"Co-Sponsors not allowed for K-1" (Really?? NO!)

[indigo3m 0]

My lawyer and I discused that but the Embassy wants a years worth of statements and a letter from the bank saying when it was opened. So no. The lawyer is getting a letter from the doctor about the transplant and the fact that he asked that some one stay home with my Niece, we are also showing the houses are paid for and that one is in my name. My lawyer said she would do a letter disputing why the should use my mom as a co sponser. We have to wait and see. If not I guess I get to go back and eat some Yum Nam Khon, sticky rice and Lab moo, and can see my teerak in person not on cam like I have for the past year.

Thanks

The workaroiund I see for you is to use assets. If you don't personally have $52,000 in a cash account, have your mother transfer it to you for the time being. (I take it "we" refers to your family, not you personally.) Anything over three times the income requirement will be sufficient to qualify based on assets. Some extra for good measure would be good too.

Indigo:

I'm a little miffed because this process has taken me a year and a half to get to this point and now they change the rules.

1. When I lived in Chonburi I asked the first lawyer I got if it was better or faster to marry her there in Thailand or to do k1 visa.

She said I don't know and not to marry there. I come back she made so many mistakes I got a new lawyer to finish this case.

2. When my fiance got her medical she had been exposed to TB, so I got checked and so had I. Maybe on our trip to Laos or maybe in Thailand.

The Embassy made us cancel her interview and wait 9 months for the treatment to be done. Keep in mind neither of us was contagious we was only exposed and showed positive to the skin test.

3. I try to contact the Embassy to find out how to make a new interview, they did not answer for 2 weeks. After they take a month to set the appointment

4. to complicate things my Niece come to live with me, and she had her second heart transplant, and my mother asked me to stay home with her because she is a nurse and can make more an hour then me. The house we own in FL is paid for, the house in AL is paid for. We have almost a million in a money market, and I've spent almost 4 thousand on this whole thing to be denied at the end when I entered the process there was diffrent rules. Now if she is denied I have to spend maybe another 6 grand maybe to fly over and marry her to come back and pay for a new visa case... I don't think it is right to change the rules at the last minute. Change it for new applicants not the ones in a year and a half in to this.

Thanks to all that respond.

indigo3m [ The Bangkok Embassy told me today For K-1 visa application, the petitioner has to fill our the form I-134 Affidavit of Support and the consular officer will not accept joint sponsors. The I-134 is different from the I-864 Affidavit of Support for immigrant visa applicants that the I-864 is legally binding. Since it is legally binding, you can have a joint sponsor for I-864. However, the I-134 Affidavit of Support is not legally binding as you and the visa beneficiary have not yet been married. So, you cannot have a joint sponsor for this form.

Regards,

So I guess I go back to the lawyer tomorrow to ask why she did not know this.]

Indigo,

In your I-134 package, include any evidence you have that will indicate you can support your finance here and that your career prospects are promising. Other than the notarized letter of explanation recommended by the visa information office, we included his cumulative SS earnings statement, the last tax transcript from when he did file (2005), letters from his banks, employment letter, this years pay stubs showing more than adequate income, a copy of his college diploma and transcripts, evidence of having received his VA education benefits, plus a note indicating that he has nine more months of those benefits should he wish to pursue more education in the future. He also included a letter of reference for employment for his dream job, which noted his professionalism and work ethic. We sent a copy of his student visa stamp showing he was in Thailand for two years and not permitted to work per the terms of the visa. Since he was lacking taxable income for 2007, we felt this overkill was necessary. We will never know if they opened the I-134 his Dad filled out or not, but I assume that they did. Good luck.

Thai Mom

[Ling Ling 22]

The workaroiund I see for you is to use assets. If you don't personally have $52,000 in a cash account, have your mother transfer it to you for the time being. (I take it "we" refers to your family, not you personally.) Anything over three times the income requirement will be sufficient to qualify based on assets. Some extra for good measure would be good too.

Sure it's a workaround, but essentially you're advocating fraud.