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    max+patricia got a reaction from amykathleen2005 in baby's bday   
    You're waiting behind the thousands of other people that have been waiting behind the thousands of other people in front of them.
    One month after NOA1 is a drop in the bucket considering plenty of people are pushing six months. Hang in there...
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    max+patricia got a reaction from Andy and Pui in Evidence of financial support   
    Most embassies differ with what they want. If you're worried about it, I'd email and ask. Some require your most recent year tax transcript - or your most recent year tax return (complete with W-2s) - and some might want to see more.
    Even if you're only asked for 1 year, bringing more would probably be seen as making a stronger case for support. I'd bring 3 years regardless of what they ask, especially since getting tax transcripts for those years is free and simple to go about ordering.
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    max+patricia reacted to Andy and Pui in Evidence of financial support   
    Yagisama, I waited until my tax return was deposited from the irs into my bank account. Then waited 2 days and called the irs and requested my 2010 tax transcripts and got them 8 days later in the mail. Hope that helps you.
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    max+patricia reacted to Harpa Timsah in Does any one have a clue?   
    Check this out - explains some things
    http://www.visajourney.com/content/adjudicator-q-and-a
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    max+patricia reacted to KittyPollitt in After reading multiple posts today, a word of advice   
    Don't put deposits down on weddings. Don't book airfare. Don't pay for anything that is non refundable. Just DON'T, until there is a visa in hand. People get denied, paperwork takes a long time or gets lost. Save some stress.
    That is all.
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    max+patricia got a reaction from Inky in NYC PoE   
    She'll go through immigration alone unless you fly in with her. Flying in from Detroit won't require you going through customs, but you can meet up with her after she goes through it.
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    max+patricia reacted to JimVaPhuong in Tax returns for Interview   
    Berating other members who are only trying to help is not going to earn you any brownie points.
    If you submit a copy of a paper return then it must be signed. Without your signature in the affirmation portion of the form then there is no reason why a consulate would need to trust that the financial information on the forms is accurate. In other words, if you don't sign it then you could have lied on the form with impunity and there would be no liability for it.
    Consulates prefer an IRS tax return transcript instead of a paper copy of the return. They don't care about the details that a paper return would contain that would not be printed on a transcript. What they care about is that you actually filed taxes, and that your total income is enough to qualify for your household size. A paper return does not prove you actually filed the return. Anybody can download a 1040 form and write virtually anything they want on it (hence the reason the paper return needs to be signed). However, an IRS tax return transcript is evidence that a return was filed and accepted by the IRS, and that the figures accurately reflect the figures which were on the filed return.
    Ignore the instructions for the I-134. The form was originally created by USCIS, but USCIS doesn't even use the I-134 form anymore. It was determined in multiple court cases to be an unenforceable contract. The I-134 was originally written by an accountant (no offense) rather than a lawyer. It was replaced with the I-864 in 1997 as a result of the IIRIRA act, which required a legally binding affidavit of support. Consulates still use the the I-134 as a convenient means for summarizing the financial status of a sponsor for a non-immigrant visa. The K1 is technically a non-immigrant visa. The alien doesn't become an immigrant until they marry and apply for adjustment of status.
    The consulate will tell you what evidence they want with an I-134, and it will often conflict with what the instructions for the form indicate you are supposed to provide. Follow the consulate's instructions. Almost every consulate that I'm aware of will require either a complete copy of the tax return or an IRS tax return transcript for the most recent tax year.
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    max+patricia got a reaction from Harpa Timsah in proof of ongoing relationship.   
    We sent a receipt from my fiancee's Skype account showing something like 15 months of an online number subscription that I had paid for - and scanned a copy of my credit card on the same page showing only the last 4 numbers visible, plus my name, matching the card charged on the Skype receipt). If you have that available and have used it, it's worth sending.
    Your emails will be good - letters will do nicely as well. We had about 10 receipts from Fedex in our packet, plus a few Christmas cards (dated, signed) and a few cell phone receipts showing international texts (before we found out about Skype )
    Keep in mind, this is all in addition to what seems to be most important - passport stamps, airfare itineraries, etc.
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    max+patricia reacted to spcarm in Horror Stories   
    This is the price we pay for trying to bring our spouses into the country legally. We pay huge sums of money for a horrible service and nobody cares. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants have millions of people that support them through organazitons, congress, tax dollars, lawyers, professors, etc. I'm not saying that we should start a crusade against illegals, but I ask myself on a regular basis, "When will honest people like us who play by the rules organize or get some support from our own government and our own people?" We do everything we're supposed and we still get screwed. Our lives are completeley put on hold. We can't start a family or make any plans for the future without getting approval first from our government. How ridiculous!
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    max+patricia got a reaction from VRYSRSBSNS in I proposed ! umm....now what?   
    First of all, congratulations!
    We are in a similar situation, my fiancee is from Venezuela and has had multiple tourist visas, her current one has validity for 10-yrs from just this past summer. From what I gather, applying for the K-1 doesn't exactly void your tourist visa - but it sort of does, since it makes travel to the US require major substantial proof that your fiancee will indeed return on her tourist visa before the departure date listed on her I-94. This is apparently COMPLETELY up to the immigration official at the POE whether he/she accepts your proof as "good enough" - and if not, your fiancee will be deported on the spot (not uncommon, sadly).
    My fiancee and I read up about this before she came to the US this most recent time, and having said that, it's definitely a gamble either way. I can't imagine the emotional trauma that could be inflicted on your fiancee by being deported (at her expense, btw) immediately after getting here, by lacking proof "sufficient" to the immigration officer that interviews her. Others on here can probably speak of personal experiences regarding this, but in our case, we decided to mail off the I-129F after she was already here, just to avoid that possibility. Obviously, she can't be here the whole time it's in process, but it helps kill some of the time otherwise spent apart.
    As I just mentioned in another thread, DEFINITELY don't lie to the immigration officer about who you're going to see and why, as that will likely catch up with you down the road. Your best bet is to be honest, answer their questions, be confident and have every shred of proof you can think of that your fiancee isn't going to overstay her current visa - but even then, it's still out of your control.
    I can't speak of whether or not you should renew her tourist visa, but we decided it was a good idea since she already had one and it'd be easier than having to reapply. Good luck to you!
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