Canadian DCFs Waiting for Interview in Montreal

[tauruslady 0]

I think they are pretty strict about the sponsorship amount. You can use assets to make up for the shortfall, I believe in the amount of 3x. For example, if your husband is making 15,000 and the poverty limit is around 18,000, then you would need 3x the difference of 3,000, so $9,000 in savings.

You might want to carefully read the I-864 instruction pages to confirm.

I am under the impression it's quite difficult for the Canadian to count their assets/income.

Hi Birdnerd, I am laying my cards on the table:-)

In I-1864

a. List your income from line 23 of this form. 23, 000 ( sponsor)

b.Income you are using from any other person who was counted in your householdsize, including, in certain conditions, the intending immigrant. (See step-by-stepinstructions.) Please indicate name, relationship and income. ( Mine the spouse applicant) $ 11,000

c. Total Household Income: $34,000

The persons listed above have completed Form I-864A. I am filing along with thisform all necessary Forms I-864A completed by these persons. - In which I have supporting papers and Letter from my Employer that I will be continuing to work even I am in the USA.

If I include my income ( from Canada but can be continuing in the US) we exceed the The poverty line of 27,888.

I have yet to add some USA Savings of 5500, Canadian joint account with sponsor and applicant - 3000, Investment RRSP 10,000

Do you think this is good enough?

Edited October 21, 2010 by tauruslady

[Matt and Susan 0]

Hi all,

Sent our DS-230 on Tuesday (received yesterday). Hopefully not a long wait for P4!

Congrats on your interview Birdnerd!

[dabigbass 0]

Hey, I'm in need of help on this one...

On the affidavit of support (i-864), there is the section that talks about Annual Income, and asks for the adjusted gross income for the passed 3 years.

Since I've been in Canada for all of 2009 for example, all of my income came from Canada. Thus my adjusted gross income is $0 on the US tax return.

Is this going to be a problem in terms of providing my Canadian pay stubs to show I actually made money, but in Canada? Will they even look at my Canadian tax returns?

[aimal 0]

thank u soo much guyz, Good Luck! Tauruslady

[aimal 0]

Another Question Tauruslady, what r u showing to prove domicile???

[housewife 1]

Major congrats birdned. Good luck back in California and safe healthy happy travels I hope you have a very easy uneventful move.

I have a question. My business that I'm buying may or may not come through before the interview. I have no taxable income. I filed US tax returns but the are -0-.

I do however have assets as does DH. I keep my assets in a non-interest account. I know it's not smart but it's my choice. I have not worked in Canada.

Now I can show assets 5x exceeding the poverty line and I can place that money in US $ in a US account now. DH can show the same although his money is obviously in Canada but it is be readily available it is RRSPs etc. We are older than most of the people here I think. So we have saved for this and planned. We have been married over 20 years. I can show some Canadian savings as well.

Do we have to do two Affidavit of Supports? When I saw it it looked like we could do a joint one???

I have a lease to apartment in the US in both our names. I have an electric and gas bill in my name to that apartment. I can print my US bank account statement online.

I have US insurance on said apartment in the US. I can bring a letter from our Canadian bank (to prove of ongoing marriage) that we have a joint account for over 20 years. Why would I pay for this spend this money if I was not moving back? For fun?? This is my life. I'm putting my heart and soul into moving back to the US. I think I'm going to end up crying at the interview when they talk about redomicile. All I can focus on is going home.

If that's not enough to show that I'm restablishing domicile, that I have assets that they ask for and that it's an ongoing marriage I don't know what will surfice.

Hubby got his police certificate two two weeks, 10 business days. Don't leave it till the last min is my advice.

[tauruslady 0]

Another Question Tauruslady, what r u showing to prove domicile???

