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Thank you Dashinka.
 
Well folks, today was a very good day.  My Wife received an Email from the Immigrant Visa Unit at the US Embassy in Manila saying she was APPROVED and then a few minutes later LBC delivered her Passport with her Visa.  My mother always said “Worrying Works” because everything she worried about didn’t happen.  Lol.  Well I worried plenty that my SS Benefit which is only slightly OVER the required minimum threshold by just under $500 wouldn’t be enough, but in the end it was.  No Joint Sponsor required!  

Now we have to rebook our flights.  I was certain we would make a departure on June 15th but I was off by a few days.  Now Summer fares are in force and trying to leave before September 12th would cost us an additional $4k so we will be here for the next 88 days.  
 
Thanks to everyone who along the way has reached out with great advice and encouragement.  A special thank you to Crazy Cat who has been there with his seemingly endless knowledge an sage advice as have so many others who took the time to help guide me along the way.  Thanks to all.

Great News!  The Children’s Visas were approved today.  Thank you everyone for your help and support along the way.

I have no idea but I’m certain they hadn’t looked at my new info after my wife submitted it on June 8th because they didn’t hesitate when I resent them the same info for my kids.  I sent it on June 20th so I expected to hear one way or the other by tomorrow.  I’m just grateful that my wife and I didn’t have to leave them here for a few months while we got jobs.  I’m very appreciative of you and everyone else on here for all the help.  If I had to do this over again I would still do it myself but depend on the collective experience of this group.  Thanks to all.

I only submitted SS Income.  Use your 2023 SS Benefits Letter.  Get online from your MySSA account.  

Great News!  The Children’s Visas were approved today.  Thank you everyone for your help and support along the way.

Mike, no we were waiting to see what happened.  I had the new 864’s ready to go just in case.
 
Crazy Cat-Thanks a million, 4 days shy of 1 year when we filed their I-130.  Remember I screwed up when I filed for my wife on 06-30-2021.  I though that the I-130 that I filed for my wife included the children.  When you guys straightened me out I then I filed for the children exactly 1 year later and wrote a cover letter begging them to merge the cases.  Regardless, wether they did or didn’t it’s finally done now.  My wife is so happy.

Great News!  The Children’s Visas were approved today.  Thank you everyone for your help and support along the way.

Mike, no we were waiting to see what happened.  I had the new 864’s ready to go just in case.
 
Crazy Cat-Thanks a million, 4 days shy of 1 year when we filed their I-130.  Remember I screwed up when I filed for my wife on 06-30-2021.  I though that the I-130 that I filed for my wife included the children.  When you guys straightened me out I then I filed for the children exactly 1 year later and wrote a cover letter begging them to merge the cases.  Regardless, wether they did or didn’t it’s finally done now.  My wife is so happy.

Mike, no we were waiting to see what happened.  I had the new 864’s ready to go just in case.
 
Crazy Cat-Thanks a million, 4 days shy of 1 year when we filed their I-130.  Remember I screwed up when I filed for my wife on 06-30-2021.  I though that the I-130 that I filed for my wife included the children.  When you guys straightened me out I then I filed for the children exactly 1 year later and wrote a cover letter begging them to merge the cases.  Regardless, wether they did or didn’t it’s finally done now.  My wife is so happy.

Great News!  The Children’s Visas were approved today.  Thank you everyone for your help and support along the way.

Great News!  The Children’s Visas were approved today.  Thank you everyone for your help and support along the way.

Pushbrk- So I need to file an I-864 for Each Child and leave my Wife’s name off of it.  Correct?  So the only name will be one Child as the Principal Immigrant and one for each Child?  
 
sorry for being slow.

Pushbrk- So I need to file an I-864 for Each Child and leave my Wife’s name off of it.  Correct?  So the only name will be one Child as the Principal Immigrant and one for each Child?  
 
sorry for being slow.

My Wife is the Principle Immigrant on all 3,  I-864’s with both Children listed on each.  We did file separate I-130’s for the children.  I don’t follow that mom should file I-130’s for each of the kids.  If we do go to Plan B, I will get a job to boost our income.  If my wife is working in the US will her income help as well?  Do you know how long we would have to work to have the income count? Thanks.

At this point since the children were denied on June 7, and we submitted the new I-864 with 2023 Income Benefits Letter that afternoon and because my wife was first denied and then issued a Visa a few days later after the Embassy  received the Benefits Letter I think waiting for a few days just makes sense.  There’s always time to panic later.  Having said that, unless there’s a compelling reason not to go to the US on July 13th we’re going to go.  Isn’t it better for my wife to be in the USA just in case a bus hits me?  I know I’m an old guy but I want this for her and the kids.  For me only I’d stay here.  This is like my family hitting the lottery and I could die happy if they were all in the US.  I have a pretty hefty Life Insurance policy to help them.

Thank you Dashinka.
 
Well folks, today was a very good day.  My Wife received an Email from the Immigrant Visa Unit at the US Embassy in Manila saying she was APPROVED and then a few minutes later LBC delivered her Passport with her Visa.  My mother always said “Worrying Works” because everything she worried about didn’t happen.  Lol.  Well I worried plenty that my SS Benefit which is only slightly OVER the required minimum threshold by just under $500 wouldn’t be enough, but in the end it was.  No Joint Sponsor required!  

Now we have to rebook our flights.  I was certain we would make a departure on June 15th but I was off by a few days.  Now Summer fares are in force and trying to leave before September 12th would cost us an additional $4k so we will be here for the next 88 days.  
 
