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04/22/2025

2025 Income Requirements for Fiancee and Spouse Immigration https://www.visacoach.com/income-requirements-for-marriage-based-immigration/ Here is listed the Annual Income Requirements to sponsor Marriage Based Immigration via K1 Fiance Visas, CR1 or IR1 Spouse visas, or Green Cards (Adjustment of Status for Permanent residency) due to marriage to a US citizen or resident.

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CR1 Spousal Visa https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa/
CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa-timeline/
Green Card /Adjustment of Status https://www.visacoach.com/green-card/

In order to successfully petition for your spouse or
fiancee to come to the USA, or obtain a Green Card after marriage,
in the USA, you the US sponsor must demonstrate to US Immigration that you have
enough income coming in, to support your new spouse, and whole household.

The minimum financial requirement is that you must have income
equal to and preferably more than 100% of the poverty
income level where you live to be eligible to sponsor a
Fiancee Visa, and over 125% of the poverty level to be
eligible for Spousal Visa or Adjustment of Status.

And often, even when applying for a fiance visa the consular officer might
apply the higher 125% range, at his/her discretion. So its best whenever
possible to aim to exceed the higher standard.

Each year the Department of Health and Human Services
publishes their Poverty Guidelines.

As of March 2025, for residents in the
continental US the Financial Eligibility requirements
are as follows.

Required Annual Income (For Fiancee Visa)
$21,150, if 2 Persons in Family or Household
$26,650, if 3 Persons in Family or Household
$32,150, if 4 Persons in Family or Household

For each Additional person add $5,500

Required Annual Income (For Spousal Visa or Green Card)
$26,437, if 2 Persons in Family or Household
$33,312, if 3 Persons in Family or Household
$40,187, if 4 Persons in Family or Household

For each Additional person add $6,875

The Financial eligibility thresholds are lower for
active military, and higher for residents of
Alaska or Hawaii.

Proving your Income.

Normally you provide your most recent Federal Tax Return,
3 to 6 pay stubs showing 'Year to date' earnings,
plus a letter from your employer confirming your
job, and what your expected annual pay is.

If your income might be low, but you have
'money in the bank' your cash assets, can be used as
a alternative for annual income.

'Cash' assets are assets which can be easily converted
(sold)to cash. For example: stocks, bonds, certificates of
deposit, cash in the bank

You may have a lot of other assets such as your car, boat, coin
collection, business or investment property but because these
can NOT be easily turned to cash immigration will not accept
them as alternatives to annual income.

The one exception to an asset that is hard to convert, but
CAN be counted is your home. If the market value of
your home is higher than your mortgage you may use
the equity just like a cash asset.

$5 cash assets is the equivalent of $1 annual income

For example, a retired Fiancee Visa sponsor living in California,
with NO income, and no dependents would need to have
5 times $21,150 or $105,750 in cash assets to quality for the Fiancee Visa.

Alternatively a combination of income and assets can work.

For example, if the sponsors income is $10,000 per year,
then his annual income is short by $11,150 so he should have 5 times
that amount or $55,750 cash or convertible assets
to qualify.

This is calculated by subtracting $10,000 from the annual
requirement of $$21,150. And then the difference of $11,150
times Five equals $ 55,750 of cash assets needed.

What if you don't have enough income OR assets?

In that case you could ask a relative or friend to act as a co or joint-sponsor.

Just like buying a car, your joint-sponsor could 'co-sign' your loan.

When a joint-sponsor is used the size of the household increases.
The combined household (for the financial calculations) would include
the household size of the sponsor combined with the household
size of the co-sponsor.

https://www.visacoach.com/income-requirements-for-marriage-based-immigration/ Here is listed the Annual Income Requirements to sponsor Marriage Based Immigr...

04/02/2025

Extreme Vetting and Visa Ban: President Trump 2025 https://www.visacoach.com/extreme-vetting-and-visa-ban-trump/ On the day that President Trump was sworn in as 47th President, He signed 25 executive orders. While he addressed many agenda items including De-weaponizing the Justice Department and Reducing Government waste, he also signed executive order 14161,"Protecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other National security and public safety threats" which will affect marriage based immigration clients, those who are hoping to sponsor their fiancees and spouses to immigrate to the USA.

