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Got our NOA letter yesterday, dated 5/5 and received date 4/19. We included the G1145 but never got text/email notification. 🤷‍♂️

4 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:

Yes. Fill out a new I864 and obtain your own supporting financial docs as a sponsor (you) and a "co-sponsor" (the intending immigrant) in case at the interview they ask if your own financial situation changed. Likely you will still need to use your Joint Sponsor as they usually only consider and employment verification with 6 months of paystubs under your belt as stable income. But fill it out anyways.

Wonderful, thank you. I've only been in the job a month now, but by the time the interview rolls around I'm sure it could have been 6 months. But I'll prepare a new I864 when the time comes and we'll be good to go.

Hey all! My wife came here on a K1 (I'm the USC) and we applied for AOS in November 2018. At the time we had *both* just moved from New Zealand (I was living there) so I was newly unemployed as I had left my job in NZ to relocate back to the US with her.

We explained the situation on my I864 and my mom was joint sponsor with plenty of sufficient income to meet criteria. No RFEs and our I485 application is "ready to be scheduled for an interview".

Obviously now since the application I've gotten a job, and we've moved from Las Vegas (where my family is) to Austin, TX for my work. We changed our address with USCIS.

I'm wondering: Do I need to submit a new I864 at this stage? We made it very clear on initial application I voluntarily left my job in NZ to relocate and we were temporarily staying with family while I applied for jobs. My mom submitted an I864 as joint sponsor with tax returns, employment details etc. No issues/RFEs.

I'm thinking maybe I just prepare a new I864 but don't submit - just something I can take with me when we eventually have our interview. What do y'all think?

Sounds like quite a few might have gotten delivered without a final scan - our tracking still says in transit but I can see from the USCIS receipt number it all actually arrived on the 21st. The check was cashed today, so that was about 9 days after we sent it off. Hopefully yours will arrive soon, even if it doesn't show on tracking, @Tokenfreak and @l-h.

Okay so my wife just got 3 texts from USCIS confirming they have received our application! I assume that's one each for the I-485, EAP and AP applications.

I guess that means don't trust USPS tracking - it must never have been scanned for delivery. What a relief! 😎

Thanks all, I'll wait a few more days and keep you posted, although USPS's response wasn't very encouraging: "We do understand how important this item is to you; regrettably our search was unsuccessful in locating your missing parcel or its contents." 😕 

I'll keep looking out for the check in case it was actually delivered - from memory that was the first thing they did when we filed the I-129F. 

As a USC living overseas, I'm going to have my mom in the States be our co-sponsor, since my job here will end once we move back to the US. I will prove my domicile via showing my US bank account, voting record, tax returns filed each year, driver's license, receipts for storage unit for my stuff that is still in the US etc.

I know I still have to fill out an I-134 even though it'll be counted as $0. My question is about the accompanying "Statement(s) from your employer on business stationary showing: 1. Date and nature of employment; 2. salary paid; 3. whether position is temporary or permanent (also include copies of your last two pay stubs and your previous W-2 for the associated employer if available)" - do I need to include this for my New Zealand job? Or do I just ignore this bit since my job is based overseas? 

Thank you!!

Just now, sparkles_ said:

Been there, done that just another state. It wasn't a problem at all. 

Same offense - alcohol in a park? Did you attach a court certified copy of the record of fine paid?

Fair enough - thanks for the response. Yep, I've actually spent half the day trying to find it, and the municipal court website still has the record that shows the details and the fine and that it was paid, so I'll add that as evidence. 

Hi there - I'm filling out the I-129F as the petitioner for the K1 and it asks: "Have you ever been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, convicted, fined, or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance in any country, excluding traffic violations (unless a traffic violation was alcohol- or drug-related or involved a fine of $500 or more)?"

About 8 years ago my friends and I got a ticket for having alcohol in a park - we were having a BBQ and we had beers with our dinner. We weren't intoxicated or under age or anything like that - alcohol just wasn't allowed in this particular park, and this is rural Ohio where you had a bored cop. So we all paid our $80 fine so we wouldn't have to go to court and that was it.

I'm just wondering if I need to include this? It's so minor I really would prefer not to because it doesn't look good to check "yes", but if it's really necessary I will. What do you guys think?

Thanks!

1 minute ago, Dee elle said:

You need to be moving back to the US with the intention of marrying under the K1 visa rules your fiance gets, and then remaining in the US. You must already be in the US or enter at the same time as the beneficiary. If you plan to move back to the US at some later stage, not in conjunction with the K1 process, then the K1 is not the visa your fiance needs. This visa is for family reunion in the US. If you dont plan to live in the US from the time of your marraige, which must happen in the US within 90 days of your fiance arriving,  it  this doesnt fit your situation. It is not a visit and leave visa that you can use again. K1 is a 1 time visa which allows adjustment of status from visitor to resident once the marraige takes place, providing the marraige occurred within 90 days of entry and in the US. 

Yes, that's the plan - we live together in NZ now but will be moving together to the US and marrying there, then living there permanently.

10 minutes ago, KULtoATL said:

I-134 is only needed at the K-1 interview stage at her local embassy. Not an issue now. However, as the petitioner, you need to be domiciled in the US

I'm kind of worried about being "domiciled" since I live abroad. Even though I don't live in the US I do have bank accounts there, have voted in US elections, have renewed my driver's license, filed taxes, visited a couple times each year to see family and friends - with intensions to one day move back. Is this something I would explain in my cover letter with supporting evidence in the I-129 package?

Hi all, a few questions. I'm an American that has lived and worked in New Zealand for 7 years. My girlfriend (she is from NZ) and I have been together for 5 years, live together, and just got engaged. We would like to move to the States and get married there, start a new life there.

Looking at the K1 visa, it looks like I would need a co-sponsor since I would leave my job here when we move. Is this correct? I have a bank account in the US & current US driver's license, but my job and all my money is in NZ and I use my NZ account mainly since I live here. I have filed taxes in the US every year abroad (though all my income is in NZ).

My mom and dad are both in the US and happy to help. If one of them is a co-sponsor I'd like to know WHEN they (and I?) fill out the I-134. Do I send it with my initial I-129 form, or is it needed later in the application process?

Any information would be greatly appreciated!