Co-sponsors

[Zyan 0]

Hi VJ members,

My wife told me that there has been a change with Co-sponsorship. For all K status, Co-sponsors are eliminated. Is this true? My wife goes to interview on the 13th of August, and the change was approved in July, but the embassy in Thailand just recieved the notice this pas week. Should I be concern about this change? I did not have a steady job last year, but was collecting unemployment, which was less then the poverty level. I started my new job in March, but I don't make enough. However, my income is a little above the poverty level. Please give me any insights. Thank you in advance.

[daisychain 0]

There are embassy-specific rules when it comes to that. I've heard over and over again that the US embassy in Manila does not accept co-sponsors for k3. However, my co-sponsor was accepted. Pushbrk pointed out that even though my husband had a certificate of no file from the IRS for 2007 and just recently started on his new job (3 weeks), I provided an original paystub and a notarized job offer (the letter of employment was rejected cus it was photocopied). So I basically proved that my husband is above poverty level and can support me despite the lack of documents. Hence, they accepted my co-sponsor. (Which is kinda weird. You have to prove that you don't need a co-sponsor for your co-sponsor to be accepted. I guess it works the same way in banks. You have to prove that you're wealthy enough to not need a loan before you can be issued a loan. Anyway...).

I think you'll be fine. Prepare the co-sponsor just in case. But don't forget to provide your wife with as many originals as possible - notarized job offer, original paystub, original letter of employment (include the postage-paid envelope it came with, just in case) and bank statements.

[mrc1330 0]

Literally by law, you are not required to show support documents for a K3, it's only advised to bring them in case your officer is an A-hole, anyways... can you send me the link where that law changed, because i dont see how or why they could change that? Your wife is your wife, no matter what type of visa she gets so i dont understand. I make $27,000 right now, and i've been making that since last Oct but before that i havent and THATS what i was going to use my parents income for... to fill in the gaps or shortness of funds that i had in 2007 or 2006.

There are embassy-specific rules when it comes to that. I've heard over and over again that the US embassy in Manila does not accept co-sponsors for k3. However, my co-sponsor was accepted. Pushbrk pointed out that even though my husband had a certificate of no file from the IRS for 2007 and just recently started on his new job (3 weeks), I provided an original paystub and a notarized job offer (the letter of employment was rejected cus it was photocopied). So I basically proved that my husband is above poverty level and can support me despite the lack of documents. Hence, they accepted my co-sponsor. (Which is kinda weird. You have to prove that you don't need a co-sponsor for your co-sponsor to be accepted. I guess it works the same way in banks. You have to prove that you're wealthy enough to not need a loan before you can be issued a loan. Anyway...).

I think you'll be fine. Prepare the co-sponsor just in case. But don't forget to provide your wife with as many originals as possible - notarized job offer, original paystub, original letter of employment (include the postage-paid envelope it came with, just in case) and bank statements.

[rin and john 71]

Literally by law, you are not required to show support documents for a K3, it's only advised to bring them in case your officer is an A-hole, anyways... can you send me the link where that law changed, because i dont see how or why they could change that? Your wife is your wife, no matter what type of visa she gets so i dont understand. I make $27,000 right now, and i've been making that since last Oct but before that i havent and THATS what i was going to use my parents income for... to fill in the gaps or shortness of funds that i had in 2007 or 2006.

There are embassy-specific rules when it comes to that. I've heard over and over again that the US embassy in Manila does not accept co-sponsors for k3. However, my co-sponsor was accepted. Pushbrk pointed out that even though my husband had a certificate of no file from the IRS for 2007 and just recently started on his new job (3 weeks), I provided an original paystub and a notarized job offer (the letter of employment was rejected cus it was photocopied). So I basically proved that my husband is above poverty level and can support me despite the lack of documents. Hence, they accepted my co-sponsor. (Which is kinda weird. You have to prove that you don't need a co-sponsor for your co-sponsor to be accepted. I guess it works the same way in banks. You have to prove that you're wealthy enough to not need a loan before you can be issued a loan. Anyway...).

I think you'll be fine. Prepare the co-sponsor just in case. But don't forget to provide your wife with as many originals as possible - notarized job offer, original paystub, original letter of employment (include the postage-paid envelope it came with, just in case) and bank statements.

It apparently now applies in Bangkok to K visas.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=143834

However, if the K-3 is denied (based on the same section as the noted thread), the OP still has the opportunity to pursue the CR-1/IR-1 for a spouse. That uses the I-864 which clearly allows for a co-sponsor; nowhere in the I-134 form or instructions does it have an exception to allow for a co-sponsor. The embassy in Bangkok elected to allow it in the past but has apparently changed that practice.

John