Helena55
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BOKURAGAITA reacted to a post in a topic:
I-693 Courtesy Letter Request
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Yea, I didn’t get any answer from USCIS either than “This is the official letter sent by a field office, follow the mailing instructions in the letter”. When I asked about the “if you are a k1 visa holder, disregard” part they said “Unfortunately I can’t decipher this part for you” and “I don’t know if it means you can ignore the letter”.
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I got the same notice today. Also duper confused… If K1s shouldn’t send this form, then why’d they even send such a notice?
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We made sure that the bar codes weren’t cut off, and I even checked it in my uscis account online once I got RFIE — everything is okay. We filled the form so carefully checked it multiple times before sending it and sent all of the requested documents with it (full tax return with all schedules, tax return transcript, his W2s that he had, his bank statement for 6 months and the statement of pay and employment from the company that contracted him. The only things that could be a problem is insufficient last year income (which doesn’t make any sense since now his income is more than enough and I saw people being approved in the same situation) and the fact that we put his AGI income as a total income after reading this forum, which I think is the reason, since it says everywhere that we should use “total income” line 🤔 Do you remember if you put your AGI income or total income in the question 24a? Thank you for your answer
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Yes, we did include all of the schedules. He is self-employed, but he is a contractor, so the letter of employment was from his boss from the actual company. I keep seeing here in other topics that as a self-employed he must put his AGI in that question, that’s why we put his AGI in that question. But I can’t find anything about it anywhere in the instructions 🤔
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Hello! We applied for AOS and immediately got RFIE for our form I-864. I am very confused why, since my husband’s current income is well above the 125% guideline (his last year income shown on his most recent tax return was not sufficient tho). We provided his employment authorization letter with his current salary and his bank statement showing his salary transfers for the past 6 months. We also provided his full tax return, tax return transcripts and all w2s he had for the most recent tax year. Now we got a joint sponsor but reading the rfe I realize that maybe there was some mistake that triggered it and the inly thing I can think of after going over the copy of the form we have, is question 24a-24c: “My total income (adjusted gross income on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1040EZ)“. My husband is self employed, and we put his adjusted gross income from his 1040 there (line 11 on his form 1040). Maybe this was our mistake and we had to put the total income from the line 9? Please enlighten me, should we put his total or adjusted gross income there, we are worried that that putting his gross income was the reason of him “not qualifying” and genuinely not sure what line we should use there for our joint sponsor as well and if we have to refill my husband’s I-864 together with our joint sponsor’s affidavit
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Technically he is self-employed. He works as an independent contractor. He got a contract and a letter from the company he works for that states that his position is rather permanent. Will this not work for sponsoring i-864? He income is well above the minimum required amount
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Helena55 reacted to a post in a topic:
Using current income for i-864
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Thank you! So he can sponsor me based on his current actual income, not his last year income, correct?
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Helena55 reacted to a post in a topic:
Using current income for i-864
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I’m asking about I-186 for the future, when we file AOS. We already have I-134 filled out for the interview, so that wasn’t my question.
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Yes, I know I need I-134 for the interview, but since we’ll need to file AOS just in a few months we want to know if my fiancé can sponsor me or if we have to start looking for a joint sponsor.
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I’m asking for the future process to see if we need to start looking for a sponsor or not. I am well aware that I need i-134 for the interview. However very soon we’ll need to file AOS and we want to start preparing for that.
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Hello! Last year my sponsor’s income was extremely low due to covid. This year he got a new job, and his salary is high, but since they ask to provide his last year tax return, to prove the income (which doesn’t make any sense, how can his past income prove he is eligible to sponsor me now) the income, shown there, it insufficient to sponsor me. Is it possible to use his current income for I-864 instead of the one listed on the last year tax return? What documents should he provide to prove that his current income is enough to be my sponsor?
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DS-160 “countries you resided in” problem
Helena55 replied to Helena55's topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures
Again, I did not lie about my residencial addresses and not hiding it. All of my addresses are detaily listed in my I-129f. The question is only about a one single question in DS-160, asking me to list countries where I resided for more than 6 months since I turned 16. It doesn’t even ask me to list years or addresses. The reason why it confuses me is because I don’t fully understand if I should put only uninterrupted stay, or cumulative stay. Like, for example, if every year since I turned 16 I visit let’s say Thailand for 3 months then using that logic should I put Thailand in “places I resided in for longer than 6 months” because cumulatively it’s gonna be much more than 6 months of me staying there over the past decade? -
Hi! Here I am with another question about DS-160. My circumstances: I starred working as a freelance translator in 2020 and this is my current occupation as well. In the year 2020-2021 I worked online as a freelance translator while traveling the Philippines. 2021-2022 I came back to my home country (Russia) and switched several addresses since then. When I was filling out my I-129f I looked up what to put as my work address if I’m self-employed, and it said “your home address if you work from home”. So stupidly enough I put the dates of my employment as 2020-current and put my address in Russia at the time of filing… The problem is that right above it in a different question it states that my home address for the year 2020-2021 was in the Philippines (you can ser the picture attached). I just realized that. The petition was approved. Now I’m filling out my DS-160 and it asks me about my work history again. Should I just put “2020-now *My current home addresses* (different from what I put in I-129f since I moved out)” there? Or should I do it very detailed, with dates for every address I used? For example: 01.01.2020-01.06.2020 *address #1 Philippines* — self employed 01.06.2020-01.01.2021 *address #2 Philippines* — self employed 01.01.2021-01.06.2021 — *address #1 Russia (the one listen in the petition)* — self employed 01.06.2021-now *address #2 Russia (my current address)* — self-employed? Thank you in advance!
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DS-160 “countries you resided in” problem
Helena55 replied to Helena55's topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures
It was not illegal residence. I was staying in the country legally, working on my business, never breached any visa conditions and never broke any laws. I did put all of my addresses from China in I-126f, but was told to not put China in places where I resided in DS-160 because a person who told me that believes it’d be a lie since I didn’t live there for 6 months or more and every few months I’d leave for 2-4 weeks. So it’s a bit confusing. -
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DS-160 “countries you resided in” problem
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DS-160 “countries you resided in” problem
Helena55 replied to Helena55's topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures
Thank you! I’ve got my Chinese PCC already, because I guessed I’d need it. Can absolutely confirm that it was a pain to get it, haha. They don’t normally give it to business visa owners, I had to hire a lawyer who got a special permission for me to get it from the local authorities. I’m just confused about DS-160 as technically my visits were not living and were “business trips”
