Amber and Cande

Hey, Im Amber. This website has also been amazingly helpful for me throughout my entire Visa process so far. This link was probably the most helpful guide for me. http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/NVC_Process . These two links were also amazingly helpful, http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/EZGuideSpouse and http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/How_Do_I_Bring_My_Spouse_(Husband_or_Wife)_to_Live_in_the_United_States%3F#TRACK_1_-_I-864 . You are about at the same part as me, keep in touch with me if you need any more help, or of course you can just make a new post, the people on this website are so very helpful.

Yes, I do have one arranged already that is well above the 125%. Thanks.

Very straight forward answers, I love that, Thank you!

I'm just so nervous about the whole NVC part. Which I'm sure everyone is..

I have a very similar story to you, we got married and was only married for about 1 month before I applied for the I130. We had nothing with both of our names on it. I sent pictures, phone cards, phone records, letters, receipt of money he sent(I had him send it just for extra evidence), letters from a few family members saying they knew we are in a real relationship, plane ticket and fmm form(proof I visited), and receipt of a package I sent him. This seemed to suffice and our I130 was approved in 96 days. Good luck to you!

I came back to USA in Jan, filed I130 in Feb. I got a temporary job to help out while I was here, not listed on I130 due to me getting job after filing it. Now I plan to go back to Mexico to be with my husband while we wait for interview date. How do I file the I864? I know unemployed, because I will have no job while in Mexico. In the part where it says Unemployed since "date" do I include the temporary job or should I just let it be with what I filed on my I130? I'm worried that they will want me to refile the I130 and G325A because of the other job added.

My questions are:

Do I need to include the temporary job?

If I do how will that effect the processing?

Will I have to submit some sort of additional papers?

Would they deny for having that job?

my suggestion is to call and ask.

Haha no, you are not the only one. We're sending our I-130 packet ASAP. My husband gets paranoid about technical stuff-- He's insisting on getting an official Colombian translator to do the translations of our documents even though I could just do it, and my parents are insisting on notarizing their affidavit even though that's not a requirement and affidavits aren't even requirements. My husband is also paranoid about sending a check with the packet even though we plan to use FedEx.

I am the one who gets paranoid about, like, sizing photos into a word document correctly so that everyone's face shows up clearly as if one millimeter will make the difference between approval or RFE, using black ink because it's required and having them think an original is a copy because of that (I have read about this happening on VJ!), etc...

Here's to maintaining our sanity as we dive head-first into this process!

Love this, it seems I am a combination of all of you. I am in the states by myself, so I had to do all the decisions. I had most things notarized, black and white copies, sent check with packet, etc. I just hope all goes well because I feel like since I was doing all the decisions our outcome is completely on me.

On a side note about the translation it is better to get someone else to do it, not you or husband, friend of the family, etc.

That was along my same awful thoughts but I was thinking more of the trees came alive and burn all paper as a pyre burial ceremony of there dead relatives.. either way glad to know i am not the only one who fears all things could go wrong for something this important to me.

My best is a bug in a can of green beans.. it was some sort of black beetle. The preservatives in the can made it not mold though.. so I must say the preservatives work great!

I got married and stayed there another month before coming back to the states to start the application process. I already feel like government is trying to make it impossible. Maybe the evidence and such is not important hardly at all, maybe the real test from them is to see if you can last.. I have a keen feeling that I am going to end up back in Mexico with him. Being separated is very hard.

Well I just took out all the papers put them in 1 clear cover sheet together and mailed it away.. It makes me nervous but happy that i got it sent finally. I just hope i did it right. I am pretty sure I did, I overly followed all the guides on here. I am a little bit of a perfectionist with organizing sometimes..

I put it in project folder with clear sheets to keep up with papers while I got them together. Should I mail it in the folder, looks very nice, or should I just stick all the papers in an envelope? I don't mind extra shipping charges.

Is this processing times for just I-130 part? or for all of it to be done?

(probably stupid question to you experts, but I don't know the whole process completely yet)

They will go up because minimum wage is suppose to be going up(hopefully anyways)

thank you

I have pictures, mexico phone cards, phone call and text records, plane tickets, receipt of money he sent, receipt from usps from sending a letter/small package to him, letter from him and myself of our relationship and history, letters from brother in law, 2 sisters, and my mother, I will print skype call records (Thank you for that suggestion Ryan H) will you think them being under my sisters name because he uses her skype will be an issue? He doesnt have a laptop, email or skype so he just uses hers.

Other questions that have developed.

I have currently not filed yet, Hubby and I are having a very hard time dealing with being separate, because of this we are thinking about me sending in package and then me moving back to mexico and living there the whole time it processes. I worry that if I do this I will have had no job this whole year. I feel like I will some how get in trouble for being there for such a long time period, and that we will face problems of no income/no assets.

1. What would happen when it is time to file my affidavit of support?

2. Would it be better to go there, get a fm3, live there for the time needed and then file DCF I-130 from there? Or would it still face similar fate?

3. Would they be understanding to the fact that I had no job due to being there with them, and be ok with that so long as I have co-sponser?

http://www.visajourney.com/content/support

maybe that will help

Yes, it means they assigned a number, normally a good sign, but you may still have a long wait.

Best of luck for your interview!

My husband is in Mexico, he doesn't have any type of visa. I am the american citizen and yes I go back and forth with no problem so far. Just because you are in a pending situation they can not take away rights. If one officer shoots you down try again with another one. Normally it is just a matter of being nice and respectful to them and very important, HONEST. They are human too and most of them are not that bad. You just need to explain you miss your other half and you are just visiting.

Ok also.. My sister, her husband, and my husband are all in Mexico right now, they wrote affidavits for me.. should I have them all notarized, they said they were having a hard time with it, or do you think as long as I get a few notarized here in the USA it should be fine? My sister and husband in Mexico are the only 2 in my family who actually know my husband, my family here in the USA do not, the ones from the USA would only be able to say they know we communicate regularly via skype, phone, letters, etc. Also should be included is our affidavits is pretty much our only thing to show we are actually together. I don't have anything else, we don't share bank acc, no proof that I stayed with him(my name wasn't on any bills/lease), I don't have him send me money, etc. we don't share a property. So I am having a hard time with the bonafide part as it is.

Thanks for all the help.

We are currently getting everything together to send away our I-130.. My husband wrote a 4 1/4 page affidavit of bonafide, should he rewrite it to be shorter or does it really matter? He is separated from me and i told him over the phone how to write it, and he told me how long it is, I didnt know if they will say that is too long and not accept it..

thank you all very much

Thank you very much penguin, that's exactly what I needed to know. Guess I just have to suck it up and endure the time without him.

Can I travel back in forth while I'm filing, or do I need to be on US soil the whole time?

Well I'm back in the USA, but only been back for 2 days, if it's the same either way, I would rather continue being in mexico with my husband.. I didn't realize I had an option to continue living there with him and file from there until I got back the other day and started looking into the process.. Maybe my better question is can I file from either place, can I live there while waiting for the processing if I file it here?