NVC making a review error?

[m29a 1]

Our situation:

 

(Adam) US petitioner unemployed with low current income but has assets (stocks) value of close close to six figures. Files i864

 

(Bob) US father of petitioner who is retired and has pension and social security and moderately passes household of 3 (including wife and intending beneficiary but not petitioner) minimum to support. Files i864

 

(Jane) US mother of petitioner also retired and files taxes joint with above husband Bob, with her lesser income from social security. Files i864a

 

My understanding of the directions and advice on here is that it is recommended that spouses of joint sponsor should file i864a. From directions, it is acceptable for them to have separate addresses as well. To be clear they own two homes and live close to one another.

 

So we uploaded all the proper documents like tax transcripts, social security benefits letters and pension letter, stock brokerage statement, birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc.

 

I was confident that we had done everything correctly because I closely followed directions of i864 and i864a but we logged in and while petitioner and joint sponsor documents show as accepted, there were two message notes that they said Jane (wife of joint sponsor Bob) does not qualify as a household member and should be added as a joint sponsor. They also said that the joint sponsor (Bob) needs to upload all 1099 and schedules.

 

Had anyone experienced this? Can someone explain what is going on? I used the NVC inquiry form to ask for clarifications on this and for a re-review.

[m29a 1]

This process with NVC has been irritating.

 

They ignored my inquiry after checking their time-frames page. 

 

I then decided to do what they wanted and upload all extra documents for joint sponsor Bob. And then because they already accepted his i864 I had thought to just ignore Janes (bobs wife) side of things at this stage, because their original message seems incorrect, asking for her to be a second joint sponsor when she doesn't make enough on her own...

 

This is annoying because their responses are vague and then further ignoring my inquiry when they could have provided a few sentences explaining the discrepancies on what I read and what their official policy is.

 

What they are asking doesn't really make sense. Any insights?

[m29a 1]

Final update, I decided this third time to ignore their instructions again and resubmit Jane as household member the same exact way as the first time.. but I added two comments when reuploading a couple of Jane's documents clarifying the situation and pointing out part of i864a instructions why she does qualify as household member of Bob.

 

So I was correct, now documentarily qualified, and the NVC contracted reviewer the first time made an error probably rushing, maybe not seeing that Bob's joint tax returns clearly show Jane's name on there, or a lack of awareness on i864a instructions that allow separate addresses for spouse.

 

Good luck everyone.

[TBoneTX 47,796]

That's good news and good thinking.  Congratulations, and keep us posted.