Questions regarding new I-485 form on how to fill (I require some help since there is a new form starting from Feb 10th)

[Greenbeatles1 1]

Hello,

I am planning to adjust my status after arriving with a K1 visa to the US. However, I have encountered a few unclear sections in the new I-485 form, and not sure if I understand it correctly. I would appreciate your help and assistance on how to fill certain sections in the form listed below. I read the I-485 instructions before writing this post and these questions are not explained.

Part 1 Item 10 Nonimmigrant visa number. Is the K1 visa number is the one on the right bottom that starts with a letter and 7 numbers? It has shiny letters.

Part 1 Item 14 What is your current immigration status (if it has changed since your arrival)? I am going to apply for AOS within 90 days. So I should write K1 Visa holder right or K1 fiance?

Which number is A-number? Is it a number from my K1 visa when I received NOA1, and NOA2?

Part 1 Information about you. Prior address, I listed the address where I stayed for 3-4 months most recently. Because my current address is in the US and I haven't resided there for 5 years. As a reference check the image named "address" that I attached to this post.
Then next question is "Most Recent address outside the United States" Provide your most recent physical address outside the United States where you lived for more than one year. But I only stayed longer than one year in one address but it was 3 years ago. So it is not really the most recent location but that is where I stayed longer for more than 1 year. So should I fill in the address where I stayed in Sweden or the most recent one where I stayed 11 months?

 

Part 4. Additional Information about you. Item 1 Have you ever applied for an immigrant visa to obtain permanent resident status at a U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate abroad? I marked it No, since a K1 visa is technically a non-immigrant visa. Is that correct?

Part 4. Employment and Educational history. 7 Provide all of your employment and educational history for the last 5 years as indicated in the instructions. Including employment and retirement periods and list sources of financial support. 
It is quite confusing it asks employer or school and then they ask Name of the Employer, Company or school again. It is literally the same name. 
Then regarding the unemployment should I also list 9 days of unemployment as well?
If I came with K1 visa and do not work right now, should I list that financial support as my wife (Fiance/Sponsor USC from K1 visa).
Part 8. Provide your most recent employer or school outside the United States (if not already listed above). Again it is quite confusing. I already wrote a position outside the United States which was the most recent which is the university where I received my degree. Or should I write that first I'm unemployed first and then in Part 8 write the most recent thing was my university which I attended?

Part 6 Item 1 What is your current marital status? I just married my fiance (USC), so it is okay mark "Married" right?
Part 6 Item 9 Date of Marriage to Current Spouse. Do they want a date when we married or the date when the marriage certificate was issued? Because technically marriage is considered legal after the judge approves and signs the marriage license and the probate court issues it.

Part 9 Item 43a  Received any weapons training paramilitary training or other military-type training? So If I did temporarily a mandatory military service, does that count?
 

Part 9 Item 50 Have you EVER served in, been a member of, assisted (helped), or participated in any military or police unit? If I served in a military academy for a little bit as part of mandatory military service I should mark this question as "YES", correct?

Part 9 Item 58 Indicate your annual household income. Should you indicate the income from the IRS tax return transcript or W2?

Part 9 Item 59 Identify the total value of your household assets. If we won't use assets in the I-864 form should we still mark the assets?

Part 9 Item 60 Identify the total value of your household liabilities (including both secured and unsecured liabilities). Should my wife list her college debt? 

Part 9  Item 62 List your certifications. I understand the question but not sure if it is okay to list your skills as well without certification. As for certifications, it should be a high school diploma and etc? What other certifications are they referring to?

I appreciate your help and time. I'm really thankful for any type of help. 

 

[OldUser 7,707]

About addresses: you don't have to live at address for 5 years to list it.

 

If you lived at address A for 1 year, address B for 2 years and address C for 2 years, you list them all because it was in the last 5 years. Same about current address. List your current address, it doesn't matter you didn't live there long.

Part 4. Correct, unless anybody applied for you to come on immigrant visa, the answer is No. K-1 is non-immigrant.

[Edward and Jaycel 660]

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 9 Item 58 Indicate your annual household income. Should you indicate the income from the IRS tax return transcript or W2?

Current Income for your household

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 9 Item 59 Identify the total value of your household assets. If we won't use assets in the I-864 form should we still mark the assets?

Yes - This is independant of the I-864. That's why the answers are in ranges as they want an overall picture of your finances as part of the determination of Public Charge Inadmissability. 

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 9 Item 60 Identify the total value of your household liabilities (including both secured and unsecured liabilities). Should my wife list her college debt? 

Yes - You should include it as part of the liabilities in determining the range of your liabilities

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 9  Item 62 List your certifications. I understand the question but not sure if it is okay to list your skills as well without certification. As for certifications, it should be a high school diploma and etc? What other certifications are they referring to?

This would be professional Certifications - Again this is part of determining the Public Charge Inadmissibility question. When they do this, they take an overall picture of your fianances, education and any professional certifications so they can make a judgement call on your prospects of being able to find gainful employment, not get sunk by a ridiculous amount of debt, your age, health, if you are prone to institutionalization at public expense, etc.

[Edward and Jaycel 660]

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 1 Item 10 Nonimmigrant visa number. Is the K1 visa number is the one on the right bottom that starts with a letter and 7 numbers? It has shiny letters.

Jaycel's was in the lower right of her visa and the letters were red and started with a letter followed by 7 numbers

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 1 Item 14 What is your current immigration status (if it has changed since your arrival)? I am going to apply for AOS within 90 days. So I should write K1 Visa holder right or K1 fiance?

