I-864 - joint sponsor's employment letter without being signed or stamped

[simonschus 58]

Hi all,

When adjusting from a K1, my partner and I have decided to get a joint sponsor for our affidavit of support (Form I-864).

Will there be a problem if the joint sponsor's employer letter isn't signed and if there isn't any official stamp?

His company outsources all their HR and Payroll services to a third-party company who aren't the must accessible. They provide an employer letter containing all the information we need for the affidavit of support. However, we must print the letter ourselves using our own printer. The third-party company won't provide any signature on the letter nor will they provide a stamp. They have said that there is already a process in place for this whereby the letter can be verified electronically by USCIS. We simply provide the USCIS with a unique code that they can enter on a website and then this brings up an electronic copy of the letter which is considered verified. I doubt that the adjudicator is going to bother with that so I don't want to get involved with that electronic verification code. Similarly, my joint sponsor's company won't stamp or sign the form themselves because of a contract that they have signed with the third-party too.

So, I return to my question: will there be a problem that the employer letter isn't signed and that there isn't any official stamp?

Simon

P.S. We won't be asking for our joint sponsor's last six months of paystubs but we will have his previous three years of tax returns.

Edited April 7, 2016 by simonschus

[simonschus 58]

For completeness, I actually managed to find a mockup sample of the letter that the third-party company provides which is in the image below.

Edited April 7, 2016 by simonschus

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Looks good to me.

[simonschus 58]

So, no concerns about a lack of handwritten signature or a stamp? If so, that would be excellent news but if anybody things otherwise then please do chime in! I couldn't find anything in the documentation about the employer letter needed to be signed/stamped so I have no idea if this was an internal rule that generated RFE or just preference/forum folklore!

Simon.

P.S. Our joint sponsor has been so kind with putting up with our requests for this documentation! I'm just trying to make it less burdensome or hassle for him as I know he actually has a life to lead and a job to do without having to think about the dull administrative aspects of my visa journey!

Edited April 7, 2016 by simonschus

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

So, no concerns about a lack of handwritten signature or a stamp? If so, that would be excellent news but if anybody things otherwise then please do chime in! I couldn't find anything in the documentation about the employer letter needed to be signed/stamped so I have no idea if this was an internal rule that generated RFE or just preference/forum folklore!

Simon.

P.S. Our joint sponsor has been so kind with putting up with our requests for this documentation! I'm just trying to make it less burdensome or hassle for him as I know he actually has a life to lead and a job to do without having to think about the dull administrative aspects of my visa journey!

This is 2016 where everybody is going online with employment verifications and such rather than secretaries typing a snail mail letter. It looks authentic which is what counts. I would not hesitate to use it. If it was a typed Word document on plain paper with no identifiers that you could type out yourself, then maybe not. Besides, if his tax transcript shows enough, the letter is just an optional supplement. Get a transcript, or if using the copy of the actual tax return remember to include a photocopy of the W2s as well.

Tax return (all pages) + W2s = COMPLETE tax return. Otherwise they will RFE.

Tax return transcript is stand alone by itself.

[simonschus 58]

Wonderful! Thank you for your clarification! An email has been fired off to the HR/Payroll just in case but it is one less thing to worry about

Simon.

[sofhi 5]

Wonderful! Thank you for your clarification! An email has been fired off to the HR/Payroll just in case but it is one less thing to worry about

Simon.

[simonschus 58]

I'm unsure if the above was meant to be a message or not as no message was typed.

As of yet, my I-485 hasn't been processed so I cannot comment on if this was accepted or not. Nonetheless, we managed to get an additional copy stamped by a sponsor's manager so my experiences on this matter might be moot.

Simon.

[sofhi 5]

Hi simonschus how are you? I am having the same problem as you have. Did the nvc accepted the form. Please if you can help that will be really great becoz i am being very nervous.