Another complicated affidavit question. Help!!!

[DeParaquedasBrasi 228]

Hello everyone, here another Affidavit of Support question. Hopefully someone can guide me on this because attorneys are jerks and want to charge just to ask a lousy question.

We’ve married over two years and when we got married my brothers-in-law agreed to sponsor us since he had chemical transportation company that made well over 7 figures per year.

Well over two years went by and we just now decided to jump on the green card train, only problem is that my brother-in-law is almost reaching retirement and sold his company.

This is where I’m completely lost. He received a 7 figure down payments from the person that bought his company and he deposited in his account and makes money off the interest it’s generating monthly. He also receives  payments of 30k per months for the remainder of the sell of his company. He owns two homes and lives off the interest and simply stores the rest in the bank.

we tried to get a head start on the affidavit of support but got totally lost when it comes to him being employed, unemployed, retired etc......he’s technically not retired and not employed.......how would I fill his affidavit out? Also I’m kinda concerned because I’ve read that they don’t care too much about bank statements. Attorneys want to charge me 500 bucks just to ask these questions.

Does this sound  feasible?

Thank you guys!

[Just Paul 4,591]

Your brother in law can be a joint sponsor based on assets rather than income.

[pushbrk 12,094]

On 10/11/2019 at 6:52 PM, Paul & Mary said:

Your brother in law can be a joint sponsor based on assets rather than income.

Correct.  I think you will find that professionals are accustomed to being paid to answer questions designed to help people do it themselves, as opposed to hiring their services.  That said, this sponsor is a self employed investor and his income will come from line 6 of his 2018 1040 form.  If that's not enough, then he can list and document liquid assets.  If he is married filing a joint tax return, his spouse needs to provide an I-864a, whether she has any income or not.

[DeParaquedasBrasi 228]

On 10/11/2019 at 8:52 PM, Paul & Mary said:

Your brother in law can be a joint sponsor based on assets rather than income.

 

8 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Correct.  I think you will find that professionals are accustomed to being paid to answer questions designed to help people do it themselves, as opposed to hiring their services.  That said, this sponsor is a self employed investor and his income will come from line 6 of his 2018 1040 form.  If that's not enough, then he can list and document liquid assets.  If he is married filing a joint tax return, his spouse needs to provide an I-864a, whether she has any income or not.

I appreciate yalls feedback. It’s clarified many doubts. 

Thank you.