bluebird74

I think you're missing some facts. There are plenty of non-British citizens who live in the UK and want to travel to the U.S. either for tourism or to move there. My wife happens to be Polish born. She and I, came to live in the UK, for two reasons. The main one was because I was able to file my petition for her through the quickest route possible - DCF. This could not be possible in her native Poland. It doesn't matter what country you're in, there are plenty of people out there who are trying to get visas for all the wrong reasons. The Embassy staff in London just happens to be very professional and there's no reason to be rude or cold in order to follow their procedures.

You don't need her divorce certificatePhotocopies of tax document is fine. The only actual "original" would be one mailed to the IRS if filing by mail.
She really should have mailed you a signed copy of the I -134. That has no value. They may let you get by with a photocopy. It's not unheard of in London.
You were pretty quick to take the advice of a person on a different visa at a consulate other than London. Hope you see this so you can get a good night's sleep knowing it may be fine.

Leaving in the hotel is the best idea if in doubt. She can also check things at Gould's Pharmacy for £3-5.
I will say I have been reading London reviews for six years and have never heard of anyone getting busted for cosmetics. Yes busted (before changes) for phones, memory sticks, earphones, iPods, car keys.
Not busted for snacks and drinks for their kids, watches, cigarette lighters.

It's a personal statement from you. I can't see why IRS would stamp it.
Have you filled out your I-864?
Attach it to the end.
Go back to what the instructions say.
" If you were not required to file a Federal income tax return under U.S. tax law because your income was too low, attach a written explanation. "

Looks fine. There is nothing special about the examples I provided. They all were out of my head so basically just tell them however you want to. Giving the figures lets them know you looked it up and know the requirements. (You did look those up on IRS website?? ) if you were married in any of those years, then you have given single taxpayer figures.

They tell you to not count anyone twice, so if the wife got counted as the immigrant beneficiary then she can't go in any other box. She's counted and done. It's not about being truthful, but about getting a correct household count. They know who the wife is from biographic forms and such.
If a person was sponsoring his parent, then the parent is the beneficiary, and counting his wife in the spouse box has it's place. The forms have to fit many cases and scenarios and don't always feel customized to your situation. Makes it harder to sort through.

I know exactly what the instructions for the I-864 say. Believe the instructions, not the internet. The instructions apply across the board whether interviewing in town or across the sea.One tax return. Others optional if it will help your cause
"You must provide either an IRS transcript or a photocopy from your own records of your Federal individual income tax return for the most recent tax year. If you believe additional returns may help you to establish your ability to maintain sufficient income, you may submit transcripts or photocopies of your Federal individual income tax returns for the three most recent years."
Tax return requires W2 with it. Transcript is stand alone
"If you provide a photocopy of your tax return(s), you must include a copy of each and every Form W-2 and Form 1099 that relates to your return(s). Do not include copies of these Forms if you provide an IRS transcript of your return(s) rather than a photocopy."
You MAY include evidence of income Not a bad idea to put some extra frosting on the cake. Note the instructions suggest six months, not three.
"You may include evidence supporting your claim about your expected income for the current year if you believe that submitting this evidence will help you establish ability to maintain sufficient income. You are not required to submit this evidence, however, unless specifically instructed to do so by a Government official. For example, you may include a recent letter from your employer, showing your employer's address and telephone number, and indicating your annual salary. You may also provide pay stub(s) showing your income for the previous 6 months. If your claimed income includes alimony, child support, dividend or interest income, or income from any other source, you may also include evidence of that income."
You need to prove a joint sponsor is a USC OR LPR
"Proof of U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident status is required for joint and substitute sponsors "
And all the rest of a total of 13 pages of instructions. I have read every word at least 5 times. A casual read-through doesn't work for me. If you haven't then print them out and highlight anything that applies to you. That's my secret method for getting through immigration and complicated tax filing over hiring a professional. So far, so good. No RFEs and no IRS audits.

