Domicile

[Seiren 0]

Has anyone applied for K-3 while living in another country. I know that to be approved, you have to show that you have domicile in the US or have made efforts to re-establish domicile, such as gotten a job, enrolled kids in school there.

I live in Canada with my husband, but I still have ties down there such as bank, and I still use my mother's address for several billing addresses. The problem is that I need to be here up until the move because I need to help pack/and drive down with my husband. So finding a job and getting a job will be difficult before we're actually down there. Especially because we wont' really know the exact date that we'll be able to move. So I can' t apply to these jobs stating "I'll be available to work in maybe a month, maybe not."

Does anyone know if you can have enough to establish domicile without a job?

[meauxna 15]

Has anyone applied for K-3 while living in another country. I know that to be approved, you have to show that you have domicile in the US or have made efforts to re-establish domicile, such as gotten a job, enrolled kids in school there.

I live in Canada with my husband, but I still have ties down there such as bank, and I still use my mother's address for several billing addresses. The problem is that I need to be here up until the move because I need to help pack/and drive down with my husband. So finding a job and getting a job will be difficult before we're actually down there. Especially because we wont' really know the exact date that we'll be able to move. So I can' t apply to these jobs stating "I'll be available to work in maybe a month, maybe not."

Does anyone know if you can have enough to establish domicile without a job?

Canada is fairly flexible with people on this topic--the US Consular Section in Montreal specifically. How will you satisfy the I-864? Or, do you plan on having a Joint Sponsor?

It sounds like you are unaware of the quicker method for USCs living outside the US, casually called DCF/Direct Consular Filing. Read up on it here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...om&page=dcf and in the DCF Forum here at VJ. There is a pinned post with all the info for Canadians.

[Yodrak 7]

Seiren,

I'm not so sure.

For an immigrant visa the petitioner needs US domicile, since the USC must be the sponsor of the immigrant and sponsorship requires domicile. But for a K3 visa a sponsor is not necessarily needed (although one is in most cases) and if a sponsor is needed it does not need to be the petitioner. You will be able to re-established domicile, if in fact you don't have it now, in plenty of time for your husband to adjust status.

meauxna's thought bears looking into.

Yodrak

Has anyone applied for K-3 while living in another country. I know that to be approved, you have to show that you have domicile in the US or have made efforts to re-establish domicile, such as gotten a job, enrolled kids in school there.

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Edited October 5, 2006 by Yodrak