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Well I do understand all those arguments...although it is realy hard to explain when our lifestyle is so different...we do not need Tv..as a matter of fact we do NOT WANT the TV...., we do not need two cars, if we can make it with one n walk...even better for our health...we do not need babysiter cuz I want to care for my children...and we do not need many other things that most people more likely consider IMPORTANT n MUST....

I do respect the fact that there should be drawn some line...I guess maybe there just could be another column in that chart called "others" where IF the requirements are not met...the officers could take it to the consideration if the family WILL or WILL NOT become a public charge for the USA...I do not ask to be treated "special" im just asking for the simple human right such as living as a family together...

I do understand we live in the world full of dishonest people...another thing that is comming to my mind..maybe there could be something like a "list of restricted rights" for such an immigrants who would not be allowed to get any benefits for some period of time....I dont know...but I am sure there is some way how to get this done...all I know is that it is just not fair, that due to our simple lifestyle and our beliefs our chidren have to grow up seperated...

Our case is difficult, we did considered my husband moving with his two children to my country, but there are few problems....one..he is taking care of his family...his mother and father are pretty much dependent on him with help...two his two children can not get thier passports untill the full custody is dealth with...three.. the children not being citizens of my country wld not be able to get health insurance here...means we wld have to pay each doctors visit!...four..the schooling wld be difficult too for the kids not knowing my native language..they speak only english n spanish....n it goes on n on...we just thought it would be much easier for us if we are given a chance in the USA...

I just see it unfair...Im not a bad person and my family suffers a big time from the separation only due to not making what they think we need to make...

Hi everyone, now that we have our case done and I have the visa in my passport...it makes me wonder...and I thought I will share my thoughts...

My husband is a USC and I am from Czech Republic. We are 6member family. Two children are from my husbands previous relationship and since he has them in care I adopted them. We have also two children together. The story is long and I do not want to bother with it so will just make it short. Since we are 6member family, my husband was required to make $37.500 per year. My husband was only making $20.000 so thats where we were stuck the whole time. We certainly had an option to search for co-sponsor. But we found it hard to find someone who would financialy guarantee for me. It is quite a favor we were asking. We came to doubt the 125% poverty guidelines...me and my husband believe in a simple way of life...whatever he is making is just enough for us to be happy...we do not need big house nor big cars..we just wanted to be together and happy...when I was little my parents began from the scratch...while me and my sister we had a nice princess room, my parents still slept on the mattresses only, cuz they cldnt afford a bed...but we were realy happy family...home filled with love...so Im askin myself...why...even tho that we have only little to start with...why we cant be given a chance? Me and my husband stayed seperated due to not being able to find a co-sponsor for 4 years!!! not 4 weeks, nor 4 months...but 4 years!!! I found it quite difficult to find someone who does not even know me to financialy guarantee for me...what I did in a final...i contacted a guy who fights for human rights...he too thought that its very unfair...because...where did the value of a family go? We have four children who didnt even grew up together...I will never forget the tears of my daughter who kept cryin for her daddy...the whole family is pretty much broken from the separation...and why? just because we didnt fit the chart? Wold nowdays is too much about charts...onec u dont fit in...sorry...

I found it quite unfair that the 125% poverty quidelines do not consider at all that I as an immigrant onec entering the USA can higher the income of the family...it also does not consider the fact of the USC living...we live in a simple home out of lil town...we truly do not need more then what we need so why are we asked to make more in order to be together? My husband was never making the money he was required to make now...even if he had two jobs!

I do try to see their side too...I respect that they are trying to avoid the immigrants to become a "public charge" for the US government...I understand that...but still...where did the humanity go? why the cases cld not be handeled individually...for the value of the family?

The fighter for the human rights knows even ppl at the embassy and when i told him our story he right away took a phone n called the ppl at the embassy...they themselfes admited that the rules are "unlucky"...but claimed they cant do nothing about it...He even managed to introduce me to the ambasador for Czech Republic himself! I talked to him, he admited saying "we will do something about it" but eventually...nothing was done...there is bunch of people traveling to the USA daily to make a business or spend money...but when i was literaly standing at the door of the embassy with two lil children...btw US citizens...baging to be let in to reunite with my family...i was denied...

