Mikeyboy

Hi All,

I have my interview on Monday and I was all ready for it until I found out today from browsing that I am supposed to take all the original documents with me.

I'm not sure what to do - I got a letter from the NVC saying I didn't need to bring documents with me because they already received them and approved them. I got a list of documents with a letter by each of them and most of them said 'O' which, according to my letter, means "The original document has been received and accepted as meeting post requirements".

I'm not sure what to do - I don't have time to move the appointment but it will take a week for my wife to send on the marriage certificate from the USA.

Any ideas?

-Mike

My husband had his interview November 18th at the US embassy in London. We had to submit an extra clearance letter so we had an extra couple of weeks in delays, but we stll are expecting his visa anyday.

If you pay for the 3-5 day service you typically will get it by that time. They say to allow for 5-15 days, but we have had a great experience so far with the courier service (they had our letter and passport back to the embassy within 24 hours.) Now that the weather is clearing up there, I doubt there will be many delays. Best of luck with the interview!

Hi there,

What was the extra clearance letter for? Is this something I can pre-empt?

-Mike

Thank you - that's good to know. I will make sure I ask for the courier service.

Hello All,

I have my interview date confirmed, but my wife (over in the USA) has surgery 9 days later, which I hoped to attend. I was wondering if anyone knows the average amount of time it takes to get your passport back in the mail from the US Embassy in London with the visa in, assuming it went well.

Thank you for any help,

-Mike

Thank you all,

Pushbrk - I will follow your idea because you are right - the FIL is zero income presently.

I will file using just the MIL and provide all necessary documents to show what she earned - as her accountant already has these.

Have a great day, everyone, and thanks for helping me with the final stage of my immigration.

-Mike

Thank you LotOfPatience - I'll make sure we stick the assets in too.

The household size is 4 and combined income last year was just under 100k.

Back to my original question - what do you think I should put for 'current income' for

my MIL? Is the figure she earned last year (individual income) appropriate given how strong the AOS will be?

It could fluctuate between 20% +- but whatever it ends up as, it will still be well

over the poverty lines. There is no way of guestimating it until the taxes are done by

her accountant. I could always write (ESTIMATED) next to the figure?

Excellent idea, LotOfPatience!!

OK I will do this.

The ASSETS section says "Complete only if necessary" - so should I leave this blank,

and simply attach a covering letter explaining that the asset and deeds documents are included if

they want to see them? The reason I ask is that MIL's income is sufficient on its

own, so really the assets aren't necessary; I'm just putting them in for extra safety...

Another and last option - If MIL and FIL do not have issue to show the combined income, the complexity can be reduced.

Loto

What does this mean? I don't understand this last part of your post? Sorry about this...

btw - the item and form that shows how much my MIL and FIL earned individually is the:

Federal adjusted income [2009] (box 1) on the Individual Income Tax - LONG form.

There was no item 22 on the 1040 that I could find?

btw FIL does not have sufficient income thanks to the recession - currently unemployed...

Hi there,

Yes - I am submitting all the relevant schedules (such as Schedule C - profit and loss)

as well as the documents prepared by her tax guy that show her exact personal income.

We are also including the IRS transcript along with these - all of this is for 2009.

This area is not the problem for me - it is mainly trying to figure out how to

calculate the 'current income' box. Currently I am using 2009's income as this figure.

If worst comes to worst I have an appraisal of land she owns (worth a lot of money)

with deeds - maybe I should just submit these because these alone would cover us. And

then maybe add a covering letter to explain that they are included if they would like

to use them???

-Mike

Hi All,

My mother-in-law is coming in as a HOUSEHOLD MEMBER, as it turns out her personal income is enough to help meet the poverty guidenlines. She files her taxes jointly (Married) with her husband, but we have the tax return info to show what she earned, so lucklily we have no need to bother him to file a i-864a also.

HOWEVER...

The form asks her 'current income' - unfortunately she is a business owner, and has no idea what her 'current income' is until the taxes are done at the end of the year. So I have put in the figure that is her most recent year's earnings (2009 income).

Do you think this will suffice? I am not really sure how to get around it. It's one of those situations where I hope they look at the forms, see the business docs (profit and loss etc) and her income for 3 years and apply a little common sense.

However if anyone has any ways I could help the people at NVC with the info, please let me know?

Thank you,

-Mike

The reason why I say to drop the assets is that since your MIL is sponsoring but your FIL isn't, how are you supposed to show her ownership of joint assets? If they aren't needed don't get wrapped up in all that is needed to use assets (appraisal, proof of ownership, liquidity, etc). Many of us have sponsored with sufficient income, and left all fields for assets blank.

I already have all the necessary documents (Proof of ownership of land, appraisal made recently, etc) so

that is why I am no worried about the assets.

I'm not sure if her salary meets the minimum expectations. I will have to look into this.

It's a shame how these forms were designed. What is needed is a special household member form for people who file jointly as married.

Hi,

What is FIL? I live in the UK and don't earn a salary (started my own small business last year) so not sure if my earnings matter?

The income may put us over the threshold from my mother-in-law but certainly the assets guarantee it. It all depends on her W-2s.

