AOS requirements (merged threads)

[SallySaidHi 5]

Hello everyone and thank you for all of the support you provide here!

 

So according to the requirements, if I am wanting to use my assets (cash savings) to sponsor my husband, I should have at least 3 times the 125% poverty line. I have also been told that the embassy can decide to deny my savings as financial support. I am currently living and working abroad (for the last 5 years) and will not have a job or income in the states, until my husband's visa is approved and we move there together. Is it common for them to deny cash savings as support? By the time we reach the NVC stage, we will have about 4x the amount above the 125% poverty line. Do you think this will be denied?

 

To be safe, I have already lined up a co-sponsor, but the last 3 years of his income have been through being an Uber driver. His household (including my husband) would be 4 people and he made 30,000 in 2018 (which isn't enough), but also has a substantial amount in savings. 

 

With my savings (which technically meets the requirement) and my co-sponsor, will I have an issue with the financial aspect of the AOS?

 

Thank you in advance for your help!!  

[SallySaidHi 5]

Hello all! I have been living and working abroad for the last 5 years, with my husband. The domicile evidence I have, thus far, is as follows:

 

- I am registered to vote but have not voted since 2012.

- My Oregon driver's licence was renewed in 2018.

- I have a joint checking bank account with my brother, which I have transferred money into from my UAE account, and will continue to do so       

  regularly.

- I will open another bank account this summer, in my name alone, where I will also continue to transfer money into.

- My husband and I are co-owners of a brand new food truck business (opening this summer). Our names are on the business license.

- I have back filed my taxes from 2015-2018.

- My mailing address on my I-130 petition (brother's address) is a permanent mailing address for me (I think).

- My brother, who is the primary food truck owner, will be producing a letter stating that my husband will operate the business upon his arrival. I

  will also be mentioned in that letter as a co-operator (but only until I find a job in my line of work).

- My brother will produce a letter stating that my husband and I will be living with him. He will also produce a lease agreement.

- I have several shipping company quotations for shipping our household/personal items back to Beaverton, Oregon.

 

So I have a couple of questions about the items mentioned above.

 

1) Is it possible that they would not accept our living with my brother, until we find our own place? Should that be the case, I have a friend who also has a spare bedroom to rent out to us.

 

2) I also need to know what is considered a permanent mailing address? My brother moved into his new house last summer and my name was added to the list or recipients who will receive mail there. Does this classify his address as a permanent mailing address for me? If so, how do I go about proving that in a document form?

 

3) Finally, are the above mentioned documents sufficient in proving my domicile?

 

Thank you in advance for your help!!

[Just Paul 4,595]

10 minutes ago, SallySaidHi said:

1) Is it possible that they would not accept our living with my brother, until we find our own place? Should that be the case, I have a friend who also has a spare bedroom to rent out to us.

 

2) I also need to know what is considered a permanent mailing address? My brother moved into his new house last summer and my name was added to the list or recipients who will receive mail there. Does this classify his address as a permanent mailing address for me? If so, how do I go about proving that in a document form?

 

3) Finally, are the above mentioned documents sufficient in proving my domicile?

1 You are fine at your brothers

2 wherever you can get mail in the foreseeable future.  Your husbands green card etc

3 No issue,  you have to show intent.  

 

If you can be available to go to the interview with him incase the CO has any questions.   Somethings cam up during Mary's and I was glad I was nearby.

[SallySaidHi 5]

1 minute ago, Paul & Mary said:

1 You are fine at your brothers

2 wherever you can get mail in the foreseeable future.  Your husbands green card etc

3 No issue,  you have to show intent.  

 

If you can be available to go to the interview with him incase the CO has any questions.   Somethings cam up during Mary's and I was glad I was nearby.

Thank you for your prompt response! I was wondering about the permanent mailing address, as I know it helps with my proof of domicile. Should I try and get some type of document proving I am on my brother's mailing list?

[Just Paul 4,595]

Just now, SallySaidHi said:

Thank you for your prompt response! I was wondering about the permanent mailing address, as I know it helps with my proof of domicile. Should I try and get some type of document proving I am on my brother's mailing list?

You don't really need anything.   It is just where you are going to get your mail.   Make sure you spouse knows the physical address.   Mine was asked where we were going to live.

[SallySaidHi 5]

2 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

You don't really need anything.   It is just where you are going to get your mail.   Make sure you spouse knows the physical address.   Mine was asked where we were going to live.

Thanks so much! Yes, I will have him memorize the address lol! I am a bit concerned now about the interview because if his visa is not approved by July of 2020, I may move to the states ahead of him because I don't want to stay/work here another school year (till 2021)... Is it best that I stick around, just in case?

[Just Paul 4,595]

3 minutes ago, SallySaidHi said:

Is it best that I stick around, just in case?

It isn't required for you to stay there.  Most people file from the US and don't file overseas like us.

[SallySaidHi 5]

8 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

It isn't required for you to stay there.  Most people file from the US and don't file overseas like us.

Thanks a bunch!

[Just Paul 4,595]

For the NVC stage you should be file.    The trick is to find out whether the Embassy will accept a Joint Sponsor.   There are some that don't such as Manila.  Also what is most important is the current income not necessarily the past 3 years.   The past three years does figure into it but if the income has been increasing that helps.   

 

I'd click on the report post and asked this to be moved to the MENA countries forum.

 

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/97-middle-east-and-north-africa/

 

 

 

[Ryan H 3,834]

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