Any interesting or unique I-864 success stories out there?

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I (30M) am the USC and spouse(27M) and I live in Australia together (I'm a dual citizen). We're shortly to have our CR1 interview, and our joint sponsor fell through. We don't have an option for another one because I actually don't have family in the US because my mom moved back here after she and USC stepdad split up.

 

I'm an actor (so is spouse), and I work consistently, and I work internationally, including several tours in the US over the past few years. I have an American CPA going through my tax returns, US and foreign, from the past ten years–which includes time before I moved to Australia–to write an attestation letter to establish that my current international self-employed income as a performer is USD$XX,XXX and that it should reasonably be expected to continue when we relocate to the US. We also have modest cash savings to include as well. This is all to satisfy the income requirement.

 

Then, we're including evidence to build our case in the statutory factors for consideration (age, health, skills/education, financial resources, family status). We're including pay stubs from very lucrative projects when spouse worked in the US under the OPT and O1 visas, letters from both my talent manager and his commercial talent agent speaking to our employability, transcripts from spouse's and my degrees both earned in the US that correspond to our career paths, perhaps including an opinion letter from spouse's labor union in the United States. We're trying to put together an absolutely rock solid case that we're both employable.

 

We know it's nontraditional. I don't expect anyone reading this to really understand an acting career. An immigration lawyer that we had a consultation with said we're on the right track, and that he'd be giving the same legal advice to someone else in our position, and that we also present very well. We know we're going to be playing hard to the consular officer's discretion.

 

I'd love to hear if there were any other interesting, unique, nontraditional I-864 success stories out there?

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On 10/16/2021 at 8:53 AM, hctiwsblade13 said:

I (30M) am the USC and spouse(27M) and I live in Australia together (I'm a dual citizen). We're shortly to have our CR1 interview, and our joint sponsor fell through. We don't have an option for another one because I actually don't have family in the US because my mom moved back here after she and USC stepdad split up.

 

I'm an actor (so is spouse), and I work consistently, and I work internationally, including several tours in the US over the past few years. I have an American CPA going through my tax returns, US and foreign, from the past ten years–which includes time before I moved to Australia–to write an attestation letter to establish that my current international self-employed income as a performer is USD$XX,XXX and that it should reasonably be expected to continue when we relocate to the US. We also have modest cash savings to include as well. This is all to satisfy the income requirement.

 

Then, we're including evidence to build our case in the statutory factors for consideration (age, health, skills/education, financial resources, family status). We're including pay stubs from very lucrative projects when spouse worked in the US under the OPT and O1 visas, letters from both my talent manager and his commercial talent agent speaking to our employability, transcripts from spouse's and my degrees both earned in the US that correspond to our career paths, perhaps including an opinion letter from spouse's labor union in the United States. We're trying to put together an absolutely rock solid case that we're both employable.

 

We know it's nontraditional. I don't expect anyone reading this to really understand an acting career. An immigration lawyer that we had a consultation with said we're on the right track, and that he'd be giving the same legal advice to someone else in our position, and that we also present very well. We know we're going to be playing hard to the consular officer's discretion.

 

I'd love to hear if there were any other interesting, unique, nontraditional I-864 success stories out there?

I'm aware of approved cases in Korea where the petitioner lived and worked in Korea and did not have any savings or a joint sponsor. But, this was when DCF was still in operation. 

I do not know if it is as easy these days... I think if you have strong NVC documentation to get you DQ'ed (no RFE for a joint sponsor or proof of assets) you might be able to convince the interviewer at the consulate to approve your case. But, I would work with the lawyer to make sure the NVC stage has no issues and when your spouse interviews the CO doesn't doubt you, the petitioner, will be relocating to the States and you're re-establishing domicile.You should include proof that you're employable in the States and you have made steps towards finding work in the States and have re-established residence there. The beneficiary's employability is not as important as the petitioner, as you the petitioner, are signing the affidavit of support.