questions hanging over my head for next week's AOS interview
Thanks to all the people here like Rene who provided really good
answers to many questions, I certainly learned a lot from reading early posts. My wife ( US citizen) and I will have the AOS (I-485) interview on next Tuesday the 27th, and I have some lingering questions that I hope to get some clarification from the experts and other wonderful people here.. I will list them here in the order of importance to me: Q1. There is some changes in my job, wondering if and how I should update the I-864 (financial support) : My wife works in her family business and I was working on H-1B. On the original I-864 we had filed in April, we estimated my wife's income at $ 15,600, which is short of the required minimum $17,000 implied by the poverty line of two-person household. So I also listed my income (well over the requirement) ... I have left my old firm around the time we married and filed our application, now am waiting to join a new start-up company that I am not sure when exactly I will start working again. Now I can't provide pay-stubs/letter to support my old income claim while my wife can get evidence to claim a $20,000 salary for this year... So we are thinking of filling out a new I-864 form with only her income, plus our bank savings, my 401K and apartment as assets... Is this the right thing to do? Should we notify the interview officer right away of this change, or should we mention and submit it only when he questions about the old form? Is it beneficial to list our assets here since some of them like real- estate will be hard to estimate the current liquid value? Will the interview officer be able to know exactly when I left my old- firm, and will that raise doubt in his/her mind regarding the marriage motivation ( although it certainly is not the reason we get married, the job-change has contributed to the timing of our marriage) ? Q2. My old firm had applied PERM successfully for me although I think they kept the approval notice, I have the rest application materials...Do I need to bring anything regarding this? Q3. Do we need to notarize any copy such as marriage license (the interview notice says to bring "certified copy of marriage license", we married in US)? Q4. My wife said I need to apply replacement of social security card (the little paper with my SSN that I first got when I came here as student in 2000)..Is it true and necessary? Q5. Is it better to put each original document with its copy together, or should we keep all original documents together with all copies in another bundle? As you can see, it is really the first question that bothers me; I hope to hear what you think before my interview date next Tuesday... Thanks a bunch and have a good weekend!! |
Re: questions hanging over my head for next week's AOS interview
Originally Posted by andywj
(Post 5231082)
Q1.
There is some changes in my job, wondering if and how I should update the I-864 (financial support) : My wife works in her family business and I was working on H-1B. On the original I-864 we had filed in April, we estimated my wife's income at $ 15,600, which is short of the required minimum $17,000 implied by the poverty line of two-person household. So I also listed my income (well over the requirement) ... I have left my old firm around the time we married and filed our application, now am waiting to join a new start-up company that I am not sure when exactly I will start working again. Now I can't provide pay-stubs/letter to support my old income claim while my wife can get evidence to claim a $20,000 salary for this year... So we are thinking of filling out a new I-864 form with only her income, plus our bank savings, my 401K and apartment as assets... Is this the right thing to do? Should we notify the interview officer right away of this change, or should we mention and submit it only when he questions about the old form? Is it beneficial to list our assets here since some of them like real- estate will be hard to estimate the current liquid value? Will the interview officer be able to know exactly when I left my old- firm, and will that raise doubt in his/her mind regarding the marriage motivation ( although it certainly is not the reason we get married, the job-change has contributed to the timing of our marriage) ? Q3. Do we need to notarize any copy such as marriage license (the interview notice says to bring "certified copy of marriage license", we married in US)? Q4. My wife said I need to apply replacement of social security card (the little paper with my SSN that I first got when I came here as student in 2000)..Is it true and necessary? Q5. Is it better to put each original document with its copy together, or should we keep all original documents together with all copies in another bundle? Best Wishes, Rene |
Re: questions hanging over my head for next week's AOS interview
Originally Posted by andywj
(Post 5231082)
Thanks to all the people here like Rene who provided really good
answers to many questions, I certainly learned a lot from reading early posts. My wife ( US citizen) and I will have the AOS (I-485) interview on next Tuesday the 27th, and I have some lingering questions that I hope to get some clarification from the experts and other wonderful people here.. I will list them here in the order of importance to me: Q1. There is some changes in my job, wondering if and how I should update the I-864 (financial support) : My wife works in her family business and I was working on H-1B. On the original I-864 we had filed in April, we estimated my wife's income at $ 15,600, which is short of the required minimum $17,000 implied by the poverty line of two-person household. So I also listed my income (well over the requirement) ... I have left my old firm around the time we married and filed our application, now am waiting to join a new start-up company that I am not sure when exactly I will start working again. Now I can't provide pay-stubs/letter to support my old income claim while my wife can get evidence to claim a $20,000 salary for this year... So we are thinking of filling out a new I-864 form with only her income, plus our bank savings, my 401K and apartment as assets... Is this the right thing to do? Should we notify the interview officer right away of this change, or should we mention and submit it only when he questions about the old form? Is it beneficial to list our assets here since some of them like real- estate will be hard to estimate the current liquid value? Will the interview officer be able to know exactly when I left my old- firm, and will that raise doubt in his/her mind regarding the marriage motivation ( although it certainly is not the reason we get married, the job-change has contributed to the timing of our marriage) ? Q2. My old firm had applied PERM successfully for me although I think they kept the approval notice, I have the rest application materials...Do I need to bring anything regarding this? Q3. Do we need to notarize any copy such as marriage license (the interview notice says to bring "certified copy of marriage license", we married in US)? Q4. My wife said I need to apply replacement of social security card (the little paper with my SSN that I first got when I came here as student in 2000)..Is it true and necessary? Q5. Is it better to put each original document with its copy together, or should we keep all original documents together with all copies in another bundle? As you can see, it is really the first question that bothers me; I hope to hear what you think before my interview date next Tuesday... Thanks a bunch and have a good weekend!! Tamms |
Re: questions hanging over my head for next week's AOS interview
Originally Posted by tamms_1965
(Post 5231711)
The 27th is Monday....we have Biometrics appt. Make sure you check your appt.. . . you do not want to show up a day late!
Ian |
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