have a nice day.

Here's to hoping we here back for an interview in a few weeks. I would love to get back in time for a huge Thanksgiving Day feast!

Does your co-sponsor understand that he/she is finanialy responseable for your wife for at least 10 years?

You can use a letter of intent to hire you when you return to the USA if you know an employer who will hire you and state so in a official letter showing what you will be paid yearly.

Good luck

Yes, my co-sponsor is aware that she will be financially responsible for my wife for 10 years after her entry into America. I know a place that will hire me, but I have 1 year left in my degree and after that was planning on getting work. I will work for the first 6 months to a year when we first arrive, and then will take some online classes while still working, but I have some required courses that are in class only.

I am still unsure as to whether or not my not being employed in the last 3 years (Had no income so I didn't file taxes the year I left for China)is going to have a negative impact on the situation. I have a co-sponsor and we received the paperwork in China today so we want to file as soon as possible, but if it turns out that I need to have some extra papers since I had no income then we want to take the proper measures before we submit the packet.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Hi,

My wife and I are on the last steps before we mail in her final packet before the interview. I am currently living with her in China, and have been here for the last 1.5 years. I came here on a family/visitors visa and have not been working during this time, and before that I had been a student and was living off of money I had saved while working the years before I decided I needed to go back to school.

I had a co-sponsor fill out a affidavit of support in my stead since I will not have the proper income levels until I am back in America. The co-sponsor is well above the income level that is required, but has little in the assets area so I am a bit concerned that this will influence our chances at the interview.

I know I have to file an affidavit of support even if I will not meet the requirements myself. If I earned no money during the last few years should I submit my tax return information from the previous years? I was unaware that my not working was going to complicate things so much if I had a co-sponsor, but then again this has been a bumpy road the entire way.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Well, it seems like I was able to finally get my answer today. After several conversations with the Entry/Exit department in the city I am in, it all came down to having a friend who works with the police force getting involved to call a friend in another city to do a favor for us...

How can it be it takes such ridiculous measures to get something as simple as an exit permit for my son? I guess I can take solace in knowing that this will all come to a close in the next couple of months, and after that it will be a while before we all make a trip back to China (cost prohibitive to fly there too frequently with 3 people at a time).

Moral of the story is, when in China make sure you have friends who work for the government if you want anything done in a timely fashion and with any modicum of respect towards you and your plights.

Hi,

I have been going through my wife's cr-1 visa since coming to China last May, and we are finally coming to a close on that in the next month or 2 now. We have ran into yet another snag though, and I am confused as to what we should do about it.

We had a baby boy, in China, 4 months ago. We took him to the US Consulate/Embassy in Guangzhou and took care of his US citizenship. He now holds a US Passport and US Birth Certificate, but China is refusing to give him an exit permit from the country. They are telling me that he is Chinese and they will not recognize his US citizenship papers.

I asked our Embassy what I can do about it, and the person I talked to said I need to take my son in for an application for a Chinese Hukou and a Chinese Passport, and then get a Visa for the Child to go to America. Then after that is done then I take him across the border into Hong Kong and use his US Passport when entering Hong Kong...

This sounds a little hokey to me, and I am not quite sure this is the right course of action to take. I was pretty sure you were not allowed to hold 2 passports at one time, and especially not a Chinese and US passport.

If there is anyone else that had experience with getting an exit permit for a newborn baby from China I would really appreciate your help. I loathe the thought of having to fully register him as a Chinese citizen.

I am sorry for the long-winded questions, but I appreciate the help I have received on these forums.

Thank you and have a nice day!

Jacob

Well that was a quick response Thank you for the information, and I will try and do that with the forms you mentioned. I'm just itching a bit to get back to the states, so I can enjoy all of the things I have gone without since coming to China a year ago (i.e. dishwashers, clothes dryers, real pizzas...I think you get the idea )

Thanks again and have a nice afternoon.

Well, my wife and I went to the Guangzhou Consulate last week and took care of our sons's U.S. passport and citizenship papers, as well as took care of filing my wife's I-130 petition.