We put "K-1 Visa Holder"

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Which number is A-number? Is it a number from my K1 visa when I received NOA1, and NOA2?

Jaycel's was printed above her name on the I-129F NOA2 - Starts with an A and has 9 numbers after

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 6 Item 1 What is your current marital status? I just married my fiance (USC), so it is okay mark "Married" right?

Yes

 

14 hours ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Part 6 Item 9 Date of Marriage to Current Spouse. Do they want a date when we married or the date when the marriage certificate was issued? Because technically marriage is considered legal after the judge approves and signs the marriage license and the probate court issues it.

 

It would be the date the officiating person (In your case the judge) signs it

[mangomynz 6]

17 hours ago, OldUser said:

About addresses: you don't have to live at address for 5 years to list it.

 

If you lived at address A for 1 year, address B for 2 years and address C for 2 years, you list them all because it was in the last 5 years. Same about current address. List your current address, it doesn't matter you didn't live there long.

Part 4. Correct, unless anybody applied for you to come on immigrant visa, the answer is No. K-1 is non-immigrant.

But in the form it says write the most recent address where you lived more than one year. But i lived longer than one year in one location 2 years-3 years ago, so it is not that recent anymore and in the most recent locations I lived only 11 months and 4 months. 

[Edward and Jaycel 660]

3 minutes ago, mangomynz said:

But in the form it says write the most recent address where you lived more than one year. But i lived longer than one year in one location 2 years-3 years ago, so it is not that recent anymore and in the most recent locations I lived only 11 months and 4 months. 

For that part, we followed the instructions exactly. It says to write the most recent address outside the US where you lived for more than 1 year. For Jaycel, this was a boarding house she lived from 2021-2022 while she was in College. The other addresses she had between then and the time she moved here were all less than 1 year each. For those addresses, we put them in the 5 year list which we had to use the "Additional Information" page to list them all.

[mangomynz 6]

5 minutes ago, Edward and Jaycel said:

For that part, we followed the instructions exactly. It says to write the most recent address outside the US where you lived for more than 1 year. For Jaycel, this was a boarding house she lived from 2021-2022 while she was in College. The other addresses she had between then and the time she moved here were all less than 1 year each. For those addresses, we put them in the 5 year list which we had to use the "Additional Information" page to list them all.

Okay, thank you so much for the help! I really apppreciate  your help and time to answer these questions! Thank you!!!

 

So regarding marriage date, it is the date judge signed the marriage license in the probate court not when marriage happened with wedding officiant, right?

 

Regarding employment and educational history part. It ask "Employer or school (the most recent one)" and then the name of the employer. So if I understood correctly they ask me to write if it was employer or school first and then in another spot write the name of it. Instead of writing the name two times right?

 

When you say current income, you mean I should calculate the yearly income from the most recent monthly income instead of using the income which is listed in the tax return transcript, w2 or letter of employment, right?

[Edward and Jaycel 660]

44 minutes ago, mangomynz said:

 

So regarding marriage date, it is the date judge signed the marriage license in the probate court not when marriage happened with wedding officiant, right?

Sorry, I thought the judge was the officiant. Your marriage date is the date the officiant performed the ceremony and signed the license

 

46 minutes ago, mangomynz said:

Instead of writing the name two times right?

Yes you would write either "Employer" or "School" then put the name where it asks the name

 

47 minutes ago, mangomynz said:

When you say current income, you mean I should calculate the yearly income from the most recent monthly income instead of using the income which is listed in the tax return transcript, w2 or letter of employment, right?

Yes. Get one of the paystubs, take the gross pay and multiply that by howebver many paydays are in a year (52 if paid weekly, 26 if paid every other week, etc.) But that should match what the employment verification letter says. 

[Greenbeatles1 1]

Thank you so much for the answers to my questions. That really helped.

 

1 hour ago, mangomynz said:

Okay, thank you so much for the help! I really apppreciate  your help and time to answer these questions! Thank you!!!

 

So regarding marriage date, it is the date judge signed the marriage license in the probate court not when marriage happened with wedding officiant, right?

 

Regarding employment and educational history part. It ask "Employer or school (the most recent one)" and then the name of the employer. So if I understood correctly they ask me to write if it was employer or school first and then in another spot write the name of it. Instead of writing the name two times right?

 

When you say current income, you mean I should calculate the yearly income from the most recent monthly income instead of using the income which is listed in the tax return transcript, w2 or letter of employment, right?

Yeah, I also had the wedding officiant sign the marriage license and then gave it to the probate court.

[Greenbeatles1 1]

2 hours ago, mangomynz said:

Okay, thank you so much for the help! I really apppreciate  your help and time to answer these questions! Thank you!!!

 

So regarding marriage date, it is the date judge signed the marriage license in the probate court not when marriage happened with wedding officiant, right?

 

Regarding employment and educational history part. It ask "Employer or school (the most recent one)" and then the name of the employer. So if I understood correctly they ask me to write if it was employer or school first and then in another spot write the name of it. Instead of writing the name two times right?

 

When you say current income, you mean I should calculate the yearly income from the most recent monthly income instead of using the income which is listed in the tax return transcript, w2 or letter of employment, right?

Yes, I was confused about that too. 

[Edward and Jaycel 660]

2 minutes ago, Greenbeatles1 said:

Yes, I was confused about that too. 

 

Yes it is a confusing process in those cases but the important point to remember is, officiant's signature is key: The officiant is the person who is recognized by law as the person who performs the marriage ceremony and their signature on the license marks the official date of marriage