AOS RFE: Missing Tax Return

[FaintSpartan 138]

Hey all,

 

So the wife and I got a bit of a shock in the mail a few days ago. 

 

We received an RFE for our I-485 because we supposedly didn't send in tax returns, however this is confusing because we did send in tax returns.

 

The exact wording on the RFE is "The petitioning sponsor on Form I-864, Affidavit of Support, must submit a complete Federal income tax return submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the most recent tax year"

 

Did USCIS just lose my wifes tax return? We know for a fact that we sent in the past three years of 1040s W-2s and 8615s. 

 

Is it possible they're asking for my mother-in-laws tax returns? She is a joint sponsor (using form I-864a) and we can't remember exactly what we gave USCIS for her. 

 

We're planning on sending all the tax documents we can gather (1040s, W-2s and 8615s along with an IRS Tax Transcript) just to make sure we cover all our bases and don't miss anything. 

 

Is there something we're missing? Has anyone else here dealt with a similar issue? 

 

Any help/advice would be seriously appreciated. 

 

It's also note worthy that on her (wife) tax info she doesn't qualify to be the sole sponsor, however she since got a new job 7+ months ago and is earning more than enough to be the sole sponsor. We gave in pay stubs and letters from her employer to confirm this.

[JeanneAdil 6,196]

did you label the tax returns (every page ) with your case number ,  both names and both DOB's ?

if not ,  they have been misplaced in the shuffle of documents that USCIS receives daily

[FaintSpartan 138]

No we didn't. We didn't want to damage or deface them in case it invalidates them. We put them in their own plastic envelope with a label attached saying what they were, but we didn't write any of that.

[MariaR323 199]

If you are using a co-sponsor, I'm almost positive you also have to submit tax returns/transcripts for the sponsor as well.

 

You didn't keep a copy of the packet you sent in? My number one piece of advice is ALWAYS keep an exact copy of what you send in.

[FaintSpartan 138]

27 minutes ago, MariaR323 said:

If you are using a co-sponsor, I'm almost positive you also have to submit tax returns/transcripts for the sponsor as well.

 

You didn't keep a copy of the packet you sent in? My number one piece of advice is ALWAYS keep an exact copy of what you send in.

We had an electronic copy, but the co-sponsors tax info wasn't backed up at her request. (Doesn't trust the security of our PC etc etc)

 

We'll collect all of her tax info again + IRS Transcript. Hopefully USCIS will accept it haha. 

[scottybrittas 1]

On 10/26/2019 at 4:27 PM, FaintSpartan said:

We received an RFE for our I-485 because we supposedly didn't send in tax returns, however this is confusing because we did send in tax returns.

This exact situation happened to me a few weeks ago. I definitely provided the previous years tax return as required (I'm very ####### about all the documentation). They also had a second bullet point saying we needed a joint sponsor. 

 

My only guess is that it's a standard letter they use and doesn't really clarify what they really were not seeing from the AOS request.

 

So we found a second sponsor and submitted an affidavit of support for them, as well as the 2018 tax return which had already been sent in. Now waiting to hear back.