February 2016 I-130 filers

[JFH 12,189]

Yes, if you are using assets there is certainly a grey area as to whether you meet the requirements because it depends how much a third party values the asset at. How much is a house or a shop worth? It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. But you won't know that amount until you actually sell it so for the purpose of AOS and using assets it becomes difficult.

Our case is, fortunately, very simple. I know my husband does not earn enough. We don't own property. We have a good friend who is very willing to step in as a joint sponsor (and he has read the instructions and information about it and is fully aware of the implications and responsibilities) who earns enough. Job done.

[EdinErvina 2]

JFH same here in our case we need a joint sponsor 100% since I live abroad with my family. There fore my friend is willing to be the joint sponsor and earns enough.

[JFH 12,189]

E&E I have been meaning to ask you if you got a hard copy of the NOA1?

My husband hasn't got his yet and he's in the US. So I was wondering how long it took you to get yours (if you've even got one yet). We got the email last week Thursday.

[B&Z 201]

E&E I have been meaning to ask you if you got a hard copy of the NOA1?

My husband hasn't got his yet and he's in the US. So I was wondering how long it took you to get yours (if you've even got one yet). We got the email last week Thursday.

I know this wasn't directed toward me, but I got my electronic NOA1 on 8-Feb and got the mail on 17-Feb.

[Dal&Rose 45]

Awesome B&Z. At least you also have that hard copy and know your mailing address with USCIS is confirmed and no errors on data input. At least that is what I took it as, and I am also planning on using it and hopefully the NOA2 (when it arrives) to get my husband to visit while we buy a condo or something.

[JFH 12,189]

Ah I'm just getting impatient then. We are a couple of days behind B&Z - got the email on the 11th. Maybe today or Monday then he will get the letter.

[Dal&Rose 45]

Did you use your address for it to be received or your husband's?

[JFH 12,189]

Husband's PO box.

Trouble is - when you're from a small country you are used to sending something on Monday and it reaching somewhere the other end of the country on Tuesday. I'm not used to domestic mail taking longer than a day.

Edited February 19, 2016 by JFH

[Dal&Rose 45]

If you don't receive it by next Friday, you may want to have your husband call and ask for a copy to be sent out. May not happen with USCIS though giving their level of customer support. But I would've expected you to receive it by now based off how quickly I got mine. Though, it could have been the holiday we just had.

Take a screen shot of text at least, and put with your records I would say, and a print out of the USCIS website confirming that also.

And when you visit, take it with you just to be on the safe side if they ask about possible immigration before it gets to NVC. Though, I am extra paranoid about this stuff, I am on this sense better to have extra documentation and not need it, then need it have zilch and screwed.

Domestic mail shouldn't take that long usually. From Las Vegas to Denver, less than a week. From Phoenix to Denver, it was sent out on the 4th and in my mailbox on the 8th (with a weekend, therefore no mail on Sundays.)

[Frankjavir 55]

If you don't receive it by next Friday, you may want to have your husband call and ask for a copy to be sent out. May not happen with USCIS though giving their level of customer support. But I would've expected you to receive it by now based off how quickly I got mine. Though, it could have been the holiday we just had.

Take a screen shot of text at least, and put with your records I would say, and a print out of the USCIS website confirming that also.

And when you visit, take it with you just to be on the safe side if they ask about possible immigration before it gets to NVC. Though, I am extra paranoid about this stuff, I am on this sense better to have extra documentation and not need it, then need it have zilch and screwed.

Domestic mail shouldn't take that long usually. From Las Vegas to Denver, less than a week. From Phoenix to Denver, it was sent out on the 4th and in my mailbox on the 8th (with a weekend, therefore no mail on Sundays.)

Do not worry about hard copies of NOA1 or NOA2, what matters is your case status in the USCIS website. Those papers are useless.

[JFH 12,189]

I have made screenshots of everything - if only for my own scrapbook of my journey to my husband.

Ill be speaking to him later (my birthday today!) and, as usual, my first question will be "did you get the NOA1 letter yet?". I just want something physical to tell me this is all real.

[EdinErvina 2]

E&E I have been meaning to ask you if you got a hard copy of the NOA1?

My husband hasn't got his yet and he's in the US. So I was wondering how long it took you to get yours (if you've even got one yet). We got the email last week Thursday.

JFH I have not received a hard copy, it said 7-10 business days that is meant for US. Since I live in Bosnia I am not sure if they mail those then out, I hope they do. I received the email on the Feb 11th so maybe if they send it out it will take about 3-4 weeks.

And we are still not online on the USCIS website.

[Frankjavir 55]

JFH I have not received a hard copy, it said 7-10 business days that is meant for US. Since I live in Bosnia I am not sure if they mail those then out, I hope they do. I received the email on the Feb 11th so maybe if they send it out it will take about 3-4 weeks.

And we are still not online on the USCIS website.

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So you do not have a receipt number from USCIS?

[EdinErvina 2]

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So you do not have a receipt number from USCIS?

YES I do, it was in the email they sent me it starts with YSC.... Is that a receipt number?

[JFH 12,189]

Right, now I'm having a mild panic. Blue ink or black ink for signatures. I read here to use blue to show its a genuine signature and not a photocopy or computer-printed one. But now I see someone has got an RFE for a blue signature! We can't win! How did you all sign?

YES I do, it was in the email they sent me it starts with YSC.... Is that a receipt number?

Yes, that is. Potomac receipt number.