Steven&Jelena

Then make them read the i864 instructions https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-864instr.pdf so they can provide all the necessary documentation. On page 7 there is info about tax returns.

Good luck!

Thank you.

Did they follow the I-864 instructions by providing signed statements as to why they were not required to file federal tax returns with their respective I-864?

Does your father-in-law have sufficient income or countable assets to meet the I-864 requirements?

Yes they followed that instructions and we did right as they told us to do but yet we still got an Rfe for tax returns. And yes he does have suficant income. When we filed for k1 there was no any problem, idk why that is a problem now.

Just because he is retired doesn't mean he doesn't have to file

Income tax. My mother is retired and she files income taxes on her pension and social security. She gets it all back but she still files.

Are you an tax lawyer or what? I said he is not required to file since 2009, they told him, he doesnt need to do that. I said they are not required i didnt came here to hear blah blah blah they have to do it etc... i came here to hear from people who had same expiriance like me.

Your husband must submit an I-864 for you, even if his income is 0. He must file federal income tax returns in order to do this, unless his income is below the threshold required to file. Any joint sponsor must likewise have filed federal income tax returns, and have income sufficient to sponsor you. If you cannot respond to the RFE with what USCIS requires, your I-485 will be denied and deportation proceedings will be initiated against you.

No, both of them are not required to file. My husband doesnt make enough and his father is retired.

Hello everyone, i came to USA on k1 vissa, i been here 4 months now and i aply for green card. I got my biometrical done before a month ago almost and before a week ago i got letter from USCIS. I was happy because i thought i finally got my interwiev date but when i read the letter it made me worry very much . They asked us to submit a tax returns but my husband have never filed them and my father in low(who is a sponsor) is not filing them since about 1o years ago. Also they wrote if we dont send those documents they will deny me. I have a 6 months old son who is US citizen but he also have serbian citizenship since he is born in Serbia and im scared that if i have to go back to my country that i will not see him and i dont want to be far from my husband. He told me even if they deny me im gonna stay, hes not gona let me go, but i dont want to be here illigaly. I dont know what to do really.... can anybody help? Did anyone have this expiriance?

Hello everyone, I really need some help. . . Im in usa on k1 visa, me and my fiance will get married soon, we also have 2 months old baby boy who is now a us citizen.. What I want to know is what is next step after we get married. Do i apply for a green card or??? How long I have to wait? And since i will not have the same last name after we get married my passport will no longer be valid/ Do i have to get a new passport? Can i go back to visit my family in Serbia (my home country)..or no? How long after i can leave usa? Is it true that i cant leave usa for 5 years???? Please anyone who hes experience with this may help me??

Hi Jelena.

During our interview, the consul said that we need to pass these 3 criteria, and he discussed each one criteria while looking at the documents we submitted.

- proof of citizenship

- proof of physical presence/residence in the US

- proof of blood relationship

Have you checked US embassy website (Serbia)? http://serbia.usembassy.gov/report-birth-abroad.html

I've checked it out and the documents are almost the same as the ones that we've sent.

(I've copied and pasted below from US Embassy Serbia website)

"7. Proof of parent's physical presence in the United States prior to the child's birth:

- If parents are married OR if parents are unmarried and only the father is a U.S. citizen, the U.S. citizen parent must prove at least five years of physical presence in the United States, at least two of which are after the age of fourteen. The period of physical presence need not be continuous.

- If parents are unmarried and only the mother is a U.S. citizen, she must prove at least one year of continuous physical presence in the United States.

-If both parents are U.S. citizens and married at the time of the child's birth, and one parent has visited the United States at least once, proof of physical presence is not required.

- Presence must be demonstrated with concrete evidence (school records, tax forms with W-2, earnings statement, pay receipts, passport stamps).

Anyway, good luck to your application. Maybe better to call the US embassy Serbia again to confirm about the requirements?

Thank you. Yes i checked. And we have all those documents. So i guess there won't be a problem.

Hi. Yes, it's kinda a lot.

