does Sydney accept non-immediate family members as co-sponsors

[HisLove 0]

Hi all,

I have been directed here from other forums to ask, if the Sydney consulate accept non-immediate family members as co-sponsors. I'm going through my medical, police check stage almost ready to send it all back to them for interview time, and I think my fiance in the U.S. does not earn enough to satisfy them that he can support me. I live in Australia and he is in the U.S.

Also, do you send all your evidence of relationship back with paperwork before interview, or just take it to interview day?

And a final question, have any of you gone through the CR-1 process here?

Thanks,

HisLove

[kaffy 2]

Yes, I have gone through the CR1 process in Sydney. What would you like to know?

[HisLove 0]

Hi Kaffy,

I am already in the process of a K1 visa, almost at interview, and others in other parts of the forum are telling me that my fiance probably doesn't earn enough to be my sole sponsor. He lives with his mum, but she too is on SSI payments, although owns the home they live in and the car they have. I was going to ask her to be a co-sponsor, but others in the forums are telling me she too has to earn $18,000 to be able to be a co-sponsor, even though she has the house as an asset.

I'm getting really disheartened by being told that the K1 won't go through unless we can come up with another co-sponsor who earns more. Someone then suggested that if it does get rejected that we try going through the CR-1 process...can you tell me what this will involve eg. where we would be allowed to get married if I can't go there as his fiance and get married, and what would happen next? Would he have to come here and marry me (to Australia), and stay for a certain amount of time, or would he go straight back again and we start the paperwork process? We need to consider this as an option in case we can't ask his relatives to be a co-sponsor for the K1.

I just want to be with him and start our life together properly!

Thanks in advance for replies,

HisLove

[kaffy 2]

You still need to fulfill the financial requirements regardless if you go through the K-1 or CR-1 process though

[HisLove 0]

Hi,

Yes i figured that it would still apply, but once we are actually married, would they then include my income and assets as part of the financial requirements being met, as well as himself and his mom sponsoring me as co-sponsors in the same household?

Thankyou for your answers by the way, i'm finding this all very helpful

HisLove

[kaffy 2]

Your income cannot be included unless it will continue after you immigrate to the US

I think assets should be okay but if it's a house, he'll need to be on the deed, and if it's money it will need to be held in a joint account, etc

[HisLove 0]

Hi,

Thanks for your help...i think i understand it a little better now.

I am just wondering still though whether anyone has been through a K-1 visa interview in Sydney, and knows whether they:

1. accept co-sponsors who are not immediate family members

2. will take more than one I-134 form, from both my fiance and a co-sponsor if i can get them both back in time, or whether I am just to take my fiance's and wait til they decide based on just his form alone.

Thanks in advance for replies,

HisLove