US Immigration from Philippines

So we have a immigration attorney doing our paperwork. I had my Brother being a sponsor, and he had initially filled out the paper work. We had to wait to submit, due to issues with obtaning clear copy etc of Wife's birth certificate, now brother and his wife have decided they can't be a sponsor (His Wife apparently is not on board with doing it now for some reason and re-filling out the pawer work). I did not have enough income at the time to do it myself. I now do have enough income, but being self employed its hard to prove all that income because many of my jobs are for customers who don't issue 1099's or W2. Some of my work is insurance company work, so yes, they do the 1099's. I have a auto repair shop and have had this for decades.

So out of a report on taxes 77K and then deductions leave me at 27K profit. While this is enough and meets the threshold of 25,500 for two, how do I prove the rest of my income? I can show about 29K on 1099's, but the rest was checks or cash. What I did do is print off bank deposits of my business account for the year 2023, and that is enough to show my gross sales in my business. I have cash and check deposts each month. Will Immigration accept those deposts as income since I can't show them all 1099's? If they have my tax returns for 2023 and about 1/3 of my gross income in 1099's, will they generally accept the bank depost statements as proof of my income? My Attorney says at times they don't want to go through bank statements, but how do us self employed people get this approved? Do we always have to a sponsor or co-sponsor? My concern is I don't know that I can come up with another sponsor/co-sponsor. I also have several collector cars that maybe I could use to make up what they say I would be short if I need to. Any advice? Attorney says lets just run with it, and see if it gets approved. If not, we get one chance to get it right, then I don't know what after that. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER THAT?

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DONE MY INTERVIEW LAST OCTOBER 4,2024 AS PER THE PRE SCREENER AND CONSUL THEY ASK ME IF I CAN TRAVEL RIGTH AWAY AND I SAID YES I WILL GO OCTOBER 14, THEY WILL DO URGENT THEY WRITE ON MY FILE URGENT AND GET MY PHONE NUMBER AFTER INTERVIEW THE CONSUL TOLD ME HE WILL APPROVED MY VISA BUT STILL READY ON MY CEAC TRACKER AFTER INTERVIEW. DATED 0CTOBER 16 NOW AND STILL READY ON MY CEAC TRACKER . I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS NEXT.IM STILL WAITING EMAIL FROM EMBASSY

Hello everyone,

My Fiance and I have been moving along the visa journey ever since our notification letter in late January. Riza just had her interview the morning of the 15th and they told her that she needs to LBC them a CENOMAR and her passport so that they can approve her visa and then send her passport back to her. She lives in San Carlos City and we just found out she will need to attend CFO GCP, Cebu being the closest for that. My hopes were to have this all wrapped up next week so I can fly there on the 25th with a return on the 29th, am I expecting too much with that too soon? She'll be back in San Carlos later on today, she'll be able to LBC the CENOMAR and passport to the embassy in Manila tomorrow, what is the turn around on average? Also, the document requirements say she needs her passport and 2 forms of ID, she only has her passport and voting ID, will her birth certificate be sufficient for that 2nd form of ID? We're holding off on booking the flights until she has her passport back in hand with the visa stamp but we're worried about CFO GCP, any advice is appreciated.

Tommy & Riza Perl

This thread is for I130 October 2024.. anyone in here?