K1 visa and employment?

[funkycatspangky 0]

If my future wife is american and will be partitioning for my K1 visa

Do I need to be employed?

Or can I tell USCIS that once I have my Conditional Green Card, I will find employment in the USA?

[SunDrop 59]

If my future wife is american and will be partitioning for my K1 visa

Do I need to be employed?

Or can I tell USCIS that once I have my Conditional Green Card, I will find employment in the USA?

Dunno why no one's replied to you yet. But no, you do not need to be employed. There isn't an employer in the US who would touch you unless you are able to work in a highly skilled field that they are desperate for people. If this were the case, you'd probably be applying for a work permit as a result of a job offer, instead of a K1 Fiance visa. Employers can't hire you unless they are sponsoring you for a work permit or you have an EAD which you won't get until you're in the US and have also applied for a Social Security Number (SSN).

The USCIS only care that your petitioner (it's not partitioning, but petitioning ) earns 125% of the poverty line for a family of the size they are responsible for. For example, if it will just be you and your USC fiance/e, then it's a family of 2. If you or they have children they are responsible for, then it's a family of 2 + however many children are involved.

[funkycatspangky 0]

If my future wife is american and will be partitioning for my K1 visa

Do I need to be employed?

Or can I tell USCIS that once I have my Conditional Green Card, I will find employment in the USA?

Dunno why no one's replied to you yet. But no, you do not need to be employed. There isn't an employer in the US who would touch you unless you are able to work in a highly skilled field that they are desperate for people. If this were the case, you'd probably be applying for a work permit as a result of a job offer, instead of a K1 Fiance visa. Employers can't hire you unless they are sponsoring you for a work permit or you have an EAD which you won't get until you're in the US and have also applied for a Social Security Number (SSN).

The USCIS only care that your petitioner (it's not partitioning, but petitioning ) earns 125% of the poverty line for a family of the size they are responsible for. For example, if it will just be you and your USC fiance/e, then it's a family of 2. If you or they have children they are responsible for, then it's a family of 2 + however many children are involved.

Hi SunDrop!

Thanks for the info

It is much appriciated

[*Robert* 2]

If my future wife is american and will be partitioning for my K1 visa

Do I need to be employed?

Or can I tell USCIS that once I have my Conditional Green Card, I will find employment in the USA?

Dunno why no one's replied to you yet. But no, you do not need to be employed. There isn't an employer in the US who would touch you unless you are able to work in a highly skilled field that they are desperate for people. If this were the case, you'd probably be applying for a work permit as a result of a job offer, instead of a K1 Fiance visa. Employers can't hire you unless they are sponsoring you for a work permit or you have an EAD which you won't get until you're in the US and have also applied for a Social Security Number (SSN).

The USCIS only care that your petitioner (it's not partitioning, but petitioning ) earns 125% of the poverty line for a family of the size they are responsible for. For example, if it will just be you and your USC fiance/e, then it's a family of 2. If you or they have children they are responsible for, then it's a family of 2 + however many children are involved.

Do you have some basis for saying the OP can't get a job unless they are highly skilled?

You do NOT have to have a SSN in order to apply for EAD.