Here's the checklist the US embassy (Manila, Philippines) requires

- Photos of applicant and parents

- Application for Consular Report of Birth Abroad (DS-2029)

- Affidavit of Parentage, Physical Presence and Support (DS-5507) If the parents were not married at the time of the birth of the applicant. (We didn't need this coz we are married before he was born)

- Application for a US passport (DS-11) (We applied too for a US passport to save trips going to US embassy)

- Statement of Consent (DS-3053) is required for passport applications for children under the age of 16 if only one parent is appearing for the interview. (We needed this coz my husband can't come here at the interview date)

PROOF OF IDENTITY AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

- Child's Birth Certificate

- Photo identification and growing-up photos of child

- Evidence of parent's US citizenship. (My husband sent me a notarized copy of his passport)

- Passport/Identification document for non US citizen parent

PHYSICAL PRESENCE/RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES

- Evidence of physical presence/residence

-----Income tax returns for 2012, 2013, and 2014

-----W2

-----High school/college transcripts

-----copy of his recent utility bills

-----copy of his driver's license

-----employment letter stating the date he started

- Parent's marriage certificate

BLOOD RELATIONSHIP

- Prenatal records and/or other evidence of mother's pregnancy

-----ultrasound copy

- Evidence of the couple's physical presence in the same location at the time of conception preferably original passports.

-----My husband had his passport photocopied in all pages to show the stamps

- Evidence of the couple's relationship prior to the conception of the applicant

-----We made a storybook on how we met, pictures from the first time we met, marriage pictures, and pictures when my husband came here when I delivered our baby.

I sent these documents to the US embassy for us to get an appointment date. They then sent me an email telling me that I lack some documents. Yay!

"During our review of your mail-in packet, we found that you are lacking the following documents:

• Additional evidence of mother’s pregnancy. Examples may include but not limited to the following: ultrasound reports with sonograms, hospital records/bills, and/or other evidence of mother’s pregnancy
• Evidence of parents’ relationship prior to the conception of the child. Examples may include but no limited to photos, emails, etc. (arranged chronologically from the oldest document on top)"

But it's also a good thing that they informed me this beforehand. I gathered again my hospital records, bills, operative report (cesarean section), discharge summary.

I also printed out some of our emails prior to the conception of the child, Skype screenshots, messenger screenshots.

We hear a lot of applicants being required DNA testing. We are not sure what's the US embassy's criteria for requiring this to some applicants but we, as much as possible, tried to avoid this by complying to all documents they want. DNA testing is kinda costly and also there are only few accredited specimen collection centers. There's only one in the Philippines. My husband will have to go to a different city for the collection of specimen. We also will have to schedule another trip again as we don't live in the same city where the collection center is.

Such an effort for us but it's all worth it.

I guess its different for my country

Hi. We just got approved with the CRBA application of my son here in Philippines. The process might vary, but the first thing we did is to check the US embassy website in our country for the CRBA checklist. You will have to gather all documents listed in the checklist that apply to you. You would want to apply both for the CRBA and passport.

Next thing we did is to send the documents to the US embassy coz this is the way to get an appointment date. We were scheduled for interview 30 days from the day we sent the documents. We got approved and we received the CRBA and passport 30 days from interview.

The hardest part is to gather all the documents because it is a lot.

Hello thank you for your respond. You said that it was a lot of docunets, but it doesn't seem like i need much, everything looks very simple. We just need proof that my finace is us citizen (birth certificate and passport), baby's birth certificate and proof of our relationship at the time of conception. I don't know what documents did you need. Maybe its different for my country???

Izvini i jos nesto, za koliko od prilike stigne appointment letter? na mom Ceac.state.gov sajtu pise da je status Ready od 18tog

Nema na cemu, meni je stigao posle nekoliko dana i bio mi je zakazan intervju za 2 nedelje nakon sto sam poslala listu.

Zdravo, htela bih da te pitam nesto, posto vidim da si vec stigla do Intervijua, ja sam dobila Check List i uradila Medical, interesujeme sta se posle toga dobije? dali ti Ambasada salje dalje neki papir to jest Appointment letter ili moras online da apliciras? Sto se tice online ja sam probala ali nije nikako htelo da radi, pa ako mozes da mi kazes dali si ti dobila appointment letter za K1 Vizu. Hvala ti unapred

Da, kada posaljescheck list ambasadi, onda samo cekas da ti stigne appointment letter.. i to jesve Pozdrav.

Hello everyone, i would like to know if there is someone who had expiriance with CRBA to share his case with me. My baby's due date is on November 30th and my visa will expire on February 10..I called embassy and they told me that isn't a probelms and we will have to wait about 15 days to baby recive papers and passport. But still i would like to hearfrom someone who acctually had expiriance with that. Isis difficult?

Lost in translation

He is Arab and they offten replace p with b or b with p.

Well, I can say that the 95% of the doctors (or more) will say that is not ok to fly, just by the fact that they are not specialized in aerospacial medicine and is better not take the risk. Some others has more experience with this particular type of medicine and they can see more possibilities linking her case with details of the speciality.

