Nikki14

10 minutes ago, Rocko20 said:

That's a relief, thank goodness I wasn't the only one lol. 

 

 I was always a bit skeptic about some of the stories of USCIS losing paperwrook on people but now I've experienced it firsthand lol. 

 

Let's all hope they don't lose it again

Yeah, not like our K1 where they lost our papers (they were sent to canada but no one had any idea where they were) for like two months. 😥

I was sweating it then.

2 hours ago, Rocko20 said:

I got the exact same RFE, the difference is I actually sent in my IRS transcript, W2, paystub, etc. So it's clear they lost it.

 

Doesn't matter now, on monday I sent in every single tax document possible from the IRS website on my 2017 taxes. (there's 3 to 4 different categories on the IRS website and I pulled tranccitps from all of them) Plus tax returns and W2 from previous years.  

 

They'll love the 15+ papers of tax documents I sent them and I doubt I'll be receiving any RFE on it again. 😉

Same situation here and I did the same, lol.

Seems like they are having troubles with tax files lately.

I didn't have any photos or proof of contact with family, him with my family or mine with his. I had a photo of us with friends, but mostly it was just the two of us by ourselves in the pics I sent. So, just go with what you have. I think communication with family is very secondary to proof that you two communicate often, it is nice to have proof that you are involved in each other's families, but not necessary I think.

2 hours ago, Mmagic said:

First of all, you have met within the last two years? If yes, then good.

-You need Photos of both of you during your visit. If photos with family or friends is good too. We sent almost 20 photos.

- Your flight tickets, itineraries, boarding passes, visa stamp on your passport. 

- If you bought a ring, a receipt is good with photos of your fiance wearing it.

- Post cards, Valentine cards, Xmas cards, mail, receipt of gifts if you sent any.

- Chats might and might not be helpful, we sent few pages each from Skype, Viber,  Facebook. We choose different dates from  first conversation to last one. Some people might say you don't need them. Its up to you.

This is what I sent too, pretty much. We sent about 5 photos. Also if either of you wrote something for your engagement (we both wrote cute things to say to each other when we got engaged), you can send that as well. I sent in skype call logs, some chat logs, and a phone bill from two months (a year apart) showing how much we texted, which was nearly constantly. In the end we decided too much was better than too little, just in case.

2 minutes ago, NikLR said:

The hard part is, it can hurt.  They can purposely ignore you because you've annoyed them.  You take that risk whenever you do things before you're told.  Generally speaking, it doesn't affect anything, but if you send it every day for 8 weeks, there's a reason after 8 weeks they're not accepting it.  LOL  So be a little patient as well.

Well we did only send it once. I have heard from a lot of people that they did send it early and it sped things along, but I suppose as with anything, take it with a grain of salt. I don't see why sending them the information they're going to ask for anyway would annoy anyone, but I suppose it could.

I don't think it really matters, we just left ours blank but writing N/A does signal that you didn't just overlook it. I don't think they are bothered either way though. Some spaces won't let you do '/' though, if you are filling it out on the computer and printing it.

On 4/9/2018 at 4:55 PM, KAF said:

For the packet 3, did you guys composed an email like on a letter style? 

 

I mean like did you guys make a cover letter then the attachments of the requirements?

My fiance just wrote "This is my packet 3 documentation as per the instructions above the checklist" and sent his passport scan, ds-160 confirmation page, and his signed checklist from here: https://ca.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Packet3Instructions-K1.pdf

On 4/9/2018 at 3:23 PM, KAF said:

Wow that’s today?? Haha im gonna tell my fiance to send her p3 tonight too 😂 

 

congratulations! Hopefully you get the p4 tomorrow 

I would say to anyone waiting, go ahead and e-mail them with your p3, even do it multiple times if you want to. We repeatedly e-mailed them and checked, nothing happened. Then I got the suggestion to go ahead and send it and got p4 information two days later. We did get something in the mail, but not for weeks. From everyone I have heard from, going ahead and sending it when it says 'ready' speeds their butts up. XD At the very least it can't hurt.