I just feel that more pressure shld be put on the door of the embassies all over so that this unhuman rule changes...

I appraciate any feadback...

For the value of the family....

YES! today is THE DAY...just came back from embassy n got the visa in my passport....ready to go home papa...i sure wanna thank to all ppl on here, cuz without your help...we wld not make it...the advices helped much...went tru the whole process without help of expencive lawyers....

i wish a good luck to all of those who are still waiting....wow..i look back n it ws 2008 about this time of the year wen i joined this side...took us loooong time, but faith kept us goin n we never gave up....this had been a great lesson!

THANK YOU ALL!!! :yes: :yes:

Im sure u r not alone in this..altho i would say theres gonna b more of those who r childless...idk....but me and my husband have 4 children, 2 are my husbands kids, but they know me as a mother for past 5 years (since they were very lil) and our two children are 3 and 4 months....due to unfortunate consequences my husband wasnt even here with me when i had last labor with our lil one and didnt get a chance to see him so far...(he has to sustain a job so we qualify for I-864... )anyhow....so i sure know how u feel....we had been in this way too long...one has to learn to coope with the pain...the worse part is that noone up there realy cares...

so be faithful...thats the only suggestion....but the most powerful one... i know what im talkin about...

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ask your husband about that, please.

thank you for an idea, i will....tho i think if we find a sponsor we may not need it...

aaaalrite...u all are right, i recived an answear and the embassy is suggesting for my parents to transfare the money to my account, then i could use it.

Right. (Unfortunately, you've received a number of less than helpful to misleading answers.) On the I-864, treat each question as just a question. For prior years, take the income from line 22 of the 1040 form. For current income, state the current income and document it with employer letter and/or pay stubs. If the current income isn't enough, you'll need a joint sponsor with enough individual income to cover their own family size plus the intending immigrant(s).

ok, more clear now thank you!

thank you all for ur help with this!!!

How do you plan to handle these two questions on the I-864?

Looks like using your non-resident alien parents won't be an option.

well i can imagine that my husband will fill out I-864, I will fill out I-864A and along with my bank account and other assets i could trow in my parents bank accounts. But perhpas i understand that there has to b signed an agreement between me n my parents to confirm they do agree to provide if needed.

Well I sent an email to the embassy again n i asked once again if it is or is not possible. Will let u guys know.

first of all..thank you all for ur replies!!! (:

ok, so if i understand it right now...lets say mu husband has now job with income of $30.000, but last year was mostly unemplyed and made only $10.000...it means that even tho i put as his current income $30.000, they will base themself off of whats on his W-2...n thats only $10.000? correct?...I just would like to know how to count this, so I know how much has to our sponsor come up with to qualify as a sponsor.

Thank youuuuu!

Paystubs and a letter from the employer prove current income.

mayb i didnt asked right...i know that paystubs n letter from emplyer prove income. But i would like to know how do they figur the income out there at the embassy? Do they only look at and count what i put in there as income? Or they base themself off of whats on your W-2 forms? Sorry if this is a stupid question just trying to understand. Cuz if my husbands puts in there hes earnin 20.000 now...they cant base themself off of that since its not what hes been making for past tax year..only what he makes now past few months...if last year was very bad n he didnt make much...then how do they count it to know if hes eligable or not?

Ok im trying to get tru the I-864, we r 6 member household so we need to come up with $37.487. My husband now has a job that makes him $ 20.000 but he only has that job for few months. Last year he was in and out of job. So I put in his income $ 20.000, but they will see from his W-2s that he didnt even made this much last year. So how do they count it? R they countin it out from the income i put in or figurin out from the W-2s?

thank you all ahead for any help!

Honestly I doubt that would work since your parents are not in the US, right? How could the I-864 be enforced on someone who lives outside the US and is neither a LPR or USC?

