Joint sponsor proof of legal status has a different name

[Juliet57 304]

Hello all, 

I am waiting for my case number from NVC however we have started looking into the Affidavit of Support documents. 

 

My husband (USC) is petitioning me and the joint sponsor will be my father-in-law.

We are planning to file i-864 (husband) and i-864a (father-in-law), since they both live in the same house.

My MIL passed away years ago so there are no other household members.

 

The i-1864a says we need to provide proof of petitioner and joint sponsor's relationship. So we have my husband's birth certificate. 

However the birth certificate, and my FIL's green card (proof of legal status) name are not exactly the same.

The GC has his middle name abbreviated and his second lastname, and the birth certificate has the full names but only one lastname.

 

i.e.

Husband birth certificate father's name: John Doe Smith

FIL's greencard name: John D. Smith-Secondlastname

 

Is this going to be an issue? Any differences in names in one document or another is a huge deal in Mexico, but I don't know about the USA.

My husband thinks it might be ok cause sometimes 'government doesn't have consistency'. 

 

Any comments are appreciated. 

[pushbrk 12,107]

5 hours ago, Juliet57 said:

Hello all, 

I am waiting for my case number from NVC however we have started looking into the Affidavit of Support documents. 

 

My husband (USC) is petitioning me and the joint sponsor will be my father-in-law.

We are planning to file i-864 (husband) and i-864a (father-in-law), since they both live in the same house.

My MIL passed away years ago so there are no other household members.

 

The i-1864a says we need to provide proof of petitioner and joint sponsor's relationship. So we have my husband's birth certificate. 

However the birth certificate, and my FIL's green card (proof of legal status) name are not exactly the same.

The GC has his middle name abbreviated and his second lastname, and the birth certificate has the full names but only one lastname.

 

i.e.

Husband birth certificate father's name: John Doe Smith

FIL's greencard name: John D. Smith-Secondlastname

 

Is this going to be an issue? Any differences in names in one document or another is a huge deal in Mexico, but I don't know about the USA.

My husband thinks it might be ok cause sometimes 'government doesn't have consistency'. 

 

Any comments are appreciated. 

If the father in law qualifies on his own, don't do the I-864a as a household member.  Have him do the I-864 as "joint sponsor".  Then, they do not need evidence of relationship.  They need evidence of the FIL's US Citizenship or Green Card.  If FIL is married, have his wife do an I-864a whether she has any income or not.

[Juliet57 304]

15 hours ago, pushbrk said:

If the father in law qualifies on his own, don't do the I-864a as a household member.  Have him do the I-864 as "joint sponsor".  Then, they do not need evidence of relationship.  They need evidence of the FIL's US Citizenship or Green Card.  If FIL is married, have his wife do an I-864a whether she has any income or not.

Thanks for your reply. 

 

Yes he qualifies on his own, we will do just that. 

I read your reply last night and was confused, I thought 'but the petitioner has to send I-864 too'. Just realized you meant they both should do I-864  

[Juliet57 304]

On 10/8/2019 at 5:50 PM, pushbrk said:

If the father in law qualifies on his own, don't do the I-864a as a household member.  Have him do the I-864 as "joint sponsor".  Then, they do not need evidence of relationship.  They need evidence of the FIL's US Citizenship or Green Card.  If FIL is married, have his wife do an I-864a whether she has any income or not.

Hi again, we were intending to file I-864 and I-864 for my FIL but I saw in another thread that someone else was requested to upload I-864a since both petitioner and sponsor lived in the same house, so we're gonna do that. 

But the name issue remains. My FIL's name is different in basically every one of his documents like passport, license, greencard, etc

 

Do you know if this will be ok? I don't know how easy it is to request a name change in each of those documents. I'm guessing we should file the same name in I-864a than in the GC, but then the name would be slightly different than in my husband's birth certificate..

 

Any help is appreciated.

[pushbrk 12,107]

Do everything in the joint sponsor's current legal name.  Again, if the joint sponsor does NOT need to COMBINE INCOME with the petitioner, do as I indicated.  It is correct advice.  What you heard somewhere else, is not based on understanding the big picture.  See anonymous quote in signature below.