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Green Card /Adjustment of Status https://www.visacoach.com/green-card/

On President Trumps first day in office January 20, 2025 he signed "Protecting the United States from
foreign terrorists and other National
security and public safety threats" .
During his previous term, President Trump had issued executive orders, commanding US immigration to ban
nationals of certain countries from being allowed visas to the USA, the so called "Muslim Ban", and to conduct
a thorough review of the eligibility and backgrounds, of any aliens appling to enter the USA,
so called "Extreme Vetting"
When President Biden was sworn in, his first day in office, he rescinded those orders. Now on
DAY 1 of President Trumps new term "Extreme Vetting" is back, and a ban on some foreign nationals is under
review by the State Department and may be implemented soon.
The first section of the executive order instructs US immigration to take action in
(i) identifying countries throughout the world for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to
warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries

Under the previous Trump administration,
the following countries were affected: Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria,
North Korea, Somalia,Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela (government officials only) and Yemen
The State Department has been asked to identify which countries should be fully or partially banned
and report this back to President Trump.
The US State Department has not officially released it's recommendations yet, however a draft
of the memo that is being prepared has been leaked.
The memo lists a total of 41 countries divided into three separate groups.
Red List: Of countries recommended for full visa suspension.
Orange List: Of countries recommended for partial suspensions
Yellow List: Of countries recommended for partial suspension, if their governments
do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days
The countries on the Red list facing Full visa suspension are:
Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen

The countries on the Orange list facing Partial visa suspension
Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, South Sudan

The countries on the Yellow list, also facing partial suspension, IF their governments do not address deficiencies:

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu

It’s unclear yet exactly what "partial suspension" of visa issuance means. It might mean only
non-immigrant visas such as visitor and student visas, and may or may not affect
fiance or spouse visas.

It's also unclear whether aliens who have already been issued visas will be affected, whether
or not those with valid visas will lose permission to enter the U.S. or if already here
will be required to leave.

The State Department memo has yet to be approved by the administration, including the
US secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
Changes, and amendments, and the fleshing out of details are
underway.For what finally will be ordered, We shall have to wait and see.
In addition to assigning the State Department their homework to make banning recommendations there
are two other sections of the executive order, that have already taken affect and have
begun to affect visa applications that are in process.
This is the renewal of Extreme Vetting..

https://www.visacoach.com/extreme-vetting-and-visa-ban-trump/ On the day that President Trump was sworn in as 47th President, He signed 25 executive orders. ...

03/17/2025

Plans for Trump’s Muslim Ban 2025 https://www.visacoach.com/plans-for-muslim-ban-2025/ President Trump has signed executive order 14161, "Protecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other National security and public safety threats". Which asks for "extreme vetting" of foreign nationals seeking entry to the USA, and has requested the US State Department to recommend which countries' nationals should be completely or partially banned from admission to the USA. The list of what countries are affected has been leaked, and the recommendations for banning described here.

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K1 Fiance Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/k1-visa-timeline/
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Green Card /Adjustment of Status https://www.visacoach.com/green-card/

On day 1 of President Trump's Presidency. he signed an executive order to "protect U.S. citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes."
He gave the Department of State 60 days to make their recommendations on which countries it considered posed security threats to USA, and whose nationals should be made ineligible to travel to the USA.

During his first administration, he had stopped visa issuance for 13 countries. This was the so-called "Muslim Ban" as it primarily affected some countries whose populations were predominantly Muslim.
The 60 days the State Department have been given are almost up, and the memo which the State Department has been working on has been leaked. It is not yet the official recommendation. It has not yet been approved by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, tut THIS is what they are thinking.
And there are already 41 countries on the potential chopping block.
The State Department memo recommends banning of visas to around 41 countries.
The degree of banning has been divided into three separate groups
Red List: Countries recommended for full visa suspension.
Orange List: Countries recommended for partial suspensions
Yellow List: Countries recommended for partial suspension, if their governments do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days
The countries on the Red list facing Full visa suspension are:
Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen
The countries on the Orange list facing Partial visa suspension

Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, South Sudan
The countries on the Yellow list, also facing partial suspension, IF their governments do not address deficiencies:

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu
The State Department memo has yet to be approved by the administration, including the US secretary of State, Marco Rubio, it still could be amended. We shall have to wait and see.
I will be publishing a more detailed analysis and video soon, And more updates later as the situation develops.

https://www.visacoach.com/plans-for-muslim-ban-2025/ President Trump has signed executive order 14161, "Protecting the United States from foreign terrorists ...

