poverty line amount

[texaninUK 0]

Ok now im confused LOL

Edited September 20, 2006 by texaninUK

[londonguy 0]

As you can see my wife is now confused...I am now taking over as she has brain Fry

Last year my wife applied for me to obtain a visa that would allow me to live and work in USA. We have been married nearly 3 years and have lived together in UK for 6yrs. She sent off forms and applied with I-130. That was accepted and we got going.

We are doing it all through the US Embassy in London.

Looking at packet "3" that we received way back in the year, I was asked to send a form back immediatley, which i did, and then collect all the checkpoint list documents, all done apart from joint support I-864 form. I need this as we have no money or assets in the states, its all here as my wife has never worked in the USA. She graduated from Uni here in London.

When i looked at the bottom of the letter with my details and application number, it stated there, that I was applying for a CR1 visa!

Edited September 20, 2006 by londonguy

[Yodrak 7]

Boiler,

Yes. I should have kept my fingers off the keyboard until londonguy had definitively answered the very first question I asked him. Instead of nailing that down first I allowed myself to get off track onto the K visa situation because I got the mistaken impression along the way that he was applying for a K3. Bad dog.

And now it appears that texaninUK probably submited her I-130 to the USCIS London office (DCF), not to a USCIS Service Center?

Yodrak

The consulate in the UK has shown itself to be accomodating of K-visa applicants who have resources of their own, not requiring a sponsor for them.

For a K1, yes. Not that I am aware for any other.

They should be filing for IR1 at the London Consulate.

Edited September 20, 2006 by Yodrak

[Boiler 45,519]

K3 would be the same, I believe, only K1 has an advantage in that they can self sponsor.

Boiler,

Yes. I should have kept my fingers off the keyboard until londonguy had definitively answered the very first question I asked him. Instead of nailing that down first I allowed myself to get off track onto the K visa situation because I got the mistaken impression along the way that he was applying for a K3. Bad dog.

And now it appears that texaninUK probably submited her I-130 to the USCIS London office (DCF), not to a USCIS Service Center?

Yodrak

The consulate in the UK has shown itself to be accomodating of K-visa applicants who have resources of their own, not requiring a sponsor for them.

For a K1, yes. Not that I am aware for any other.

They should be filing for IR1 at the London Consulate.

[londonguy 0]

she did indeed submit it here to the US embassy in London!

thanks for your assistance guys i do appreciate it. As i said, wife now has brain fry so i am picking up where she collapsed lol and am trying to piece it all together. I have faith but also know that she is off to the states next week for a few months.

Without telling her lol i may just go get a lawyer to do this last part for me even though she will kill me.

I dont really wanna mess up having had medicals and filled other docs in etc.

As far as i can see, and i know you will correct me.. i have to find a sponsor (wife) and a joint sponsor (her dad). that way i can prove support of income if need be!

I also need to send the other form in, the DS-2001 requesting an interview with my completed checklist.

[Yodrak 7]

Boiler,

A K3 visa is a non-immigrant visa, same as a K1. I-864 sponsor requirements do not apply, non-immigrant financial requirements apply.

Yodrak

K3 would be the same, I believe, only K1 has an advantage in that they can self sponsor.

londonguy,

Yes.

Yodrak

she did indeed submit it here to the US embassy in London!

....

As far as i can see, and i know you will correct me.. i have to find a sponsor (wife) and a joint sponsor (her dad). that way i can prove support of income if need be!

I also need to send the other form in, the DS-2001 requesting an interview with my completed checklist.

[londonguy 0]

Right then, once again this forum has been a pleasure and well woth it!

Thanks to all......I may pop back lol but at the moment i am off to fill in some forms and send them off, ring the states to get father inlaw to fill out his 2 forms (I-864 and the other one (I-864a) for household members) and then .........WAIT !!!!

cheers Yodrak, if all goes well i will buy you a drink someday lol and anyone else who helped

[aussiewench 9]

Right then, once again this forum has been a pleasure and well woth it!

