Proof of income quandary

[bluescape 0]

Hello -

I did not include tax returns when filing an application for my wife, because I was in school, not working, for the years in question. I included this explanation in my wife's packet.

She had her visa interview and the person told her that I must send in a current (2015) tax return, or pay stubs. I am not sending in a tax return because she does not have an SSN yet, so we will file taxes after we enter the States. So, I must send pay stubs.

Here's the thing: the job for which I'm sending paystubs (and which provided a letter of employment, with salary, for inclusion in my original packet) has ended. I've started a new job. There are two months at the end of 2015 with no pay stubs. Still, I exceed the income requirements (120% above poverty level).

1) Will they ask about the missing paystubs?

2) Should I include a letter of explanation? This may pose problems because my new job's employment letter was not included with my original packet. And also, my letter of employment from this company specifies a 'temporary' status (the temp status exists because they want me to get back to the States within a certain amount of months!)

We've waited two years. I don't want to lose her visa on some triviality like this.

I appreciate VERY MUCH all your help.

[heo luoi 206]

Seems straightforward, these guys know situations change. How could you include a letter for a job you didnt have yet....I wouldn't sweat that. Id just suggest being candid and clear, nothing here seems outlandish. I would probably include a letter about the gap or whatever in the stubs. Or wait til pay day to get a stub from latest place and explain you switched jobs.

[bluescape 0]

Seems straightforward, these guys know situations change. How could you include a letter for a job you didnt have yet....I wouldn't sweat that. Id just suggest being candid and clear, nothing here seems outlandish. I would probably include a letter about the gap or whatever in the stubs. Or wait til pay day to get a stub from latest place and explain you switched jobs.

Thank you - I was sort of thinking along the same lines. The thing that concerns me about that approach though is, since the new company has only given me a 'temporary employment' offer letter (temporary until I move to the States, but they didn't mention that in the letter...), if the embassy asks to see the letter from the new company, they'll see "temporary employment" and think that I'm not going to have a job for all of 2016.

Is it better in my case to include the 10 months of stubs from 2015, and the first step from 2016 from the new company, with a simple note saying that I changed jobs, or just to include the stubs from the 2015 company?

I wonder, if I mention explicitly that I changed jobs, if they'll ask for the offer letter of the new place, and have a problem with the 'temporary' clause. The way my wife tells it, they said something along the lines of, "send in these documents. If they're satisfactory, you get a visa. If not, you don't", and I don't want to do this two year process again.

Edited January 13, 2016 by bluescape

[heo luoi 206]

Are you working or not? Do you have a stub from the new place or not yet?

I would include the 2015 stubs and say you switched jobs and have some sort of evidence you did so.

Id always err on the side of more evidence than not. At the minimum have it on the ready to present if you dont want to offer up too much needlessly. Are you sending the evidence or will your wife be there to answer questions.

I think as long as you have credible answers / evidence for the reasonable questions they should have than you are fine.

If you dont provide the answers and foresaw them asking....that'd be the worst.

My perspective is you already foresee them asking those questions, provide the answers for them.

I didnt goto the interview, why I couldnt make it. Why I dont currently have my own home....my fiance provided them the answers. Everyone moved on.

Totally reasonable questions anyone may ask.

Edited January 13, 2016 by heo luoi