I was a bit worried about filing directly at the Consulate, so I made my packet similar to the way mentioned on this website. Fortunately the person I gave the packet to only needed about 15 pages of the 100+ I had put together. I asked him how long it would take to process her petition, and he said it might take 3 weeks or longer. I was quite surprised when I got a letter in the mail earlier this week with my wife's 20 page packet of information needed for her visa application.

My question is whether or not this is normally how fast this goes, or does this seem to be a lot faster? My wife happens to still have 4-5 months left on a 2 year home stay requirement from when she studied abroad in America. I may be worrying too much, but I was kind of banking on this process taking a bit longer so her restriction would clear right around the time of her interview. However, if things continue to progress this quickly then I am afraid her interview may come before her restriction is lifted, resulting in a stop in the process and having to do it all over again.

Don't get me wrong. I am thrilled that things are getting done, but I am a little worried if things are going to happen "too fast."

For you to be eligible to file a petition at the USCIS field office in Guangzhou (the USCIS field office is housed in the same building as the Consulate), you must be living in China for 6 months or more AND you must be living there on a long-term stay visa or have a Residence Permit; tourist visa extensions do not count.

You are right, sorry. I am filing for my wife, and I have been living here since May 29, 2011. In late June, or early July, I received a temporary residence permit which is valid for 1 year. I will go and renew that this coming May, because I will still be here for a few months afterward.

Again, thank you for your help, and I appreciate your advice.

Thank you for responding so quickly. I have spent a long time trying to get an answer, but my emails have been bounced to many departments in Guangzhou. I guess my next step is to make a trip to the Guangzhou office in person this month then. I will remain optimistic about the news from them.

What are some of the requirements in order to be able to apply for the visa directly at the Guangzhou Consulate? I read somewhere that she needs to be a Chinese citizen, and that I have had to have been living in China for more than 6 months. Does anyone know if there are more specific requirements that I should be aware of before jumping in too deep?

Again, thank you and have a nice day.

I have been spending the better part of a year and a half trying to work out my wife's visa processing to come to America (CR-1 from China), and I have been extremely frustrated in trying to get answers pertaining to our situation.

I first met my wife about 2 years ago now, and we were married 1 year later in China. Well, we had the wedding in China, but due to some paperwork discrepancies in Guiyang we were unable to finalize the marriage until I revisited my wife in June of 2011. I have been living in China with my wife for the last 8 months, because we are waiting for her 2 year home-stay restriction to be lifted from her Visa.

My wife and I met at College and she was here on a student's visa. She finished her semester of education in America and went back to Europe to finish out her last few days of class in Arnhem, Netherlands. She then went back to China and was there until the end of January 2011, at which point she went back to Europe to finish her Bachelor's Degree project. She returned to China in early May of 2011, and has been in China since. I understand that since she was on a student visa to America that she is needed to spend an aggregated amount of time in China amounting to a total of 2 years. Her restriction should be lifted by late September or possible as late as late October, all depends on her passport stamps which I currently do not have memorized.

Our dilemma is that we want to go back to America as soon as we can, and the visa process can take 1 year or more to complete. I cannot count how many people I have tried asking this to, but it is becoming difficult to know if it is a possibility so I am hoping someone can help us. I would like to start her CR-1 application now, while in China and file it at the Guangzhou Embassy, but I want to know if filing for it while her passport has the visa restriction on it would result in an immediate visa ineligibility or if we can continue the process all of the way until her passport restriction is lifted.

We would like to be able to leave China yet this year, and I am expected back to work/school by the end of this year, but I have been unsuccessful at finding an answer to the question above.

Simplified version of question-

1. Wife has 2 year Home-stay requirement because she was a foreign exchange student to America for 1 semester.

2. I want to start her visa Application (CR-1) before her Home-stay requirement has been fulfilled.

3. While Home-stay is being fulfilled have the visa process continue.

4. Upon the fulfillment of her Home-stay finish the visa application and go home to America as soon as possible.

I really appreciate your help and time reading this.

Thank you and I hope to hear back from someone soon.