i-134 employment situation about to change

[ScottMichela 0]

Hi guys,

As I stated in my earlier posts I am currently working as a freelancer after getting downsized in December. I have taken peoples advice here and tried to make the self employment look as solid as possible, but now things have changed again. After completing a big job for one of my clients the other day the company offered me a job for 3 days a week and will let me keep my self employment going on the side, until June when I will work for them full time. This boss is fully aware of my visa situation, and that I will be going to attend the interview on March 12- so we have agreed to start 3 days a week at the end of March.

What I want to know now is how I can incorporate this into my i-134 case in the best way? I know that the contract is "future employment" while they are more interested in current earnings. Currently I am projecting 22k, but working 3 full days a week will put me at 27k plus the extra 10k or so that I could realistically count on from my other clients. The long term picture, written into the work agreement, is that come June I will be back up to a 45k full time position that I lost in December. Since I wont have regular employee paystubs for the interview, and only the job letter, what can I do to best demonstrate that my situation is improving? Do you think this changes how I should fill out the I-134, or must I stick strictly to the current rate of earnings? (even though things will be much better immediately following the interview)

Any advice on how to best tell this story is really appreciated- I am just hoping for a logical CO that sees it as it is, a recent graduate doing what he could in a transition period. However I am made very nervous by the fact that the i-864 abjudicating instructions include a clause that give the CO discretion to disregard employment when very recent...

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hi guys,

As I stated in my earlier posts I am currently working as a freelancer after getting downsized in December. I have taken peoples advice here and tried to make the self employment look as solid as possible, but now things have changed again. After completing a big job for one of my clients the other day the company offered me a job for 3 days a week and will let me keep my self employment going on the side, until June when I will work for them full time. This boss is fully aware of my visa situation, and that I will be going to attend the interview on March 12- so we have agreed to start 3 days a week at the end of March.

What I want to know now is how I can incorporate this into my i-134 case in the best way? I know that the contract is "future employment" while they are more interested in current earnings. Currently I am projecting 22k, but working 3 full days a week will put me at 27k plus the extra 10k or so that I could realistically count on from my other clients. The long term picture, written into the work agreement, is that come June I will be back up to a 45k full time position that I lost in December. Since I wont have regular employee paystubs for the interview, and only the job letter, what can I do to best demonstrate that my situation is improving? Do you think this changes how I should fill out the I-134, or must I stick strictly to the current rate of earnings? (even though things will be much better immediately following the interview)

Any advice on how to best tell this story is really appreciated- I am just hoping for a logical CO that sees it as it is, a recent graduate doing what he could in a transition period. However I am made very nervous by the fact that the i-864 abjudicating instructions include a clause that give the CO discretion to disregard employment when very recent...

COs generally do not ask for explanantions. The interview process is usually less than 2-3 minutes.

Fill out the I-134. Where it asks for income, state your total combined CURRENT GROSS INCOME from all sources (or whatever sources you want considered) and attach documentation of that. It matters not if you have 2 or 3 or 10 jobs.

Neither you nor your employer must state hours worked or days worked. Simply that you are employed as________________ and earn $XXXX per year. In fact you do not even need a letter from them, attaching recent check stubs will verify the income. You state your current annual income. The big job you just completed counts. If you did the I-134 TODAY add all the income to date for 2013, divide by two and multiply by 12...VOILA! Current annual income from self employment. Add that to the income from your job (whatever it is) and VOILA! Total current annual income. Attach copies of recent bank statements, hopefully you deposited the money...right? Though they do not need to match exactly, the bank deposits will serve to verify your statements.

This is not a court of law, you do not need evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Just some verification of what you say.

[ScottMichela 0]

COs generally do not ask for explanantions. The interview process is usually less than 2-3 minutes.

Fill out the I-134. Where it asks for income, state your total combined CURRENT GROSS INCOME from all sources (or whatever sources you want considered) and attach documentation of that. It matters not if you have 2 or 3 or 10 jobs.

Neither you nor your employer must state hours worked or days worked. Simply that you are employed as________________ and earn $XXXX per year. In fact you do not even need a letter from them, attaching recent check stubs will verify the income. You state your current annual income. The big job you just completed counts. If you did the I-134 TODAY add all the income to date for 2013, divide by two and multiply by 12...VOILA! Current annual income from self employment. Add that to the income from your job (whatever it is) and VOILA! Total current annual income. Attach copies of recent bank statements, hopefully you deposited the money...right? Though they do not need to match exactly, the bank deposits will serve to verify your statements.

This is not a court of law, you do not need evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Just some verification of what you say.

Thanks, I know that this is generally how it works. That was exactly my plan up until two days ago when I was given a job offer- the question was really how can I most effectively point to the fact that my income will be increasing by a large margin since the purely freelance income of Jan/Feb flirts with the 125% line.

I have deposited all the $ and photocopied the checks for my own record.

Edited March 1, 2013 by ScottMichela