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I had my interview today and was approved! The interview was surprisingly easy and non-stressful. I will post a review in the next couple of days!

Now (of course) I am looking at flight, and as we are going down to Texas, we'll have to get a connecting flight – either through Chicago or Newark. Does any of you have experience with POE at either of those, and approx. how long does it take? I don't want to have too tight a connection!

Hello!

I've got a question about the financial documents one needs to bring to the interview. In the email I received about the appontment notice it reads:

"EVIDENCE OF SUPPORT: Please have the U.S. Petitioner provide a copy of his U.S. federal income tax return for 2015.

In addition, please have your financial joint sponsor provide both the U.S. federal income tax return for 2015 and his W2 form for 2015. Should he be unable to provide a W2 for 2015, we will ask that his/her household member (with whom he’s filing joing tax return), complete form I-864A, contract between sponsor and household member. Form I-864A can be accessed at www.uscis.gov"

My questions are

• So, my husband didn't make enough to file taxes last year so we were going to write a letter/note explaining that he didn't make enough and therefore didn't file taxes with a photocopy of information from his bank about his dividends last year. Is that OK?
• Further, does my husband need to fill in a new I-864?
• Secondly, my joint sponsor (my father-in-law) has his W2 and has sent for the transcript of his taxes. Is that the tax return they ask for? Or is that a different document? And will HE have to fill in a new I-864?

I don't want to have to make them go through loads of extra work, but I also want to get it right!

thx!

Thank you. I will let her know.

I greatly appreciate all the info you guys have provided in this forum.

thank you so much

I had my medical in Stockholm this Wednesday, so chiming in with more info! I have attached the file I received when I asked about what vaccinations I'd need. The flu one is only needed during flu season, so don't worry about that one. You need to have received the tetanus/diphtheria one in the last ten years, and you need to have received two rounds of MMR. (The second one is usually done at school when you're ten or eleven or so. I dunno if I got one, but if I did, it wasn't put down in my vaccination card, so I ended up having to get one.)

ALSO, if you have any mental health issues, be aware that you need to provide information about that as well. I brought a list of the medication I've got prescribed, among those an SSRI against anxiety and I was grilled a good bit about this. In the end the physician told me he needed a certificate in English from my GP with

1. diagnosis

2. analysis (I believe the note says... classic doctor's handwriting!)

3. treatment

4. prognosis

Basically just to show that I'm not a threat to myself or anyone else. This may not be relevant for you, but maybe it helps someone else to know?

Just got my interview date scheduled! 20th July. Too excited about almost being done!

Just called to see if they'd scheduled my interview yet. Apparently they are starting scheduling July interviews today. I am getting so impatient!!

Fingers crossed that all of us that are waiting for interview dates get them soon!

For those of you who are case complete/already done with the visa, a question about the interview: I received case complete on Monday. When should I start calling to ask about my interview date? The "Visa status check" still says my case is at NVC. Do I need to wait until it is at the Stockholm embassy?

You can go back in

Congratulations! We have the same scan date I'm so afraid I'll get a checklist since I don't have 3NA yet!

Thank you! I am keeping my fingers crossed that you'll get CC by the end of the day!

did you call NVC or they mail you ?

I went onto the portal and saw the three N/As so I jumped straight on the phone and spent fifteen minutes on hold before getting it confirmed by a lovely young man whose name I didn't catch. From what I've seen the case complete email usually arrives later on.

CASE CLOSED TODAY!

Scan date: 14 April

Case closed: 16 May

I'm so excited!!!

I again have the question. Im a little late but want to know. My father in law is the joint sponsor and my husband lives with him. My father in law and mother in law file taxes jointly too. So do my father in law and husband both need to file I 864 forms or something else. Please help. I need the help as soon as possible. Im very confused! Thank You

I assume that your husband is the petitioner? If so, then yes, both your husband (= petitioner) and father-in-law (joint sponsor) need to file. Even if your husband doesn't make enough money to cover you he needs to send in the I-864. good luck!

My documents were scanned today. It feels so good to have a scan date! Finally a light at the end of the tunnel, and I don't think it's a train. The representative told me to wait 35 days, so it seems like they are keeping good speed! (Unless he is just bad at saying the difference between 35 and 45...)

My parents-in-law (in the US) are about to send off the supporting & financial documents for my visa. However, we don't have 2015's taxes in there, and if we were to include those we'd have to send new papers from Sweden (new coverletter with a signature, new I-184 for my husband), which would take a while to arrive and having sat on the things for a while (police certificates since February), I'd kind of like to get it all in. Should I just send in and hope that they'll be willing to look at the 2015 tax papers at the interview and brace myself for the possibility of a checklist? :x

Sorry, posted this in the wrong forum! Ignore me, I hope all y'all have a speedy and successful I-130! Sorry again!

Any advice on how to order the documents when sending them to NVC? I've read about putting the financial/supporting documents in manila envelopes, but do I need to include a document cover sheet in the envelopes? With the I-184 outside of the envelopes? I am confused!