Those who just had their interviews and were granted visas, will most likely be affected. It means, that they will have to wait for their actual passport affixed visas until the system is fixed. As long as they don't hire the same developers that initially worked on HealthCare.gov - things should be up running again soon

I didn't read this anywhere. I simply think this is how people will be affected by this - including my wife.

Your household size is calculated by including all dependents. These are:
- unmarried children under 21 yrs of age (even if they're not living with you). There are exclusions, but you never mentioned having children, so i will skip that.
- spouse
- people you may not even be legally obligated to support financially but you have claimed them as dependents on your tax return.
- all persons you are about to sponsor - your parents.
Since you have a fiance and she's living with you, as long as you have not claimed her or/and her child as dependents on your tax return, you do NOT count them as household members.

I really, really promise I don't care how you solve your problem or sort your money. Really I understand you've got an odd predicament. Just started out as info on the Form 2555 which I am experienced with. So if you claim no income, you don't need the form. If you claim earning money, you exclude it with the form and still end up with zero tax owed.
My husband has a a part time gig with a high end home entertainment business. After the installers have run cables and hooked up equipment, he configures the networks and wireless access points so these mansions can get wireless all over their huge homes. And he programs their iPads so one interface basically drives whatever they want---Tvs, bluRay, projector, Wii, xBox, lights, thermostats, locks, cameras, or music for the pool or tennis court. Most have media rooms so they pick up their iPad and hit one button that says "watch movie" and the programming turns on the project, receiver, surround sound, accesses their media library, then dims the lights. He enjoys the challenge of getting all the systems to talk to each other. Each job is different. One man has 5 TVs in his media room with both cable and dish so he can have four football games plus Sports Center going and switch them about to the big screen in the center using his iPad. Another has six TVs plus a projector just on his patio. So my husband has fun with other people's toys a few afternoon's a week. The extra jobs come when they ask him to come back and do IT work like set up their printer, email, new computer, or private tutoring on how to use their iPhones.

Hi everybody
I am a US citizen.I need some desperate insight/help on filing the I-864.I am the primary sponsor for my parents coming from South Africa.I just payed my visa fees with the dept of state and is prompted to file the I-864.I live with my fiance and her son.I work in law enforcement and with our household size ,I do not make enough money to sponsor my folks.My fiance however makes pretty good money and would be a great co-sponsor.I understands that she needs to file a I-864 A , but what I have a problem with is part .5(sponsor's household size) on the I-864 form.I do not know where to indicate that I have a non-family/non-dependent/fiance household member.OR maybe I'm just reading this wrong.Please help.I'd like to file the form ASAP
Thanks!!!!!!!!

First of all, you mentioned you're a U.S. citizen, but your status says your naturalization is pending. Which one is it? Now, I'm not sure if I'm understanding correctly, so I will ask: what visa fees have you paid - for yourself or intending immigrant/-s?
Your household size is made of people who you are legally obligated to support (e.g., wife, unmarried kids). If you want to sponsor your parents, then your household size would be 3. There is a lot of information on this subject. Do a search on I-864 in the forum and you will surely find the answers. Hope this helps a little. Good luck.

I think experiences can be different depending on the staff member working at each window - In our case my husband (the petitioner) did most of the talking. The staff were asking him about what state he was from and the gentleman from the first window was also from the same state so they talked about that a bit and where we would be moving too. The gentleman from the second window was also interested in where my husband was from and they were comparing the weather and things in their home states and the outdoor recreation in Utah where we will be moving to.

