SecretAgent

I was just about to make a thread asking this same question. I'm glad I found a ticket for very cheap on August 4th that is only $752... I was really nervous about my wife having to go through LAX as her POE so Guam sounds like it will be a lot better.

My wife and I just received a copy of the Interview letter, for July 06!

I remember reading about a payment that needed to be sent to DELBROS logistics or something, and I got this information from either the Manila US embassy site, or travel.state.gov.

I looked again today and couldn't find anything about it!

Is this fee still needed? If so can someone give me the links for the information?

Thanks.

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Sorry, I didn't specify but it was for a "Document Verification Fee"

It had to do with verifying all the documents sent to the embassy & checking with local agencies, etc..

My wife and I just received a copy of the Interview letter, for July 06!

I remember reading about a payment that needed to be sent to DELBROS logistics or something, and I got this information from either the Manila US embassy site, or travel.state.gov.

I looked again today and couldn't find anything about it!

Is this fee still needed? If so can someone give me the links for the information?

Thanks.

From what I've read and from what the Japanese Embassy in Manila told my wife, she is supposed to bring the Japanese Police Clearance with her to the Embassy when she goes. She did however receive a letter saying we need to send it to the NVC to continue processing. Does anyone know if this has changed, or perhaps this is a mistake? I called the NVC and the woman on the found didn't sound to sure.. but they did send a 3 page letter in explicit detail about the clearance. Anyone else ran into this?

Thanks

Turns out I have a small error on my wife's G-325A. For her previous addresses, I have a date that is about 2 years off (1 number!) - as in, she didn't yet live at the location for the first two years (it was in another country).

Anyway, we're doing the DS-230 now and this little error jumped out screaming at me. Is this going to be a problem? Should I refile the G-325a when I send in the DS-230 and supporting documents, or is it really not important?

I'll call the the NVS helpline later, but I just wanted to know your guys' take on it.

on the website, IV Bill shows "not paid".. can my grandma pay it now?

Yes.

My IV fee form bill is about 7 months old, and it doesn't have an invoice number on it. I called the NVC and they told me they couldn't give it out over the phone (and that they don't know where the number is on the form or even it is on the form) #######?

Has anyone else had this problem? What did you do?

Does anyone have an example letter describing why previous tax returns were not filed or why they didn't include full income?

Thanks.

Yes this is standard notation.

US citizen can petition for a step child if marriage happened before child's 18th birthday.

Moving this to: "Bringing family members of US Citizens to America"

Okay! Thank you so much! That is a HUGE relief.

I'm not sure what's going on with this. We decided it would probably be best to wait until my wife is over here before petitioning for her (our) 9 year old daughter. We'll be very busy setting a family foundation, her getting a job, and me finishing my B.S. degree. Anyway, I never filed an I-130 for the daughter, but she was listed on the I-130 as being my wife's daughter.

The part that is freaking me out is the "IV FEE AGENT" letter says:

If you did not receive a fee bill for a child that was originally listed on the approved immigrant visa petition filed with the US Citizenship and Immigration Service, then the NVC has made a preliminary determination that the child is not eligible to accompany or join the applicant in immigration to the United States by virtus of the age of the child exceeding 21 (aging out).

The daughter wasn't listed on the approved petition however! She was only mentioned in part C. of the I-130 (info about your alien relative)

Do they just put that on EVERY letter? I was under the impression that separate I-130s should be filed for children.

I married my wife while I was in the military in 2005, and we lived together until I was discharged in 2006. After that, she and I both went to live at her house in the Philippines until 6 months ago. I was recalled to active duty May 2008 and had to leave; however I wasn't activated and am now in Florida, working a little more than a month. I'm living with my parents so that I can save up money faster...

For the visa process, the very first form was processed just before I left/while I was in the Philippines . After it was approved, we sat on it for a year since... well, mostly because I thought continuing to file the later forms while still in PI would get more complicated than it should be - plus we were already together and enjoying PI so we weren't in a rush . After I got back to Florida, I filed/payed to get the Affidavit of support; they sent it to me and sent the $400 bill/fee to our residence in the Philippines.

On top of this fiasco, I thought it would be the best idea to wait until I got employed before filing. It turns out I got employed, but employed with a twist - read on...

My problems are:

1) I don't have ANY tax returns for the last three years - well, actually, I have one for 2006 but none after. I only have 4 pay-stubs that are from a TEMP AGENCY because the company I am working for hires staff through temp, and employs them officially after 90 days . I actually found the job opening posted from the place I'm working at and at the interview they told me I had to go to the temp agency first! I've only been working there for about 45 days now. If I were to calculate the yearly wage on the temp salary it would be ~25,000 and on official salary ~33,000 so I don't have a problem with the poverty line, yet I feel like that point is moot .

