Affidavit of Support,Joint Sponors and Tax Returns

[aquafiree 17]

Hello I am the husband of Shelley and have a couple questions. I wanted to inquire about having multiple joint sponsors and if its beneficial to have more than one joint sponsor? another thing i wanted to know the one joint sponsor we have will file for his taxes this year he hasn't filed yet, will we be able to use that tax return? he makes way over the poverty guidelines and has been for years just hasn't filed for taxes for the past couple of years. but all in all if everything is ok with my joint sponsor being able to file this year for his taxes that will be awesome but if not we might have to look into having multiple joint sponsors. thank you for anyone who helps I really appreciate it.

[aquafiree 17]

Bump please help

[Penguin_ie 5,984]

You can only have one joint sponsor.

If the interview is after April 15th, you will need to show the 2014 taxes; there is a small chance that one year is enough, but they usually want 3 years tax filing. The joint sponsor can backfile taxes (or show evidence as to why he was not required to file).

[aquafiree 17]

Our joint sponsor is a 21 years old, self employed businessman. He is my cousin. He makes over 500k usd a year. He didn't file his taxes last year but he filed his taxes this year and payed his taxes last year. He has only 1 income tax return. I've read some of the threads that their joint sponsors are their parents. Is it the same rules in ireland and philippines interms of affifavit of support?

[manilaraf 28]

You can only have one joint sponsor.

If the interview is after April 15th, you will need to show the 2014 taxes; there is a small chance that one year is enough, but they usually want 3 years tax filing. The joint sponsor can backfile taxes (or show evidence as to why he was not required to file).

According to the I-864 instructions you can have up to two joint sponsors. (Page 3, Item 1.e.)

[manilaraf 28]

Our joint sponsor is a 21 years old, self employed businessman. He is my cousin. He makes over 500k usd a year. He didn't file his taxes last year but he filed his taxes this year and payed his taxes last year. He has only 1 income tax return. I've read some of the threads that their joint sponsors are their parents. Is it the same rules in ireland and philippines interms of affifavit of support?

From what I'm reading and understanding from your posts, you might conceivably run into a little trouble if you use your cousin. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my impression from your posts. You mentioned your original post, "he makes way over the poverty guidelines and has been for years just hasn't filed for taxes for the past couple of years".

Is there any chance that your cousin owes back taxes? Like penguin said, they usually want the past 3 years of tax info (2014, 2013, 2012 in this case). As it says in page 6, Item 14 on the I-864 Instructions,

"If you were required to file a Federal income Tax Return during any of the previous three tax years but did not do so, you must file any and all late returns with IRS and attach an IRS-generated tax return transcript documenting your late filing before submitting the I-864 Affidavit of Support. If you were not required to file a Federal income tax return under U.S. Tax law because your income was too low, attach a written explanation. If you were not required to file a Federal income tax return under U.S. tax law for any other reason, attach a written explanation including evidence of the exemption and how you are subject to it."

If he didn't make enough to be required to file, he'll need to write an explanation why. If he wasn't required to for any other reason he'll have to write why as well. Any chance he can do you a solid and file his back taxes before signing on as a joint sponsor, or is my impression totally wrong here?

Is your other prospective joint sponsor meet the income requirement and has filed his/her 1040s for the past 3 years?

The point here is for the sponsor to show a stable source of income (as far back as 3 years).