RFIE for I-864: Self-employed sponsor AND joint sponsor

[mushroomspore 3,044]

Hello all,

 

So we've received an RFIE for our I-864. We filed back in August. The RFIE letter requests evidence of my husband's (main sponsor) income from the last six months and/or a joint sponsor's paperwork. We plan on asking my dad-in-law to be our joint sponsor and the numbers should be all dandy. My dad-in-law does NOT live with us. With the preliminary information aside, I have a few specific questions that I hope some of our seasoned posters can help me out with.

 

1. My husband's a freelance self-employed artist so he has MANY clients. He uses QuickBooks to create, send and keep track of his invoices (paid and otherwise). We sent all of his paid invoices from January 2017 to August 2017 with our original I-864. The letter does not specify on this point, but are these QuickBooks invoices considered "official" enough as evidence for USCIS? We plan on sending his invoices from August 2017 to January 2018 since they've asked for proof of income from the past six months. But I'm just wondering if we need to or should send something else.

 

2. My husband's been self-employed as a freelance artist for almost a decade. My father-in-law's been self-employed as a home improvement/renovation worker for 35 years. The RFIE letter does suggest including letters of employment. Should we include self-written letters from my husband and father-in-law in our RFIE response to bolster it? Or is it unnecessary? My husband has done and continues to do regular work for a rather large corporation and he could technically get a "letter of employment" from them. But it's not like he's their employee; he's simply listed as a "vendor/freelancer" in their payroll.

 

3. How would my dad-in-law fill out the I-864 when counting household size? He's married and still lives with his wife (husband's mom, who has always been a housewife). What should my dad-in-law put  in the box that says, "If you are currently married, enter '1' for your spouse"??

 

That's it for now. Thanks in advance, everyone.