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My job has a form for immigration and I know that the K1 visa is a non-immigrant visa... but this form has all the information that is being asked for by the embassy in Japan... but only one problem it does not specify if my job is permanent/long term. I've been in my position for 3 years, it is infact a long term, permanent position but for employment status it only says active. So will this be enough? Or do I need to get a letter from HR specifying that this job is permanent, long term? 

Thanks.

17 hours ago, flfreddy said:

They are checking I-134 $$.   Note that I-864 (affidavit of suuport) for spouse is lifetime sponsor even if divorced.   The termination is when either dies, ex-spouse becomes USC, has 10 years of SS work.    They do not want anyone you sponsored before to be a public charge.

 

So if you had sponsored 2 people before, you better have $30,000 ready to back you up in case these 2 come back and become a public charge.. .gov find you... but chances very slim.

Oh,

well I never filled out any affidavit of support for anyone past. Back in 2013 I was married and petitioned the i130f on behave of my wife at the time, but a few months after our case was sent to the NVC we mutually decided to end the marriage, so we never made it to the i184f part of the process, thankfully.

On 9/10/2019 at 6:38 PM, Jorgedig said:

I'm sure they do not care.  Since you have to provide evidence of legal termination of any prior marriages, it is a moot point.

theyll have the i129f which have the divorce decree available for them. 

7 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Do the best you can,  its what I did 

okay. Relationship to me, I suppose, to be formal, I'll put former spouse? Or does ex wife suffice? This is probably semantics, but just want to be sure. I'm thinking I should go with the former and not the latter.  

19 hours ago, payxibka said:

 The question is asking specically if you have previously petitioned.  That would include any previous petitions 

so I have to add my ex wife, okay... well I dont remember the exact date I filed the position, it was late in march 2014... as the acceptance letter was April 1st. Does it have to be completely accurate?? It's like march 24-28, I'm not sure. 

2 minutes ago, payxibka said:

 The question is asking specically if you have previously petitioned.  That would include any previous petitions 

ah okay, thanks for your swift response. I will add her 

It ask to list people whom I have submitted a petition for visa to USCIS previously... I did file the i130f before back in 2013, and it got approved, but I never filed the affidavit of Support, as the marriage was mutually ended before we got to that point. Recently, as of 2019 April I filed the i129F for my fiancee, which was approved, and we are now in the process filing out the i134F and this question has me a little confused. So would I have to list my ex wife as one I previously petitioned for? Or is this question asking solely about the i134f?? 

This is the actual quote of the question,

i134F, Page 4, Part 3, Item 26,

I have submitted a visa petition(s) to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on behalf of the following persons. (If none, write "None" in space for name below.)

Thank you

NOA 1 4/24/2019, Approved 8/7/2019

41 minutes ago, Loren Y said:

I say why suffer, get out while the getting is good if you have something lined up. You can submit your last 3 years of tax transcripts showing you made well above the poverty line. I sent 3 years tax transcripts, and I think only my last pay stub before the interview  for the I-134 with no problems. As long as you have a job is a good thing, because they almost always ask your fiancee where you work, or are you working at the interview, and as long as she can say yes, he works at ABC company, I'm sure you will be fine. And if you change now, you will have at minimum a few months in at the new job.

Ah thanks for the reply. 

I read this reply to my fiancee, if you dont mind. She had a couple of concerns,  would I have to inform them that I switched work, as its a change to i129f petitioner "employment history"? And also at the interview, if they ask where does he work, and she says my new place of employment, what if they say, thats different from what is here in the i129f? I said then you say that I recently got another job. She is a worrier, lol, so that concerns her. 

Okay so here is the situation, I am a supervisor at a retailer. I make well over the requirement needed to be a sponsor for my Fiancee. But being management/corporate at this business has always been for me a temporary work situation, as it is not related to my trade, only sparingly, due to it obviously being business management. So I've had one foot out the door for the past 2 years, but unforeseen circumstances have occurred, they've changed a lot of inner processes and colleagues of mine have all left and they havent been replaced, so I have to do the work of 3 people, and I'm really done with it, as it is unhealthy at this point. 

With that said, I got my NOA 1 April 26 and have been waiting for approval to move onto the Affidavit of Support stage. Now assuming the NOA 2 is received sometime within the next 2 to 3 months, would it be a bad idea to switch jobs?? From what the requirements suggest, all I would need is 3 pay stubs, as well as when I started, how long, and if it is a temporary or permanent position. The job I have now I got back in 2016, which is 3 years. Does it really matter, as long as I make well over the requirement to be a lawful sponsor? I also have around 22k in the bank, which im sure will help.

I know I can tough it out, but if I can do this, I'd rather leave to another, better job.. 

Thoughts, suggestions?

Also, once I get to that point, i.e Affidavit of support/interview happens, does one have to remain at their job until after the marriage happens, or can you go to another job after affidavit and interview are approved?

It was delivered on 4/20. I'm going to assume due to the holidays, perhaps it has yet to be seen yet. So I'm imaging I will be notified sometime this coming week that they have it? 

11 minutes ago, celie&joseph said:

Even if you include it, there is no guarantee the interview officer will review it and it will cause extra trouble for the adjudicating officer at USCIS to sort through your file to get the evidence they need to make an approval. IF y'all had red flags such as large age gap or coming onto a high fraud embassy I would consider suggesting the front load, but her Japan/Philippine residency situation has no impact on your proof of relationship.

 

Yes you can include a few of those.