12/24/2024

NVC Expedites Spouse Visa Cases to Manila https://www.visacoach.com/philippines-spouse-visa-cases-expedited/
Spouse visa Applicants from the Philippines due to a backlog at the US Embassy in Manila caused by
a higher than normal influx of cases, caused by faster processing times at USCIS, overwhelmed the consulate's capacity to schedule interviews. This led to significant delays. In response to the backlog, the National Visa Center (NVC) decided to "expedite" cases by forwarding them directly to the Manila consulate, effectively passing the responsibility of scheduling interviews to the applicants themselves. While this speeds up the process in some ways, it also places a burden on the
applicants who now have to compete for limited appointment slots.

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Fiancee or Spouse visa, Which one is right for you? http://imm.guru/k1vscr1
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Front Loaded Fiance Visa Petition http://imm.guru/front
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K1 Fiancee Visa http://imm.guru/k1
K1 Fiance Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/k1time
CR1 Spousal Visa http://imm.guru/cr1
CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/cr108
Green Card /Adjustment of Status http://imm.guru/gc

The normal process for a spouse visa is that one’s case is first submitted to USCIS.
This means United States citizenship and immigration service.
USCIS reviewers process a spouse case and once satisfied, forward it to the State Department's National Visa center (NVC).

The US sponsor then submits to NVC his or her financial documents, and the spouses civil documents and police clearances. NVC reviews these and when satisfied that the applicants documents are complete,
they advise the applicants they are "documentarily qualified".

Soon after NVC staff directly contacts the US consulate in the spouse's country to schedule the interview.
Once the appointments confirmed, NVC transfers the cases to the foreign consulate while at the same time sending the couple an email advising them of the time and date for their consulate interview.

This is how the process should work.

But for spouse visas for Filipino beneficiaries, this system has broken down this year.

Earlier this year, I announced that USCIS had hired new staff, and due to the addition of new staff
they had been processing fiancés Visa cases much more quickly than usual.

During 2023 USCIS had taken about 15 months to process a fiancé visa case, whereas with the influx of new staff many cases were approved by USCIS five times faster than previously, many in only three months!

That was good news for the applicants who had applied for fiancé visas.

But, that good news, had unintended consequences.

The speed at which USCIS pushed out cases that later ended up at consulates for their interviews
virtually a year earlier than originally planned, created a log jam.
Three times as many cases were now chasing the limited available interview appointment times.

A consulate that was staffed to conduct X number of cases a month,
suddenly was faced with three times as many applicants asking for interviews.
And until additional manpower could be recruited and transferred from the USA,
the backlog of those waiting for interviews kept piling up.

This was especially felt at the US Embassy in Manila.
This embassy is the busiest of all the US Embassies in the world.
Suddenly, with a much larger than usual influx of cases needing interviews, the consulates appointment calendar was overwhelmed.

Applicants who normally had to wait only a few months to get an appointment date. Now we’re waiting half a year and longer.

Now let’s return to NVC. Clerks of NVC reached out to the consulate in Manila asking for dates for interviews.
Instead of being given dates, they were put on hold.
Next month the clerks now with twice as many cases on hold reached out to Manilla again to schedule the interviews and again were put on hold, rinse and repeat.

Finally, after 6 to 9 months of cases that should have departed NVC, still just piling up at NVC, awaiting an appointment date.

NVC gave up trying to coordinate with the Embassy to book appointments directly.

NVC has given up, and has decided to kick the problem over to Manila. They have cleared their pile of hundreds of backlogged cases by transferring them to the Embassy in the Philippines without waiting any longer to schedule the interview for the applicants.

Once the cases have been shipped out, NVC have emailed each couple advising them of the good news "their cases have been expedited".

I view this as good and bad news. The bad news is the State Department's internal communications have failed.

https://www.visacoach.com/philippines-spouse-visa-cases-expedited/Spouse visa Applicants from the Philippines due to a backlog at the US Embassy in Manila ca...

