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2 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

My suggestion would be to estimate  the 2019 income at time of signing the 864. .. if she is retiring on Sept 30 then it would be 9 times her monthly income. Then if her  income has changed by the time the interview occurs she should complete  an updated I864  

Oh okay, she already signed it with what the lawyer suggested. Because she will continue to make money after retiring and at the same time receive retirement income. We have no idea what that income would be

1 minute ago, arken said:

If the sponsor has no income at present, his current income would be “zero” regardless of what he/she was earning previously. 

She does have a lot of income currently. She retires later this year and will still have income above the poverty line but I'm not sure what to put right now. Lawyer said to put last year's tax income and let them know the new income at the time of the interview.

If sponsor retires later in the year what would be the income on I-864?

Lawyer said to put last years tax income and update at the interview. Is that correct?

17 minutes ago, Cathi said:

Nope, it's called misrepresentation. Look it up.

Okey, I won’t use that sponsor then. I might have another one that retires in 4 months. She will also have retirement income and some self employment. Would that be ok as long as I let them know at the interview?

2 minutes ago, carmel34 said:

If it has been a while since the I-864 was signed by the co-sponsor, and since signing their income has dropped significantly, I would suggest, if you have no other potential co-sponsors, to correct the co-sponsor's I-864 now and submit current information and hope for the best.  Also include co-sponsor's assets if you can, that might help.  You should have time between submission of the forms and the interview to keep looking for another co-sponsor, and if you find one, take another I-864 for the additional co-sponsor to the interview, to bring out if the IO expresses concerns. It partially depends on the location of your interview as consulates view these things differently, also your circumstances and place you will live in the US as the IO considers the totality of the financial issues, and current income of the petitioner is the most important you you could be fine with a retired co-sponsor's reduced income and assets because your husband's income is high enough currently.  Good luck!

Their income won’t drop until a few months and have not signed the form yet. However, I don’t think they will accept $23.  If the sponsor retires in 4 months would it be ok to submit ?

2 minutes ago, carmel34 said:

Not a good idea to mislead an immigration officer...  you should take a new, current, affidavit of support from the petitioner and co-sponsor including financial documents supporting these to the interview, so that they are current at the time of the interview.  Submitting a co-sponsor's documents knowing that in a few days their income will drop drastically sounds like a bad decision to me.  Why not just find a different co-sponsor whose income will continue, and wait and submit the affidavit of support forms, (I assume you are doing a spousal visa, so I-864s?) correctly?  The commitment of financial support is not only on the day the form is signed, but for many years into the future.  Read the instructions on the forms very carefully.

I don’t want to mislead. I have absolutely no other sponsor which sucks. I have not submitted yet. The joint sponsor was not supposed to retire early but did. So he had already filled out the form awhile ago. Can I submit the joint sponsor now and update it on the interview or is that misleading as well?  

1 hour ago, adil-rafa said:

BTW   retirement is not umemployed

it is retired / there is still an income

He is employed when we apply but retires shortly afterwards. The salary will then drop to barely above the poverty guidelines. So is it fine to apply as he is employed? because he is at the time we apply. 

2 hours ago, missileman said:

There is no requirement to have worked for a length of time.

He didn’t make much last year and he only worked two months so far so I think I need a joint sponsor to get through. 

5 minutes ago, Roel said:

Are you talking about main sponsor or joint sponsor?

 

You don't need a sponsor by the time of the interview? 

Yes, joint sponsor, sorry I forgot to specify. My husband will make 70K but hasn’t worked long enough yet. Just need the co sponsor to submit but he retires shortly after

23 minutes ago, Roel said:

Uh. No? 

Youd need to contact USCIS with an update that the sponsor is no longer employed...

 

So if they would ask during the interview what does the sponsor do for work, youd still need to tell the truth.. 

The sponsor is employed when I submit the application but retires shortly after. By the time of the interview we don’t need a sponsor anymore. Is that not going to work?

If sponsor retires one or two days after submission is it fine to sumbit as the sponsor is  employed? 

57 minutes ago, JFH said:

No. There are other forms of evidence that are much better. Think quality, not quantity. For AOS focus on co-mingled finances, leases or mortgages together, wills, insurance policies, shared bank accounts and so on rather than pages of flirty messages. 

 

*~*~*procedural question moved from “progress reports” to “AOS from work/study/tourist visas”*~*~*

Okey, great, we don‘t have a joint bank account yet but we will get one soon. No mortgages either because we don‘t own any property. I hope flight tickets, lease, photos, gift etc is enough ??

