Instructions For Form I-129 - Petition For A Nonimmigrant Worker Page 14

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9. The offered position requires at least 20 hours of
1. When the alien will receive salaried or non-salaried
compensated work per week, or if fewer than 20 hours per
compensation, the prospective employer may submit past
week, the compensated service for another religious
evidence of compensation for similar positions; budgets
organization and the compensated service at the
showing monies set aside for salaries, leases, etc.; and
petitioning organization will total 20 hours per week.
documentation that food, housing, medical care, or
transportation will be provided. Internal Revenue Service
10. The specific location(s) of the proposed employment.
(IRS) documentation of compensation must be submitted,
if available; however, if IRS documentation is
11. The alien is qualified to perform the duties of the offered
unavailable, the prospective employer must explain why it
position.
is unavailable and submit comparable verifiable
12. The alien's membership of the denomination for at least
documentation.
two years.
2. If the alien will be self-supporting, the petitioner must
13. That, if the position is not a religious vocation, the alien
submit documentation establishing that the position the
will not be engaged in secular employment.
alien will hold is part of an established program for
temporary, uncompensated missionary work, which is
14. The prospective employer's obligation to notify USCIS
part of a broader international program of missionary
within 14 days of any changes in the alien's employment
work sponsored by the denomination.
including:
An established program for temporary, uncompensated
A. Working fewer than the required number of hours; or
work is defined to be a missionary program in which:
B. Having been released or otherwise terminated from
employment before the end of the authorized R-1
A. Foreign workers, whether compensated or
stay.
uncompensated, have previously participated in R-1
status;
Initial Evidence Related to the Prospective Employer
B. Missionary workers are traditionally uncompensated;
The prospective employer must submit the following initial
C. The organization provides formal training for
evidence relating to the prospective employer:
missionaries; and
1. A currently valid determination letter from the Internal
D. Participation in such missionary work is an
Revenue Service establishing status as a tax-exempt
established element of religious development in that
organization as defined in part 9 above.
denomination.
2. Documentation that establishes the religious nature and
The petitioner must submit evidence demonstrating:
purpose of the organization, such as a copy of the
organizing instrument of the organization that specifies
A. That the organization has an established program for
the purposes of the organization;
temporary, uncompensated missionary work;
B. That the denomination maintains missionary
3. Organizational literature, such as brochures, calendars,
programs both in the United States and abroad;
flyers, and other literature describing the religious
purpose and nature of the activities of the organization;
C. The religious worker's acceptance into the missionary
and
program;
4. A completed Form I-129 Religious Denomination
D. The religious duties and responsibilities associated
Certification, signed and dated by an authorizing official,
with the traditionally uncompensated missionary
certifying under penalty of perjury that the petitioning
work; and
organization is affiliated with the religious denomination.
E. Copies of the alien's bank records, budgets
documenting the sources of self-support (including
Initial Evidence Related to Compensation
personal or family savings, room, and board with host
The prospective employer must submit verifiable evidence of
families in the United States, donations from the
denomination's churches), or other verifiable evidence
compensation or self-support.
acceptable to USCIS.
Form I-129 Instructions (Rev. 12/04/09)Y Page 14

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