Thanks for this info. I will get her to put her W-2s in.

Question: are the W-2s necessary? With the tax transcripts + the assets we are already there?

-Mike

No my wife's mother and father both work.

The assets owned by both of them (i.e. land) is 300,000 USD and their joint tax return is over 100,000 a year, so I am sure in terms of finance for AOS all is well.

I am just unclear if the father has to sign an AOS as well since the tax transcripts list both of them and they both own the land.

My wife can't work as she has a chronic back issue.

That is the basics of the situation.

No my wife's mother and father both work.

The assets owned by both of them (i.e. land) is 300,000 USD and their joint tax return is over 100,000 a year, so I am sure in terms of finance for AOS all is well.

I am just unclear if the father has to sign an AOS as well since the tax transcripts list both of them and they both own the land.

My wife can't work as she has a chronic back issue.

That is the basics of the situation.

Hello,

I (The beneficiary) have a bit of a problem and not sure how to get round it...

My wife is unable to work so her MOTHER has come in as the HOUSEHOLD MEMBER.

Her mother had the IRS send her the three years worth of tax transcripts required. Problem

is she filed her returns married with her husband (My wife's dad), so the transcripts list

her AND my wife's FATHER too.

My question is: Do we now need to go off and get my father-in-law's birth certificate

and get him to sign a HOUSEHOLD MEMBER AOS too? If he does, does he replicate the

info on the one my mother-in-law signed? Or can we just use the single AOS by my mother

-in-law and the NVC will be happy with the joint tax transcript?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

-Mike

Got it - thank you again. Have a lovely weekend.

Ok thanks I will take a look. We paid the bill ages ago so I hope the barcode is still there to be printed...

Thank you all.

-Mike

Hello All,

I have my DS-230 ready to go. But I noticed there is nothin on the form that allows them to match my form to my case number.

My wife printed out a bar code thing which she has to put on the front of her Affadavit of Support. Should I be printing this out too?

Thanks in advance if anyone knows...

-Mike

Hello All,

I am just sending my packet of forms of DS-203 (I think - don't have the form name at hand) as the final part of my immigration process. My wife is sending her Affadavit of support.

One of the things I am required to send is a photocopy of my passport page. However every shop I went to today in London said it is illegal to make color photocopies of a passport. So I only have a black and white.

Is this acceptable to the NVC?

-Mike

Hello All,

I have read the step-by-step I-864a instructions (page 2, section 11), and it reads to me as:

* The household member procures an IRS Tax Transcript for most recent year

* AND IF they self-employed, the household member ALSO procures a number of other documents (Schedules, 1040, etc)

[see "If you checked box 9(b) (Self employed) you should have..." on the instructions]

Is this absolutely true? From ferretting around on other forums, etc it seems as though the IRS Tax Transcript that one can request does actually have all this information included in it, and thus is the only thing that needs to be sent.

Which is true?

-Mike

As no-one seems to know, I will call up NVC tomorrow and then will post the answer here for all to see.

Hello All,

I have read the step-by-step I-864a instructions (page 2, section 11), and it reads to me as:

* The household member procures an IRS Tax Transcript for most recent year

* AND IF they self-employed, the household member ALSO procures a number of other documents (Schedules, 1040, etc)

[see "If you checked box 9(b) (Self employed) you should have..." on the instructions]

Is this absolutely true? From ferretting around on other forums, etc it seems as though the IRS Tax Transcript that one can request does actually have all this information included in it, and thus is the only thing that needs to be sent.

Which is true?

-Mike

They do live in the same house, yes

Yes, that's right - the reason we're using land value is we think her mother may not pay herself much of a wage. The land value is colossal, though, and they can get an appraisal very easily as they've had lots of offers recently as its highway property.

Worst comes to worst we can use my wife's father as another household member, who earns a good wage, but the less complicated we can keep it, the better.

Thank you.

How can I prove they live together? They have a mailing PO BOX address which all mail goes to, but their residence is different? Maybe a notorized letter from the sponsor, together with bills going to the same PO BOX?

Hi Everyone,

Based on the step-by-step instructions, my sponsor (my wife) and her mother (household member) are going to submit the following. Can you tell me if this is OK:

* completed I-864 by Sponsor

* IRS transcripts for 3 most recent years (we realise 2nd and 3rd years are optional, but best to be safe)

* completed I-864A by Household Member

* IRS transcript for most recent tax year -- OR -- photocopy of tax return + W2 + Form 1099 for most recent year

* Every Form 1040 Schedule, if any, that household member filed with Federal Tax Return (she owns a business)

* Evidence of ownership and value of assets (in this case LAND - does that need a recent reappraisal?)

* Proof of relationship (Sponsor's birth certificate will show this)

* Proof of same residence - bills. This is a bit tricky as they have a PO BOX and all mail goes to that, so any suggestions welcome? Maybe a covering letter?

Is this sufficient for the I-864 package?

-Mike

Also, does the HOUSEHOLD MEMBER need to submit proof of US citizenship - i.e. birth certificate? If so that would be an extra item on the checklist.