Should I include my parents in Household size, Form I-864

[njguy92 0]

Hello Everyone, I am sponsoring my wife to come to USA. I am a full time student and I work part time. Therefore my income is not enough to sponsor her. My brother-in-law will be joint sponsor and will fill out his own I864, Since his own income meets the poverty guideline limitation. While I was filling I864 i was confused in part 5 of household size question. I live with my parents but I won't be using their income to sponsor my wife because My mom is unemployed and my father and my income combined does not meet poverty guideline limits. so My brother-in-law will be joint sponsor.

So should I include them in line 7 (if you siblings, parents with the same principal residence who are combining their income with yours by submitting I864a, enter the number here). ? I was thinking i do not need to add my parents in this part because I won't be combining their income to meet poverty guideline, even though they are living with me. Is this correct? so my household size will be 2 me and my wife whom I am sponsoring.

Also I filed my own tax return and my parents filed their joint tax return and they claimed me as dependent on their tax return. However I have not claimed anyone dependent in my tax return. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

Edited June 4, 2015 by njguy92

[Penguin_ie 5,985]

You don;t need to add your parents, unless you claimed them as dependants in your tax return

[njguy92 0]

Thank you. so my household size will be just 2( me and my wife) right?even though I live with my parents

[Ash.1101 1,755]

As long as your parents aren't being taken care of by you or you haven't claimed them as dependents on your tax return, your household would be just two, you and your fiance.

If you support your parents financially (as in they can't support themselves or you're choosing to take care of them) or claim them on your taxes then you would count them.

Example, my mom will be sponsoring my fiance. My mom lives with her boyfriend but they have seperate finances are merely live together, neither are financially responsible for the other, they don't even share bank accounts or income. So even though my mom lives with him, since she isn't financially responsible for her boyfriend and didn't claim him on her taxes, the only people in the household are my mom and my fiance even though my fiance will be living with myself and my daughter, my MOM's household number for sake of the paperwork is still two. She is financially responsible for herself, and my fiance.

Look at the term household as "How many people will the sponsor be financially responsible for". If they have children they support 100% and claim, then those children AND the immigrant get added. But if they live in a house of 8 people, and do not support any of the other 7 people then they simply count as "one" person of the household.

Edited June 4, 2015 by Ash.1101

[njguy92 0]

ok got it. thank you very much for your help.

[Ash.1101 1,755]

ok got it. thank you very much for your help.

Yup yup!

And don't worry I had the same problem for the most part, asked about the same thing a while back and got good answers. =D