Submitting Tax Return with I-864 without W-2s

[reinsterling 1]

I'm putting together the Affidavit of Support for my wife's CR-1 visa. I'm not currently living in the US and all of my income for the last few years has been foreign earned, so as I understand, it won't count towards the AOS financial support minimum. Because of that I'm having my father fill out a separate I-864 as a joint sponsor which should more than fulfill the requirement on its own.

I know that even though my I-864 won't fulfill the financial requirement, I still have to submit either my Tax transcript or photocopy of the most recent year's tax return. I've been trying to order the transcript from the IRS website, but have hit a snag with something in my address not matching what's in their system. I even tried calling their 1-800 number, but when I enter my social security number, it says they can't process it. Very strange.

Anyway, I luckily have a copy of my most recent tax return saved as a PDF on my computer from when I printed and filed it earlier this year. My question is this: since the I-864 instructions say that if you use a photo copy of your tax return that you need to include all W-2s and form 1099s that relate to your return, and since I didn't have any W-2s or form 1099s since I've been living abroad and all of my income fell under the foreign earned income exemption, do I still need to include some record of my foreign earned income? Or can I just submit the copy of the tax return by itself?

Sorry if that was long. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

[NikLR 13,234]

Did you send a copy of your w2 version to the IRS? Likely not but include a copy of your form 2555 as it should have been part of your return. Really your stuff at this point isn't very important as you have a joint sponsor. So only do 2013.