12/16/2024

2025 K1 Fiance Visa Processing Timeline http://www.visacoach.com/k1-visa-timeline.html Knowing the timeline for your K1 visa is crucial for planning your wedding, travel, and future together. It impacts decisions about the wedding date and location, honeymoon plans, living arrangements, and budgeting for visa fees, travel expenses, and the wedding itself. Here we break down the various stages of processing to obtain a K1 Fiancee visa from USCIS submission through NVC to consulate interview and visa issuance. The range for 99% of cases is 8 to 19 months, with most cases taking about 12 months.

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K1 Fiancee Visa http://imm.guru/k1

K1 Fiance Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/k1time

CR1 Spousal Visa http://imm.guru/cr1

CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/cr108

Green Card /Adjustment of Status http://imm.guru/gc

The visa process involves two US government departments: USCIS (United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services) and the US Department of State.

Here's a breakdown of the timeline:

at USCIS: Your application is initially sent to a USCIS lockbox in Dallas, Texas, for initial sorting and is then redirected to a regional processing center in California, District of Columbia, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, or Vermont.

At the regional processing center, USCIS officers examine your application forms, documents, and evidence, to confirm you are eligible to apply for your Fiancee. Their review includes an FBI background check on your history, and your fiancee's if she or he had ever lived in the USA.

The current expected processing time at USCIS is 6-12 months

Once USCIS is satisfied that you are eligible to apply, they pass your case to the State Department's National Visa Center (NVC) in New Hampshire

at NVC the staff there reviews your case,but usually only briefly. Just long enough to confirm it is for a fiancee visa and which foreign consulate should be the one to conduct the interview.Then your case is couriered to the designated consulate.

The current expected processing time at NVC is only a few weeks. Sometimes the consulate has a long backlog, such as during Covid when consular operations were put on hold. In such a situation the cases might be stored at NVC for much longer.

The current expected processing time at NVC is half a month.

at US Consulate/Embassy: The consulate receives your case from NVC. Usually the case sits at the consulate for awhile, sometimes months, until the consulate is ready to process the case. When the consulate is ready they email you a "Welcome" message providing instructions on paying fees, scheduling the interview and so on. How long it takes before the welcome message varies based on how busy the consulate is, and whether they are backlogged with cases. Usually the welcome arrives in 1 to 4 months.

Once the welcome is received and you take the next steps usually the interview is held in about

1 to 3 months later.

Once the interview is held, your fiancee's passport with the K1 Fiances visa inside is sent to her/him about two weeks later.

The current expected Total processing time at the State Department, NVC plus Consulate combined is 2 to 7 months.

For an idea of how long the entire process may take, lets add up all the different stages, starting from when USCIS receives your case till the visa arrives to your Fiancee.

Expected times are as follows

Six to 12 months at USCIS
followed by a half month at NVC
followed by 2 to 7 months at the consulate

So the normal expected range might be between 8 and 19 months.

As you can expect some cases will be fast, some slow.

For your planning purposes, I suggest you estimate your case's actual results to fall around the middle of the bell curve, at about 12 months.

If you plan for your case to take around a year, you probably will not be too far off

Some Factors that affect Processing Times:

Whether your application is Complete and Accurate
Processing center workload
FBI background check results
Consulate staffing, backlogs and interview availability

As there is no way to speed up how quickly the government processes. The best way to avoid user generated delays, and ensure a smooth process is to submit a well-prepared and complete application from the get go.

And that is what VisaCoach is ready to do for you.

This was Fred Wahl the VisaCoach

http://www.visacoach.com/k1-visa-timeline.html Knowing the timeline for your K1 visa is crucial for planning your wedding, travel, and future together. It im...

11/25/2024

Trump Re-election: Effects on k1 Fiance + CR1 Spouse Visa, Green Card Immigration https://www.visacoach.com/trump-re-election-2025-effects/ Based on President Trump's last time in office, as well as more recent statements and actions, expect that there will be many policy changes enacted to "Restrict Immigration". Executive orders are anticipated that will slow the immigration process, raise eligibility requirements, and overall make it more complicated and difficult to sponsor immediate family members, such as fiancees on K1 visas, spouses on CR1 and IR1 visas and may eliminate the right to sponsor parents and siblings.

