Pulaski

Her fiancé is American, meaning a slam-dunk route to a visa to live and work in the US is just a quick trip to the local courthouse (plus visa fees and a wait for paperwork processing) away.

DallasMama

And OP will still need a financial sponsor even if she marries her “partner “, as he makes 0% of the minimum threshold being a stay at home dad. Unless he plans on working and hence the two year old needing daycare…I don’t know.

Pulaski

He's in London, so his earnings would be irrelevant even if he wasn't a stay-at-home dad (unless he was working remotely, though historically US visa processors apparently rarely accept that employment would continue after a move to the US).

Anyway, the OP may be able to meet the financial requirements by using "assets". In addition to cash and liquid investments, the US accepts other assets, such as real estate, net of mortgages, assuming it is vacant and available for sale. That is how I qualified without any need for a sponsor, and my home didn't finally sell until 9 months after I had been granted a visa, and 7 months after I had arrived in the US, so in reality there was no need to sell it at all if I had decided to keep it, it just needed to be an available asset.

HDWill

Are you including universities in the word "school" as in American usage? Private universities in the US can cost $60k/year for full-pay students (though many get some amount of financial aid). But private primary/secondary schools are usually around half that as Pulaski mentioned.

Pulaski

Nah, he's talking schools 5-18 education. In Boston and greater New York (incl NJ and CT) there are a few schools with utterly stupid annual fees. .... I couldn't afford to move back to the NE because of housing costs, so I can't imagine adding private school fees on top!

HDWill

It looks like the school OP was referring to (Waynflete School) is around $30-35k.

Pulaski

That makes a bit more sense for a high-end school in Maine, closer to what I would expect.

PetrifiedExPat

Either or tbh with NE. Although public school system in our area is good (enough).