I gave this opinion looking by the medical side, but personally... lol I was supposed to think about it very differently and maybe look by the whole situation even envolving the relationship!

But as I said, if she want to ask something more that I can help, I´m here!

I really really really hope that Jelena will do be best for the baby and her!

We have to think that just she knows exactly how it feels!!!

So let´s support her!

Hello i just wanted to say that problem is solved : Now i can sleep peacefully. I will not fly yet, i will give birth at my country and my fiance agree with that. He will come to file for crba after baby is born and then we will probably go togeter to usa. Thank you everyone for caring.

Now that all of the name calling has gotten out of the way, here is some sensible information:

Have a conversation with your future Mother in-law or sister in-law about what your future husband has requested, ask them to help you to make your future husband to understand the risk.

Have his future Mother in-law to speak to him, about the risk he is asking you to take. Present the facts in a clear and calm manner. Respect that he may have a burden that he clearly has not been able to explain to you (Finance, lack of vacation time, etc).

Have your doctor to write out the orders clearly, if he has order you not to fly. Ask your self, does this behavior resembles the man that you fell in love with and agreed to have his child with.

Relationship issues are generally never one sided.

Unfortunately his mother passed away, and i never et his sister. If i my mom would talk with him. he would get very mad because he don't want me to share my problems with my familly.

It's not that simply JUST to get insurance, it's still also very costly.

And by everyone must have insurance, it means that if you don't have insurance then you get a fine on your taxes, but you aren't FORCED to get insurance, they don't MAKE you do it.

Does he have insurance through his work? Is he on Medicaid? Did he get Insurance through the Health Insurance Market place?

While you're on K1 in the US you can't get insurance. When do you plan on getting married? Obviously within 90 days but you only have 11 more weeks (77 more days) until you're full term, you're already at risk of premature labor so you may not even make it that far.

nce you get married your then husband can add you onto his work insurance plan. Make sure you have already applied for a SSN If he doesn't get insurance through his work then he'll have to help you purchase a plan through your state or through federal.

Having a baby WILL cost you. I think the only people who pay nothing are those on the most extreme version of medicaid, and that's because they don't make any money. Medicaid isn't available to you, so you WILL have to pay money even with insurance. Plus, you'll have to pay for monthly insurance as well.

Insurance in the US is weirdly complex, Even most US citizens just don't get it immediately.

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While people don't want to judge him, saying that the stress of all of this is why he told his fiance he wants her to get on a plane after she explains how high risk she is and how she could die, and he says either get on the plane or I'm leaving you, is exactly what her fiance could tell her if he -is- a mental abuser. "I'm sorry, I was just so stressed out and was worried for you and the baby I wanted ya'll here with me." but in reality, if someone says "I could die if I get on this plane" and the other person goes "WORTH THE RISK" then they don't care, especially if they keep on this mindset.

Over all though, other than the fact your fiance wants you there ASAP, there is no good reason as to why you should fly. You'll save money, A LOT of money,

OH YEAH and the fact that you have an at risk pregnancy.

I'd ask him more about the insurance HE has. Find out about it and let us know.

Personally, if I were you I'd stay in your own country. If he leaves you over this, he's truly an awful person and you and your baby do not need to be around him.

If he stays, you need to take note of his threats to scare you, mental abuse is the most common form of abuse and it's harder to get out of a relationship where the person is mentally abusing you.

If you're curious as to why we think he may be an abuser, look at these. Not all people do ALL of these things, but if there's enough you truly need to be careful. People don't become a better person when they get married, generally they actually get worse if they're abusers because now you can't just simply leave. If he's threatening to leave you because you won't risk your life and your babys life solely so he can stand next to you, he could easily threaten to get you deported (even if he can't), threaten to take custody of your child.

I didn't recognize the signs until I was 2 years into marriage. I always figured, oh that's just him, it's okay, or, well I married him, I guess this is what I deserved. I figured all of this was okay, but it's not.

If you aren’t sure what constitutes this damaging behavior, here are 30 signs of emotional abuse.

