Employer I-864 screw up

[trickyspark 0]

When I got my transcripts from IRS, my federal income one was perfect, showed full amount from both jobs, all matched up. My parents requested their's and all was peachy.

Then we opened the W-2 envelopes.

My 2005 W-2 transcript was missing one of my jobs. I called IRS, they said my employer sent them a W-2, I work with my father, notice his was missing, he got the same "no one sent us the W2 message".

So, I decided to use my mother as co-sponsor since I recently got downsized, and my father still has the W-2 to get sent in from his employeer, and mine as well.

Well, then another question arose, looking at the I-864 from join sponsor viewpoint.

#25 in the instructions says submit individual tax return...my parents file jointly...my father has the W-2 f####up on his. The tax release form seems to indicate they might check W-2 and or tax returns.

So, what do I do? Do i wait til the IRS gets this W-2 and enters it into their system before I file the I-864? God only knows how long that will be.

Do I send in a nice note, with a copy of the W-2 my employer gave me (IRS won't accept taht they said, has to be mailed from employer) and explain the whole mess up.

Do joint sponsors need to sign a tax release form as well? And if so, will a copy of the one I have with a barcode on it be the best to use?

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

Your post confused me a bit, but it seems you will not be using your father now as the joint sponsor? If that is the case, then you will not need his W-2's. As far as joint tax returns go, well that is the only forms your mother would have. This is why the tax release form has a place for the spouse to sign if it is a joint return, that tells the IRS your father, though not actually a co-sponsor is giving his permission to let USCIS obtain any necessary tax information. Originally we sent in the W-2's only, because of the whole and/or statement we were ask for the tax transcripts anyway. We simply made a copy of the tax release form for my mother/co'sponsor to sign and send back her husband signed it as well even though he isn't a co-sponsor. I even had my ex husband sign my tax release form since two of my years taxes were filed jointly with him.

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