2) Because of the above (1), my father has agreed to file the I-864A. I'm including him and my wife in the household size because of this. On the I-864A for household size, I'm thinking he would include:

a. himself

b. my mother

c. me

d. my wife

Is this right? I have 3 in my household (me, my wife, my father) for the purposes of including his income, and he has 4 in household for the purposes of joint sponsoring my wife? My father earns ~70,000 a year so there is no problem there with the joint income listed on the form.

Since I can not include any Tax returns (except maybe from 2006 where I worked for half the year), what type of evidence should I provide for why I didn't file? I suppose any proof from the college I attended, or the degree I earned with dates would suffice. One I got back to the states, I also collected unemployment while I was looking for a job.

With my father being a joint sponsor, do I even need to get a letter from my employer and/or bank in this case?

Any comments, thoughts, ideas are greatly appreciated. I know I have more questions/problems with this but I have to stop tying now before I get too stressed out/depressed and more of my hair starts falling out!

Help me?

Nobody has any suggestions at all?

Thanks for the (lack of) help.

I married my wife while I was in the military in 2005, and we lived together until I was discharged in 2006. After that, she and I both went to live at her house in the Philippines until 6 months ago. I was recalled to active duty May 2008 and had to leave; however I wasn't activated and am now in Florida, working a little more than a month. I'm living with my parents so that I can save up money faster...

For the visa process, the very first form was processed just before I left/while I was in the Philippines . After it was approved, we sat on it for a year since... well, mostly because I thought continuing to file the later forms while still in PI would get more complicated than it should be - plus we were already together and enjoying PI so we weren't in a rush . After I got back to Florida, I filed/payed to get the Affidavit of support; they sent it to me and sent the $400 bill/fee to our residence in the Philippines.

On top of this fiasco, I thought it would be the best idea to wait until I got employed before filing. It turns out I got employed, but employed with a twist - read on...

My problems are:

1) I don't have ANY tax returns for the last three years - well, actually, I have one for 2006 but none after. I only have 4 pay-stubs that are from a TEMP AGENCY because the company I am working for hires staff through temp, and employs them officially after 90 days . I actually found the job opening posted from the place I'm working at and at the interview they told me I had to go to the temp agency first! I've only been working there for about 45 days now. If I were to calculate the yearly wage on the temp salary it would be ~25,000 and on official salary ~33,000 so I don't have a problem with the poverty line, yet I feel like that point is moot .

2) Because of the above (1), my father has agreed to file the I-864A. I'm including him and my wife in the household size because of this. On the I-864A for household size, I'm thinking he would include:

a. himself

b. my mother

c. me

d. my wife

Is this right? I have 3 in my household (me, my wife, my father) for the purposes of including his income, and he has 4 in household for the purposes of joint sponsoring my wife? My father earns ~70,000 a year so there is no problem there with the joint income listed on the form.

Since I can not include any Tax returns (except maybe from 2006 where I worked for half the year), what type of evidence should I provide for why I didn't file? I suppose any proof from the college I attended, or the degree I earned with dates would suffice. One I got back to the states, I also collected unemployment while I was looking for a job.

With my father being a joint sponsor, do I even need to get a letter from my employer and/or bank in this case?

Any comments, thoughts, ideas are greatly appreciated. I know I have more questions/problems with this but I have to stop tying now before I get too stressed out/depressed and more of my hair starts falling out!

Help me?

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I dont have copy of wedding pictures....the film (no digicam before) was exposed during that time thats why we're not able to print it out.

Do you think this will be a problem in the interview, but i have my marriage cert, cenomar, proof of monthly support, letters,emails, chats, records of calls, birth cert of my child....etc.

And it is true that they are requiring DNA test or its a case to case basis......Another month to wait if this will be required......

You shouldn't have a problem. Just tell them there was a problem with the film. I honestly don't think everything would be at stake over some photos.

I married my wife while I was in the military in 2005, and we lived together until I was discharged in 2006. After that, she and I both went to live at her house in the Philippines until 6 months ago. I was recalled to active duty May 2008 and had to leave; however I wasn't activated and am now in Florida, working a little more than a month. I'm living with my parents so that I can save up money faster...

For the visa process, the very first form was processed just before I left/while I was in the Philippines . After it was approved, we sat on it for a year since... well, mostly because I thought continuing to file the later forms while still in PI would get more complicated than it should be - plus we were already together and enjoying PI so we weren't in a rush . After I got back to Florida, I filed/payed to get the Affidavit of support; they sent it to me and sent the $400 bill/fee to our residence in the Philippines.

On top of this fiasco, I thought it would be the best idea to wait until I got employed before filing. It turns out I got employed, but employed with a twist - read on...