Thanks Aimal:

I am just optimistic what we will prove for DOMICILE is good enough:

We have the following to show:

- letter from ladlady that my USC husb is renting the place

- his US drivers licence, car insurance and proof of vehicle ownership in the US

- US Bank account with Wells Fargo

- US ATT& T credit card

- Employment pay history which can be downloaded from the job agency through online

- proof that he was paying the last 3 year taxes ( even though he was working in Canada before he moved back, we tried to file to IRS)

- we already sold our home so I still have the Selling Contract

[tauruslady 0]

Major congrats birdned. Good luck back in California and safe healthy happy travels I hope you have a very easy uneventful move.

I have a question. My business that I'm buying may or may not come through before the interview. I have no taxable income. I filed US tax returns but the are -0-.

I do however have assets as does DH. I keep my assets in a non-interest account. I know it's not smart but it's my choice. I have not worked in Canada.

Now I can show assets 5x exceeding the poverty line and I can place that money in US $ in a US account now. DH can show the same although his money is obviously in Canada but it is be readily available it is RRSPs etc. We are older than most of the people here I think. So we have saved for this and planned. We have been married over 20 years. I can show some Canadian savings as well.

Do we have to do two Affidavit of Supports? When I saw it it looked like we could do a joint one???

I have a lease to apartment in the US in both our names. I have an electric and gas bill in my name to that apartment. I can print my US bank account statement online.

I have US insurance on said apartment in the US. I can bring a letter from our Canadian bank (to prove of ongoing marriage) that we have a joint account for over 20 years. Why would I pay for this spend this money if I was not moving back? For fun?? This is my life. I'm putting my heart and soul into moving back to the US. I think I'm going to end up crying at the interview when they talk about redomicile. All I can focus on is going home.

If that's not enough to show that I'm restablishing domicile, that I have assets that they ask for and that it's an ongoing marriage I don't know what will surfice.

Hubby got his police certificate two two weeks, 10 business days. Don't leave it till the last min is my advice.

Speaking of age..I'm in my late 40s and my mind is conditioned to move and retire south.

If your assets are in cold cash ( Bank, RRSP, investments, etc) or anything that you can redeem anytime once approved , then that should be good.

Especially you said its even 5x , the required is 3x the poverty line, so I think that would suffice.

I think what they are looking is for these cold cash are residing in the US bank rather than Canadian Banks.

Other assets would help too including Life insurance, cars if you have more than 1,

In my case, I am just optimistic as I mentioned before that my husband's income won't suffice the minimum poverty line but I am trying to augment it in many ways possible.

Edited October 22, 2010 by tauruslady

[housewife 1]

Hi taurus lady. I understand. I'm not going south but I fully understand and wish you the best of luck.

I'm a bit older than you, but not by much.

I have 2 cars but I'm not listing them. We have a condo that we will list but I'm not going to include it either simply because I don't want to pay for the evaluation that they want. If they took my property tax letter as proof.

But yes, I can put 5x 125% in a US account. MY DH has his money here and it's all easily converted to cash and I think they will understand that he could not have a US bank account since he doesn't have a SS# yet. I wanted to open a joint one and they said he needed a US SS#.

I have some other assts here too in CDN $$ and I have US $$ here in a CDN account which will be transferred. It's all readily availalbe.

I hope the latest bank statments and brokerage statements will be eoungh?? You think printing out an online statement is enough from my US account. I'm paperless so that's the only way to go. Same here. I am paperless so I get no statements but I can get something printed. ???

tauruslady, when is your interview??

[tauruslady 0]

Hi taurus lady. I understand. I'm not going south but I fully understand and wish you the best of luck.

I'm a bit older than you, but not by much.

I have 2 cars but I'm not listing them. We have a condo that we will list but I'm not going to include it either simply because I don't want to pay for the evaluation that they want. If they took my property tax letter as proof.

But yes, I can put 5x 125% in a US account. MY DH has his money here and it's all easily converted to cash and I think they will understand that he could not have a US bank account since he doesn't have a SS# yet. I wanted to open a joint one and they said he needed a US SS#.

