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    I-130 October 2020 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    On 11/12/2021 at 10:23 PM, yanliu85228 said:

    Did you receive the NVC welcome letter yet? I see some got it within days of USCIS approval, just wonder what are the experiences of most people. Do you receive it by email or by letter in the mail box?

    Hi! We got our NVC welcome letter 5 days after the USCIS approval via e-mail, both to the petitioner's and beneficiary's e-mail accounts. 

    2 weeks after our USCIS approval we got a physical approval notive in the mail, identical to the one on myUSCIS. 

    Hope this information helps! Have you heard from the NVC yet?

    Filed Taxes as "Single" while married

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted · Edited by dopheretta

    Hi everyone,

     

    My wife and I got married in June 2020. Since I live in Austria and do not have an SSN, she filed the taxes for 2020 as "single". We now know this was a mistake, and are trying to amend it to "married filing separately". If we are not able to amend the filing status before the interview, will this be a problem?

     

    Also, since my wife and I got married in Austria in the height of the pandemic, she did not change her SSN information, as the office in Frankfurt told her she would have to send in her original passport and other documents, and avised her to wait on this. She was able to update her passport though. So now, the IRS tax transcript/SSN and her passport have different last names. Will this be a problem?

     

    Thank you for your help!

    I-864 + Joint Sponsor Questions

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    22 hours ago, Lucky Cat said:

    1.  Your wife is the sponsor, not the beneficiary.  You are the beneficiary. 

    2.  Your wife should not list you more than once on the I-864.  Yes, she should write "0" for the "if you are currently married....." item.

    3.  Your wife is not currently employed as a student. Being a student comes under education, not employment.

    4.  The mailing address does not affect domicile.

    5.  For the joint sponsor I-864,  you must indicate why the joint sponsor was not required to file taxes in 2018....such as "income was below filing threshold". 

    Thank you for your help!

     

    Should Part 5.8. "Add together Item Numbers 1.-7. and enter the number here" be filled out with "Household Size: 2" for both my joint sponsor and my wife then?

     

    Also, how do I indicate that the joint sponsor was not required to file taxes, do I enter this in the form on the fields for the most recent tax year? Or do I attach an affidavit?

    I-864 + Joint Sponsor Questions

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted · Edited by dopheretta

    Hello all, 

    In filling out the I-864, I have encountered some questions.

     

    For my wife, who is the beneficiary, what does she fill out in part 5. of the form "Persons NOT sponsored in this affidavit"?

    Part 5.3. says "If you are currently married, enter '1' for your spouse." But she WILL be sponsoring me, so should she write 0?

     

    My wife is a student, however she did have a student job in the US in 2019. Should we write "I am currently employed as a student"?

    What to enter in "Unemployed since"? The date she quit her student job or the date she started studying?

     

    My wife lives with me in Austria, because she is studying abroad here. 

    We have an address here, but she still has her domicile in FL. If we write our current adress in "Part 4. Sponsors Mailing Adress", will this affect her U.S. domicile?

    Should we enter her mailing address as her U.S. address and her physical address as our Austrian address?

    If we don't enter a US address on "Sponsor's Mailind Address" or "Sponsor's Physical Address", will this be a problem for proof of domicile?

     

    On the I-130, we put her current Austrian address as her current mailing address, so I wonder if we write the U.S. adress as the mailing address, will that be a problem?

    If we don't write a U.S. mailing or physical adress for her as the pe

    My joint sponsor did not file taxes in 2018, the 3rd most recent tax year, as she was still in college. Is this a problem?

    - Do I just write $0 in the field?

    - Do I need to add an affidavit saying she didn't file taxes, as she was a student?

     

    Thank you so much for any help!

     

    September 2020 I-130 Filers Club

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    13 hours ago, ellen_yvr said:

    I wish the USCIS would get the service centers correct, or let us know of case transfers. Our receipt letter said Texas, online case status said Nebraska,  and about a month ago an Ask Emma live chat said Nebraska. We filed an "outside of normal processing time" enquiry for Nebraska and the response says our case is within processing time at Potomac which is just now processing December 2019 cases. Back to the long waiting game.

    Same thing happened to me. Receipt Notice said Nebraska, but upon chatting with a live agent through Ask Emma we found out that it is actually in Potomac. Felt frustrated about that, but I guess all we can do it wait. This is an extremely exhausting process, and when you're still waiting on the first step of things to happen, it feels like an eternity...

    Tier 1 Agent Couldn't Find My Receipt Number

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

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    36 minutes ago, Mike E said:

    Did you file by mail or online? 

     

    Do you have a receipt number? If so what happens when you check online for current status?

    Hi, yes, I filed online and have a receipt number.

     

    I tried again through ask Emma, and managed to get through to a tier 2 officer, who confirmed that my receipt number is valid. She also informed us that our case has been transferred from Nebraska to Potomac, which I was disappointed to hear, as processing times are much longer. If the processing times are accurate, it looks like my entire plan for 2021 was thrown off balance, but let's see...

