I-864 question

[purem4g1c 113]

Hi there,

 

My wife and I got married on June 5th in NYC, I am Canadian and entered USA on a K1 visa. Wife is the USC petitioner. She currently has no job. We have opened a joint bank account and I have moved about $80K USD in the account as of now. Would she be able to claim my money as her own and sponsor me like that? While filling out the I-864 I saw that there was a part that the petitioner could write how much money their spouse has in cash/assets etc. If she wrote I have $500K+ CAD$ in Canada, would that allow us to be approved? Or does the USCIS only see money that is in an American bank account, or do Canadian bank accounts work also?

 

Thank you 😃

[geowrian 22,338]

She can include your eligible assets with her I-864.

As for whether it would be sufficient or not, that's a decision the IO will make based upon the totality of the circumstances. Having $500k+ is a positive factor, but is not a guarantee either.

[Sextus Empiricus 15]

In my opinion it will be a very unreasonable IO who would conclude someone with documented $500k assets in Canada would become a public charge in USA. Canada is not a fraud country where such evidence could be easily fabricated. But then we've seen stranger things when it comes to immigration and IO's.

Edited June 15, 2019 by Sextus Empiricus

[geowrian 22,338]

It doesn’t seem likely to me either, but stranger things have happened and nobody knows the totality of their circumstances. For instance, I have seen somebody with a $200k/year stable job been refused. Is that the norm? No way. But something in their past apparently made the CO not accept it (I think they used public benefits in the past).

[purem4g1c 113]

It would be a lot easier to do it this way than asking others to sponsor heh, not sure. I could get a joint sponsor its just a drag to do that =P

[purem4g1c 113]

20 minutes ago, purem4g1c said:

It would be a lot easier to do it this way than asking others to sponsor heh, not sure. I could get a joint sponsor its just a drag to do that =P

If I do go the route of sponsoring myself basically, would I just need to provide them bank statements from my bank accounts in Canada?

[K1visaHopeful 2,878]

12 minutes ago, purem4g1c said:

If I do go the route of sponsoring myself basically, would I just need to provide them bank statements from my bank accounts in Canada?

Although this is from the I134, I believe this kind of document would be sufficient to use as proof of assets for a bank account for the I864 as well.

USCIS may go by your lowest balance during the 365 days so that's what I'd report and of course, I'd input it as the US equivalent reported by the treasury using the exchange rate from the date of that balance.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/treasury-reporting-rates-exchange/