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Front Loaded Fiance Visa Petition http://imm.guru/front
Front Loaded Spouse Visa Petition http://imm.guru/frontcr1
K1 Fiancee Visa http://imm.guru/k1
K1 Fiance Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/k1time
CR1 Spousal Visa http://imm.guru/cr1
CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline http://imm.guru/cr108
Green Card /Adjustment of Status http://imm.guru/gc

While President Trump's specific immigration policies for his second term remain unclear,
his past actions and statements give us a good idea on what to expect. His 2019 tweet,
"Our Country is Full," and the numerous executive orders on immigration issued during
his previous administration suggest there will be continued efforts to RESTRICT immigration.

While there is a lot of talk about building a wall on the border, deportation of illegals,
changes to DACA and De-naturalization of Naturalized Citizens, and so on, this video is about
the potential changes that may effect those applying for their fiancé‘s, spouses, and immediate family members.

During President Trump's last term, he signed 220 executive orders. Many on immigration.
President Biden revoked 71 of these orders, mostly right after he began his term of office.

I expect that most of immigration executive orders that President Trump had issued
and which were revoked are now being dusted off, re-written in a way to make them less likely to be overturned (based on past experience) and readied to be reissued soon
after his inauguration on January 20.

Travel Bans
Last time President Trump put a freeze on the issuance of visas for travelers from
Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,
Tanzania, Venezuela and Yemen

If this happens again, and your partner is from one of these countries, you may suffer years of extra waiting before your partner can join you in the USA.

Vigorous Enforcement of Immigration Laws
President Trump mandated that USCIS vigorously enforce and administer immigration laws, take no short cuts.

"We have to get much tougher, much smarter, and less
politically correct," President Trump said.

What this means is that immigration officers will very closely examine
and scrutinize all cases looking for reasons to deny. This will cause
delays in processing, and a greater percentage of denied cases.

Increased Requests for Evidence (RFEs)
When a case is being processed at USCIS, the USCIS reviewing officer examines the contents of each application determining an applicant's eligibility. Sometimes a required document might be missing. If so, then the officer issues an RFE (request for evidence) asking for the missing item allowing the applicant 87 days to respond.

During the previous Trump Administration, USCIS issued two or three times more RFE’s than we had experienced at any prior time. Often these were for trivial reasons. We even got asked to resubmit documents already correctly submitted. The only apparent reason for such ‘nitpicking" was to cause a systemic slowdown to all case processing.

Extreme Vetting
During the last Trump Administration, proposed Extreme Immigration Vetting, where during
consulate interviews, applicants were asked to hand over their phones so that their contact
list and photos could be examined by the embassy or consulate and to provide social media
usernames and passwords for examination of an applicant's private and public posts.

Proposed last time, but not put into effect then was to require applicants to provide 15 years’
worth of travel, employment and address history, up from the current 5 years, and to institute
an "ideological test" on the applicant’s view of society, culture and the USA.

Stricter Public Benefits/Financial Eligibility Rules
To sponsor your Fiance, Spouse or other family member, you must demonstrate that you have
adequate income so that your increased household size with the addition of your foreign partner will never need to receive government assistance, Welfare, so called Public Benefits.

https://www.visacoach.com/trump-re-election-2025-effects/ Based on President Trump's last time in office, as well as more recent statements and actions, exp...

11/10/2024

US Citizenship Application Costs https://www.visacoach.com/naturalization-costs/ The process to become a US citizen is called Naturalization. Effective April 1, 2024 the application fees are $760, or $380 if ones household income is below four times the poverty income level.

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K1 Fiance Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/k1-visa-timeline/
CR1 Spousal Visa https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa/
CR1 Spouse Visa Timeline https://www.visacoach.com/spouse-visa-timeline/
Green Card /Adjustment of Status https://www.visacoach.com/green-card/

The spouse of a US citizen may apply to become a US citizen after 2 years and 9 months of permanent residency.
A lawful permanent resident, who is not married to a US citizen
must wait for 5 years of permanent residency before applying.

The process to become a US citizen is called Naturalization.

The fees to apply for Naturalization are paid to USCIS.

The fees as of April 1, 2024 are

either $760 or $380.

The difference is based on what your combined household income is.
If your household income is less than four times the poverty level,
you are eligible for the discounted fee of $380. If you household income
is over, then you pay the full fee of $760

This was Fred Wahl, The VisaCoach

https://www.visacoach.com/naturalization-costs/ The process to become a US citizen is called Naturalization. Effective April 1, 2024 the application fees are...

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