    Tier 1 Agent Couldn't Find My Receipt Number

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    My wife, USC, and I filed the I-130 on October 28 2020, and haven't heard anything back yet. Our receipt notice says we are at the Nebraska Service Center, but upon seeing a lot of cases on here get transferred, we decided to call and ask if our case was still in Nebraska, and when we could file about our case being outside normal processing times. Mainly, we just wanted to feel proactive after months of wait...

     

    When my wife finally got through to a Tier 1 officer, the officer could not find our case through our Receipt Number/IOE number. She then found us by my wife's last name and date of birth, and could see that we filed the I-130. The officer thought this was strange, and was going to put us through to a tier 2 officer. Because we are both living in Austria, my wife was calling via Google Hangouts, and does not have an American phone number that they could her call back on. Given that we can't really afford the call, we had to hang up. The officer told my wife that she could talk to a tier 2 agent via the USCIS website, however when we tried to ask Emma for a representative, we had no luck.

     

    Does anyone here have a similar experience? Any idea why our receipt number was not showing up?

     

    Thank you for any help!

     

    Financial Documents Needed at NVC?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    On 4/8/2021 at 5:38 PM, SteveInBostonI130 said:

    She does not need to submit anything.  No I-864A needed.

     

    Edit:. Your FIL will need to submit his W2s along with the tax return transcript.  Normally W2s are not required when sending the transcript, but it is required when sponsoring by himself without his wife's income (in this case, $0) when taxes are filed jointly.

    Does he have to file the W2s for the most recent tax year, or for the last 3?

    Financial Documents Needed at NVC?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

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    39 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

     

    Your wife: I-864, current income information, whether yes/no that she filed taxes the past 3 years, and last year's tax transcript.  Since she is a student, she can list $0 current income, or whatever income from any job(s) she has.  If she did not file taxes for any of the previous 3 years, she would need to explain why (income below threshhold for report is a valid reason)

     

    Joint sponsor: I-864, current annual income, last year's tax return transcript.  I assume he/she will mark "yes" to filing taxes the previous 3 years.  Optional for him/her to include tax return transcript for previous year 2 and year 3.

     

    Joint sponsor's spouse:. I-864A, ONLY IF he/she is combining his/her income for your sponsorship.  If the joint sponsor qualifies with just his/her income, then the spouse does not need to submit I-864A.  If they file taxes jointly, then the joint sponsor will need to also submit W2(s) along with the tax transcript(s).

     

    1 hour ago, neca said:

    This should help! They have a "what do I need to submit" button that makes it pretty clear cut for you, too.

     

    It's a matter of what your sponsor's financial situation looks like. The I-864 requires your sponsors to put in what their income was for the last three years. If your sponsor's income number is consistent those three years, then you can likely get away with just having the tax transcript for the most recent year. Super cut and dry. 

     

    With a joint sponsor, as you said, you'll of course still have to have your sponsor's tax transcript for the most recent financial year (2020 I think at this point). If your joint sponsor has consistent income every year; you should be fine with their most recent tax transcript as well. If their income number fluctuates every year, it would probably be a good idea to have tax transcripts from all three years, just to clarify what is going on there.

    You said that your joint sponsor has a wife, that'd be a family member, and they will likely have to fill out I-864A. Because of that, and assuming they filed their taxes jointly, I believe that you will have to submit the W2's and all other forms related to their tax returns, so that the officers will be able to differentiate whose income belongs to whom.

     

    In short, the more information you give them, the more information they have to understand the financial situation. If you think that submitting more will help your case, then do so.

     

    Good luck!

    Thank you so much.

     

    My joint sponsor, my father-in-law, makes enough to sponsor me alone. He is married, and my mother-in-law is a housewife, so she has no income of her own.

    Would this mean:

     

    My wife: I-864, statement saying she was a student and that is why she didn't file taxes last year. She had a student job in 2019, should I submit the tax information/W2's from that? Should I still list her income as 0$, as she currently has no income?

     

    My father-in-law: I-864, current annual income, most recent tax transcript, I-864A filled out with my mother-in-law, and their W2's?

     

    From my mother in law, just the I-864A and W2's, since she has no income of her own?

     

    Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer my questions

    Financial Documents Needed at NVC?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

     

    I am married to a USC, and we are using a joint sponsor, as she is a student and does not meet the minimum income requirements. 

    From the research I have done, the only financial documents needed are the IRS tax transcript of the most recent tax year of my joint sponsor, my wife, and the agreement between my joint sponsor and his wive.

     

    However, I have seen on here and on facebook groups that people submit financial documents from the past 2-3 years, and not just IRS tax transcripts, but W-2s, as well as other things.

     

    I was wondering if any of you, who have gone though the NVC stage recently, can give me advice on this. What documents are really needed, which ones did you upload? 

     

    Thank you so much in advance for your help, and wishing you all the best for your own immigration journeys!

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