Delaying K1 or marrying and switching to IR1/CR1?

[Marie-Eve 3]

Hello all, good people of VisaJourney,

I just received my letter from the Montreal embassy saying I can process to the interview. We should be overjoyed, but our situation is a bit complicated... My fiancé is a pastor currently looking for work in the States - the job search proves long and it is hard at this point to determine when he will find employment. The fact that we are only engaged and not married likely makes it harder for him to find a church, which in turns makes it impossible for me to present an affidavit of support needed for the embassy interview. We have been delaying the process as much as we could so far, hoping that by the time i schedule my interview, we would be in a position to present a good affidavit of support, but this is not the case yet. Also, in order to save a bit of our savings, he is currently living with me in Canada instead of paying another rent in the States.

Here are the options as I see them :

1- File for an interview as far in time as possible at the embassy, delaying the K1 process even more, hoping something will come along in the process. I know we can cancel interviews and put back the date, but I guess this will only work one time or two...

2- Stop the k1 process (how does one do that?), get married and file for a IR1/CR1 instead. That might give us more jobs openings for him but I don't know how we could offer evidences of a Bonifide Marriage... We don't have children, I am the sole owner of my condo and we don't have any other common property - even though we have been living together in Canada for over 6 months now! Would only Affidavits sworn to or affirmed by third parties having personal knowledge of the bona fides of the marital relationship be sufficient? Also, since he has been living with me for a while now, there is not as many recent US entries or letters to prove the nature of our relationship... we live together! Would that hurt our new filing of the I-129F? Also, I understand that the I-864 has to be sent to the embassy before the interview rather than brought to the interview, so would we really be making a mistake by thinking we will be given an extra delay before having to submit that (damn) affidavit of support?

Pffewww... so many questions! What do you think is the best way to go, regarding our very specific situation? I know most people want to be able to cross to the States as soon as possible, but we are willing obligated to wait so... what's our best option?

Thanks a lot for your time and precious advice,

Marie-Eve (in love with Frederick)

[Darnell 8,478]

what about option 3 ? and that's - your UScitizen Petitioner seek and obtain a co-sponser / joint-sponser, who fills out an I-134. Yer petitioner's I-134 and the co-sponser's I-134 are presented on interview day.

[Marie-Eve 3]

what about option 3 ? and that's - your UScitizen Petitioner seek and obtain a co-sponser / joint-sponser, who fills out an I-134. Yer petitioner's I-134 and the co-sponser's I-134 are presented on interview day.

Unfortunately, we dont have anyone who could co-sponsor...

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

Ask the embassy to put the application on hold for a year.

[dwheels76 5,468]

Hello all, good people of VisaJourney,

I just received my letter from the Montreal embassy saying I can process to the interview. We should be overjoyed, but our situation is a bit complicated... My fiancé is a pastor currently looking for work in the States - the job search proves long and it is hard at this point to determine when he will find employment. The fact that we are only engaged and not married likely makes it harder for him to find a church, which in turns makes it impossible for me to present an affidavit of support needed for the embassy interview. We have been delaying the process as much as we could so far, hoping that by the time i schedule my interview, we would be in a position to present a good affidavit of support, but this is not the case yet. Also, in order to save a bit of our savings, he is currently living with me in Canada instead of paying another rent in the States.

Here are the options as I see them :

1- File for an interview as far in time as possible at the embassy, delaying the K1 process even more, hoping something will come along in the process. I know we can cancel interviews and put back the date, but I guess this will only work one time or two...

2- Stop the k1 process (how does one do that?), get married and file for a IR1/CR1 instead. That might give us more jobs openings for him but I don't know how we could offer evidences of a Bonifide Marriage... We don't have children, I am the sole owner of my condo and we don't have any other common property - even though we have been living together in Canada for over 6 months now! Would only Affidavits sworn to or affirmed by third parties having personal knowledge of the bona fides of the marital relationship be sufficient? Also, since he has been living with me for a while now, there is not as many recent US entries or letters to prove the nature of our relationship... we live together! Would that hurt our new filing of the I-129F? Also, I understand that the I-864 has to be sent to the embassy before the interview rather than brought to the interview, so would we really be making a mistake by thinking we will be given an extra delay before having to submit that (damn) affidavit of support?

Pffewww... so many questions! What do you think is the best way to go, regarding our very specific situation? I know most people want to be able to cross to the States as soon as possible, but we are willing obligated to wait so... what's our best option?

Thanks a lot for your time and precious advice,

Marie-Eve (in love with Frederick)

1. File for an interview as far in time as possible at the embassy, delaying the K1 process even more, hoping something will come along in the process. I know we can cancel interviews and put back the date, but I guess this will only work one time or two...

Well most embassies want to see at least a good 6 months of income on the books. Has your fiancé’ been filing his taxes or doesn’t qualify to do so because he didn’t make enough (you have to have filed the last 3 years).

2.Stop the k1 process (how does one do that?), get married and file for a IR1/CR1 instead. That might give us more jobs openings.

How would getting married give you more job openings? You still have to be working awhile whether married or single he has to have that.

Is a co-sponsor not an option for you two? Someone that can file out a I-134 for you. Read up on it. Is there family friends church member that can sign. All they need to be is a US citizen or LPR living and working in the US.

3. for him but I don't know how we could offer evidences of a Bonifide Marriage.

Evidence of Bonafide #1 is facetime you have that. You can show bills in both your names, lease, car nte, insurance, cable, water, health insurance, bank accounts.

Also all the chats, IM’s, skype, phone records, affidavits, pics with family and friends, cards, letters to each other, vacations when you were getting to know each other.

Your embassy is pretty cool and you don’t have to bring in everything since it’s not high fraud country.

However your husband does have to show domicile in US. He has to show to immigration he has established residency in US or is going to re-establish

[baron555 934]

You need a cosponsor....and then may need that cosponsor for AOS.

[Marie-Eve 3]

More informations (and questions) to help you help us :

1- My fiancé was employed by the US Army until July. He therefore has good tax records for the previous years. It is only since July that he has been unemployed.

2- When a church offers him a positions, I suppose they could give him a letter of "contract/call" stating that he is their permanent pastor, as well as the detail of the financial compensation/salary for the job.

3- We dont have any option for co-sponsoring. Like NONE. The co-sponsor I-134 is just not a valid option for us.

4- Being a minister, being married is bonus points. As someone put it to me recently "it shows the church call committees that you are stable, therefore a more desirable candidate".

5- We dont have bills in both our names, only in mine. Plus, since we have lived together for 6 months, its 6 months without phonecalls, skype or things like that : we live together! Maybe credit card charges in Quebec would help prove my fiancé is indeed living here even though he doesnt have utility bills or the sort? And passport stamps showing his going back and forth from the States to Canada?

6- The closest interview date is in 100 days. I suppose I can wait until scheduling it, and taking it as far as possible in the time, right?

Thanks again,

Marie-Eve