I am in the exact same situations (just out of college, slammed with student loans and at the moment have a crappy job outside of my field) and we just got accepted, so I would say you should do just fine. My brother co-sponsored for us and only makes 27k a year, but they didn't question our finances or if I would have trouble supporting him at all. Your fiance may be asked questions about your situation as a student or something/lack of job/whatev, but I don't think you would get rejected as long as you have a co-sponsor. You don't give financial info until the interview anyway, so if you do have some time, depending on how long the NOA2 and processing afterwords takes. Make sure to get a copy of your dad's birth certificate and proof of address to take to the interview, they wanted both for my brother.

I do not have any dependents (my grandmother has money), we just care for her as she is in poor health. My brother also supports himself, so I am only financially responsible for myself. And my brother has a very good job, he is the best person for a cosponsor that I know. So I just have him fill out a i134 as well?

Also I could be wrong, but Part 3 is where I would list any dependents I have. Part two is listed as "Information About the Beneficiary", where I put Chris' information, so I would assume it is talking about my intent to support the immigrant.

Me and my fiance are getting ready for our interview, getting the paperwork together. My brother agreed, before we started this whole process, to be a joint sponsor for us. But when I go to look up the paperwork, I see also a mention of the I-864A (Contract Between Sponsor and Household Member). My brother and I live with our grandmother (to care for her, as she has been unwell for years), and it says:
 

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• You may count the income and assets of members of your household who are related to you by birth, marriage, or adoption. To use their income you must have listed them as dependents on your most recent federal tax return or they must have lived with you for the last 6 months. They must also complete a Form I-864A, Contract Between Sponsor and Household Member . If the relative you are sponsoring meets these criteria you may include the value of their income and assets, but the immigrant does not need to complete Form I-864A unless he or she has accompanying family members.

My brother is related to me by blood (same father and mother) and we have lived in the same house for the last 3-4 years.

Does anyone know if there is any difference or which would be better in our case? I know I probably don't make enough to qualify as a sponsor by myself.

Side question: The Affidavit of Support asks "I [  ] intend [  ] do not intend to make specific contributions to the support of the person(s) named in Part 2." Like, he will be my husband, I do not intend to give him X amount of money for food, say, but he will be living with me, my money is his money, so I will be supporting him completely. So what is the answer to this? I don't intend to make specific contributions but I 110% plan to support him, obviously. Do I mark intend or do not intend then just explain? I don't know what is right for this.

But he did pay for like the express shipping stuff to get it back, if he gets it back before his flight, he should be fine, right?

Thanks! We are so excited and nervous!! 

And thank you so much for the response, we were so worried he wouldn't get to go to his brother's wedding. And yeah, we knew he wouldn't be allowed to enter the US and travel internationally after without special forms, so as anxious as we are to be together, we are gonna wait till after his brother's wedding for him to enter the US. That makes me feel tons better. 

So, we got our interview date, April 4th. Everything is going fine and we're all prepared for that. We are planning to have him come into America and move down here at the end of April, should all go well, obviously.

But two weeks after the interview, his brother is getting married in Ireland, so he wants to be there. We were wondering if him going to Ireland (not taking a flight that connects anywhere in the US or crossing the US border) would be problematic for our visa situation. If it is, he won't go, but he would very much like to if it won't be a problem.

Does anyone know if it will be an issue or who we can contact to ask if it would be alright? 

Doing a court house wedding is what me and my fiance are planning too. We are stressing about so much, we didn't want to stress about planning anything big on top of it and our top priority is being able to be living together and married as soon as we can. <3 A wedding is secondary to us. Besides I have so many family members in the area, we'll probably end up being taken out to dinner so many times to celebrate, hahah. And we're gonna go to dinner the day of, with cake! That is the most important part.

Okay I have been following this guide (http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide) and think we are about ready to send everything off. I'd appreciate it if you guys could look over it and let us know if you think we need further info or if we're looking good:

1. G-1145
2. Payment check
3. Cover Letter
4. I-129F (signed and dated)
   1. This has a section to explain how you got together and have met in person, with extra room at the end, so we used all of that. We've met 7 times in person.
5. Two seperate original statements, his and mine (signed and dated), saying we intend to marry within 90 days of him getting here.
6. His G-325A (signed and dated) with passport photo
7. My G-325A (signed and dated) with passport photo
8. Copy of my birth certificate

For proof of relationship & seeing each other we intend to send:

