Affidavit of Support

[Laura&Nando 6]

Ok, so I have a few questions about the affidavit of support. To give you some background, I am from the US and my fiance is from Ecuador. We filed our 129F Petition on July 7th and received confirmation the I-797C, Notice of Action on July 11th. I went to visit him in Quito from 7/9 - 8/10 and while I was there I took an affidavit of support from my father. But, now I'm realizing that I may have done the affidavit stuff incorrectly. So here go my questions.

1) I am a full time grad student. Do I need to do an affidavit of support or can my father just do it?

2) Another friend is doing the F1 Fiance Visa as well and told me that an immigration lawyer said that the Affidavit of Support should be file in the US, NOT in the beneficiary's country at the US Embassy. That's not what I understood from visajourney.com. I thought that my fiance had to take the affidavit of support with him to his interview. What's the truth?

Thanks everyone. This whole process is confusing and frustrating and taking up way too much of my time.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Ok, so I have a few questions about the affidavit of support. To give you some background, I am from the US and my fiance is from Ecuador. We filed our 129F Petition on July 7th and received confirmation the I-797C, Notice of Action on July 11th. I went to visit him in Quito from 7/9 - 8/10 and while I was there I took an affidavit of support from my father. But, now I'm realizing that I may have done the affidavit stuff incorrectly. So here go my questions.

1) I am a full time grad student. Do I need to do an affidavit of support or can my father just do it?

2) Another friend is doing the F1 Fiance Visa as well and told me that an immigration lawyer said that the Affidavit of Support should be file in the US, NOT in the beneficiary's country at the US Embassy. That's not what I understood from visajourney.com. I thought that my fiance had to take the affidavit of support with him to his interview. What's the truth?

Thanks everyone. This whole process is confusing and frustrating and taking up way too much of my time.

1. You BOTH must do an affidavit of support and it should be recent (within 90 days should be OK but more recent is better)

2. The fiancee visa is a K-1, not F-1. For a K-1 the affidavit of support is presented by the foreign fiance(e) at their interview OR sent ahead of their interview to the foreign consulate. It is NOT given in the USA. The attorney is wrong. He is confusing the K-1 with a CR-1 (spouse visa) for which the affidavit is sent to the NVC in the US.

The truth is that VJ is right and memberships are FREE! Tell his attorney to join.

This process will soon take up all your time. The visa process is the easy part. Wait until you get a foreign wife here that cannot work, drive, speak English (possibly) has no clue where anything is, has now clue how to do anything,

You have no clue! I love every minute of it which is a good thing. I hope you will also.

[Maliajannah 0]

1. You BOTH must do an affidavit of support and it should be recent (within 90 days should be OK but more recent is better)

I'm reading over the OP's post and I see that you recently filed the I-129F (about 2 months ago). I'm not sure how the timelines are going these days, but it took us 6 months from NOA1 to interview... You will likely need to do the affidavits of support again because, as stated here, they must be signed within 90 days of the interview and your interview will likely not be in 90 days. Plan on going to Ecuador to attend the interview, it is very important specifically at our Guayaquil consulate.

Good luck!

[Laura&Nando 6]

I'm reading over the OP's post and I see that you recently filed the I-129F (about 2 months ago). I'm not sure how the timelines are going these days, but it took us 6 months from NOA1 to interview... You will likely need to do the affidavits of support again because, as stated here, they must be signed within 90 days of the interview and your interview will likely not be in 90 days. Plan on going to Ecuador to attend the interview, it is very important specifically at our Guayaquil consulate.

Good luck!

It's impossible for me to go to Ecuador for the interview. I'm a graduate student and I have no money, which is why my father is doing the affidavit of support with me. I went to Quito this summer to visit him during my vacation and I cannot afford to do it again, especially if it will just be for a few days in the middle of my semester. My fiance lives in Quito and will do the interview there. Is it a big deal there as well? Thanks.