using cash only as assets on I-864 form? please help

[geelongfan 2]

hi guys, i have some questions. i'm an australian and my fiance is american. she has been in australia on a working holiday visa for the past year but has gone back to live in usa now (we met years ago in 2007 at university in the states).

anyways we need to satisfy the assets requirements on the I-864 form (she doesn't have a usa job so we can only use assets)

we have about 110k total which satisfies the requirements (5x povertly guidelines) in american bank accounts

- approx 25k is in a joint account with her and my name on it

- approx 85k is in a joint account with her and her cousins name on it (her funds but she opened the account with her cousin at the time a while ago)

will this be enough to satisfy requirements or do they not accept joint accounts?

she also has two propertys in her name that are jointly owned also (About 400k in total for these). will they accept this too even though they are jointly owned?

please help!! thank you! we are really trying to do this without a joint sponsor.

[geelongfan 2]

i may also be able to get a co-sponsor who is retired and has 150k cash in a bank account. that would make our assets about 250k liquid cash. is this what i should do? i just wanted to avoid having to ask the co-sponsor if possible.

[Pitaya 2,577]

What visa are your applying for?

[geelongfan 2]

im applying for the k1 fiance visa

[geelongfan 2]

just realized the form is called I-134.... sorry the story is the same. please help

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

The fact that the accounts are joint could be a problem. If the CO decides that the joint value would only be half, then they may not accept it. The other person could just withdraw the whole thing and then the USC petitioner would be left with nothing to support the intending immigrant. The property is also joint, so could it easily be sold and liquified with a year and what actual net value would the USC petitioner be able to get from that? A CO makes the sole decision on whether or not they believe the foreign fiance(e) will become a public charge or not.

There is no combining of incomes with the I-134 for the K-1 visa. If you use a co-sponsor, then that co-sponsor must qualify on their own for their household size plus the foreign fiance(e). The co-sponsor has enough in assets for a total household size of 4. However, not sure how they strict they are on the financials in Australia, but having at least one person with an actual steady, ongoing income might be best to use, if you can find a co-sponsor that meets the income requirements, you may want to do that instead.

[rosejosh 2]

What if the fiancé has $500k in the bank ? Is that ok? I have the same problem.. My fiancé is a student