1. Flight/bus/hotel receipts from each of our trips
   1. Including tickets/badge for a convention we went to on one trip, ticket for the Royal Ontario Museum which we went to on another trip, movie tickets, and as many boarding passes/ect as we could locate
   2. Scanned our passport stamp pages, his and mine. Unfortunately, border patrol didn't stamp his or my passport every time, just like half the time. 
2. Five pictures of us together (should we send more?)
3. Engagement ring receipts (could include pics of us wearing our rings)
4. Written version of what he said when he proposed (in his handwriting)
5. Phone bill showing how many texts we sent back and forth last month and also June/July last year (to prove our contact is fairly consistent)
6. Skype logs (of call start/stop times) for the last month or two, showing we talk all the time

Things we could also include:

1. Shipping label for him sending me a laptop as a present last year.
2. Shipping label for him sending me his half of the documentation for this packet.

I dunno if this is overkill or not enough or not the right stuff, opinions are very welcome. We're very excited/nervous and we've looked at it so much by now I'm pretty sure I couldn't possibly see what was missing if anything was.

Thanks so much for the response! Yeah, I forgot I didn't have anything on my profile, so I went and filled it in a bit more. We're slowly working our way through the guides, going point by point getting stuff together, and lots of googling, but I didn't see this addressed anywhere and it was sort of relevant if I get the new job. At my new job I'd probably be making enough to qualify myself, but due to the newness I figured we'd have him co-sponsor anyway, just in case they look at me funny for the job being so recent.

Me and my fiance are starting to get our K1 packet together and I wondered, since you list your job on the G-325A but do not actually send your Affidavit of Support in until you receive your NOA2 (if I understand that correctly), what do you do if you change jobs in the months in between? I decided to wait until I was employed to file our K1 because it is probably better to show I am employed and have some form of income (even though my brother has agreed to co-sponsor him) and am now employed, but the money is not too great. I've applied to a few places that pay better, but of course I have no idea if/when I will hear back and don't want to wait to apply until I get hired somewhere else.

Thank you guys so much for all the wonderful information. I've done a lot of reading, but there are a lot of gaps that government forms and instructional websites just don't fill in very well. We absolutely don't wanna rush this and screw it up, even if it means we have to be apart for a bit longer, as much as that sucks. 

I think my plan for now is to continue the job search and get as much of the paperwork together as I can (print photos/proof of our travel/forms we need), then as soon as I get a job send it all away. Hopefully it shouldn't take too long. Savings for filing fees/travel expenses isn't really a huge problem for us, since he works and doesn't really have any bills (lives with his parents), so we have been saving up in prep for this for a good while. I'm absolutely not worried about us having the money to complete the process, just that we can get through the financial requirements for them to approve us.

But you don't necessarily get denied outright or have to reapply if the financial stuff gets rejected, just provide another cosponsor/more financial info for them (and hope they accept that then)?

Also, one other question, what would I have to get for proof of being employed to show them, if my job is fairly new when I apply? Cause some sites said bank statements/tax returns, but if it is a new job it wouldn't be on my taxes and no site could seem to agree on how many bank statements were a good idea.

Thanks again for answering some of my questions, feeling a little less lost all the time, haha.

Thanks! And no, my brother doesn't claim me, so the household size being 3 is good to hear, he for sure makes more than required for that.  I didn't know you could really get approved while being unemployed, so that actually makes me feel a lot better if that's the case. The whole process just seems entirely overwhelming, but I suppose you just sort of gather one thing at a time and work from there.

Hey,

Me and my fiance have been dating for over 2 years (we met on World of Warcraft), he lives in Canada and I live in the US. I am currently unemployed and am searching for a job and I had some questions about the process in regards to the financial side of things.

My brother has agreed to co-sponsor him (he has a good job working indirectly for the government), and I'm pretty sure he makes enough alone to meet the financial requirement. He is a blood relative that lives in the same house, if that makes any difference, I read somewhere it can. But I figure it would probably be better for me to wait until I actually get a job to start the whole process. So, I was wondering how long after I get a job would it be a good idea to wait until starting the paperwork? Will it be a huge problem if it isn't a great job/if I don't get paid a lot since I will have a co-sponsor? And I hear tax returns are typical proof of income, but this job obviously won't show up on last year's taxes, so I don't know what I would do about that.

Also my brother claims my mother on his tax returns, I'm fairly certain. So the household size would be 4 for the financial requirement, correct? (Me, fiance, bro, mom).

Thanks in advance for any help!