I have some other assts here too in CDN $$ and I have US $$ here in a CDN account which will be transferred. It's all readily availalbe.

I hope the latest bank statments and brokerage statements will be eoungh?? You think printing out an online statement is enough from my US account. I'm paperless so that's the only way to go. Same here. I am paperless so I get no statements but I can get something printed. ???

tauruslady, when is your interview??

Proof of Financial statements should be in paper 2 copies each

My interview will be on Tuesday, the 26th....nervous..

[canok 0]

DOS told me the package was mailed on September 10th and that I was eligible for an interview. I did email Montreal about three weeks ago, so maybe something will come of that... I will cross my fingers, however in the meantime ALL THE BEST TO YOU!!

Congrats birdnerd!! Your review does help to take some of the worry away... although we will see if that can last until our actual interview dates.

Now a favor to any of you that have an upcoming interview date this month or early next month

I still have not received my packet 4 mailed on September 9th and have not received a response to my email requesting a copy(if it goes much longer I will probably have to cancel my medical and interview);

Is there anyone that can try asking at the Montreal Consulate, if there is anyway to contact them other than by email to receive a packet by email that was "lost in the mail" - PLEASE, I HATE TO ASK BUT I AM DESPERATE AT THIS POINT!!

[tauruslady 0]

Congrats birdnerd!! Your review does help to take some of the worry away... although we will see if that can last until our actual interview dates.

Now a favor to any of you that have an upcoming interview date this month or early next month

I still have not received my packet 4 mailed on September 9th and have not received a response to my email requesting a copy(if it goes much longer I will probably have to cancel my medical and interview);

Is there anyone that can try asking at the Montreal Consulate, if there is anyway to contact them other than by email to receive a packet by email that was "lost in the mail" - PLEASE, I HATE TO ASK BUT I AM DESPERATE AT THIS POINT!!

Have you tried calling Montreal directly? or if you sent an email have can catching title like " Packet 4 you mailed lost in Mail... then your Case #" or you can make up your own. I tried this trick before and works as I got a response faster.

[superspur 0]

Congrats birdnerd!

Now I can show assets 5x exceeding the poverty line and I can place that money in US $ in a US account now. DH can show the same although his money is obviously in Canada but it is be readily available it is RRSPs etc. We are older than most of the people here I think. So we have saved for this and planned. We have been married over 20 years. I can show some Canadian savings as well.

We had $0 in US-earned income and we didn't have any co-sponsors. We qualified on assets about 90% of which were held in a Canadian bank under my name (the beneficiary), and held in about a 50/50 split between Cdn $ and US $ in a mix of cash and investments (more than 3 accounts) but more than 5x the poverty line. It seemed to confuse the interviewer a bit as I think they look first for US earned income on the affadavit (which showed $0 income earned as income has to be earned in the US) and then on my partners US tax return (which only showed money earned in Canada) but they were fine once they saw the bank statements so I wouldn't stress about it.

Edited October 22, 2010 by superspur

[housewife 1]

|Thank you superspur and tauruslady.

I can show paper, I didn't know 2 copies so that's a good think to know. thanks.

I will print out 2 copies of my paperless account (USA), and I will bring two copies of DH assets here in Canada.

We can do the same the only Candian income tax is DH. I don't work so I don't really have any income. I don't keep interest bearing accounts for myself. I have no co-sponsor and have no living relatives in the USA or friends who could/would do that. That's asking a lot of someone and I dont' have anyone that close to me nor would I even feel comfy asking that of someone.

If you qualified on assets alone, then I will be ok. thanks superspur

[superspur 0]

housewife:

I forgot, we listed our apartment on there as well. We just took the 2010 tax assessment by the city, our title deed, mortgage account statement and MLS listing (as it was up for sale). It wasn't essential as we had enough in other accounts, but you shouldn't have to pay to get an evaluation done.

We also used the MLS listing as part of our proof of intent to re-establish domicile.