UGH. I've been away for a few days and came home today and was going to finally pick up the package from my mother-in-law with all the financial info from them needed for the AOS paperwork. And because she had put both my name and my husband's on the package I was not allowed to pick it up without a signature from him. He is at work all night and I am at work all day tomorrow. Oh well, tomorrow night I will finally be able to compile everything. Now, fingers crossed she sent the right things! I just want to send off the dang thing.

I realised I didn't join this forum (thanks for the ping, @SoerenHelmer)! I'm in the facebook group, but with everything up in the air I completely forgot about this one.

We are currently in the process of sending stuff into NVC - we paid the IV fee on Friday so the DS-260 will hopefully open Monday or Tuesday. Around that time the packet with all my parents-in-law's documents (joint sponsor stuff, my husband's tax transcripts) should also be arriving so we can send it all off. Though of course we are off travelling Monday-Thursday, so we won't be able to send it off the moment it arrives! As I said in the NVC forum, we are now figuring out the domicile aspect. UGH so many things. We currently have my husband's TX drivers license, bank + credit card statements, voters registration, a letter of intent for moving and I'm drafting a letter for his parents to sign that we will live with them when we move there. Surely it must be OK if they sign it and scan it and we print it off here? I don't really want to wait around for yet another letter being sent, in transit, delivered. (Of course we'd get them to send the original so I'll have it for the interview.)

So, my husband and I live together in Sweden, and when we move to the States we will start off by living with his parents. So to prove domicile they ought to sign a document saying that we will live with them, right? Any advice on what to say in this letter? I was thinking something along the lines of

"When our son PETITIONER returns to the United States with his wife BENEFICIARY, we have agreed that they will stay at our property at ADDRESS until they have secured a rental agreement for accommodation of their own. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact us at PHONE NUMBER." And then signed.

Any other information that needs to be included?

Like others say, the Stockholm embassy only offers DCF in extreme family circumstances – deaths, illnesses, &c. So the I-130 will be the way to go.

A possible light in the darkness: I don't know if I was just very lucky, but I went through the I-130 process in just 23 days (documents received at USCIS 4th of January this year, petition approved on 27th January). We're currently in the NVC process, but if you have any questions about applying from Sweden (my husband and I both currently live in Sweden), feel free to shoot me a message.

He doesn't have to didn't make enough so on the 2015 amount he made $0 and a explanation. Did not make enough to qualify to file.

You have joint sponsors right? And you have all your domicile paperwork ready?

Thanks for the answer! Yes, we have my husband's father as a joint sponsor. We've got the following for domicile paperwork:

- TX drivers license

- Bank account statement

- Debit card statement

- Voter registration card

All with the same permanent US address (his parents', which is where we'll stay when my visa comes through). We might also add a cover letter for one of the jobs he'll be applying for, but as he's not written any yet I don't know. I hope what we have is enough, or are we missing something important?

Congrats on all the recent CCs! NVC sure seems to be doing some work.

I've got a question about the I-864/filing taxes. My husband and I both live in Sweden, and he has made a whopping $97 in the US last year (from dividends). Should he file taxes? Or should we just include a paper saying he hasn't filed taxes because he didn't make any money in 2015?

A quick question about the I-184: currently, my husband does not make any money, so we are getting his father to be a joint sponsor. Is there any point in filling in part 7 (Use of assets to supplement income), as we still won't have enough money between us to get out of using a joint sponsor?

Having finally received the welcome letter from the NVC, we aim to send off everything by the end of the month! Now, to check that my father-in-law has everything he needs to fill in the I-864. I know I've got a long way to go, but I feel optimistic!

I hope y'all will get CC as soon as possible!

Hi guys congrats to those who got through with nvc,how long it takes nvc to assign case number? They told me that I should wait 42 days for my husband to hear from them and receive a letter from them nvc,will a case number assign to my case before that letter are not?do I of to wait on the letter before case number assign?help pls anyone.

Thank u

My case arrived at 2/12, I was assigned a case number on 2/23. I'd say start calling a week or two after it's arrived to get it as soon as possible. They'll send a letter in conjunction with the case number being assigned (I believe – we haven't received ours yet), but if you get the case number on the phone you can also give them your email addresses to get correspondence sent to those instead of just snail mail.

Yesterday, I called NVC and found out we had got a case number assigned a couple of days (whee!). So naturally I filled in the DS-291 at once. Then today I realised I chose that I said I didn't want to choose an agent, so I re-did it and chose myself as the agent. From what I understand they will just disregard the first one when they review it? Or do I need to call NVC on Monday?

(Post-work brain made me fill in the form before I realised that it maybe wasn't the smartest idea.)

Our case hasn't received a case number yet (arrived at NVC on 12th February, so I'll give them some time before I have to listen to that music again), but I'm trying to be proactive with getting materials for the AOS and IV, and I was wondering a bit about the IRS transcripts. Are IRS transcripts from 2014 counted as the latest tax year? Or is it possible to get one from 2015 already? I really don't understand the US tax system, and my google fu has failed me!