My problems are:

1) I don't have ANY tax returns for the last three years - well, actually, I have one for 2006 but none after. I only have 4 pay-stubs that are from a TEMP AGENCY because the company I am working for hires staff through temp, and employs them officially after 90 days . I actually found the job opening posted from the place I'm working at and at the interview they told me I had to go to the temp agency first! I've only been working there for about 45 days now. If I were to calculate the yearly wage on the temp salary it would be ~25,000 and on official salary ~33,000 so I don't have a problem with the poverty line, yet I feel like that point is moot .

2) Because of the above (1), my father has agreed to file the I-864A. I'm including him and my wife in the household size because of this. On the I-864A for household size, I'm thinking he would include:

a. himself

b. my mother

c. me

d. my wife

Is this right? I have 3 in my household (me, my wife, my father) for the purposes of including his income, and he has 4 in household for the purposes of joint sponsoring my wife? My father earns ~70,000 a year so there is no problem there with the joint income listed on the form.

Since I can not include any Tax returns (except maybe from 2006 where I worked for half the year), what type of evidence should I provide for why I didn't file? I suppose any proof from the college I attended, or the degree I earned with dates would suffice. One I got back to the states, I also collected unemployment while I was looking for a job.

With my father being a joint sponsor, do I even need to get a letter from my employer and/or bank in this case?

Any comments, thoughts, ideas are greatly appreciated. I know I have more questions/problems with this but I have to stop tying now before I get too stressed out/depressed and more of my hair starts falling out!

Help me?

The form (I-864) has multiple uses (such as co-sponsor) - in your case, for section "C" enter "0" (zero); this will give you a household size of 2.

Ok, great.

I have another question too. I'll give some background first.

I was in the USMC from 2002-2006, and met my wife in Feb. 2003. We got engaged sometime in 2004 and were married in Dec. 2005 and she was officially sponsored by the military and lived on base with me. In 2006, I got out of the military and moved with her to the Philippines where we lived together for 2 years. We started the Visa process at that time and the I-130 was accepted. We pretty much waited until the time limit was nearly up to fill out the next paperwork because we were not in a hurry and our financial situation was pretty precarious (but hey, at least we were together). I was unemployed at the time and taking online college courses. In May 2008, I was recalled, but didn't end up going back to active duty - but I did have to leave the Philippines and my wife!

I stayed in the States and looked for employment, which I finially received a month ago. While I was looking for a job, I continuted to take college course and received an AA degree and also took out unemployment. I filed/payed for the Affidavit of support in May/June 2008. I received the paperwork a few months ago and my wife also received a $400 dollar bill for "IV Fee Agent" to her address. I've read that I can pay that online instead of her having to send out mail from the Philippines and have the postal worker steal it. (haha, but kind of serious. The PI postal service is questionable). Actually, everything in the Philippines is questionable, haha.

Can I pay this fee online while I send out the Affidavit of support or does she HAVE to take of it?

So, as of now, I don't have any Income tax returns for the last 2 years, and don't have paystubs for the last 6 months. I only have 2 pay stubs! I'm not making much (only ~33k) a year right now in a more-or-less entry level IT job, but somehow I don't think my "proof" is going to cut it. The best thing I can think is to have my father fill out a I-864A since he's been working for the last 25+ years.

Also, has anyone else been in a similar situation? The no job, the time out of country while filing, the waiting, and all that? They send me paperwork whenever I send them paperwork, and you can wait up to 1 year between contacting the agency, so this drawn out process hasn't really been detrimental to the application processes.

We're definately ready to get her over here now, especially because we/she live(d) near Iligan in Mindanao which I see as 25x more dangerous since I'm not there with her. T

The ironic part is that when they sent the initial approval 2 years ago, they said it would have taken 9 months to get her Visa!!! I kind of want to shoot myself in the foot now, but I guess I was on Philippine time when I lived there! lol.

We've been apart about 6 months now, talk on the phone about 30 minutes a day, and send email about once a day. It's really hard (but certainly bearable) after being together 24/7 for 2 years.

Anyway, Thanks for reading. This board is a godsend.

I'm a bit confused on the affidavit of support, I-864. Particulary, the household size. The form seems to guide me to "3" even as my household only consists of myself and my wife.

Part 5 looks like this:

Part 5. Sponsor Household size. - DO NOT COUNT ANYONE TWICE.

Persons you are sponsoring in this affidavit:

a. Enter the number you entered on line 10. [ 1 ]

Persons NOT sponsored in this affidavit:

b. Yourself. [ 1 ]

c. If you are currently married, enter "1" for your spouse. [ 1 ]

It says to not count anyone twice, but it's forcing me to do it! I'm sponsoring my wife to come over. Is this form telling me that my spouse is NOT sponsored in this form, when she is?

Does this mean my household size is "3" ? How can that be?

I appreciate any and all help. Thanks in advance.