If it was your assets I think it would be different and you could make-up the difference by having 3x the shortfall in readily available assets. If your parents are well off enough maybe the could "gift" you & your husband enough cash to sit in his bank account long enough for the process.

Well the consul said exactly this: "i havent seen it done, but that dont mean it cant b done"...he first too said wont b possible since they dont live in the USA, but i argued that they dont, but perhpas if i ever get in financial troubles...they will b the first ones after my husband who will help me financialy....n then he said what he said...n wen afterwards i was given the form i asked again if i can include my parents bank accounts n they confirmed....

Honestly, you probably won't be denied, you'll probably be given an opportunity to provide a co-sponsor. Is there really no other USC that can help?

Good luck

thank you (: idk...for some reason we found it kinda difficult to find co-sponsor...we'v had quite a few ppl sayin they will help but as soon as we gave em the forms to look at n fill out...they always changed their mind..idk..too much work?...i realy dont know...what i think is that mayb ppl think im gonna b askin money from em later on or something...but i always tried to explain myself...even suggested to sighn an agreement that if they ever have to pay anything due to sighnin the form, i will repay everything back...but nothing helped....i realy dont know what makes them to change their minds each time....even the lawyer told me is not a big deal

If his kids are living with him does he receive child support for them?

naa...he doesn't...the mother dont care n my husband realy doesnt either..guess it wld help this time...but...complicated situation...the mother is native american n my husband was told they cant get on her then....idk...but hopefuly no need for that in a final...

ok ppl...i was at my interview today aaaaand it didnt go as bad as i thought it will

I was treated very nicely...I came out ineligible for two reasons...1) i happened to overstay my visa 2) the financial side...the consul was so nice he said he will only write the refusal for me overstayin the visa as I would have much less chance if he puts both reasons there....returning me back the I-864 suggesting to get that done again. Now hear out people!!!...as I never heard that before not even on here...I asked him if I as immigrant and sponsor's spouse can use bank accounts of my parents as assets...he said he "never saw that done before, but that dont mean it cant be done"...sooooo...they gave me a form and said i can do that!!!!! Wonderful, cuz my parents are very well settled here n that sure will b a big help. I was also corrected on how to do right that join-sponsor thing...i always thought the co-sponsor is sort of a substitution for my husband not b able to sponsor...but I find out the co-sponsor only has to come up with whats missin in my husbands salary eh...soooo...guess im gonna get back on it n see if this time we will fit the chart.

well feel better now then ...guess i can keep hopin that mayb we will get tru with this one day...

I realy hate this...we filled I-130 im march last year 2010 n ever since we are on search for joint sponsor as my husband...even tho he works...does not qualify financialy...well...noone is willing to help....so we were raisin four children, two are ours (3 and 4 months)n two my husband's (7 and 8) (USC)...n now it seems like i better divorce my husband n forget about our family even been ever together again because we simply do not qualify financialy!!!! My husband works, i have small income in my country too and it will continue if i could reside to US and all together with safings we have is yet not enough for our family to be together. We were searchin for co-sponsor, but those who first wanted to help, changed their minds after we gave em the forms to fill out....we ran out of opptions and are now at the end....my husband can not reside to my country, because he is taking care of his parents in USA, they are poor in health and also take care of his handicapped sister....so I realy do not know what to do now...now we tried to solve our situation by me moving to mexico border area while my husband lives on the american side rite there 15min drive away...lived like that together for 1.5years untill the drug cartel war broke out...we had to leave cuz what we been tru in that hell wasnt nice at all....so now we are again separated n does not look like we b together any time soon...it has been 4 years like that......this is just some kind of bad dream we are living...

i have my interview appointment tomorrow...but i know i will b denied, cuz we do not fit the 125% poverty line n no co-sponsor.....i think wen they say that word "denied" it will make me cry there.....

all this system is very cruel...

Working while out of status is not an inadmissability, but it will be considered and I have seen it being used by USCIS as a negative mitigating factor in discretion. They will ask this anyway so might as well address it in the hardship letter. Make sure you spell out two positive equities for them to overcome this in the discretion part of the waiver, same for the overstay.

