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when the photos were submitted do they have to be in true passport style fashion with white background etc? or just a nice selfie-style that's clear with good lighting?

Oh lordy. thank you for that info; that's good to know so I can relay that info to my friend as she prepares to do her part. You truly are a good helper as your name implies ☺️

amazing! was there ever any trouble with uploading their selfies/pics to the CPB1 app? i'm in a whatsapp group for people in Nicaragua and word on the street is that the previous version should be downloaded due to some technical issues with the most recent available version.

Good morning, Swinging back around to report that my parents were approved as sponsors. 9 business days or 13 calendar days Submitted Feb 2 and our friends/beneficiaries received their confirmation emails today. WIll swing back again to report how long it takes between the CBP1 step until receipt of authorization to travel

for this particular program

Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans | USCIS these are the only requirements listed to be a potential sponsor according to the USCIS.

That is what my folks did...sort of. They are self employed so they put the amount of income on their most recent available tax transcript + amount of available assets. They are sponsoring a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) from Nicaragua. Form was filed Feb 2, will see how long it takes to get a response if they are approved as sponsors or not

Buenas noches, Helped my folks file 4 I-134As for our family-friends today (2 adults and 2 kids). Took our friends about 2 weeks to renew their passports in Nicaragua. I'll keep coming by with updates as I too am seeing some crazy-fast approvals as well and am curious how things will play out. Evidence docs submitted : 3 years personal tax return transcripts 3-consecutive personal bank account statements +1 2022 end-of-year retirement account statement to show a total of $250k in assets available. Statement from bank official

thank you for your input, GoodHelper. I'm one of those people who needs someone else to confirm what I'm already thinking! Yes, as soon as the family gets their passports back (renewed) they are going to be submitting the application!

joining this thread to see how the process goes for others, and gain insight with this! My parents agreed to sponsor a family that we've known for over a decade from Nicaragua. Waiting for their passports to finish the renewal process before they submit 4 I-134as (2 adults, 2 kids). I walked my folks through the application as much as I could along with the best way to write in the statements explaining how you will support them. Anyone have any insight regarding: sufficient assets. They are self-employed farmers that run most of their income through the farm. So, on paper it seems like they don't make much money. We were trying to figure out how do we tie together them with their farm LLCs but at the end figured out that we didn't need to. Thankfully the combined assets between my mom's 401k and their personal account is 250k. If I understand correctly should be enough assets to satisfy USCIS without involving the LLC's etc. I like to be 110% prepared and a little paranoid lol. If we would need to use their businesses to further prove up assets, what's the best way to show this on paper? My initial thoughts are: Business letter signed by them affirming 100% ownership? (what else would show this? letter from their tax guy?) Business tax returns (all pages) Business bank statements + signature cards ...?

I'm blind as a bat! Thank you for pointing out this little blip as I totally missed that trying to help point my folks in the right direction. I agree that a simpler income would be easier for sure! The worst that can happen is they apply then are either asked for additional supporting documentation or simply are denied, in which both my folks and our family-friends are willing to accept. A letter of commitment seems way too simple. We will see!

Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans | USCIS Good day VisaJourney friends and Happy New Year! Am hoping I can pick some of your most-knowledgable brains. My parents are filling out the I-134a for a family of 4 that we have known for many years who are going to be registering for this new program that launched on Jan 6 of this year to come to the states due to the economic and political disaster that is Nicaragua right now. My folks have been coming to me for a few questions they have as they understand MOST of what they need to do except this part...to which I respond "I have no clue". Background: They are farmers (self-employed) and their personal taxes show little to no income because they run everything through their LLCs. They have a ton of land that they are hoping to show that they have more than enough assets to qualify. On paper with the IRS they don't seem to have much income but this is far from the truth it's just under their farm business entities and not their personal names if that makes sense. Question: What sort of supporting documentation can they submit to show this? Asset balance sheet? They have a statement from their local banker with the beginning and ending balances of their personal accounts and total of all deposits for 2022 per the instructions. They have a statement listing all land owned plus the value of that land that has been verified or signed by their local Farm credit service representative. What else? Thank you for any input you can provide!

18 above zero today....that's like a 30 degree difference. woo! Still living in a human-snow globe today. Nice and windy to throw around all the fresh snow around that fell today. Interstates are still closed so lots of people might be stuck at grandma's house until the roads clear up tomorrow.; better make sure there's enough lefse dough to feed everyone!! Here's from the storm this year in April, 18 inches total. Each pic was taken 24 hours apart and was ONLY 20-ish degrees above zero. Too dang cold to do a sequence like that this time around. Also note that I'm really good at growing dead grass 😬

Nice part about being so cold is that we can store stuff in our garage and free up fridge space!