Ah okay. Got it. Will aim for only the evidence that is needed. She is 30 and I am 36 so we're good as far as age is concerned.

2 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Much ado about nothing.  The concept of "ongoing" relationship is not that it is ongoing at the time of filing, but is ongoing at the time of the interview 9 months to a year from now

oh, I see. 

1 minute ago, payxibka said:

Your Embassy is Japan, not a high fraud embassy.

Yeah but my fiancee is originally from the Philippines, she's been living in japan for 5 years on a special visa, she's partially Japanese due to her grandmother, this allows her to have a special visa to live there and work there, but not yet a permanent resident. But I'm assuming this shouldn't matter, since she's been in japan for so long.  

my fiancee said I should include it, so that the embassy will already have a history of it. 

5 minutes ago, celie&joseph said:

You're not required to show proof of relationship at petition stage. Your goal right now should be to prove you've met in person in the last 2 years.  Save your chat documents for your embassy interview.

Hmmm okay. So everything I have arranged in regards to ongoing relationship, is useless for this part of the process, only that which shows proof of having met in person within the last 2 years? Okay, I'll you all, since you've been here before. But this means all of that paper work is for my fiancee then at her interview. well could i leave in some text messages that show us talking while im boarding a flight, since it has the date in the messages? I have many of my boarding passes, as I tend to keep things for memories, it's a bad habit, but good in this case, I even have receipts from restaurants and movie cinemas. 

42 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Because one does not need to prove it.  Proof of ongoing relationship is not requirement for petition approval.   Ongoing relationship is proven at the interview 

okay, well I guess I will take that stuff out of this packet. 

5 minutes ago, payxibka said:

I would leave out any chats, messages and call logs in their entirety from the petition 

why is that? How else can one prove ongoing relationship without this? Wouldnt it at least help to show this?

Hi all,

So I am putting the finishing touches on my packet, only thing I am having a bit of difficulty thinking through is the last part on the I-129F cover letter... so I used the last part of the sample through this site, namely, 

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Copies of documents submitted are exact photocopies of unaltered documents and I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date

Everything is original copies except the text message papers and call logs, primary to condense the amount of papers that this would produce. My Fiancee and I, our primary means of communication was through Facebook messenger. The good thing about this is there is a lot of ways available to show our ongoing interaction; email notifications, html message data, the message themselves... etc... but you have to make some of this presentable so as not to create 200 pages, as no one is going to look through that. So with our call logs, facebook html doesnt give you the capacity to only show the calls made or sent, it will only highlight it based on what you search for, so in order to present our call history, we had to cut and paste it together, amounting in like 12 pages. But by definition this is not the original state of this particular document, but only edited to make it easier for those who will be reviewing this case. 

So I guess my question is, should I leave that last part out of the cover letter, or just use this line,

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I understand that I may be required to submit original documents to an Immigration or Consular officer at a later date

I'm thinking this above quote would be fine.

because I can produce the html file from facebook data, but if i used the unedited version it would be really dumb, it be hundreds of papers. 

16 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

Should be fine so long as you make sure both are completely visible for the lockbox folks.  It has happened before that they have ‘missed’ an included payment, and it would suck if they only saw one, and rejected the petition for an incorrect payment.

thats what makes me nervous... If I do send the money orders in, then I feel like I have to mention it in the cover letter, like,

2 Money orders in the amount of $500 and $35, as required for the i129f. 

Would that even be okay?

Is it okay to sent in 2 money orders that add up to the 535 for the i129f? per money order is a limit of 500, so one is for 500 and the other for 35. I got conflicting information when I googled about it, I don't want to create any challenges or difficulties, especially not with payment, since it's the easiest part of the process. My checkbook got misplaced by a family member and said family member found it today, but only after I got the money orders. So my question is... will it be okay with 2 instead of 1? I'm going to see if I can get my bank to deposit the money from the money orders back into my account, but there is no guarantees that this will happen, I would hate to lose $535 over something so stupid.

1 minute ago, payxibka said:

Does not apply to previous i130s

ahhh okay thank you!

It is mentioned that,

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1. You are filing this petition on behalf of your fiancé(e) and you previously filed Form I-129Fs on behalf of two or more fiancé(e) beneficiaries; or

 

2. You are filing this petition on behalf of your fiancé(e), you have previously had a Form I-129F approved, and less than two years have passed since the filing date of your previously approved petition.

 

but what if you filed the i-130 before, instead of the i-129f? im assuming that the ucsis is only concerned with a petitioner that filed the same petition multiple times. it makes no mention of the other type of petitions, but i just want to make sure. i put no and also picked 5d, because i never filed for the k1 visa before. 

am i correct in my assumption? my i-130 was approved by the nvc, but it never resulted in a visa being granted, we broke up like a month after it was approved.

On 3/27/2019 at 11:39 AM, wxman22 said:

I'm not sure what answer you seek.

 

It is what is is.

 

Just apply now, be honest and it won't be a problem.

 

If someone here responds that it is a big problem, what will you do? Fall out of love??

i just wanted to make sure. i found out while it was terminated in 2015, the record/files were destroyed oct 2017. so i got my answer

2 hours ago, MrandMrsAlexander said:

We had the same situation. You will need to send a withdrawal to your local consulate. 

I did some digging in my files and I actually found the final termination letter, Oct of 2017 the case and petition was destroyed. My only thing now is if I have to have a wavier, since it hasn't been 2 full years since the destroying of everything. It was terminated back in 2015, but took this long for the record to be destroyed. But i wont be filing for the same petition, but the K1.