deutsixfive

Thank you for your reply.

After some thought I think maybe the best answer is that "I will support her as she has any need." This is since he is a joint sponsor and I have technically enough to support us as a household of two. The answer in the VisaJourney example I-134 form is helpful to me, but not to the joint sponsor.

I've attached my previous post on a related topic for the background of our situation. We've decided to ask my fiance's uncle to be a joint sponsor of her K-1 visa application when she goes for the interview. Now the question I have is what we should ask him to put in question 11. Namely, "I intend or do not intend to make specific contributions to the support of the person named in item 3." In reality, we should be able to support ourselves since we're earning (not too much) above 125% of the poverty line. However, for the purposes of this I-134, should we ask him to write that he does intend to give some amount, say $500 a month? Although that is not really the case?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I'm uncertain as to whether I should find a joint sponsor for my fiance (K-1 visa).

I'm a Poor hardworking Doctoral (PhD) student, who earns about USD 25K a year. I used to live in Singapore, and have only been in the US since Fall 2008. According to the I-864P poverty guidelines, my annual income is more than 125% of the poverty line for a household of two people (a little more than USD 18K).

What I'm worried about is that I have only one year's income tax return, which only included my income from the last four months of 2008. I will definite include an explanation of our situation in the material that I will send to my fiance for her to bring to the Singapore embassy. I am wondering whether with an employer letter, pay stubs, this will be sufficient.

My other worry is that my income may be considered to be too low. The closest kin we have is one of her uncles who lives in New York, and we'll be in Boston. Should I ask him if he's willing to be a joint sponsor?

Has anyone been in my low-income, short time in the US situation and successfully gotten a visa? That would be reassuring for us to hear.

Thanks!

OK---we'll find her uncle. Thank you for your advice! :-)

Hi everyone,

I'm uncertain as to whether I should find a joint sponsor for my fiance (K-1 visa).

I'm a Poor hardworking Doctoral (PhD) student, who earns about USD 25K a year. I used to live in Singapore, and have only been in the US since Fall 2008. According to the I-864P poverty guidelines, my annual income is more than 125% of the poverty line for a household of two people (a little more than USD 18K).

What I'm worried about is that I have only one year's income tax return, which only included my income from the last four months of 2008. I will definite include an explanation of our situation in the material that I will send to my fiance for her to bring to the Singapore embassy. I am wondering whether with an employer letter, pay stubs, this will be sufficient.

My other worry is that my income may be considered to be too low. The closest kin we have is one of her uncles who lives in New York, and we'll be in Boston. Should I ask him if he's willing to be a joint sponsor?

Has anyone been in my low-income, short time in the US situation and successfully gotten a visa? That would be reassuring for us to hear.

Thanks!

I do really empathize for your situation, because that is exactly the same situation that we are in.

We want to have a wedding ceremony in Singapore in January 2010, with our family and friends, but we did not find out about the visa issues until February 2009, by which time it was too late to proceed as planned. We had to make the choice between marrying in Singapore in June 2010, or marrying in the US in January 2010 by applying for the K-1. We decided on the latter, because as much as we loved our family, we felt it was more important for us not to wait longer. We're also Christians, and we tried our best to find if there could be a way to have some kind of religious but non-legal ceremony. I'm sure it is possible, in that if you search hard enough you could probably find someone "crazy" enough to do it for you, but it will probably not be very pleasant for everyone and may have severe negative legal consequences for people.

What I took away from this experience is that it's important to plan ahead, and that life doesn't always go according to plan. But perhaps the good Lord helps us to become better people through it. Personally, I think it helps us to trust in Him more, and also helps us to be mature in making a conscious choice about what is more important to us in our marriage.

What's nice about VisaJourney is that it's a community of people who have similar struggles with the US immigration system. I know a few couples who will get married and then be separated for a year or two (at least). I also know couples which are married but separated because of work or kids. So our situation is not really that bad! :-)

I do hope the immigration department improves though, 9 months or more for a visa is terribly inefficient for one of the richest countries in the world! (They should outsource this to India, where they'd get it done in less than a week!)

Thanks everyone for your comments. What pushbrk said sounds very good, and I'll do just that. I'll be organizing everything and submitting the application either today or tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Oh, I see. Thanks for your replies. I guess I'll just send in everything to be on the safe side, and to entertain the adjudicators.

Thanks for your reply and opinion!

That seems like very little evidence. From what I read I thought they wouldn't approve your I-129F just based on that evidence! Hmm...

I am a US citizen applying for a K-1 visa for my fiancee Gloria, who is from Singapore. I was in Singapore doing college from Aug 2003--July 2006, and doing my Master's from Aug 2006--Aug 2008, while my fiancee is a Singapore citizen who has lived in Singapore all her life. I am currently studying for my PhD in Boston.

I've done some reading on this forum and elsewhere, and I'm pretty sure that the evidence we'll be submitting is convincing, but I just wanted to get a second opinion from some of the brave fellows who have gone before. Any comments?

• My Bachelor's and Master's transcripts from university.
• My payslips from the university while I was doing the Master's.
• My student's pass, which is a legal document issued by the immigration authority in Singapore to allow me to stay in Singapore as a student. The student's pass lists my address.
• My parents' Singapore ID cards, which list their address, to show that I lived with my parents.
• My birth certificate, to show that my parents are indeed my parents.
• My Singapore bank statements.
• A photo of us during our commencement in July 2006.
• Gloria's pay slips, showing that she has been working in Singapore from June 2006--present.
• Gloria's passport, showing that she is a Singaporean citizen.
• Gloria's birth certificate, just in case.
• Airplane ticket stubs from Gloria's November 2008 visit to Boston.
• Gloria's itinerary of her trip to Boston.
• Gloria's passport stamp of her entry to the US.
• Statement from Bank of America that we opened an account together in December 2008.
• Bank statement from Bank of America.
• Airplane ticket stubs from my January 2009 trip to Singapore.
• My itinerary of my trip to Singapore.
• Credit card statement that indicates I bought something while in Singapore.

And of course, other information

• Photos (4) from the last two years
• E-mails (4) from the last two years
• Letters (4) from the last two years, with stamped envelopes
• Receipt for engagement ring
• Skype record of phone calls
• Gloria's mobile phone bill

Of course I am submitting copies of the aforementioned documents, and not the originals. My photos do not have dates, but I will add dates to them (the correct dates of course), and will choose one from our winter in Boston.