Thanks to everyone who along the way has reached out with great advice and encouragement.  A special thank you to Crazy Cat who has been there with his seemingly endless knowledge an sage advice as have so many others who took the time to help guide me along the way.  Thanks to all.

At this point since the children were denied on June 7, and we submitted the new I-864 with 2023 Income Benefits Letter that afternoon and because my wife was first denied and then issued a Visa a few days later after the Embassy  received the Benefits Letter I think waiting for a few days just makes sense.  There’s always time to panic later.  Having said that, unless there’s a compelling reason not to go to the US on July 13th we’re going to go.  Isn’t it better for my wife to be in the USA just in case a bus hits me?  I know I’m an old guy but I want this for her and the kids.  For me only I’d stay here.  This is like my family hitting the lottery and I could die happy if they were all in the US.  I have a pretty hefty Life Insurance policy to help them.

We uploaded the new I-864 to my wife’s and both children’s CEAC Accounts.  We don’t believe the CO today saw the new one.  All 3 of them have their own case numbers if that’s what you’re asking.

Thanks Redro, my wife is on all three forms.
 
My wife and I decided last night that if the children aren’t approved we will go to “Plan B”.  When my wife was approved last week I booked all 4 of us Flights to the States three weeks from now.  That’s plenty of time for an approval if we’re going to get one.  These flights are expensive, $2,150 each.  If we could have waited until September 12, the end of high Summer airfares, the tickets would have only been $1k each but her Visa expires on August 26.  I had already purchased the $1k fully changeable and cancelable when I thought we’d be leaving on June 15th.  It was a no risk high reward decision because buying in advance saved lots of money and the tickets are changeable and cancelable without penalty.
 
So Plan B is my Wife and I will fly to the States in 3 weeks, get settled, get jobs even if only working at a Temp Agency, Walmart or any job making $15 an hour.  Again my Wife is a Degreed Accountant and I can do many things if I dust off my MBA Degree.  So my question is this:  Does anyone know definitively or at least from some knowledge base how long we need to work before we should resubmit a new I-864?  I’m quite confident many people have done this in the past.  Assume worst case and we both work for $15 an hour, 40 hours a week so our combined income would be $1,200 weekly.  Annualized that’s $62,400 plus my SS of $38,000 equals $100,400.  The Immigration requirement is $37,500.  We will then rebook the kids in September reducing their flight cost back to $1k and use the $2k savings for my wife to fly RT to pick them up. 
 
 

Thank you Dashinka.
 
Well folks, today was a very good day.  My Wife received an Email from the Immigrant Visa Unit at the US Embassy in Manila saying she was APPROVED and then a few minutes later LBC delivered her Passport with her Visa.  My mother always said “Worrying Works” because everything she worried about didn’t happen.  Lol.  Well I worried plenty that my SS Benefit which is only slightly OVER the required minimum threshold by just under $500 wouldn’t be enough, but in the end it was.  No Joint Sponsor required!  

Now we have to rebook our flights.  I was certain we would make a departure on June 15th but I was off by a few days.  Now Summer fares are in force and trying to leave before September 12th would cost us an additional $4k so we will be here for the next 88 days.  
 
Thanks to everyone who along the way has reached out with great advice and encouragement.  A special thank you to Crazy Cat who has been there with his seemingly endless knowledge an sage advice as have so many others who took the time to help guide me along the way.  Thanks to all.

SalishSea, I understand they won’t count the SS Income for the Children but not your point it will eventually stop.  The children are 7 and 9 yrs old so yes it will stop in 11 years and 9 years respectively.  Hardly an issue.  

Thank you Dashinka.
 
Well folks, today was a very good day.  My Wife received an Email from the Immigrant Visa Unit at the US Embassy in Manila saying she was APPROVED and then a few minutes later LBC delivered her Passport with her Visa.  My mother always said “Worrying Works” because everything she worried about didn’t happen.  Lol.  Well I worried plenty that my SS Benefit which is only slightly OVER the required minimum threshold by just under $500 wouldn’t be enough, but in the end it was.  No Joint Sponsor required!  

Now we have to rebook our flights.  I was certain we would make a departure on June 15th but I was off by a few days.  Now Summer fares are in force and trying to leave before September 12th would cost us an additional $4k so we will be here for the next 88 days.  
 
Thanks to everyone who along the way has reached out with great advice and encouragement.  A special thank you to Crazy Cat who has been there with his seemingly endless knowledge an sage advice as have so many others who took the time to help guide me along the way.  Thanks to all.

So a family of 3 wouldn’t require less income than a family of 4?

I believe that we would be approved for my wife and one child bc the income requirements are so much lower.  I don’t know if that’s true, I’m asking for alternatives to a joint sponsor even though my current income, that the CO didn’t know about at the time, is above the required amount.

Thank you Dashinka.
 
Well folks, today was a very good day.  My Wife received an Email from the Immigrant Visa Unit at the US Embassy in Manila saying she was APPROVED and then a few minutes later LBC delivered her Passport with her Visa.  My mother always said “Worrying Works” because everything she worried about didn’t happen.  Lol.  Well I worried plenty that my SS Benefit which is only slightly OVER the required minimum threshold by just under $500 wouldn’t be enough, but in the end it was.  No Joint Sponsor required!  

Now we have to rebook our flights.  I was certain we would make a departure on June 15th but I was off by a few days.  Now Summer fares are in force and trying to leave before September 12th would cost us an additional $4k so we will be here for the next 88 days.  
 
Thanks to everyone who along the way has reached out with great advice and encouragement.  A special thank you to Crazy Cat who has been there with his seemingly endless knowledge an sage advice as have so many others who took the time to help guide me along the way.  Thanks to all.