Poverty guidelines

[evey 0]

Hi I just a a quick question if anyone can help. What are the poverty guidelines for K1 visa for London?, is it 100% or 125%? knowing that 125% is what to go for but just curious.

Thanks

[Darnell 8,479]

125 percent, unless the petitioner is in US Military, then it's 100 percent.

[Inky 1,111]

Heres a link to the poverty guidelines - Poverty Guidelines

Most embassys follow the 125% because after you move you have to show that much for AOS. Some embassys are just ####### too tho lol.

[evey 0]

Heres a link to the poverty guidelines - Poverty Guidelines

Most embassys follow the 125% because after you move you have to show that much for AOS. Some embassys are just ####### too tho lol.

Ok Thanks for the quick replies

[Boiler 46,232]

re you self sponsoring?

If so its a lot les.

[evey 0]

re you self sponsoring?

If so its a lot les.

What do you mean?

[Boiler 46,232]

Uurgh, need a new keyboard.

If you are self sponsoring for a K1 it is a few thousand.

[Justine+David 218]

what?? I thought it was 125% no matter if you are a singular or joint? (military aside)

Edited April 25, 2010 by Justine+David

[Boiler 46,232]

What does singular or joint mean?

[Justine+David 218]

Self-sponsoring (the petitioner) versus self-sponsor+joint sponsor to cover the rest if the original petitioner can't swing the $$

[Boiler 46,232]

There is no such option, if you do not self sponsor.

[Justine+David 218]

what???

Joint sponsors are used all the time...

[Boiler 46,232]

A joint sponsor has to be a USC or LPR.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I think I see the confusion here (sorry to butt in Boiler):

If you self-sponsor (which has been done on several occasions through London by a K1 applicant), you cannot have a joint sponsor. In this situation, "self-sponsoring" means the UK K1 applicant providing the financial backing for the I-134.

The regular sponsorship process is either by the USC petitioner alone (what I think Justine means by "singular") or jointly by the USC petitioner and another USC or LPR sponsor.

There cannot be joint sponsorship in the self-sponsorship process because one assumes that the joint sponsor would be the USC petitioner, in which case the sponsorship would be considered to be by the USC petitioner only and would cancel out the UKC self-sponsorship. Any USC or LPR who is not the petitioner attempting to joint sponsor a self-sponsored K1 applicant would have no standing to do so. I think when Boiler says:

A joint sponsor has to be a USC or LPR.

he means that a joint sponsorship on a self-sponsorship attempt is impossible because both sponsors must be a USC or LPR -- and of course the self-sponsor must be a UKC, thus not fitting the criteria of a joint sponsor.

Oh dear, I think I may have made that even more confusing.

Edited: to make things even more confusing, I fear.

Edited April 26, 2010 by elmcitymaven