Addavit of Support Question

[Alexander De Ridder 0]

Clara started working in August, this is her first job. She's 21 ...

She earns about $550 a week as an accountant, and is getting a raise before the end of the year.

She only has little savings (maybe like $1000 ?) and no personal property (except maybe for her second hand pontiac firebird, but that is hardly worth mentioning right?)

Is this sufficient?

[YuAndDan 153]

Yes the $550 per week more that makes the 125% poverty line requirement for 2 people. 550x52=28,600 per year.

Get a letter from the employer, tax return for last year. the assets need not me counted, $1000 in assets counts as only $333 in income, same goes for the car, you would need to have some documentation certifying the car's value anyway.

Basically, your employer letter should state "To whom it may concern: (first name,last name) has been employed full-time with the XYZ Company since 200_ as a (name of your job), and is an employee in good standing with an annual salary of $XXXX. Signed, John Doe, Supervisor (or whatever title)" The letter should be on company letterhead.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;page=support Edited November 17, 2006 by YuAndDan

[john_and_marlene 162]

Not enough information. Are there also children? How many? How many dependents total?

[Alexander De Ridder 0]

No Children, no dependants.

And "tax return for last year". She just started her first job in August (she was a student prior to that), can she have a tax return of last year yet??

[YuAndDan 153]

She will still provide the 2005 return, even students need to do a return, if one was not filed this past April, then one needs to be filed late. The letter from the employer will show current income, and status of job, along with pay stubs.

If you are still unsure, see if someone in her family is willing to co-sponsor, like a parent.

[ucla_cutie26 0]

My situation is similar to the OP's situation. I recently graduated college and got my first job last March. I have been working there since March. Although I still make above the poverty line, I am still going to use my father as my co-sponsor. Pretty much because my previous year tax returns are for about 4000 dollars I made every year for my work-study jobs while in college. I just don't want to risk anything, so I will be using my dad also as a sponsor.

[Yodrak 7]

Alexander De Ridder,

Only the consular officer who reviews Clara's financial package can answer your question. Even when current income is adequate there is the issue of sustainability of that income, and Clara has no 'track record'. Often a person who has been in a first job for only a short period of time is deemed to be insufficient as a sponsor.

You might want to obtain an alternate sponsor to use 'just in case'.

Yodrak

Clara started working in August, this is her first job. She's 21 ...

She earns about $550 a week as an accountant, and is getting a raise before the end of the year.

She only has little savings (maybe like $1000 ?) and no personal property (except maybe for her second hand pontiac firebird, but that is hardly worth mentioning right?)

Is this sufficient?

Edited November 17, 2006 by Yodrak

[meauxna 15]

Why make me work to figure out who is Clara and what she is doing?

[RosaMystica7 0]

I'm in similar shoes, I'm the USC and I'm making over 125% of the poverty guidelines for a household of 2 (no kids involved) as well as enough to support us both when he moves here (in my opinion). I'm 21 though, I've been a full-time student, this is my first time ever working full-time. I talked to an immigration lawyer and she told me that, as long as I'm making over 125% of the poverty guideline and hold the job for the entire visa process from application to interview (i.e. the job listed as my present job on my G-352a is my present job when he goes for his interview), we'll be fine. I just have to prove my stability by having the same job through the whole visa process.

I sure hope she's right because nobody is willing to be our co-sponsor, so we're on our own with this.

Anyway, figured I'd pass what she told me on to you.

How long has Clara held this job?

Edited November 18, 2006 by Angilla