1. They humiliate you, put you down, or make fun of you in front of other people.

2. They regularly demean or disregard your opinions, ideas, suggestions, or needs.

3. They use sarcasm or “teasing” to put you down or make you feel bad about yourself.

4. They accuse you of being “too sensitive” in order to deflect their abusive remarks.

5. They try to control you and treat you like a child.

6. They correct or chastise you for your behavior.

7. You feel like you need permission to make decisions or go out somewhere.

8. They try to control the finances and how you spend money.

9. They belittle and trivialize you, your accomplishments, or your hopes and dreams.

10. They try to make you feel as though they are always right, and you are wrong.

11. They give you disapproving or contemptuous looks or body language.

12. They regularly point out your flaws, mistakes, or shortcomings.

13. They accuse or blame you of things you know aren’t true.

14. They have an inability to laugh at themselves and can’t tolerate others laughing at them.

15. They are intolerant of any seeming lack of respect.

16. They make excuses for their behavior, try to blame others, and have difficulty apologizing.

17. The repeatedly cross your boundaries and ignore your requests.

18. They blame you for their problems, life difficulties, or unhappiness.

19. They call you names, give you unpleasant labels, or make cutting remarks under their breath.

20. They are emotionally distant or emotionally unavailable most of the time.

21. They resort to pouting or withdrawal to get attention or attain what they want.

22. They don’t show you empathy or compassion.

23. They play the victim and try to deflect blame to you rather than taking personal responsibility.

24. They disengage or use neglect or abandonment to punish or frighten you.

25. They don’t seem to notice or care about your feelings.

26. They view you as an extension of themselves rather than as an individual.

27. They withhold sex as a way to manipulate and control.

28. They share personal information about you with others.

29. They invalidate or deny their emotionally abusive behavior when confronted.

30. They make subtle threats or negative remarks with the intent to frighten or control you.

- See more at: http://liveboldandbloom.com/11/relationships/signs-of-emotional-abuse#sthash.ff5j0PBh.dpuf

Well he doesn't have insurance aand he is curently unemloyed. Before he had to leave his work to come to see me bacause he couldnt take off. And he wants to find better job now and concentrate on it. He also aplied for police academy so he told me he wont e ale to come to me even in a few days because he have to focus on his career. So if i don't come now i will e on my own and he wouldn't help me financial with baby too and he would continue his life without me.

The problem is that i love him, and i dont know how i would continue my life without him, im emotinaly unstable and right now very depressed. Also my mom was a single mother and i growed up without father and somethimes it wasnt nice at all because a lot of kids at school bully me cuz that , i dont want my child to grow like that too.

The medical cost! I didn't even think of THAT when I gave my piece of advise! The USA has such high medical cost for birth of a child, it would shock your socks off...and you'd be stuck with the whole big-fat bill. There's not free medical care in the USA (unless you're an illegal but that's a whole other subject). It would take many years to pay it off. You have no idea how cold-blooded and relentless bill collectors are here. They would make your life a living Hell.

We talked about that too, i have here a free medical care. I asked him what would be with me in America, he said he will get me insurance and i will be ok. I really don't know how things work in usa for that but i thought that everyone must have insurance.

Hello everyone, i really feel miserable rignt now and very stressed. Im 29 weeks pregnant now and i am at risk of premature labor, i got my fiance visa (expiration date is 10 february 2016) but doctor told me that i shouldn't travel for such a long trip from Serbia to New York where in case of emergency plane wont be anyhow abe to land. I also have som bactaerias that are very deengerous in pegnancy and i have to recive antibiotic 2 hours before labor and every hour during labor and baby also must recive them when its born and if dont there is a big chance that baby can die or be demaged and i can get blood poisoning and die. When i think baout that im even more scared when i think about what if something happen during flight, what will be with baby . I talked with m fiance about that and he knows that im at risk of premature labor and doctor told me not to travel but he says i should come next week and nothing wont happen during flight cuz its safe. I called embassy and told them for my case and they told me that the best thing would be if my fiance come here when baby is born and aply for crba (that takes 15 days) so baby can come with me and then he can take us to USA. I see that like the best thing but .. my fiance got very mad and he tod me that i must come next week and he wll book me ticket, i have only one chnace to come or to keep life on my own and take care alone about baby beecause he dosn't wnat to come back. So now he want me to come next week or dont come at all. I feel broken and i stress more and more every day. I don;t know what too do, i dont want to be single mother but im so afarid to fly now. ..

But She loves him, and she can change him,

That would be very hard, man who hit woman once,he gonna hit her again.

Hello,

I had my interview for finace visa on August 14 and i was approved. In embassy they gave me paper with instructions how to register online so they can send my visa to courier service so i can pick up. They sai i shoud recive after 2 or 3 working days after visa is approved and i will get notification about that on my email. Its been almost 3 weeks now and i didn't recived anything. Im worried what happened, why I didn'trecived my visa yet? Did anyone had similar expriance?

