Affidavit Of Support

[HK12 273]

Hello all,

My fiancé and I are hoping to hear something back from USCIS within the next one or two months (hopefully, NOA2!) and would like to get started on the I-134 Affidavit of Support. However, after looking at the form, we have a couple of questions:

My fiancé (who is the US Citizen and petitioner) currently works three jobs:

- as an employee at the local school bus barn as a school bus driver

- at his dad's homebuilding business as an employee (doing administrative tasks, calculating costs, drawing floor plans, etc.)

- at his dad's homebuilding business as a self-employed independent contractor (doing little odd jobs like mowing yards, hauling building material, etc.)

1) Question #7 of form I-134 (asking for current income): There is only space to provide one single job ("I am employed as or engaged in the business of... with... at..."). Can we just add a suplementary sheet listing his other jobs and their income?

2) We understand that for his self-employment, he needs to submit LAST YEAR'S tax transcript, whereas for his jobs as an employee, he should submit proof of his CURRENT income. Is that right?

3) As for the current income part, my fiancé does not have an annual salary per se; he gets paid by the hour. We are not sure how to prove his current annual income since it depends on his hours worked, which vary over the months. Will pay stubs be enough to prove this (my idea is to take the first six pay stubs of this year and multiply the amount by two, and use that as his annual income)?

4) If, after all those calculations, we figured out an annual income for his work as an employee - what if the income on his pay stubs differs from that on his employer's letter? Say, according to his employer's letter from the bus barn, he makes 15,000 dollars a year. In reality and according to his pay stubs, he makes well over 20,000 a year from the bus barn because he takes up additional field trips worth more than 5,000 dollars (which the bus barn won't put down on the employer's letter). What to do?

Sorry for all those complicated questions... We won't have any trouble meeting the minimum requirements, we're just trying to do it right. Thank you for your help in advance!

[Darnell 8,479]

2. no - include 'accumulated to date' in 2012 in your math equation - then make a projection as IF the income is for 12 months.

for example - take a month's intake, say, March, for example, all income, before taxes are deducted (not what's on the paychecks)

then multiply by 12 (as there are 12 months in a year).

THATs the 'current annual income'..

[HK12 273]

2. no - include 'accumulated to date' in 2012 in your math equation - then make a projection as IF the income is for 12 months.

for example - take a month's intake, say, March, for example, all income, before taxes are deducted (not what's on the paychecks)

then multiply by 12 (as there are 12 months in a year).

THATs the 'current annual income'..

Ah, thanks for clearing that up! That would imply to me though that he could just use a month where he worked more hours (= made more money), and if we accumulated his annual income based on that one month, it would look considerably higher than it would actually be...? Would immigration really accept this?

[Darnell 8,479]

might want to do some averaging, instead, to make 'a month'.