Feiticera

This is suddenly making much more sense!

So on the petitioners form our household will be 2 (me + her) and on the godfathers it will be one.

Cheers for sorting this one

Ah i see, so just two separate I-864's needed. That makes sense.

There doesn't seem to be anywhere that you can specify that there will be a co-sponsor, hence two forms - or is this just self-evident by the fact that you are submitting two forms.

Thanks guys

Hi Guys,

A quick question I am hoping some light could be shed on.

Our application was recently approved and received by the NVC, so we are scrambling to get the next steps fully ready. The key ingredient here is the I-864 form:

My wife (the US citizen) is a student, so we dont fulfull the income requirements.

Therefore if i read form I-864 correctly, we need to add a household member as a co-sponsor. This is slightly confusing because when we move to the US our household will only be me and her?

That household member then completes form I-864A which we file with my wifes I-864 and we are all good. Hopefully this sounds correct to now.

Key question: Our preferred co-sponsor is not a relative (Godfather), is this permissible for the form/application. If so they would seem to fall under the 'other dependant' category when specifying the relationship - though this doesnt really make sense, since they are not a dependant.

Assistance much appreciated,

Owen

Yup, think we will do it that way, we would rather have it ticking away in the background than having to worry about it in the last few months or if any rules change for DCF..

Thanks for your advice

I heard that we may well be applicable for DCF (she is on the UK on a student visa and I hear this is valid now). But we dont really need the faster processing - as she is here studying we dont need it to be ready until the end of next year when she finishes her course. Therefore perhaps we should just go with the regular Chicago lockbox option.

Will post here as I don't think its worth a new thread:

We are ready to send off our I130 for the CR1. As my wife lives with me in the UK we can potentially send it to the consulate here in England or to the Chicago Lockbox. We were wondering if anyone has any feedback on that process? i.e is going directly to the London consulate going to be quicker/more reliable? It certainly is easier of course rather than posting internationally, but we only want to do it if it wont present any more problems.

Regards

Owen & Vanessa

We originally filed a I-129 for a K1, because we thought we were gonna have to wait to get me over there. But a position for her course came up here so we changed plans kinda last minute There were lots of factors involved but it meant we had a bit more control of our wedding. Ill update the info

Thanks for the response - I will email and report back when I have an answer.

Hi there,

We are just looking to clear up a couple of minor questions we had when looking through the CR1 process.

Our situation:

We got married a couple of months ago and my wife (the US citizen) has moved to the UK under a student visa, living with me (British citizen). When she finishes her course we aim to move back to the US together

The questions:

-As I understand it, we do not qualify for DCF because she is in the UK on a student visa, therefore CR1 is the way to go?

-For the I-130 it asks for the petitioners address, should we use her US address, or the address we are currently at in the UK?

I think aside from that we are generally ok, thanks for your help.

Owen & Vanessa

Hi Guys,

We originally applied for a K1 visa back in December, but due to a change in circumstances - she got accepted to study in the UK for a year - we decided to get married, and whilst she is here anyway we can have a fully fledged CR1 going instead.

We are obviously familiar with most of the initial process with the I-130, but I am not sure about how this is going to work with the Affidavit of support. She will be a student here (no income) and I obviously have a decent income in the UK, but cant use that. So between us we effectively have nothing! But surely this cant be a particularly unusual circumstance - can we simply use one of her American family members or family friends as a co-sponsor, who will effectively need to fulfill the whole requirement of the form because my assets aren't accepted, and she doesn't have any? Will they be happy with this, i hope so - since i see no other way.

Many thanks for your patient advice, as always..

Kind regards,

Owen

Fair enough, so we could delay our current K1 enough that we could have it ready by the time we are done in the UK.

I just figured that the CR1 seems a more 'solid' visa, and allowing me to work straight away would save us some cash. Also I am correct in thinking it makes the proof of financial solvency, the affidavit of support bit, a little easier to do (at present we struggle with that because I am the earner and she is a student). We can get a sponsor ofc, but i figured this just might make it more simple.

Hi guys,

My fiance and I filed our K1 visa application back in December, for me to come to the US from the UK.

Our situation has changed though, and we are now considering that maybe a CR1 visa would be a better option. The reason for this is that she has been accepted for a Masters course in the UK, so she will be here for a year. Our reasoning is that during that year I can apply for the slower CR1 (which wouldnt matter because we would be together anyway) and then when it is ready I can return with my green card already instead of arriving and being unable to work.

Obviously for the K1 we are currently engaged, but we are now thinking of planning a quick wedding and switching to a CR1 afterwards.

Is there any small details we should be aware of? I have read through and I think it works for us, but for example could being out of the country studying here for a year affect the application?

Many thanks,

Owen