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Hi all,

My wife entered the US on a fiancee visa approx. 1 year ago and we married shortly thereafter. Now one year later they are asking us to come into the NYC office to do an interview in January. We are somewhat nervous about all the evidence people are bringing along as we honestly don't have much of that stuff. For example we never bothered to open a joint account. It's no problem for me to change my account to a joint one, add her as a credit card user etc. but will the immigration officials notice or care that I did this right before the interview date?

As for the apartment lease, it only has my name on it because she didn't have a job or credit upon moving here, so I applied for our apartment alone.

We don't even have rings (they're expensive!)

We do have wedding pictures and some pictures with my parents, and obviously we know each other extremely well. Will that be enough?

For what it's worth my wife is from a low fraud country (think Western Europe).

Thanks everyone.

They really won't send stuff to Canada? I had the impression they would from this thread:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/294806-can-noas-be-sent-to-canadian-address/

Especially given that there is a box to fill in "Country" in the I-129F, and the instructions say "If you live in the United States or abroad and are filing Form I-129F, then file your petition at:"

Hi,

We are planning to go the K-1 route and have been living in Canada for the past 2 years.

However my fiancee is a Swedish citizen.

Given how slow Montreal seems to move, can we specify the consulate in Stockholm on my fiancee's I-129F on question 20?

For question 14 asking where in the US my fiancee intends to live, I put my parents US address. Will USCIS send further mail to them, or to our Canadian home address I specified in Part A? Does it affect things after we arrive in the US in any way, since I don't actually plan to live there?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks for that advice. With the given processing times I will probably be in the US working by the time she goes for her interview, so that makes things easier.

Hi,

I am a US citizen living and working in Canada. My employer might be sending me to its US office in a few months.

I do not yet have any formal job offer or documents about the transfer but I will be paid more than in my current job and the income level is not a concern.

For the I-134 affidavit of support, is it sufficient to put my current Canadian employment details, perhaps with a note that I will be employed in the US with the same company? I could include a copy of my 2010 Canadian and US tax returns if that helps.

Would including info about the assets in my Canadian bank accounts help? (I can transfer them to a US bank account but would prefer not to do that until I move).

Thank you and appreciate the advice.

Hi,

I am a US citizen living and working in Toronto. My employer just told me I might be transferred to the US office in a few months.

I've been living with my girlfriend for 2+ years and want to bring her along, but it looks like the only options are

1) get married now and do a DCF, keeping in mind it takes 10+ weeks to get the marriage certificate in Ontario

2) file for K-1 and get married in the US, which takes longer than DCF and then she'd be stuck in AOS

Of the above which do you recommend?

Is there any other way to bring her to the US other than marriage (e.g. could my employer sponsor her somehow)? As she would be considered my common-law spouse in Canada, would that be sufficient?

My girlfriend is not a Canadian but she is from a VWP country and in Canada on long-term study permit.

As well, while we are waiting for the DCF/K-1, would she be able to visit me for consecutive 3month periods under VWP?

Thanks a lot for your advice.