American Wife, British Husband living together in Tbilisi, Georgia

[satmanuk 1]

From what I'm reading, mother's household size is only 2 (her and intending immigrant). Just because grandmother lives under the same roof doesn't mean she counts in mother's household size. So under this scenario, your wife fills out an I-864 and mother as a joint sponsor fills out an I-864. Household size is two for both.

Correct

There are no additional dependent's as my wife is an only child. In the house would be myself, my wife, my mother in law and her mother.

So therefore household size is 2 (i get confused because when they talk of a household size i assume its the total number of occupants in a house).

I think that makes things a little less mud like in my mind. if her mother is financially independent therefore she can be discounted they just need to know how many people her mother is supporting.

How long should it take from selecting an agent to receiving the IV fee and from paying the AOS fee to being able to get the online pack (we have the paper pack with the welcome letter from NVC).

Throughout the whole process we have been in the dark, nobody has emailed or sent us text messages - in fact when tried to complete the form in the first place it refused to allow international mobile numbers on the form because all numbers must be xxx-xxx-xxxx format...

we submitted the cover form for email notifications but they didn't bother with it and it takes 6 weeks sometimes for a packet to come here from the US ( the last one was sent USA > Switzerland > Georgia for some obscure reason).

Stuart

[pushbrk 13,632]

Household size is discussed here in the context of the i-864. Unless your wife's mother claims the grandmother as a dependent on her tax return, then the household size on both your I-864's will be the sponsor plus the intending immigrant. Be sure not to put a 1 in the box for spouse on either affidavit, as mom has no spouse and your wife's spouse is already counted as the intending immigrant. You don't count anybody twice, no matter how intuitive it would be to count you as "spouse".

[satmanuk 1]

Yes I am in the immigrant so don't need to list myself.

Fair enough.

I will double check but as far as I know her mother is financially independent she just lives with my mother in law because its her house and she is oxygen dependent so needs supervision.

Stuart

[pushbrk 13,632]

You are already listed as the immigrant. You don't count again as the spouse. Remember, regardless of who is doing the work of filling out the affidavit, it is your wife's affidavit in your behalf, so SHE does not list you as both her spouse and the intending immigrant, just as the intending immigrant.

[satmanuk 1]

You are already listed as the immigrant. You don't count again as the spouse. Remember, regardless of who is doing the work of filling out the affidavit, it is your wife's affidavit in your behalf, so SHE does not list you as both her spouse and the intending immigrant, just as the intending immigrant.

which is damn confusing because it clearly states if you are married tick 1 here

We sent the payment for our DS-261 today.. hopefully by Monday my DS-261 should be available to fill in.

I hope that's much more straight forward than the i-864

Edited October 1, 2015 by satmanuk

[Ryan H 3,901]

which is damn confusing because it clearly states if you are married tick 1 here

The form also clearly states to not count anyone twice.

[pushbrk 13,632]

The form also clearly states to not count anyone twice.

The latest version of the form does the adding for you, so if you tick 1 for a spouse who is already counted as the immigrant, you're going to have a wrong total. The only way to get the total to show correctly is to "not count anybody twice." :-)

[satmanuk 1]

yeah but it doesn't work with my PDF viewer only seems to work with Adobe Acrobat and not generic PDF viewers. Thanks to Adobe for withdrawing Linux support. it wouldn't even let me type in the auto populated box (which it didn't populate) nor did it generate the barcode on the form so hey ho they will have to OCR it or actually manually key in the i-864's.

I have just submitted by DS-260 IV application and posted all the supporting documents to Jennifer's Mother so she can sign her i-864 as joint sponsor and then submit it to New Hampshire.