US Immigration from Australia

I swear there should be an age limit on these things. It feels like such a joke. My three year old has no education, bank accounts, credit history etc. Everything is basically NA. It makes her look like a really bad public charge and I know they will take the age into account but it does worry me. Anyone else gone through this?

I mean I have put our assets in the family section and she has health insurance at least lol..

Anyone else?

Hey!

I had no issue with other forms as it included current pay stubs, letter of employment etc. My husband (US) didn't earn much last year but then graduated and now earns 3x the amount. However, I can't see anywhere in the I-944 to mention current income that we make now. I have seen some people suggest putting it as additional information and explaining the situation but I am not exactly sure where or how to put that. Any advice?

Thanks

Hi there,

I will be going for the K1 interview in Sydney.

The Sydney P3 and basically wherever they repeat this is to bring the I-134 supporting documentation as per the instructions .

The instructions say only to bring a bank letter and an employment letter (since the petitioner is not self employed) and nothing about taxes. (remember this is an I-134 not a I-864).

Do I really need a tax return or tax transcript? I can just turn around and say I literally followed the instructions. Everyone seems to say yes but are they/you sure you need it for a K1?

I mean we are like 200% of the requirement and beneficiary has tens of thousands of dollars which evidence of will also be stapled to the back of the evidence even though it s not asked for. It just seems like a hassle if we don t need to provide it.

We did everything by the instructions for the petition with no RFE even though people send pages and pages of evidence, following exact word for word instructions was fine.

thoughts?

Hello friends.

I m writing to say hello, to introduce myself, and to wish everyone a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving.

I m a little embarrassed to be writing here because I have read some of the profiles, timelines and stories and I am almost ashamed that my experience has been so much easier than many of you. In many ways I have been extraordinarily fortunate. I m choosing to freely share my story here and hope that I am received without hostility.

I am an Australian expat with a wife and two daughters, living in the DC suburbs. I work for a very large automaker in their DC office.

A former employer moved me and the family from Brisbane AUS to Utah in 2011. The employer paid for everything and their white-shoe lawyers managed the entire L1 process. I remember my involvement being limited to signing a bunch of forms and attending a perfunctory interview at the US Consulate in Sydney. We landed in Utah in March 2011.

A few years after that, the same employer (and their law firm) decided to put me and the family through the Green Card process. I shrugged - I was happy with the employer and in the US, and as per the L1 process, I did not follow it all that closely. I again signed a few forms and that was pretty much it. The family and I have been LPRs since June 2015.

I took a job in 2017 in DC with a large automaker. It became more and more clear to me that my future belonged in the US and not back in Australia. My kids, now 14 and 11, have been in the US since they were 5 and 2. I decided to apply for naturalization in late March, 2020 and have my interview in Baltimore in mid-December.

My process has been remarkably easy. I have only recently started to understand what what an amazing gift I was given by my former employer. My experience has been so much more simple than those I have read on this forum and from following immigration news more closely. Perhaps I was naive, perhaps I was ignorant. As this process nears its natural end, I have become more aware of exactly how fortunate I have been. I realized that now.

I wish you all the very best in your own processes, and I hope you get the outcomes that you wish for.

Hi, we are waiting on an interview date from the consulate and are wondering what happens if we don't enter the US within the 6 months of being issued the visa? I'm thinking if we can't find employment or if things get really dangerous over there, etc. Do we have to start the process all over again?