Thanks to all......I may pop back lol but at the moment i am off to fill in some forms and send them off, ring the states to get father inlaw to fill out his 2 forms (I-864 and the other one (I-864a) for household members) and then .........WAIT !!!!

cheers Yodrak, if all goes well i will buy you a drink someday lol and anyone else who helped

londonguy

In case you don't realise, the I-864A is only completed when one is using a household members income on the sponsors I-864, not as a stand alone document.

An I-864A is a contract between the sponsor and the household member which is submitted as an attachment to the sponsors I-864. It is completed and signed by the sponsor and the household member.

Have a read of the New Rule for Affidavit of Support - I-864

[londonguy 0]

Hi there AussieWench,

Thanks for info.

My father in law has joint assets and joint tax docs or something that shows his wife (household memnber) on them, so when submitting them as his proof of earnings etc, she is on there too.

I will have a read of your link.

thanks again

[Laura_and_IanM 0]

Hi there AussieWench,

Thanks for info.

My father in law has joint assets and joint tax docs or something that shows his wife (household memnber) on them, so when submitting them as his proof of earnings etc, she is on there too.

I will have a read of your link.

thanks again

Has your wife been working over in the UK then for the past 6 years? If she has been in the UK for 2 years or more, you can file for DCF and I believe you can use her income that she is earning here. I am sure someone will come along and correct me if I am wrong. But doing DCF will be much quicker. I believe you can get it done in about a month's time perhaps a bit longer but I wouldn't say too much longer. Goodluck with your journey.

LJ

Sorry, didn't realise that I was under the DCF topic...lol. But still, if your wife has been living in the UK for the past 6 years, she should be able to use her income from over here in the UK, she just has to prove that she can convert it easily into American funds. That is stated in the affadavit of support instructions.

Edited September 20, 2006 by Laura_and_IanM

[Yodrak 7]

LJ,

From what's been posted it seems that texasinUK's job in the UK will end when they leave the UK for the USA, and both she and londonguy will have to find new employment in the USA. Neither his nor her income from the past 6 years is not going to put food on the table tomorrow, except for that portion of it that has been saved and is now an asset.

Yodrak

Has your wife been working over in the UK then for the past 6 years? .... I believe you can use her income that she is earning here. I am sure someone will come along and correct me if I am wrong. ....

LJ

... if your wife has been living in the UK for the past 6 years, she should be able to use her income from over here in the UK, she just has to prove that she can convert it easily into American funds. That is stated in the affadavit of support instructions.

Edited September 20, 2006 by Yodrak

[meauxna 15]

Thanks guys,

My wife and i are both currently looking for jobs in the US and even though we are not there, have had a few offers but nothing is written in stone!

We have those savings and also over £75k in equity here.

My only issue is we are practically there with all forms etc, but we would then have to wait for her dad, the co sponsor to fill in his forms and send them back having had them notorised.

My beef is with the fact i have 2 friends doing exactly the same thing as me but have not done anything here, they have just gone ahead and done it over there by just walking into a visa place with all their pre prepared docs. It has taken them 3 weeks in total and they are living and working there now!

still all that is good comes to tose who wait.....:-)

HI Yodrak,

thanks for your comments,

I am a UKC married to a USC and have lived here in London for 6 years. Wife is homesick and wants to return home. All we want is to be able to live and work there legally and we were told to file for the K3 and fill out a I 864 form so thats we have been doing...

have we had duff info

Hey londonguy, looks like one has to be careful about which question one asks!

First off, I recommend that your ead this document: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...om&page=dcf

It's written to explain in simple language what it is that you are doing, which is apply for an Immigrant Visa (not a K-3) via Direct Consular Filing.

Based on what you have written, I'm willing to say that your I-864 is fine on its own. If you want to have Dad's affidavit as a back up, it will not hurt--give it over if asked. Dad's document does NOT need to be notarized.

I don't know what it is your friends are doing.. do you? Are you sure it is the same thing? Care to clarify, for your own peace of mind?

Go have a read of the Guide; I hope it will help.

