foxtacles

I've seen turnaround times (receiving, responding, decision) ranging from 14 days to 3+ months, it seems to vary wildly. On average it appears to take about ~30 days after they receive your response to get a decision. With regards to what the RFE may look for: could be anything, here's some examples: If you have made a copy of your I-129F application I'd suggest carefully reading over it again (and the I-192F instructions), the issue could be as trivial as having missed the answer to a single question somewhere.

Our RFE was about missing "court and police records" due to a speeding ticket that unfortunately had a fine of over $500 ($573 to be precise - so barely). We have disclosed this and the circumstances on our form in Part 3, 4.a) and 4.b) as requested. However, only in the I-129F instructions, not on the form itself, do they state that you must also include "court certified records" in addition - we have missed this part, so this mistake is on us. I suppose we just didn't figure that they'd want something like that for a mere speeding ticket. We have responded to the RFE with a certified copy of the electronic record search of the Traffic/Minor offense court that outlines the offense and disposition (paid + closed) of the case, we hope this will be sufficient.

Well, at those rates this month is going to be even slower than July...I'd seriously love to know how the people in charge and the actual adjudicators feel about this, clearly this is not sustainable

We got an RFE is well (after 415 days), quite disappointing to say the least. We have been very careful with our application, it's hard to imagine what is missing, but oh well

Yes, that looks correct to me!

I've yet to find an authoritative source for this claim. It is frequently cited on various immigration websites (boundless, citizenpath etc.) but is not mentioned anywhere on official USCIS instructions or guidelines (although I'd love to be corrected if anybody has further information). The reason for that is probably that Form I-134 functions as a multi-purpose affidavit of support of sorts that is also commonly requested before the issuance of B category visas and some others. Depending on the visa type, the income/asset requirements that an officer is looking for probably vary greatly. So at this point my theory is that the "5x 100% requirement" is just a general rule of thumb that makes sense for K1 applicants that ended up being copy-pasted around the web, but not a hard requirement per se. I'd wager that if you can prove that you are able to meet the I-864 requirements, you have a very solid basis for the I-134 to be accepted as well.

I was referring to Form I-864, which is required for AoS. The instructions for I-134 don't explicitly mention any hard income/asset threshold requirements, so you may get away with the aforementioned 100% bar or even less, but since you will have to file I-864 soon after anyway it makes sense to aim to meet the requirements for that. In short, I'd recommend that at the filing of I-134 you can already demonstrate that you'll either have the 125% above poverty line income or assets: 3x 125% of poverty line if you are married to a USC; otherwise 5x 125%. (or a combination thereof, there is some calculation examples in the I-864 instructions on page 10)

I don't think that's accurate. According to the instructions: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-864instr.pdf So it seems to be either 5x 125% or 3x 125% (if you have married a USC). It's not quite obvious to me based on this paragraph if the 125% threshold also applies or if it's 100% though.