I am still early on in the K1 process where we are filing in the US.

I am trying to be organised as, bless the other half, but organisation is not one of his strong points so anything to be done has to be done early

The affidavit of support forms are hopefully pretty straight forward and his wages are way above the poverty line so not so much issue there.

What I am struggling with is the evidence - he doesnt have a contract as such that states his wages, start date etc etc. Like not an official document on company stationery. He says when he graduated ( police academy) they give you the certificate to say he is on the force and he has wage slips etc but nothing really other than that? Does anyone know if this will be sufficient? Also, he has some savings in the bank so he can get a statement from them but it is the employment evidence I am concerned about?

Thanks for any help

Lucy

His most recent wage slips along with a copy of his latest tax returns to the IRS should be enough. If you want to be 100% covered, maybe you can also include a letter signed by some Senior Officer in his branch confirming that he's currently employed there. That should be more than enough. Alternatively, he can request tax return transcripts from the IRS. If he has that, he should not need any additional evidence.

Is he an Officer in the US? In addition to the advice you have been given, he can request a letter from his agency stating that he is a full time peace officer employed by them, for how long, etc etc...The human resources section of his employing dept should be able to write it up...

Yes, he is a police officer for NYPD.

They must have some type of HR department!!

I would hope so..the largest blinkin dept in the country...tell him to get his thumb out and get the letter!!! It just states he's employed and so on and so forth..

Or tell him this...if he doesnt get organized, ill call his patrol Sgt and he'll be working Harlem foot patrol for the next 20 years!!!

Well he works foot patrol in the South Bronx so im guessing Harlem would be an upgrade

There are actually some very nice parts of Harlem now! That's where Costco and Target are.They put up a nice mall there. I live on the Upper East Side and I go up there all the time on my own. Alot of it is still crap but alot has been gentrified .They also have some brand new highrise buildings and soem beautiful old brownstones. They are trying to gentrify the South Bronx as well. That will take a bit of time but hopefully it will happen! If you told me 10 years ago I would be going up to 117th street and Pleasant Ave on my own (or with anyone else) I would have said you are nuts! Time's are a changing!

By the way my restaurant doesn't have company letterhead. My manager just wrote a letter of employment on plain staionary and put the company info in the top corner of the letter.

Mmmm yes it would be...good luck from me anyway!!