Visa denial due to New Minimum Income Requirements [merged threads]

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

Just now, Mdvivori said:

I have a good friend I could ask but he lives in Mexico and is a Canadian Citizen.

Joint sponsor must live in US.  Can be a US citizen or a legal resident.

[Mdvivori 42]

I don’t have a Joint Sponsor.  My wife said the CO just looked at the income on the I-864 and said I needed a Joint Sponsor.  She believes that if she had presented my Current Benefit Letter he would have accepted it.  
 

My only choices are to return and get a job or leave one child behind with the family for a month or two.  Shoot she could make $40 or $50k a year as a temp Accountant on day one.  I can make more.  One child’s SS Benefit would be $15k beginning in 6 weeks after arrival.

 

She is praying the Benefit letter is enough, I’m looking at all options. 

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

1 minute ago, Mdvivori said:

or leave one child behind with the family for a month or two.

How would that help?  It doesn't change your household size. 

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

Let's just hope the CO accepts the new benefit letter to overcome this obstacle.

[Mdvivori 42]

I believe that we would be approved for my wife and one child bc the income requirements are so much lower.  I don’t know if that’s true, I’m asking for alternatives to a joint sponsor even though my current income, that the CO didn’t know about at the time, is above the required amount.

[Boiler 45,449]

14 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

I have a good friend I could ask but he lives in Mexico and is a Canadian Citizen.

So that is a no for 2 reasons 

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

2 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

I believe that we would be approved for my wife and one child bc the income requirements are so much lower.  I don’t know if that’s true, I’m asking for alternatives to a joint sponsor even though my current income, that the CO didn’t know about at the time, is above the required amount.

Your household size won't change.    

Do you have substantial liquid assets?

Edited June 8, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Mdvivori 42]

Crazy Cat,  We are full of Hope and my Wife is burning up the Prayer line with God asking for Devine intervention.  I’m Hoping, Praying and trying to determine alternatives.  We are losing over $10k a month by not being in the USA.  My income, hers and the children’s SS Benefits.  This is incredibly frustrating now 21 days shy of 2 years since filing.

 

if we have no alternative can we leave one child behind with family until we have a job(s)?  Thoughts.

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6 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

I believe that we would be approved for my wife and one child bc the income requirements are so much lower.  I don’t know if that’s true, I’m asking for alternatives to a joint sponsor even though my current income, that the CO didn’t know about at the time, is above the required amount.

The only way I can think that would work is through adoption.

[Mdvivori 42]

No Crazy Cat I don’t have assets.  They all went bye bye with a heart attack, 2 month hospital stay, divorce and Cancer that together cost me my business.  I didn’t fight the divorce bc I wasn’t supposed to survive heart surgery and fighting cancer but yet here I am.  I always made good money so my SS Disability paid well.  Now $38k.  I’ve recovered and I’m cancer free and able to work.  I have a new (3 year) loving wife and 2 stepchildren who I want to take home and give them the American Dream.

[Mdvivori 42]

How and why would adoption help?  It’s a multi year process here?  As my stepchildren the are entitled to SS Children’s Benefits once they are on US Soil.  I plan on adopting them but in the USA where it’s easier.  Philippine law is difficult, time consuming and expensive, intentionally I believe.

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

5 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

No Crazy Cat I don’t have assets.

OK.  It was a thought.  We are now throwing everything at the wall, hoping something will stick.

[Lemonslice 4,831]

15 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

No Crazy Cat I don’t have assets.  They all went bye bye with a heart attack, 2 month hospital stay, divorce and Cancer that together cost me my business.  I didn’t fight the divorce bc I wasn’t supposed to survive heart surgery and fighting cancer but yet here I am.  I always made good money so my SS Disability paid well.  Now $38k.  I’ve recovered and I’m cancer free and able to work.  I have a new (3 year) loving wife and 2 stepchildren who I want to take home and give them the American Dream.

So, maybe not what you want to do, but move on your own now, work (wherever, plenty of work at $15/hr you can start tomorrow, you do not have to love it, it is only to have extra income for a few months) - this will put you way over the minimum requirement and then no need to find a joint sponsor.  Your family will be reunited promptly. 

[Mdvivori 42]

That’s definitely an option.  It might be our best option if they don’t accept my Current benefits letter. Thanks for the reply.

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25 minutes ago, Mdvivori said:

How and why would adoption help?  It’s a multi year process here?  As my stepchildren the are entitled to SS Children’s Benefits once they are on US Soil.  I plan on adopting them but in the USA where it’s easier.  Philippine law is difficult, time consuming and expensive, intentionally I believe.

Reduce your household from 4 to 3.

 

That is what you were asking about.