Cccl

I'm a US citizen with a Japanese wife and a baby son (dual citizen). We're moving to the states at the end of this year, and I'm looking into our options for temporary health insurance coverage. Temporary because I will only need it for a month, just to fill the gap between arriving in the states and starting my job late in January. I've looked up previous threads on VisaJourney for people with this issue, but none of them were very specific about what health insurance provider they chose or recommend. I would like to ask for any leads for specific providers that would fit my use case. Cost isn't a big concern at this point, as I can probably stomach the price of just one month.

I have searched on Google for this information myself already, but it seems temporary insurance isn't that widespread. The best candidate I found so far was from UnitedHealthcare/Golden Rule Insurance Company, but as I proceeded through the signup process, it asked for a social security number for each of my family members. My wife and son don't have SSNs at this point (planning to apply once we arrive in the states), so I got stuck at that point. I also briefly looked into travel insurance, but I think the one-way aspect of our trip would disqualify us from that.

Any suggestions for specific providers for this situation, or alternative keywords to look up? I appreciate any help you can offer.

Same issue here. CR-1 visa interview was 2 hours ago. Documentation was all accepted, and was told we would normally be approved, if not for some recent change in the treatment of public charge. We were then given a boilerplate letter for denial of our visa. They did keep the passport, though, strangely enough.

My understanding of the reason was that the risk of someone becoming a public charge was managed by the checks done by the NVC / affidavit of support, etc. But the change, which went into effect sometime in the last 48 hours, seems to refuse anyone who could potentially become a public charge, regardless of any evidence one could gather to show they would not. That includes all CR-1 visa applicants.

I looked around for any news articles or government statements related to this change, but was unable to find any.

NG, thank you for the reply. In any case, I think I will request the 2019 transcript as early as possible to minimize time loss in the case it is requested. 

12 hours ago, AndromedaIndy said:

Cccl.

 

Why are you so eager to add year 2019 tax transcripts?  2019 Tax deadline is 4/15 that means your prior 3 years would be 2016,2017, and 2018.

 

Just a FYI - To avoid hassle, back and forth with NVC, its always good to add IRS official tax transcripts over own copy of 1040 etc. I would think you are in good shape

if you have added IRS tax transcripts for 2016.2017, and 2018.

 

AI

AndromedaIndy, thank you for the reply. I guess I misunderstood the instructions. Talk of "tax years" always confuses me. I will go ahead with the kind of plan you described.

Thank you.

I neglected to scan or photocopy my 2019 tax return before mailing it out on March 8. I still have the files I used to print it, which have the numbers already filled in, so I could conceivably print it again, but it doesn't have the original signature / date on it. The wording on the instructions is a "true copy", so while the relevant content of another print-out would be verbatim, it is not, in fact, the exact copy that was sent out. Would that sort of printed-again document be accepted for the I-864 proof of income? The mentions of perjury and penalties on the form and instructions are making me anxious about doing anything out of line.

I know I should just request a transcript for my return, but as my return was mailed-in instead of e-filed, it will probably take at least until mid-April (6-8 weeks, according to https://www.irs.gov/individuals/transcript-availability) to be able to do the request over the phone, and then another couple weeks for it to arrive. The convenient online IRS tool for downloading transcripts don't work for me while living abroad.

One other avenue I was considering was entering 2018 as my latest tax year (conceivable for people living abroad and filing close to the deadline) and using the transcript from that year, which I can do quickly and with a mostly clear conscience. I worry that that might just lead to an automatic rejection until I can provide evidence for 2019, though. And while it's not an outright lie, it isn't exactly honest, either.

Maybe it's my just deserts for getting my wife pregnant in January 😓