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~~Moved to the Canada forum, from Working and Traveling~~

I guess it is worth updating here what happened with my case since I see people referring to this thread few times. 
 
At this point my EAD case has been approved and AOS case is waiting on interviewed to be scheduled. 
 
(Not a legal advise)
According to my ongoing experience remote is forgiven at least until the point of interview.
But certainly I was not able to use my remote work income to supply I-864 requirements. We were able to substitute the income shortcomings with our liquid assets worth well above of minimum threshold times 3 or even times 5. In my humble opinion these laws should be updated to meet 2021 standards. Back when current version of the illegal vs legal work law was written remote work was a sci-fi fantasy. 

That's helpful! 🙄
 
I'll keep you in the loop and this thread updated with anything we find or hear. I feel like the letter of the law is so preposterous that determining the spirit of it is the important thing. I can't believe every single couple with a K-1 visa operated as a single-income household for 1.5-11 months!

That's helpful! 🙄
 
I'll keep you in the loop and this thread updated with anything we find or hear. I feel like the letter of the law is so preposterous that determining the spirit of it is the important thing. I can't believe every single couple with a K-1 visa operated as a single-income household for 1.5-11 months!

Content creators totally film, edit, and upload content all the time while on ESTA/B visas. Heck I know many students on J and F visas that do it as well. Think about all the Tik Tok people that make content in the USA on vacations and earn income off of it!  

Hey hey! So what I can tell you that I know for sure is that I emailed our partner contact for the primary platform we use about the legality of keeping tax information in Europe until AOS was finalized and they pretty much told me its a non issue on their end, but totally up to the government as how they classify it. So...no help at all. We don't have an attorney yet as we've been trying to do it all ourselves, but may consult with one on this issue.

Well hey, YouTube buddy! Cool to see you catch the bat signal on this issue. Did you talk to any tax or immigration attorneys about this by chance? Or are you still up in the air like us? We're going to meet with one sometime in November if possible and see what we can find out. If it wouldn't be illegal for me to run the Etsy store for her and collect her adrev, that'd be ideal. We probably would have done the CR-1 as well if the various border closure dramas didn't preclude us from doing so.
 
Knowing what we do now, it's obviously the slower, but much less headache-inducing option!
 
EDIT: Changed "precluded us" to "didn't preclude us"

Hi! I'm OP of the other thread. I liked this comment specifically.  Say if it was more "traditional" means of income such as owning rental real estate and you are still a legal resident of THAT country and file taxes in THAT country until you get set up with EAD in the USA.  I feel like both situations are totally grey areas that have not been clearly defined by the government. Otherwise, interest earned in foreign accounts could be considered as income/work.  This entire thing is mind-blowingly confusing and had we known we probably would have went CR1 instead of K1.  Our YouTube channel we outsource the entire editing and uploading content to someone who is in a third completely non-related country and they invoice us monthly, so really we aren't even doing any work in regards to YouTube content, we pay someone to do it for us. Ugh.

*** Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to Working & Traveling During US Immigration -- topic relates to authorization to work after US entry with K1 visa before EAD ***