Un-Employed

[Filipina dreaming 0]

Here is a Question simple and easy.. I've made $16,000 so far this year. But I'm Un-Employed now.

So If my I-134 App. has no current Employer on it. And no current source of income. What do I do??

There has to be some way around being Un-Employed currently at the time of the Interview. Or do they

just throw it in the trash ??

By the way I get no Un-employment benefits. So the income stops until a new job is found. But if I find

a new job I'll have to quit it in 7 or 8 weeks to fly to RP for our interview process. So what process does

a Co-sponsor have to do ?? What forms i mean.

Thank you,

Charles

[Bobby+Umit 161]

Here is a Question simple and easy.. I've made $16,000 so far this year. But I'm Un-Employed now.

So If my I-134 App. has no current Employer on it. And no current source of income. What do I do??

There has to be some way around being Un-Employed currently at the time of the Interview. Or do they

just throw it in the trash ??

By the way I get no Un-employment benefits. So the income stops until a new job is found. But if I find

a new job I'll have to quit it in 7 or 8 weeks to fly to RP for our interview process. So what process does

a Co-sponsor have to do ?? What forms i mean.

Thank you,

Charles

They don't throw it in the trash, they look at it to make sure you can support the benificiary. If you can't - they will deny the visa application. (RFE probably for a co-sponsor)

Why would you have to quit a new job? You are not needed at the embassy interview.

A co-sponsor would fill out the I-134, just like you would do. (you will have to check to see if your embassy will accept co-sponsors for the I-134)

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Here is a Question simple and easy.. I've made $16,000 so far this year. But I'm Un-Employed now.

So If my I-134 App. has no current Employer on it. And no current source of income. What do I do??

There has to be some way around being Un-Employed currently at the time of the Interview. Or do they

just throw it in the trash ??

By the way I get no Un-employment benefits. So the income stops until a new job is found. But if I find

a new job I'll have to quit it in 7 or 8 weeks to fly to RP for our interview process. So what process does

a Co-sponsor have to do ?? What forms i mean.

Thank you,

Charles

1. Line up a co-sponsor

2. Look for a new job. If you get an offer, just tell them you will need a few days off for your interview, I think if they are reasonable they will allow it, they understand people have lives and prior plans. If they are hard nosed about it, you do not need to be at the interview anyway.

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I think we all need to be careful in telling all these currently unemployed people that their affidavit of support is going to be OK at interview if they have a recently acquired job.

A little bit of common sense, a well prepared affidavit explaining the unemployment and new position, and the ASSUMPTION that the consulate will go with CURRENT INCOME tells us such affidavits SHOULD fly, but we don't have anecdotal evidence supporting that. And we certainly don't have enough anecdotal evidence broadly across consulates to support it.

This is a new economy and a new situation. I'm uncomfortable with reading advice to posters that finding a new job will cure this ill.

My two cents.

[Filipina dreaming 0]

I think we all need to be careful in telling all these currently unemployed people that their affidavit of support is going to be OK at interview if they have a recently acquired job.

A little bit of common sense, a well prepared affidavit explaining the unemployment and new position, and the ASSUMPTION that the consulate will go with CURRENT INCOME tells us such affidavits SHOULD fly, but we don't have anecdotal evidence supporting that. And we certainly don't have enough anecdotal evidence broadly across consulates to support it.

This is a new economy and a new situation. I'm uncomfortable with reading advice to posters that finding a new job will cure this ill.

My two cents.

I understand what your saying. But the Immigration services have brought this on themselves

they give absolutely no other resources for imformation other than what they consider the norm.

Unfortunaly these times are no longer the norm. I have a feeling my question will soon become the

norm though in America's present economy.

They have to be leiniant to a degree I would imagine with half this country changing job's, laid off,

under-employed, or the immigration numbers will start to drop off dramatically.

[scandal 951]

I understand what your saying. But the Immigration services have brought this on themselves

they give absolutely no other resources for imformation other than what they consider the norm.

Unfortunaly these times are no longer the norm. I have a feeling my question will soon become the

norm though in America's present economy.

They have to be leiniant to a degree I would imagine with half this country changing job's, laid off,

under-employed, or the immigration numbers will start to drop off dramatically.

I sympathize with your situation. I hope you are able to resolve it by either getting a new job, finding a cosponsor, or showing assets in the bank.

These are all valid ways to comply with the support requirements.

You write "They have to be leiniant to a degree" (sic - lenient). Why? I disagree with that.

The purpose of the support requirements is to ensure that at some minimal level you and your new spouse will be able to live in the US at a reasonable standard of living without requiring public assistance. The bar is set reasonably low and they offer several alternatives if you are unable to reach that bar. But if none of those alternatives are possible for a given petitioner's case (I'm not saying you), I think it's reasonable to deny the application.

The privilege to family-based immigration petitions for USCs was set up as a compassionate understanding by Congress (compassionate Congress? Oxymoron that?) that families should not be separated. It's a privilege, not a right.

Ok, this topic has come up before and proven controversial, so donning flak jacket now.

[Filipina dreaming 0]

I understand what your saying. But the Immigration services have brought this on themselves

they give absolutely no other resources for imformation other than what they consider the norm.

Unfortunaly these times are no longer the norm. I have a feeling my question will soon become the

norm though in America's present economy.

They have to be leiniant to a degree I would imagine with half this country changing job's, laid off,

under-employed, or the immigration numbers will start to drop off dramatically.

I sympathize with your situation. I hope you are able to resolve it by either getting a new job, finding a cosponsor, or showing assets in the bank.

These are all valid ways to comply with the support requirements.

You write "They have to be leiniant to a degree" (sic - lenient). Why? I disagree with that.

The purpose of the support requirements is to ensure that at some minimal level you and your new spouse will be able to live in the US at a reasonable standard of living without requiring public assistance. The bar is set reasonably low and they offer several alternatives if you are unable to reach that bar. But if none of those alternatives are possible for a given petitioner's case (I'm not saying you), I think it's reasonable to deny the application.

The privilege to family-based immigration petitions for USCs was set up as a compassionate understanding by Congress (compassionate Congress? Oxymoron that?) that families should not be separated. It's a privilege, not a right.

Ok, this topic has come up before and proven controversial, so donning flak jacket now.

No need for a flak jacket I understand, I just meant lenient as in I've already made $3K shy of the poverty level now

just lenient that I and other Americans had to change jobs with no fault of their own.

I'll still make double poverty level as a Class A CDL truck driver. That's no problem as long as he understands.

But of course they are number crunchers and weren't hired for their bleeding hearts.