Hi guys . I need advice . Recently i gave birth , and i was thinking of getting nanny for my baby . I have a good friend from another country , we went to school together . She is currently unemployed ,she loves kids and I think she would be a good nanny to him . I would like to bring her to USA .Don't judge me ,or think i'm a bad mom,it's just I feel like a single mom most of the time even i'm married . My husband is a truck driver and I'm home alone most of the time with so much stuff to take care while he is on the road . Is there any way to bring her here ? Thank you .

She can try to come on visitor or tourist visa.

on july 24, 2015 my fiance was approved. the consuler told her on one a two weeks her visa will be ready.

its been almost a month we havent hear anynothing. would it take longer ? would i be worry about this situacion? we call and noone seen to have a anwer. they told her that K1visas take longer than other.

please if anybody knows anything i will gladly apriciated.

Same with me, but they said after your visa is approved you can expect to get it after 3 bussniss days. But they called me from embassy and tld me they gonna send my visa packet to the place i chose when i register online. Did u registeronline too? Maybe its different in your country.

more important is the income

needs to fit the 125% over poverty guidlines

consider the fees you will be paying

have you considered going to UAE and marrying?

to do the CR 1 which would allow spouse a green card faster to work in the US

the time it would take for processing would also give you time to establish a job and show adequate income and/or attend college at the same time giving you a better chance for decent job

work and learn while you wait for spouse

Are you the US citizen?

you are a male so are you muslim?

IS she muslim?

as a muslim woman can not marry outside her religion

a muslim man can but not the women

She can marry who ever she wants, it's not on you to tell.

Hello,

I am the petitioner for a K1 visa. This is a same-sex engagement in the middle east. I am a US citizen currently living in a nearby country to my fiance. Because his family does not know about our engagement (he's not out to them) I need to be vague about the location. They have met me and they know he is applying for a visa to the US, but they don't know it is for marriage. Anyways, I filed the I-129F application back in January and it was approved and forwarded to my fiance's embassy March. The I-129F process went pretty smoothly, and I was expecting the same thing for the K1 process at the embassy. I couldn't have been more wrong.

The interview was in mid-June. The embassy asked for more documentation of relationship and my 2014 taxes. As an expat I did not have 2014 taxes filed yet (my deadline was 15 June because I live overseas, and I had filed an extension). So, I provided tax returns for the prior 3 years, plus reams of data regarding my financial solvency, which is quite good. They had some other questions about my ties to the USA and I addressed those as well. We filed the requested data within a week and then my fiance got a call two weeks later saying that we needed to provide more proof of relationship and also a joint sponsor. For the additional proof of relationship we provided over 6 months of whatsapp data using screenshots so they could see the emoticons and pics we exchanged. The joint sponsorship was much more difficult, especially since my I-129F was about to expire. This particular embassy is very difficult to reach--- the US traveldocs number just gets a recording and their email does not work (daemon mailer tried four times, with no luck), and they ignore their skype messages, etc. The embassy is equally impossible to reach-- even the special number for US citizens goes unanswered.

So, there was no way to ask anyone why I was being asked to provide a joint sponsor despite demonstrating that I have plenty of resources, and I could not ask anyone about extending the 129F deadline. At wits end I created an account and posted a tweet to the consular twitter account asking if they would extend my deadline and they said sorry, if I exceeded the deadline, there was nothing they could do-- I would need to file a new petition. Thank god, I was able to convince a close friend to joint sponsor my fiance and we were able to submit that with the other requested data before the 129F deadline.

That was 3.5 weeks ago. My fiance and I have travel plans in 1.5 weeks for which he will need his passport. The one method of contacting the embassy that has worked is the US traveldocs online form used for scheduling an application. So I asked what is the status last Tuesday, but have not heard back yet.

Today I checked the CEAC website, which in the past just listed the interview date in June. I was surprised to see that it now says:

U.S. Department of State

NONIMMIGRANT VISA APPLICATION

Administrative Processing

Case Creation Date:

16-Jun-2015

Status Updated Date:

30-Jul-2015

Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing. This processing can take several weeks. Please follow any instructions provided by the Consular Officer at the time of your interview. If further information is needed, you will be contacted. If your visa application is approved, it will be processed and mailed/available within two business days.

So... my question is, what does this mean? My fiance was miraculously able to get through to someone at the embassy today. The person there said that the visa "hasn't been printed yet." He then asked when it might be printed and she told him that she can't say. Unfortunately he did not ask her if this means the visa was approved. We both tried several times to reach her again with this question, with no luck.

Thank you.

Maybe it will be easier if you just get married in the Middle east.