London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Oct 19th 2009, 11:17 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Mea- I know this is so complicated! I literally noticed a couple of new grey hairs over the past week!
Anyway, the pension is a Holocaust Reparation payment. I went to IRS website and typed in Holocaust and came up with this link press release dated 2001
http://apps.qai.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/ir-01-75.pdf
which seems to show that the income from that doesnt need to be shown on his tax return.
If I were to print out that press release (which quotes the law) then that would provide prrof as to why that income isnt on his tax return.
Current problem - Dad can't find any documents that show the pension amount (other than the $400 or so paid each month into his account)!
Anyway, the pension is a Holocaust Reparation payment. I went to IRS website and typed in Holocaust and came up with this link press release dated 2001
http://apps.qai.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/ir-01-75.pdf
which seems to show that the income from that doesnt need to be shown on his tax return.
If I were to print out that press release (which quotes the law) then that would provide prrof as to why that income isnt on his tax return.
Current problem - Dad can't find any documents that show the pension amount (other than the $400 or so paid each month into his account)!
Oct 19th 2009, 11:29 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Mea- I know this is so complicated! I literally noticed a couple of new grey hairs over the past week!
Anyway, the pension is a Holocaust Reparation payment. I went to IRS website and typed in Holocaust and came up with this link press release dated 2001
http://apps.qai.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/ir-01-75.pdf
which seems to show that the income from that doesnt need to be shown on his tax return.
If I were to print out that press release (which quotes the law) then that would provide prrof as to why that income isnt on his tax return.
Current problem - Dad can't find any documents that show the pension amount (other than the $400 or so paid each month into his account)!
Anyway, the pension is a Holocaust Reparation payment. I went to IRS website and typed in Holocaust and came up with this link press release dated 2001
http://apps.qai.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/ir-01-75.pdf
which seems to show that the income from that doesnt need to be shown on his tax return.
If I were to print out that press release (which quotes the law) then that would provide prrof as to why that income isnt on his tax return.
Current problem - Dad can't find any documents that show the pension amount (other than the $400 or so paid each month into his account)!
Hugs to your dad, and yes, the way I would deal with it is to include that information with a summary of his annual receipts of those payments.
Dad's bank statement may show where the payment originate (German bank).
We have one of those pensions that didn't need to be reported and that's how we have documented the income in the past.
Oct 19th 2009, 11:34 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Oh bless.
Hugs to your dad, and yes, the way I would deal with it is to include that information with a summary of his annual receipts of those payments.
Dad's bank statement may show where the payment originate (German bank).
We have one of those pensions that didn't need to be reported and that's how we have documented the income in the past.
Hugs to your dad, and yes, the way I would deal with it is to include that information with a summary of his annual receipts of those payments.
Dad's bank statement may show where the payment originate (German bank).
We have one of those pensions that didn't need to be reported and that's how we have documented the income in the past.
1) Get my dad's accountant prepare a profit and loss sheet for him for his current income this year (That should show around $10,000)
2) Get his SS payment shcedule for this year (should show around $8,500)
3) Get some kind of statement about his german pension (should show around $4800)
Once I get all that I can prepare the extra page that Jeff suggested that would show how those 3 figures add up to around $23,000 which is above the 125% poverty guidelines and therefore we won't need to go down the assets route...
Have I got that all correct?
Oct 19th 2009, 11:40 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
OK, so my mission then is to :
1) Get my dad's accountant prepare a profit and loss sheet for him for his current income this year (That should show around $10,000)
2) Get his SS payment shcedule for this year (should show around $8,500)
3) Get some kind of statement about his german pension (should show around $4800)
Once I get all that I can prepare the extra page that Jeff suggested that would show how those 3 figures add up to around $23,000 which is above the 125% poverty guidelines and therefore we won't need to go down the assets route...
Have I got that all correct?
1) Get my dad's accountant prepare a profit and loss sheet for him for his current income this year (That should show around $10,000)
2) Get his SS payment shcedule for this year (should show around $8,500)
3) Get some kind of statement about his german pension (should show around $4800)
Once I get all that I can prepare the extra page that Jeff suggested that would show how those 3 figures add up to around $23,000 which is above the 125% poverty guidelines and therefore we won't need to go down the assets route...
Have I got that all correct?
Oct 19th 2009, 11:43 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
OK, so my mission then is to :
1) Get my dad's accountant prepare a profit and loss sheet for him for his current income this year (That should show around $10,000)
2) Get his SS payment shcedule for this year (should show around $8,500)
3) Get some kind of statement about his german pension (should show around $4800)
Once I get all that I can prepare the extra page that Jeff suggested that would show how those 3 figures add up to around $23,000 which is above the 125% poverty guidelines and therefore we won't need to go down the assets route...
Have I got that all correct?
