An Interview Question

[mfa 1]

Anyone have any experience with leaving your contracted (foreign) job before moving to the US?

At my wife's interview (she's the beneficiary) they asked ME if I'd be staying until the end of the contract with my job.

So, although I understand what a job contract is, it later led me to some questions:

- i wasn't even required to be at the interview...why do they care about whether i continue working here or not?

- what if i wasnt at the interview, wold they have even asked such a thing?

- would/could a condition be placed on my wife's visa that i finish the contract at my job prior to us leaving for the US?

- if so, would such a condition be placed in writing somewhere within information we receive when the visa comes via DHL?

- suppose nothing is written anywhere...can me quitting my job have any ramifications on my wife's visa? can we be living in chicago and get a letter saying "we hear you quit your job early...your wife must return to her country?

Although I fully understand that the US would like me to make as much money and support wife, I find it strange that someone would be unable to quit their job for fear of a spouse's visa being in jeopardy.

Suppose I'm treated poorly, unfairly, etc...I'm not allowed to quit?

Maybe I'm just reading into this way too much. Perhaps I was only asked this in order for them to get an idea of what I did here.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

I am thinking they may have asked for the opposite reason you suspect. The petitioner (you) must return to the USA before or at the same time as the beneficiary. A visa is usually valid for 6 months- if your contracts runs, say, another year and you intend to fulfill it, your wife would not be elligible for a visa at this time as she cannot immigrate to the USA without you being in the USA also.

[mfa 1]

I am thinking they may have asked for the opposite reason you suspect. The petitioner (you) must return to the USA before or at the same time as the beneficiary. A visa is usually valid for 6 months- if your contracts runs, say, another year and you intend to fulfill it, your wife would not be elligible for a visa at this time as she cannot immigrate to the USA without you being in the USA also.

Ahhhhhhhh....ok. Thank you.

So they're not interested at all in whether or not a petitioner continues to work their job, in terms of breaking contracts or judicial reasons. They're simply concerned for traveling purposes.

That makes perfect sense. And yes, I'm glad that ask this question because we could have been under the wrong impression and inadvertently messed everything up. Luckily, we'll be ok.

Just playing devil's advocate though...do you think the situation of a petitioner's foreign job could ever have any bearing on a spouse's visa???

What if you weren't happy with your job?

What if you were fired?

I can't imagine anyone would be forced to stay at any job for the sake of a spouse's visa, right? That just sounds plain...illegal, no?

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

The foreign job won't count for affidavit of support reasons, so it has no effect really, unless you intended to stay working for the same company in the USA and then quit, so need to find another sponsor. My USC husband was unemployed when he sponsored me (on assets), and they didn't care.

[mfa 1]

The foreign job won't count for affidavit of support reasons, so it has no effect really, unless you intended to stay working for the same company in the USA and then quit, so need to find another sponsor. My USC husband was unemployed when he sponsored me (on assets), and they didn't care.

Yeah, that's what I figured too.

I think what really got me thinking was my wife's fear of "if you quit your job or get fired before the contract ends...will they revoke my visa???" what if your job gets mad and calls the embassy to say you broke your contract...will they find us in the USA and tell me to leave???"

She's worried more about ramifications that could pop up due to legal/contractual issues, not monetary/I-864 issues.

What would you tell her to calm her fears?

Edited September 11, 2012 by mfa

[Ihavequestions 419]

It might help if you explained that you both have the right to privacy and if, for some strange reason, your job were to call the Embassy, nobody within the Embassy walls would acknowledge knowing either of you. They can't without your signed permission.

Some of the things we take for granted, like the right to privacy, aren't universal. I can see where it would be worrisome.