From my experience CR-1/IR-1 do not go in a separate line and do not go in first. The queue outside the embassy is a bit chaotic and is done by time of appointment for two of the lines and the other line is for those who have checked in to go through security. So when you finally get to the front of your timeslot line and sign in for your appointment, you then join the line to go through security (they only let 4 people in at a time). When you get in the embassy tickets are based on what type of visa you are applying for be it immigrant or non-immigrant, my number was i918. These tickets are not called in order, by the looks of it 3 or 4 of the desks were dealing with immigrant visas. There were significantly more non-immigrant visa applicants during my visit than immigrant applicants, as such the wait for immigrant applicants didn't seem that long at all

When you schedule the courier you have a choice of pick up or delivery, the depot is less than 3 miles away from where I'm staying so didn't bother with delivery :-) I would say its best to get a hotel, we were up at 4.00 to make my 8.30 appointment and still had to rush. They do the queue's by timeslot e.g 8-9am and 9am+ So I would still suggest getting there 30+ minutes early. There is some good restaurants near by on Duke Street I think for breakfast celebrations afterwards ;-) You must take your appointment letter with you as you will need it when you are queuing outside the embassy. I also placed my husbands name on the readiness form but my husbands name wasn't on my appointment letter so I used the online enquiry form to request to be added to the list and they responded and added him to the list.

The staff outside are all British. Like I said before its a bit chaotic, you walk up towards the embassy and there are these queues with no labels or signs to say who should go where, so you have to ask one of the staff which queue you need to be in. Everyone is asked to get their appointment letters and passports out, the staff members then walk up and down the lines checking your letters and make sure you are in the right line and have a plastic security bag to put your electronics in :-)

Bluebird---
There will be a few people getting spouse or fiancé visas and masses there for non-immigrant student, tourist, work, nanny, etc visas. Don't be discouraged by the huge number of people. Once inside, they give out I numbers (Immigrant) and N numbers (Non-immigrant). You are basically in a "virtual" queue with only the I numbers because you are not competing for face time with the N numbers. If you are ticket number I-905, then you are only waiting on I-901 to I-904 to finish, even if N-901 to N-965 got in the door before you. You may have read some version of that and thought there were separate lines, but you are never physically segregated outside or inside by visa type.
Those non-immigrants have a different and quicker process inside. Once inside the N numbers are called much more frequently than I numbers.

For ours, the medical was Friday May 16, filed NoR on Monday May 19, got the interview letter on May 31st, with an interview date of June 20th (tomorrow!!)

My interview was about 6 weeks after my medical. This was last year but I think the wait is about the same. I had medical and submitted all my forms on the same day, waited about 2 weeks and got appt letter for 4 weeks time for interview.
Someone more current may answer but I reckon it would be unusual for anyone to get an interview within 3 weeks.

I'm sorry, I thought you said you were ending the relationship. Misrepresentation carries a lifetime ban, not 10 years, but there is a waiver available. There's a decent chance you won't get charged with it, the doctor might just amend your paperwork and let it go. And if they do flag you you get to explain at the interview that you were nervous and didn't meant to lie. In the end it's up to the CO. You could start a new thread and see if people have any advice. I don't know, I think you're throwing away your relationship over something that might or might not happen.

Getting tickets and terminating your lease agreement, isn't going to force the immigration officer to make a positive decision. This simply shows the true intent of the beneficiary to come to America - hence the reason the I-130 was filed in a first place.

I'm looking for fellow UK members, who had filed an I-130 via DCF in London recently. Reason to create this separate thread, is to give all the London CR-1/IR-1 filers, an easy way to share their experience from when they filed their petition, to the finish line Updated stories, will help everyone to be current on their process - and allow them to get "real time" fresh answers.
Lets start by getting the current timeline of receiving NOA2. I wonder by how much does the actual timeline differs from what members have received in their I-130 notice of receipt.

They met online (most likely on some dating site), but since they are not a couple, I would embellish the truth a little and go with the tourism chat/site. People meet like this all the time and visit each other all over the world.
Now, why would she want to bring proof of ties to her country? She's not applying for visa - she's simply taking a trip to the U.S. as a tourist. She has that right you know. She's from Hungary, therefore she will be entering the U.S. under VWP. It's that simple. Please don't try and confuse her.

Yes, that is correct. If the CBP officer asks you how you know your friend, then I would suggest to say something like this: we've met on international tourism chat through a mutual friend. That will show the officer your interest in American culture itself, and not just a person who might be your potential future husband