nynex

Applying for adjustment of status, after getting them into country on a K1/K2 visa and getting married.

First question: my stepdaughter does not seem to have an A#. I read the A# exists in two places: 1) on the visa 2) on the NOA2.

Neither of these has a separate A# for my stepdaughter. What do I need to do?

a) write "none"

b) use her mother's A#

c) look harder, or somewhere else for her A#

Then my second question is, of the forms in this list, what ones do I need to submit for the daughter. She is 5, so much of the information is redundant or identical to her mom's info. In other phases of the process I was told I didn't need all those forms for the daughter, so I figured I'd check.

Thanks!

-H

I'm applying for a K1,

4 months ago I got a job that pays >$50k per year, but my total income for this year is lower than 125% poverty. I have paystubs, letter from bank, and letter from employer announcing salary, good standing, etc. My income from last year was also just a little bit lower than poverty (did not work the whole year).

The K1 interview is in Rio de Janeiro. Is this likely to be a problem, or will they really just look at my current income?

Thoughts, experience?

Just noticing in filling out K1 forms that my address in the US and our address in Brazil has changed since submitting 129F. This isn't a problem, is it?

I mean, I'm getting mail from UCSIS okay at my earthclassmail.com PO Box (a service I totally recommend) but I want to make sure I don't have an obligation to report address changes.

(This only happens later with Green Card sponsorship, right?)

Hi all,

I've got a question for my K1 interview for my Brazilian fiancee and her daughter about how long we should stay we're staying in the US.

In the DS-156 and a couple related forms, there are questions like "How long do you intend to stay in the US"? I understand it's necessary (or at least preferable) to express an intention to establish a permanent life in the US, and say something like "permanently".

We have permission from my fiance's ex-husband for their daughter to spend 7 months in the US. The Rio consulate has told us that this permission is just about Brazilian law and not something they care about. Then we plan to bring the daughter back to Brazil. On paper, our stay in the US could be as short as 6-7 months (leave after we get AOS) but I think it's fair to say in broad terms that we have an intention to establish a permanent residence in the US. My fiancee will probably get an American job when she's legal, she will keep that job and telecommute if she travels back to Brazil, we will have a house that we will keep, etc.

My gut instinct is to make all of this clear to the consulate in the interview and to say "Our plan is to establish a permanent residence in the United States, but we may have to make trips back to Brazil to fulfill our obligations to her child's father."

Then in the short answer on DS-156 I will say, "permanently" for my fiance and "permanently, within limits of custody arrangements" for her daughter.

Appropriate? Does anybody see any big dangers here, either in the immediate term or long term? Long term I've decided to consult a lawyer about this, so I'm mainly thinking about the interview.

Hi all,

Going to an interview in Rio in a few weeks for our K1.

My fiance has a 5 year old daughter and is divorced from the daughter's father. We have the father's permission to travel to the US for 7 months. The US consulate in Rio has explicitly told us they don't care about the permission to travel, and that that is just between us, him, Brazilian law, and Brazilian airport authorities.

So, can my fiance sign all her daughter's documents? Does she need permission from father or anything to sign the document? Anybody see any problems here?

Doing anything illegally should never be an option.

What do you mean your visa is up? Do you mean your I-94? or your actual visa?

Yeah, I meant in Brazil. And it's not especially illegal, you just pay a fine for each day you overstay, up to a maximum fine. They don't deport people, etc. The problem is that I would have to wait 6 months to reenter.

-H

Hi all,

We chose the K1 process because it seemed faster than the K3 process, especially given the fact that it probably would have taken us a couple months to get married and finalize the paperwork in Brazil.

But not being married has its disadvantages... my Brazilian tourist visa is up, and I'll have to leave soon if I want to have some time on my visa left for the interview. (I know, staying illegally is an option, but I have to make at least short visits to the states this fall).

Can we still get a K1 visa if we get married in the meantime? Or does that mess up the process?

Thanks!

-H

I had been going through this site and had not found much about DCF in Brazil (but the posts that are here are very helpful, so thanks to all!), so I have decided to post my own experiences. Maybe someone will find them useful in their situation.

Did you ever receive any specific advice that it was better to file DCF in Rio than to file the "normal" way? I'm trying to decide whether it's faster to do DCF in Brazil or file a K3.