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Even though the instructions don't say it's required, certain embassies DO require tax info. It's always good to include the transcript and W2s if possible. Trust me, I know that it's VERY difficult to convince co-sponsors to give up their tax information as it shows a lot of personal info including their name, SSN, income, and so on. Good luck!

Alternative would be to show a letter from the employer stating when they started working, how much they make per hour or salary, and that their position is in good standing (not temporary), etc.. Could also show a letter from the bank showing a year's worth of deposits. 

If he files jointly, they will not consider the joint total. They will take the income from the co-sponsor alone. You should not have to show any special document for this as the tax transcript will clearly mark it as a joint filing.

Not sure how your embassy was, but for all of the I-134 documents, I was able to clearly explain during the interview what the evidence was for, so this should help you as well.

On 12/3/2017 at 7:39 PM, Mushbroob said:

Thanks for this, I was just stuck on the same thing. When you attached the I-94, did you do so as a separate document after the I-129 or did you include it as part of your evidence list to prove the travel date along with a passport stamp, etc. Or does it probably not matter?

Either way, they will find it. List it on your cover sheet.

Even if the tax information shows that it's jointly filed, you must show the income of ONE parent. If I'm not mistaken, the tax transcript does break down individuals, even on a jointly filed tax return. You can also show a bank letter with deposits from the business to prove income.

Since it's self-employment, I'd also strongly suggest 3 years of tax info for your co-sponsor.

For my co-sponsor he also had joint taxes but was able to show a letter from his employer for his portion of the income. At the interview, they didn't even look at that information - just the total tax info. So sometimes it depends on who you see at the interview.

Incorrect. This is for the petitioner - US Citizen. Same with Part 3. 

Any time it refers to "YOU", it literally means you, the person filling out the form.

If it were to refer to the beneficiary, it would say "your beneficiary".

5 hours ago, Julia80 said:

Can somebody please help me, I’m so confused. 

 

I got my K1 on July 5th but didn’t enter the states until September 27th and we were married Oct 29th. My K1 expired on Dec 1st, we were able to get my SSN in my maiden name and then have it changed to my married name before Dec 1st. We haven’t yet applied for the AOS due to cost and plan to do this in January. After reading this post I feel like I am illegal now, even though we’ve only been married just over a month! I was NOT given an i94. I came from the UK. All I have is an expired K1. What do I do??? 

Listen to the above as you MUST have an I-94 record. You literally cannot be issued an SSN without it.

You get an I-94 record on entry - this gets entered into the SAVE-ASVI system and from there you can get a state drivers license, SSN, etc... Without that record you wouldn't have what you have.

On 11/24/2017 at 2:04 AM, olya green said:

Guys, got some Qs here:

 

1. What sort ofincome proof should my fiance provide for affidavit? A letter from the employer, tax returns?

2. Should I myself provide any income proof?

3. What should my fiance write in his Letter of intent?

4. Letters / assurances from some respected person - from who? A pastor who's to marry us? Who else? 

 

many thanks!

1. Tax returns, letter of employment showing salary, bank letter showing deposit amounts. Emphasis on tax return if it meets the minimum poverty line.

2. Beneficiary cannot add income to the I-134, so there's no point including it.

3. See example from immigration guide on the menu above or: http://www.visajourney.com/examples/Fiance_Letter_of_Intent.doc. There are also examples online. Needs to basically say you intend to marry within 90 days. This must also be with a pen ink signature. BOTH OF YOU need to make intent letters like this.

4. What do you believe this is required for?? This is only required if you need to provide evidence of something that you can't otherwise prove. Lawyer, bank manager, doctor, and other "professions" like this.

On 11/27/2017 at 7:35 AM, olya green said:

and also - re relationship evidence - we have only 3 photos of us together and not so much correspondence. Would we need more? 

Yes. A lot more! You must prove that you have met within the previous 2 years. Photos and correspondence don't do that. Things like boarding passes, passport stamps, credit card statements, I-94 records, proof of trips together, and so forth are much better than some photos and letters.

Please see the guide at the very top of this page for example, as well as a list of what you will be needing on your journey.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

For me my I-129F had 2 issues. I FedEx'd the info back and received approval letter in roughly 2 weeks.

Hello again, we're just about ready submit all of the AOS paperwork, but we're not onto the I-864.

I (as husband, beneficiary), and her as applicant make enough income jointly. By our count it's around $75,000 from our employment as well as I have self employment income of approximately $30,000 for a grand total of $105,000.

HOWEVER, and this might be a huge "however", the income we have made above is almost entirely from this year onward. My wife started her job in January and really didn't have income before then as I was supporting her.

I got my job offer (and was hired remotely) by a company in Canada in July and before then only have self-employment income in addition to having only paid Canadian taxes.

So the facts are:

• We both have letters of employment. Both her current employment as well as my continued employment after AOS are guaranteed and signed for by our employers. Both of our income will continue.
• We can provide a bank letter that will also show more than $30,000 in deposits, which puts us over our poverty threshold.
• I could provide Canadian taxation information and she can provide IRS tax information from PREVIOUS years, but the amounts will be very skewed compared to this year.

Questions:

1. Is the above evidence enough information, or do they really only care about the IRS Federal tax return info?
2. Would my Canadian tax information be accepted / adequate even if it shows amounts different than what is currently on the form as it's from last year?
3. Same question goes for her IRS tax info.
4. I'm not entirely sure how to prove this year's self-employment income for myself without tax information. Bank letter would be the only way?
5. Do they qualify you based on net or gross earnings? Gross earnings would be over the poverty limit with both of our last year's tax returns combined.

Thank you!

I agree with @JFH If one-way is cheaper - get that. If round-trip is cheaper, get that (and maybe try refunding the return portion of the ticket).