So it means i only seek waiver for overstaying my turist visa (10-year ban), correct?

Thank you for ur answear

Hi everyone

I am workin on I-601 and the form is sayin that the waiver will only apply for those grounds of inadmissibility i include on the application. So it is important that i disclose all grounds of inadmissibility i seek the waiver for.

Well i am seeking waiver for due to overstaying my turist visa, and i also admited i worked illegaly in the USA. So i am finging Inadmissibility based on 10-year bar for me overstaying my visa, but i dont know what inadmissibility look for in case of me working there illegaly. Can someone advice me?

Thank you for any reaction

peace

michaela

Hello to you all! ahead i appologize as there is pretty high chance this question was here before....i tried to search, but wasnt succesfull....neways therefore thank you for all answears!

We today recived packet 4 from US embassy in Czech Republic. The Affidavit of Support is required.

1/Now my husband does not qualify to be a sponsor, does he has to complete and sign the form I-864 anyways along with co sponsor?

2/together with me (beneficiary) our 2year old daughter will be traveling to US when i get my visa. She has her US passport as we did the Birth abroad report thing. Is she concidered to be "immigrating" with me? ...as she is US citizen? 2make the Q clear...do I need DS-230 for her too?Do I need I-864 for her too?

Thank you again!!! (F)

hallo to everyone!

hm, id like to ask, i just sent in form I-129F with my USC fiance and i am Czech citizen n am stayin in Czech now...but because of bein apart with my fiance for 10months now, we decided we will move to mexico for now, until the process will b over n i will recive my visa.

1) my form states i live in czech now, do i need to change my address somehow to let them know i relocated to mexico, or can i just come back to Czech Republic when is my interview time?

2) if i will hav to transfer our case to mexico, wont that affect the process somehow? isnt it harder trough mexico? how do i transfer the process to mexico?

thank you for any responds, any help much appraciated!

peace

Just put your illegal employment on the G-325a. Since you need a waiver for your overstay, your employment will also be forgiven with an approved waiver. You don't want to go thru the waiver process and get hit with a misrepresentation afterwards.

k i will do that...u r right...just hope wont hurt us even more...thanks again to all of you...

You must be completely honest on all of the forms. . .they don't really use the employment against you because the law doesn't allow a ban for working without a permit. . .only for the overstay.

How long was your overstay? Are you still in the U.S.?? If you're still in the U.S. and file a spousal visa (not the fiance one) you can adjust status from within the United States, without filing a waiver because you entered on a valid tourist visa. . .all you have to do is prove you entered with inspection (with a visa.) Overstay is forgiven for the spouse of a U.S. citizen.

no, thats the thing, i went back home when i were about to bring our baby, so we r applyin for fiancée visa now....n i overstayed 3yrs so hav 10yr ban...n was told i will hav to do tha waiver

thank you for ur reaction...

You are currently out of the country and are expecting to file a 601 after your visa denial at your consular interview, right?

Everyone I know (mostly soiuses of Mexicans or other South Americans) are honest in stating the work history and have never had any adverse decision because of it. My husband worked illegally while he was here and also has a waiver pending through Brazil.

yes exactly....thank you for responding...i wanted to go the "honest" way, but was worried it will affect the visa approvement...i am 10mnths without my man n kids now n its just killin me..dont want to do ne wrong step...wanna b with them soooon

peace

hello to everyone here (:

me and my fiancé r fillin I-129F form to get K1 visa. I overstayed my visitors visa so i know it will b denied automaticly n i will need to do Waiver. Now if anyone out here went trough the same thing...im wondering if to a form G-325A where i should state my employment for past 5years i should admit i worked in us illegally or its better to say i was unemployed?...wouldnt that make it impossible for me to get visa if i overstayed n even worked there illegaly?

thank you for any responds!!!!

peace

Screenshots of your video chats (i.e. Skype!, Yahoo! Messenger) will help a lot also.

may i ask how to do the screenshots of video chats from yahoo messenger..or whatever it is ...thank you!!!! appraciated..