Taxes for Sponsor petitioner

[marcamejo 0]

Hello all,

I need your support and advice!!!

My husband and I are working in order to gather all the information needed to apply for IR-1 Visa. Right now we have a joint sponsor for form I-864, I am the petitioner for my husband visa, i am not working in USA nor in my current residence country, my husband is working right now and we have some savings in our USA bank account, I have never paid federal taxes or similar, due to that in the past 10 years i didn't live in USA, nor worked for a USA company abroad the USA.

However reading the I-864 guidelance says that i should pay taxes and indicate how much i paid for.

Please help me, bacause i don't know if right now i have to pay taxes for 2010, 2009 and 2008, even though in the last 3 years i had small jobs outside the US that didn't represent great figures.

Thank you all for your prompt reply

[Anh map 2,098]

The US taxes on worldwide income. So if you earn an income (any company, any country) you are required to file a US tax return if your income meets the filing requirement. (See www.irs.gov for more info). You may not owe any tax, but that doesn't mean you aren't supposed to file.

The I-864 does ask you if you've filed for the 3 most recent years. If you were not required to file you must include a letter/affidavit explaining why you were not required to file.