Both should be accepted by the airline and customs when they see that you have a one-way visa.

Generally 30 days is given to respond to an RFE. Once they get a response it can take as little as one week to hear approval back from them.

You can track your case status online via: https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/ However, it will NOT go into details about your RFE if you get one, and will often NOT tell you what type of correspondence they have sent you.

Your only concern is an RFE in which case you would need to respond, and even so you'll still have a couple of weeks to get that all sorted if your timeline is correct. If you overnight them the information you'll be left with plenty of time.

Same rule applies for the intent letter that you bring with you to the interview. Inked signature on letter of intent is usually mandatory.

For the driver's license, funny enough I literally had a piece of paper about car importation that happened to have my name and address on it. I didn't know I had to have evidence of residence at the DMV, so was lucky enough to have that with me. They accepted it, but honestly it looked like something I could have printed out with MS Word.

I don't really care about sending the CC, even with the numbers intact, if that's what it takes, so I'll likely just go that route.

It just seems odd to expect that there will be bills in my name when, while I'm filing the AOS and EAD, I don't have permission to work and gain an income in the US, plus getting most of these services in your name require a credit check which I guarantee I have no history for (so wouldn't be approved for) based on my shiny new SSN.

Beyond that, they can always drive down to the house where I will happily greet them at the door. 

If you file I-765 along with the AOS forms, a lot of the evidence it asks for in duplicate such as passport or birth certificate with photo ID.... since those are already included with the initial form, I would assume that copies don't need to also be submitted?

Yes - I know that photos are an exception and I have provided a total of 4 color photos for the AOS + EAD application.

The special instructions say that the I-94 is not required under C(9), even though it's provided with the AOS.

Any other evidence I should submit in duplicate apart from the photos?

Yeah definitely no lease / bills jointly in our names. Even so, in today's world we pay 100% of our bills online.

Either way the bills come out of our joint bank account, but again I'm wondering if that would be good evidence to support the address.

I do have one paper credit card bill that comes to my address here, but do I really want to include the entire credit card statement? That seems like a bit of an invasion of privacy for me.

Again, only one person said this but this VARIES BY AGE. Don't go paying for shots you don't need.

If you scroll down this page here it shows you the appropriate ages:

https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/ti/civil/vaccination-civil-technical-instructions.html

As a note: These are the guidelines that approved medical professionals must follow for immigration immunizations.

You shouldn't include call logs as primary evidence anyway.

Does it prove that you met in the last 2 years? No? Then don't include it.

If you REALLY need it to establish how you met and how you became a couple, you might include a few pages, but even then it's a stretch and your statement breaking down the circumstances of your relationship should be good enough.

The answer is yes.

Even if your fiance makes $0, you can include a form that says that. The primary can definitely make less (or nothing) and still be the primary sponsor.

At the interview they will then look at the co-sponsor form that you file with it (from your cousin or brother). If there is an embassy that will look at the joint-sponsor alone, it still really doesn't hurt to bring both forms from both individuals.

Follow the guides here and you will be much better off.

When filling out the I-134 form a friend of mine consulted with a lawyer about it. They followed it BY THE BOOK and the resulting I-134 form was dismissed at the interview because it didn't include all of the evidence that the consulate needed despite what the instructions said. Goes to show you that sometimes lawyers actually complicate things. 

I remember there was an article here long ago about an interview with the USCIS. Once of the questions was "Do I need a lawyer" and the answer was "for what?"

If you ever have questions - ask them here and you'll get the correct answers most of the time.

Hi there, I'm working with my spouse to complete the Affidavit of Support and we hit the part about income.

I, the beneficiary, currently DO have an annual income and it WILL continue after I have become permanent resident.

On the instructions it says that I do not have to provide an I-864A but that I must provide evidence that the income will continue AND that I am currently residing in my spouses residence. 

Getting the first part is easy. I am working to get letterhead written up that will show income via foreign source through the year, AND I am working on obtaining the job offer I had in the US.

How though I can prove that I am at the same residence as my spouse? I do have a drivers license that shows the address... is this considered enough if I provide both of our drivers licenses as proof of our address?

I also have a US joint bank account with my spouse that I believe will show our address if I get them to do a printout of the account. Is this necessary with the above?

Thanks!

Well if you filled it out and had no issues, I suppose it doesn't hurt, even if it's not 100% necessary.

Thanks!

52 minutes ago, TheBlueEagles said:

Thank you everyone for this information. We are very relieved to hear this!

 

In regards to her paperwork, for the i-485 part 8, subsection 17 "Have you EVER violated the terms or conditions of your nonimmigrant status?" would we need to put "yes," since we're past our 90 day period? Thanks again everyone!

No. Purpose of Visa is to get in and marry within 90 days which you did. You did not violate that even if you are now beyond that period.

Just now, OutOfThisWorld said:

That security cares about things go KABOM on the plane, not pills. Disclose your large electronic devices there, and do not hold up the line talking about your meds (unless they are liquids or gels).

Tell that to anyone who walks through with more than $10,000 cash too while you're at it. lol...

Just now, KirstenSam said:

This is sort of what I figured. The thing is, I definitely need a couple of them (I'm asthmatic), and it's way cheaper here for me vs. repurchasing in the States. Should I just bring the recommended amount, then?

Bring it all. Worst case scenario they seize it and you're no better off... but best case scenario you get to keep it.

You will overstay. So does everyone. It is expected and forgiven at the AOS interview.

The only time an overstay is NOT welcomed is if you either don't get married or don't adjust status after getting married.

3 minutes ago, FluffyBalls said:

But starting either the K1 or CR1 process while the spouse is still in the USA, having her leave before her 180 days on the B2 are up, and staying abroad until being granted either the appropriate (immigrant) visa are okay, right?

Absolutely!