Frodo Baggins

I am using an immigration lawyer to change my status after I arrived in the
States on a b1/b2 visa and I recently married. My immigration lawyer says
that I am able to change my status and remain.

The question I have is that what do we need to prove financially?

I know if I had applied for a Fiancé Visa, there has to be proof of a
certain amount of income.

My wife is a stay at home mom (and has been for the last 5 years). As such,
she has no tax returns to produce (previous husband did all the filing) and
can not prove any such income.

Is this going to be a problem for us?

I'm meeting with the lawyer next month but I wanted to find out before hand.


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I would repost this in the alt.visas.us.marriage-based newsgroup as that is full of people who are engaged or married to US Citizens awaiting approval or adjustment and you may get some better advice there.

Cheers - Tim

graven2003

Frodo, do you really think that anyone is still interested to go as scientist on any of the spacecraft. ???? not me anyway, don't like to get my a.... burnt.
By the way, maybe your wife could apply. I assume they drink coffee on those trips ... and I suppose she's qualified for that. Then at the same time you have the proof of income.
HHHmmmmmm for how long, that's a good question.

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It may possibly be a problem. The financial documentation you need for the
fiance visa are actually just preliminary; they really are evaluated when
you adjust status after you got married. Department of State has a couple
interesting Web pages about the financial requirements and documentation.
My FAQ page has a link to Department of State.

In order to be eligible to sponsor you, she needs to have 125% of poverty
line income. If there are no children involved, that currently is around
$15000. You say that she is a stay-at-home mom, so it seems there indeed
are children, and consequently the income would have to be higher. I think
you have to add around $3000 or $4000 for each child (go to my FAQ site;
there is a link to the complete table of poverty levels. Just remember to
add 25%).

She can easily get old tax returns, just apply for a tax transcript from
the IRS. But if she can't show that she still has a reasonable amount of
income, that may not help all that much.

She may substitute assets and savings for income. For each $ she lacks in
income, she would need $5 in savings or assets.

Under certain circumstances, your income may also be able to count towards
the minimum. This very much depends on the details; basically, you must
have lived together for at least six months, and during that time, you
must have had a stable job.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:56:21 -0400, Frodo Baggins wrote:

    > I am using an immigration lawyer to change my status after I arrived in the
    > States on a b1/b2 visa and I recently married. My immigration lawyer says
    > that I am able to change my status and remain.
    >
    > The question I have is that what do we need to prove financially?
    >
    > I know if I had applied for a Fiancé Visa, there has to be proof of a
    > certain amount of income.
    >
    > My wife is a stay at home mom (and has been for the last 5 years). As such,
    > she has no tax returns to produce (previous husband did all the filing) and
    > can not prove any such income.
    >
    > Is this going to be a problem for us?
    >
    > I'm meeting with the lawyer next month but I wanted to find out before hand.

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