Which income to report in I-864 - please advise

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I am hoping to get an answer through you guys.

 

We are putting together the files for the NVC stage as we have been waiting forever and hope to get a case number soon - been waiting for ten weeks now.

 

Anyway, my husband and I are not sure which income to report on the i-864, section 6, question 7.

 

It says my current income is.... 

 

I have heard both - income before taxes and others have said adjusted gross income... However, what speaks against the adjusted gross income is that the I-864 asks about that again on page 5. Logically thinking, they wouldn't ask the same question twice?

 

And reading the instructions - and I may just be too limited to understand - do not seem to clarify anything either. At least not to us... see below...

 

Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you guys so much.

 

"Item Number 7. Current Individual Annual Income. Type or print your current, individual, earned or retirement, annual income that you are using to meet the requirements of this af davit and indicate the total in the space provided.

You may include evidence supporting your claim about your expected income for the current year if you believe that submitting this evidence will help you establish ability to maintain suf cient income. You are not required to submit this evidence, however, unless speci cally instructed to do so by a U.S. Government of cial. For example, you may include a recent letter from your employer, showing your employer’s address and telephone number, and indicating your annual salary. You may also provide pay stubs showing your income for the previous six months. If your claimed income includes alimony, child support, dividend or interest income, or income from any other source, you may also include evidence of that income."

 

 

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I hope someone knows the answer.

[Villanelle 4,122]

Are you self employed? If so you use the adjusted (after deductions) amount. If you are an employee you use the income before taxes. The two numbers (question 7 and page 5) may not match. Thats okay. Just enter the correct amount in each spot. Page 5 refers to whats printed (on line 22 I believe) on your tax returns. 

[pushbrk 12,975]

4 hours ago, Damara said:

Are you self employed? If so you use the adjusted (after deductions) amount. If you are an employee you use the income before taxes. The two numbers (question 7 and page 5) may not match. Thats okay. Just enter the correct amount in each spot. Page 5 refers to whats printed (on line 22 I believe) on your tax returns. 

If self employed and ONLY if self employed, the "current income" amount comes from line 22 of the 2017 tax return.

 

For an employed person, you take your gross pay from a pay period times the number of pay periods in a year, and that is your current income.  Using easy number, if you make 1 every two weeks, multiply by 26 pay periods and your current income is $26,000.

 

Current income NEVER comes from a tax return for an "Employed" person.

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7 hours ago, pushbrk said:

If self employed and ONLY if self employed, the "current income" amount comes from line 22 of the 2017 tax return.

 

For an employed person, you take your gross pay from a pay period times the number of pay periods in a year, and that is your current income.  Using easy number, if you make 1 every two weeks, multiply by 26 pay periods and your current income is $26,000.

 

Current income NEVER comes from a tax return for an "Employed" person.

Thank you for clarifying!