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Nice photo! Yes, I do enjoy the charm of Cuba, but I am just a little tired of traveling so much, and the options for vacationing elsewhere is pretty limited. I took my fiancée to Trinidad and Tobago last June because it's Visa free option available for Cubans. It was her first time leaving the country... Wish there were other easy options. But hopefully this process ends soon.

PS - I am tired of visiting Cuba. I've been there 12+ times in the last year and a half, and the country is a mess. It's exhausting trying to get there and get around, as well as quite expensive. I've spent probably a good 20k USD just on travel and visa related expenses.... Would be nice to be reunited with my partner and travel with her to more interesting places instead.

I applied for 134a on the 6th at around 4:30 PM. What I am about to say might not be true... But What I understood is that they are generally going in order. However if a person submits one application on say the 6th at 10am, and then submits a second application on the 8th, and then a third application on the 9th.... Then when the first one gets its turn then it pulls in all the subsequent applications since they are all tied to the same person. This is a way of cutting down their workload. If this isn't true then I hate uscis. I probably hate them even if it is true. My cases are super straight forward and if someone there gave me like 5 minutes of their time my fiancée would have been approved months and months ago. Yet here I am just waiting to be reunited with my family, while these people at the USCIS are a disorganized mess. Super frustrating.

From another thread though, I read that this sponsorship is complete unenforceable by the US government. So if you Sponsor someone, they arrive and then attempt to get say medical insurance from the marketplace (which they do qualify for), the premiums they would pay would be based on how much money they intend to make in the next year. If this amount is below some minimum threshold then this insurance would be heavily subsidized and possibly even free. Additionally I would assume they could qualify for programs like SNAP (food stamps) and other programs. In general - Although you are agreeing to financially support this beneficiary for a period of two years, the reality of the situation is that the government has no means to make sure the sponsor does make good on that financial sponsorship. NOTE - I have only filed parole for my future wife. When she comes to the US on either Parole or on K1, I intend to support her financially and she wont be on any government assistance programs just like I am not on any government assistance programs. What I wrote in the first paragraph is not applicable in my situation and I only wrote it as to what I understand of the program. If I am incorrect, I would very much appreciate someone correcting my information. tagging @Boiler as I think they will have an opinion here or information here.

No I am talking about question 18 of part 3 which I assumed is what you were taking about also? no?

I feel like you are over analyzing things a little, but I don't know your financial situation or the background of your case. I wish you luck on your i-134a application. My situation was fairly straight forward. My salary alone is sufficient to show the ability to support. So I just grabbed my employment letter, last years tax transcript, last two paycheck stubs, bank letter (my credit union made that letter for me in like 5 minutes), passport photo, and for added measure I uploaded one of my brokerage accounts which I am sure wasn't necessary. I don't like complicating applications. Short, simple, to the point and hopefully they don't give me an RFE. If they do it's fine. I believe Question 18 is really just asking what is your total income and the total number of dependents you have. The interesting thing is the online application did not fill in any names on my application which I thought was wrong, because it should have at least put me there I thought. I am hoping USCIS just looks at the total income and number of dependents and understands that income number is my income (proved by my salary or tax transcripts) and then makes sure I qualify. If I did that wrong, that sucks. The application wasn't clear.

Around Oct 10th 2021, and received NOA1 Oct 18th 2021. Have not received NOA2 yet. i-134a parole will probably be faster for us. We are continuing down both paths and will go the route of whatever one is approved first.

My NOA1 date is Oct 18 2021, tomorrow we have been waiting 15 months. We still haven't received NOA2. I have basically given up on i-129f, and now have more faith in i-134a. USCIS is so disorganized and is doing a horrible job. I wish I could have a sit down with Biden and convince him to fire all management and allow me to fix their problems. Their management is incompetent and I feel confident that I could completely change their whole process and cut processing time down to 3-6 months or maybe even much lower.

We have been waiting for NOA2 on a i-129f application since Oct 18 2021, and I have almost lost all hope of that happening now. The whatsapp group for i-134a for cubans (and it's only in Spanish) is invite only; DM me and I can give you my fiancée's whatsapp information and she can invite you to the group. For the dates I listed "March 1st" to "no end date" checckbox. I have heard people saying that you should put a 2 year range, however that seems silly because USCIS knows if a Cuban comes on this legal parole they wont need to leave due to the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that allows for permanent residency after 1 year. I figure if they ask why she is planning on staying with no end date she will just tell the truth that she has a fiancé and we intend to marry while she is here. Thank you, and good luck on your parole application for your brother in law. Congrats on successfully making it through i-129f.

I am not an expert on self-employment immigration cases, however with this process you still need to submit your tax transcripts. Even if you are self-employed you are still filing taxes on the money you earn from being self-employed. Is this income you generate below the poverty line for sponsoring? Personally, I subscribe to the KISS philosophy of life (Keep It Simple Stupid), and try not to make my applications unnecessarily complicated if they don't need to be.

Thanks!