Do I have to include email or iMessage conversations between my husband and I? If so, how much?

I have about 9 years of iMessages and it‘s a lot to go through. It takes forever just to go through one year of iMessages. Same with Facebook. I included a lot of other proof. 

Thanks for sharing everyone, I feel a lot better now!

4 minutes ago, JFH said:

There is no requirement to have a party or a minimum spend requirement. There is only one requirement: a legal marriage. I wore a $25 dress, we had just 2 witnesses and went for fast food afterwards. That was it. We are no more or less married than people who spend $50,000 on a wedding at The Plaza. 

We went to grocery shopping at Walmart afterwards lol

We almost did self solemnization. So happy the court lady told us that it is not a good idea.

I was just worried that they would judge us as less serious because we didn't have a wedding. 

4 minutes ago, ch3john said:

Many people just do a simple courthouse marriage. Another way to look at it, the requirement is to get married within 90 days, doesn't say have a wedding within 90 days.

Yes, that‘s what we did. Thank you!

5 minutes ago, dentsflogged said:

Not pointless but far more weight will be given to proof of an ongoing life together, such as mentioned above - proof of shared abode, proof of ongoing mingled finances - bank accounts, insurance, joint property ownership and so on.   

Or do you mean just generic letters from friends who know you that you haven't seen personally as a couple since the wedding? 

Either way - witness letters are secondary (at BEST) evidence.  They're meant to be a legally binding statement, but TBH most people wouldn't flinch at writing a letter saying "yes, they're a genuine couple, very in love blah blah blah" if asked by a friend who may or may not know the truth. I did exactly that for friends of mine (which IS a requirement for an Australian partner visa) only to find out that they were both miserable and on the verge of breaking up even as they were gathering evidence for her visa. No people ever truly know another couple, therefore "hard" evidence is better than subjective stuff like people saying "oh, they're a nice couple"

Yes, just letters from family and friend who have not seen us since the wedding but have known us as a couple for a decade. The lawyers just wanted us to get those to add strength to our application even thought we have good evidence already. However, we are quite young and don‘t have joint property and bank accounts. We will get a joint bank account soon. We get joint insurance after we apply so that won‘t be included at first. I hope that will be fine

7 minutes ago, Ras Ous said:

No issue at all, i asked about wedding, i told the officer we could not afford it. 

Oh, good! Thanks!!

My husband and I did not have wedding because we have no family here at all. So we didn't make a big deal out of it and just celebrated to ourselves at home. We do not care about wedding celebration. We rather spend money on honeymoon but I‘m concerned it doesn't look good on the application?? 

2 minutes ago, dentsflogged said:

If you are applying for adjustment of status, then it means both parties are in the USA.

 

If both parties are in the US, you'll be hard pressed to present proof of being in a genuine relationship if you haven't seen each other "in a while"

 

So end result - they won't hold much, if any, weight. What holds weight is proof of being physically together, sharing a life/home/finances, unless you've got excellent, independently verifiable (ie: not relying on testimony from friends or family), documented reasons for not being physically together during the time between marrying and filing/interview.

I have a ton of proof of 9 years together but the lawyer told us to get 3 witness letters. We asked family and friends, some of them have not seen us after marriage but we have talked a lot on Facetime etc. Would that be pointless?

16 minutes ago, junkmart said:

I don't know, I just started the process this year. Upon the insistence of my attorney, I included the medical with my package. She insisted that doing so would help minimize delays. I'm not sure if that is true, but my PD is 2/27/19 and I already have my interview scheduled on 5/20/19, so 82 days, which is way faster than I ever anticipated. So maybe submitting the medical with my package did help speed up the process, but it is not required to be submitted initially.

Where did you apply and from which visa? 

22 minutes ago, Sitti19 said:

Hi, my fiance is missing his MMR vaccine. He came a week ago. Do you how much will the MMR vaccine cost? And do we have to go walgreens or should be a civil surgeon?

It’s $99 at Walgreens according to their website https://www.walgreens.com/topic/healthcare-clinic/price-menu.jsp

It seems like you can get vaccines from other places than the civil surgeon 

8 minutes ago, AnJay said:

No, not flu season. Its from October to March. 

Good, then hopefully I won‘t need the flu vaccine!

Do friends and family who write witness letters to attest to our marriage have to see us after marriage, or is it fine if we have not seen each other in awhile?

1 hour ago, AnJay said:

They might:) especially if its already in English. Good luck! The process was very painless for me, so I was happy:)

Thank you! I‘m glad it went well for you, I hope I‘ll have painless experience as well!