[londonguy 0]

Hi there again...... yes its me to bore you....

erm answer to the last question, 2 seperate friends of mine married USC in London, then went to live in NY and Nebraska respectivly. They both went into the offices in the 2 different areas and were issued visas in less than a month. Nebraska one def is able to live and work and NY one not sure as she does not need to work, just reside.

I kinda had a brain wave on all this looking at the I-864 form. Since we started applying for our CR1 visa in London, times have moved on and now the forms have changed in their appearance. I am filling the new one (to me) in now!

a)Can i fill in that my wifes address is her parents home in Texas, where we intend to stay not our home here (PART 4 on form) ,that including me and parents she has 4 in the household.(PART 5) She has no income or employment at all cos we have lived her for so long (PART 6) ..... and here it is:

Then get father in law as joint sponsor to fill in I-864a form and have him state that he is a household member and willing to sponsor us on his income of $75k per year. that is above the poverty line too me thinks.

[Yodrak 7]

londonguy,

Don't know for sure what those 2 friends got in less than a month from the unspecified offices in New York and Nebraska, but it wasn't visas.

You have the right idea about the affidavit of support, except that in the situation you describe Dad will be a Household Member, not Joint Sponsor. Don't mix the terms as though they are the same thing.

Yodrak

Hi there again...... yes its me to bore you....

erm answer to the last question, 2 seperate friends of mine married USC in London, then went to live in NY and Nebraska respectivly. They both went into the offices in the 2 different areas and were issued visas in less than a month. Nebraska one def is able to live and work and NY one not sure as she does not need to work, just reside.

I kinda had a brain wave on all this looking at the I-864 form. Since we started applying for our CR1 visa in London, times have moved on and now the forms have changed in their appearance. I am filling the new one (to me) in now!

a)Can i fill in that my wifes address is her parents home in Texas, where we intend to stay not our home here (PART 4 on form) ,that including me and parents she has 4 in the household.(PART 5) She has no income or employment at all cos we have lived her for so long (PART 6) ..... and here it is:

Then get father in law as joint sponsor to fill in I-864a form and have him state that he is a household member and willing to sponsor us on his income of $75k per year. that is above the poverty line too me thinks.

[meauxna 15]

Hi there again...... yes its me to bore you....

erm answer to the last question, 2 seperate friends of mine married USC in London, then went to live in NY and Nebraska respectivly. They both went into the offices in the 2 different areas and were issued visas in less than a month. Nebraska one def is able to live and work and NY one not sure as she does not need to work, just reside.

Ah yes, we've always got a friend who did it that way and thinks you're a chump.

Assuming they did not apply for any visa ahead of time, what they did is not strictly legal; they entered the US on a non-immigrant option (probably visa-free per the VWP) when they had the intent to immigrate. <shrug> They will have to live with themselves; I predict easy sleep for you.

You're also three steps ahead of them. When you land in the US, you will become a Permanent Resident immediately. They have applied for that from inside the US (they did not apply for or recieve 'visas' here in the US) and that process can take up to three years to complete, during which time they are in legal limbo.

I kinda had a brain wave on all this looking at the I-864 form. Since we started applying for our CR1 visa in London, times have moved on and now the forms have changed in their appearance. I am filling the new one (to me) in now!

a)Can i fill in that my wifes address is her parents home in Texas, where we intend to stay not our home here (PART 4 on form) ,that including me and parents she has 4 in the household.(PART 5) She has no income or employment at all cos we have lived her for so long (PART 6) ..... and here it is:

Then get father in law as joint sponsor to fill in I-864a form and have him state that he is a household member and willing to sponsor us on his income of $75k per year. that is above the poverty line too me thinks.

Hopefully the new form is easier to understand, and more practical to fill in. It looks like you've got the right understanding of how to complete it!

There are several helpful links in the Guide that will make completing the i-864 much easier, and the info on the London Consular site is quite good. Remember that youa re applying for an Immigrant Visa, and follow all the links they've got there--will tell you everything you'll need for your interview.