Don't know what to tell you, but I did. My bank was able to create this letter for me over the phone and send it to me as a pdf in my email. It took roughly 10 minutes to receive this letter. I don't need a home appraisal. I agree with you though that an official home appraisal would take a few weeks to get and it would cost you several hundred dollars. I had a home appraisal done last oct for different reasons, however I didn't feel the need to submit that information. My salary alone is sufficient to sponsor my fiancée.

When did you submit your i-134a application? Do you have the time you submitted? Can you share the facebook group you are in that are tracking i-134a applications?

Because I am closer related to them then their relatives in Miami. I am going to be their daughters Husband, where their relatives in Miami are his distant second cousins. There is some sort of pride thing going on here also, where they know this distant cousin wouldn't say no to temporarily putting them up, but they have too much pride to ask them to make the parole request. I am fairly certain they will be moving to NY near us now anyways, which is in my favor. Sure I will need to help get them integrated here, but it will be good for my partner to have her mom near for support and also near when we have children.

At this moment it's a little unclear where they would even live. Would they live near their daughter and I in the cold of NY, or would they want to be closer to their other relatives and the heat of Miami? There is a lot of things we need to figure out and once that's all figured out then we will be able to decide what makes more sense in our specific situation. I am grateful though that you guys have helped me see that there are options for them. Thank you!

Thanks! 😄

My question wasn't in regards to my fiancée. For my Fiancée, yes she will be added to my employer based insurance when she qualifies for that. Her immediate family is interested in having me support them on parole also. I am willing to do that, however was trying to understand my financial obligation before agreeing to support them on parole. Her family wouldn't qualify for my employer based insurance obviously.

Awesome. Thank you

When you are sponsoring a Cuban/Haitian/Nicaraguan/Venezuelan on i-134a, you are agreeing to financially support them for two years. What are their options for medical insurance here in the USA? I am sure once they get their social security number (which should happen fairly quickly) they would be allowed to get medical insurance on the AHA market place... However what would their pricing be? Would they qualify for greatly discounted insurance since they have no income, or would they be required to use the sponsor's income to find out the cost of their coverage? Could be quite costly.

This answer is not for citizens from Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela... This is only for Cubans. It's a little interesting that this path was given for Cubans because of the Cuban Adjustment Act which allows a Cuban who has been living in the USA for 1 year to apply for permanent residency. So if you are sponsoring a Cuban on this parole, although it says it is for 2 years, I believe after the first year they can apply for permanent residency and as soon as that is granted then your commitment of support would end. Unless this parole supersedes the Cuban Adjustment Act, I am pretty sure what I just said is factually correct. Might want to run it past an immigration lawyer though. I am not sure what happens to residents of Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela after the two year support window.

I submitted my 134a application on Friday January 6th at around 4:30 PM. There is this whatsapp group for cubans and this process, and it appears that USCIS is moving in order from when they received the application. We have seen people getting approved from about 2pm on Jan 6th, so I suspect that our turn is going to quickly approach. We are tentatively planning on her coming mid February or early March, because there is a lot that my fiancée needs to do before she leaves. From everything we have been reading, everyone from these countries who has an active i-129f or CR-1 case should absolutely file for parole. I can't think of a single reason why you would want to come on K1 or CR-1 verses coming on parole. This parole option is great!

Great! glad you understand now. happy to help

You really aren't understanding this process, and I am not sure how to explain it in a way that you would understand. I thought I was clear in my last explanation but then you ask questions showing you don't understand it. 1. i-129f fiancée is an immigration path where you want to marry a foreign citizen and bring them to the USA to get married. interviewed at an embassy before they come. 2. CR-1 is when you have a married spouse that you want to bring to the USA. interviewed at an embassy before they come. 3. Parole - It's not tied to marriage at all. They dont need to be interviewed. If approved they just come to the USA for up to 2 years. Regardless if you come via i-129f (K1) or Parole.... IF you get married in the USA then you are allowed to stay in the USA after you file an adjustment of status. If you come on the parole, and then you need to cancel the i-129f process because it no longer makes sense! You are already in the USA. Just get married and file for Adjustment in status, and stay in the USA

Yes you can apply for both i-129f and i-134a (parole) if you meet the requirements of parole. Note that this parole is only applicable for citizens with only one citizenship from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba. Additionally you need to meet the same financial requirements that is required for i-129f.

If my fiancée is granted parole then she will come to the USA and we will cancel the K1 visa process because it no longer makes sense. What does the K1 process provide? It provides a piece of paper that allows my fiancée to come to the USA for 90 days with the understanding that within those 90 days we will get married and file for adjustment of status so she can remain in the USA with me as husband and wife. What does the parole (subject of this email) process provide? It provides my beneficiary (aka my fiancée) a piece of paper that allows her to come to the USA for 2 years. What happens after that 2 years? Well it depends on the person and the situation. In my fiancée's situation, we will get married sometime within this 2 year windows (probably in the first 6-12 months, and then we will file for adjustment of status so she can remain in the USA with me as husband and wife. So hopefully this makes it clear what I am doing. K1 doesn't give you anything special that this parole doesn't also give you. In fact the parole (if you are eligible) is a much more desirable immigration path in my opinion because you have more time to plan and execute a wedding. And the nice thing is you can do both paths at the same time and then cancel the one that would resolve last.