Affidavit of Support

[Zahra23 0]

I had planned on sponsoring my husband back in January when I would have started a new job. Unfortunately, I became quite ill and had to pass on the oppportunity. I am able to work now and want to send the initial documents, but fear in this economy I will not find one in time before the second part (requiring the i-864) will be requested. My question is how long a timeframe from submitting the first part (bio docs) till the check on income takes place...generally speaking? And if by that time I have not found employment will the process start all over again (lose the first petition), or will they give me some months to get a job and provide this information?

Thank you,

Zahra

Edited August 5, 2009 by Zahra23

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Sorry about your illness. You can always file -even if you do not have enough income- and get a joint-sponsor (or co-sponsor, not sure of the wording) who has enough income. Best of luck.

[Zahra23 0]

Thank you *Len* for your reply. A co-sponsor is not an option in my case, hence if I don't get a job in time wonder if there's a deadline until when I can submit this information after getting employed. If I am not mistaken if an application comes to the point where income needs to be verified and it doesn't meet the sufficient mark the petitioner has SIX Months to resolve this and not lose the first application. But, I wish someone could verify this.

Edited August 5, 2009 by Zahra23

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I;'m sorry to hear that.

The income verification -back when we filed for our CR-1 was just the tax returns for the last 3 years; but since we lived abroad, we needed a cosponsor anyway.

Hmmmm.... maybe ask a moderator or an organizer to move this to the CR-1 forum to get more responses?

[Zahra23 0]

I will ask that the post be moved to the CR-1 forum. Thank you again for replying.

[Anh map 2,098]

To the best of my knowledge there isn't an income check/verification. You supply your own information with the I-864. And if applicable the co-sponsor does the same.

If the I-864 is lacking a piece of evidence you will be sent an RFE (request for evidence). In the RFE notice it will have a respond by date to keep the file/petition active. The file processing stops when the RFE is sent and does not restart until the requested info is received. I don't think this respond by date can be extended.

[Zahra23 0]

Thank you Anh_map for your reply. The current request is for the last three years of tax returns; however, I was a F/T postgraduate student during this time. The job opportunity I lost was in my field, which could have served as income proof over the poverty line. So my task is now to look for a job to show this as proof, since I have neither tax returns to show nor a co-sponsor.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

Moved from Effects to CR-1 - as requested.