Thank you, Mr. Travel. I'm aware the health insurance isn't requried, just
thought documentation of it already being in force for my husband couldn't
hurt the case (and given the number of Americans without health insurance...).
My assets were not enough (although they counted against me when I applied
for public assistance when I first came back to this country and before I
found a job, they don't count as assets for sponsorship).
As for sponsorship NOT being a formality, I'm trying to find stats to support
that. I work with a number of people who are immigrants and in all of our
experiences and all the people we've communicated with regarding immigration,
we've never heard of the government suing a sponsor or joint sponsor to
recover public funds that an immigrant received. An immigratin attorney
informed me that the sponsors (unless one is a spouse) are not responsible
for personal debt such as credit card or mortgage debt; the only thing
sponsors are "in danger" of being hit with is having to pay back the
goverment for public funds that were dispersed to their sponsee (the
immigrant) -- but again, I can't find any info to show if or when that's
happened...? thoughts on this?
Mr. Travel wrote:
>> my husband is Moroccan, living in Morocco. I was living with him until August
>> 2007 -- I left Morocco for health and safety reasons with our 7-month old son.
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>> (prior to this year, I worked abroad but have had this job in the U.S. for
>> almost 6 months). Please contact me if you can help.
>
>There is no requirement for health insurance to enter the US on a
>spousal visa, so I don't know why that was even brought up.
>
>Being a sponsor is ot just a formality.
>They are on the hook for the support of the immigrant until they become
> a citizen or have 40 qualitfying quarters of employment.... or until
>they die
>
>Assets can also be pledged to cover income shortages.
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