1) Get my dad's accountant prepare a profit and loss sheet for him for his current income this year (That should show around $10,000)
2) Get his SS payment shcedule for this year (should show around $8,500)
3) Get some kind of statement about his german pension (should show around $4800)
Once I get all that I can prepare the extra page that Jeff suggested that would show how those 3 figures add up to around $23,000 which is above the 125% poverty guidelines and therefore we won't need to go down the assets route...
Have I got that all correct?
Oct 19th 2009, 11:47 am
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lol - thanks you guys. busy few days ahead! good night!
Oct 21st 2009, 3:13 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Hi All- Got this in the post today, in the stamped self addressed envelope I sent with the I130:
Approval Notice of Relative Immigrant Visa Petition
Date Petition Filed: 16 Oct 09
Date of Approval: 19 Oct 09
There are check marks next to box 1) Your petition....has been forwarded to US consulate...will contact beneficiary ...give instructions
and box 8) sending me to the embassy website notifying of the next stage documents
Is this the NOA1?
As you'll all notice, I've already started assembling the documents for the next stage but am I right in assuming that they won't be needed until my wife hears from them next?
Thanks
Approval Notice of Relative Immigrant Visa Petition
Date Petition Filed: 16 Oct 09
Date of Approval: 19 Oct 09
There are check marks next to box 1) Your petition....has been forwarded to US consulate...will contact beneficiary ...give instructions
and box 8) sending me to the embassy website notifying of the next stage documents
Is this the NOA1?
As you'll all notice, I've already started assembling the documents for the next stage but am I right in assuming that they won't be needed until my wife hears from them next?
Thanks
Oct 21st 2009, 3:21 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Dude, your petition is approved!
They must have nothing to do over there this week.. congratulations!
Go get your stuff ready; your wife will be hearing from them very soon.
They must have nothing to do over there this week.. congratulations!
Go get your stuff ready; your wife will be hearing from them very soon.
Oct 21st 2009, 3:22 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
DCF doesn't really use NOA1 and NOA2 sequence. This is the notice of I-130 approval, so it would be more like NOA2 if you were not doing DCF (NOA1 is just the notice that the I-130 was received).
When doing DCF, all the documents go with your wife to her interview.
Rene
As you'll all notice, I've already started assembling the documents for the next stage but am I right in assuming that they won't be needed until my wife hears from them next?
Rene
Oct 21st 2009, 3:23 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Oct 21st 2009, 3:27 am
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DCF doesn't really use NOA1 and NOA2 sequence. This is the notice of I-130 approval, so it would be more like NOA2 if you were not doing DCF (NOA1 is just the notice that the I-130 was received).
When doing DCF, all the documents go with your wife to her interview.
Rene
When doing DCF, all the documents go with your wife to her interview.
Rene
Ironically, I was at the embassy today, all of us where...where my application for a birth certificate and passport for my kids was... put on hold. Becuase foolishly I didn't bring sufficient proof of my time in the US. I took with me a transcript from College but they only count a college year as 9 months (if no summer semester was taken). They said I need to get proof of my time in the states which is tough as I didnt have a bank account. Luckily I was an intern at a law firm throughout my time I lived in the US (6 years or so) and I was there daily so I will be getting a letter from the attorney I interned for confirimg the dates I was at the firm and he said he'll get the letter notarized. Im praying that will suffice.
Oct 21st 2009, 3:29 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
This is the part that keep couples separated for 6+months waiting and waiting. Even for DCF, that's an incredible turnaround.
Oct 21st 2009, 3:33 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
f,
It's the equivalent of NOA2.
Only the domestic Service Centers issue Notices of Action on I-797 stock.
Regards, JEff
It's the equivalent of NOA2.
Only the domestic Service Centers issue Notices of Action on I-797 stock.
Regards, JEff
Hi All- Got this in the post today, in the stamped self addressed envelope I sent with the I130:
Approval Notice of Relative Immigrant Visa Petition
Date Petition Filed: 16 Oct 09
Date of Approval: 19 Oct 09
There are check marks next to box 1) Your petition....has been forwarded to US consulate...will contact beneficiary ...give instructions
and box 8) sending me to the embassy website notifying of the next stage documents
Is this the NOA1?
Approval Notice of Relative Immigrant Visa Petition
Date Petition Filed: 16 Oct 09
Date of Approval: 19 Oct 09
There are check marks next to box 1) Your petition....has been forwarded to US consulate...will contact beneficiary ...give instructions
and box 8) sending me to the embassy website notifying of the next stage documents
Is this the NOA1?
Oct 21st 2009, 3:48 am
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Oh wow! This is what the wait for 6 weeks is? I thought the wait was for the request to my wife to assemble her documents, get medical etc?
Oct 21st 2009, 4:29 am
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Re: London Embassy DCF - Help pls
Someone just gave you a big chocolate bar, take my word for it.
Your wife could potentially interview within about 6 weeks.