THis week we've got 25 mph sustained winds with 40 mph gusts. -15 actual temp but feels like -50 something with the wind chill. Of course, anything after -10 feels the same...just plain cold! The wind is kicking up the loose snow reducing visibility and making some nice drifts. Interstate is closed, but only a moron or out-of-state-r who doesn't know how to drive would be out on the prairie right now. Last week was an actual blizzard; 20 inches of white n' fluffy "good-will and peace to men" dropped on us from on high. This week is just a ground blizzard. Just another day in good 'ole ND. Next week we'll be in the 20s (Above zero) so I'll be breaking out my shorts and flip flops for that heat wave!

We chose to do apply online for the following reasons: * No chance of docs getting lost while in transit * You upload your docs, so you don't have to worry that you forgot to make a copy of something before you sent it. * Able to view all the docs you uploaded, so there's no question as to "what did I sent them" * If you get a RFE for anything, you just upload for a faster turnaround/response To each his own. The whole process was very smooth and user-friendly for us when we went through the N-400 process. Good luck!

I did; in this order: Follow the guides on this form, as mentioned above follow the USCIS instructions. double and triple check everything Make 2 copies of everything Then come to the forum to ask questions if you are stuck on anything Then you wait!

Are you awaiting to interview in Ecuador or in the US? If the interview is taking place in Ecuador, then you do not need to translate any docs that are in Spanish because the country's national language is Spanish. If you have any docs that are in a language other than Spanish or English then those would have to be translated, If you are doing the interview in the US, then you will need to translate any document currently in Spanish into English. When my husband did his K1 interview in Nicaragua we didn't have to translate anything (his police cert, birth cert, our chats which were in English). When submitting his application for greencard (I130) stateside, I translated his birth cert. That was the only thing needed translating in our particular case but if there was anything else like a divorce decree in Spanish then I would have had to translate that as well.

I translated my husband's birth certificate no problem.

We got married 2 hours after my husband got off the plane at the courthouse! I think you'll be fine as long with your few photos and marriage cert.

My husband's Nicaraguan address also didn't have that same format. I don't think mail is even a thing in Nicaragua...or if it is it's very uncommon. I put it down as it is known. The embassy never sent him anything during our fiance process; packet 4 was received / sent electronically to his email. Am sure others will chime in to echo this. Good luck on the whole process. This website is such a great resource!

coming back to say that link doesn't help as you must establish your citizenship. The link I shared is a guide for those who already have their Nica birth certs. If i find a better link I'll share it

Not sure if it will be the same for you. My husband is Nicaraguan so we began the process for obtaining Nicaraguan citizenship for our oldest son. We had to go to the Nicaraguan consulate that covers our region. In our case it is Houston. At the consulate we had to have copies of everyone's birth certificates. COPIES. They don't take the originals and they won't make copies while you are there; so you gotta bring some or else you'll have to rush to the nearest Office Depot like I did and get copies. We didn't have to have the US BC's translated BUT we did have to have them with an apostille seal which you do through your local state department. They had us fill out a form which they generate a birth-certificate-looking form that we will have to take to Nicaragua to be registered in the Central Registry in Managua. THEN he would be issued a national birth certificate or naturalization form (not sure which one exactly). When that's done we will be able to get his Nicaraguan passport. For whatever reason they don't do that for you...which....isn't that the whole point of having a consulate? They were a little tricky too. On the phone before we made the trip all the way to Houston I was told that it wouldn't take more than a few days to get us what we needed. So we made plans to be there for just a week. When we got there to the very not-busy office they changed their minds and said it would take 8-10 days. In the most polite way possible we reminded them of what they first told us and appealed that we traveled some 1300 miles just to do this and if they can please get it done in a more reasonable amount of time. Magically they were able to process our stuff in about 4 days. They made him have 2 last names which is dumb but whatever. My son's name is First-middle-Gussiaas-Cruz. Very non-latino haha! Now my oldest is 3 going on 4. I am not sure how different the process is for an adult. The Houston consulate was only open from like 10-1 Mon thru Thursday so you'll want to try and reach them around midday depending on what Nicaraguan consulate you will go to. Hope this helps. The first thing I suggest is to make contact with your nearest consulate and ask them what is needed since I am sure the process for adults vs. kids is very different. If there's an email you can reach out that way, as well, which is what I did. This link might help give you an idea. Cómo solicitar un pasaporte nicaragüense desde el extranjero (municipio.co.ni)