US Immigration from Canada

My spouse is a student who has zero income in I-864. When we filed last summer, we had a joint sponsor (spouse's father). I now have a job that I can put in I-864 Part 5 Lines 8 and 9 (income of intending immigrant and have proof that it will continue after obtaining LPR as it is a US job obtained legally with my EAD). I am expecting my interview to be this summer so I am preparing.

1. Does USCIS ask you to fill out another I-864 that we need to bring to the interview or will they use the one that we filed last summer with the joint sponsor and zero income for sponsor and intending immigrant? I prefer to use my income now instead of relying on a joint sponsor from the original filing.

2. This is NOT a tax question so do not move it to the Tax forum: I am considered a non-resident based on substantial presence test from the IRS so I am not required to file my foreign income in 2021. However, I can elect to be treated as an alien resident for tax purposes to bump up my spouse's zero income in 2021 Tax Return. Is this necessary to get the I-864 approved or am I just making it complicated? Spouse's income would be zero in 2021 Tax Transcript and if I elect to file as a resident even though I don't have to, the numbers would look good.

3. If I decide to fill out the new version of I-864 (depending on your answer from my question #1 above), I'd like to know what we should put below. My spouse is a student or homemaker as the current job....or should we tick the "unemployed" box?

Thanks for your help!

For the AOS (my husband and sister in law as a co sponsor)

do I bring their passports with me to the interview? Or just photocopies? Or notarized ones?

and for their tax transcripts etc do I just bring a printed copy or does it have to be certified?

Hi everyone,

if you don t have a copy of your immunization records and your dr doesn t either, can I just request to get them again at the medical? My dr books 3 months out, so I m wondering if I m better off doing it that way.

Different opinions have been given on this website as to rescheduling your interview. One couple had a trip to Central America planned for their anniversary, and their interview was scheduled right on their departure date. Many people had said, "Not a legitimate reason, don't even bother," since it was a leisure trip (albeit whose cancellation would have incurred heavy financial losses). But they were able to visit a USCIS office in person, and on the contrary, the agent told them it was a very legitimate reason, and the interview was rescheduled. That was back in 2009.

My question is the following: I've just found out that an interview has been scheduled for me (as of April 4) - extremely grateful for this, can't believe it's finally here! - and I've also some major upcoming dates for non-negotiable exams over the coming months (at least or three or four very inflexible dates that involve travel to different states and that are necessary for my career). Cancelling or postponing these could set me back six to twelve months. Though it's unlikely the AOS interview date should fall exactly on the same day as one of these exams, at the same time, if it did it'd be a very hard choice to make. But given that I already have an EAD that's valid for another two years, and I don't plan on leaving the U.S. anytime soon, I could afford to defer the AOS interview. That said, how easy is it to reach a USCIS agent these days? Should I even bother trying to reschedule if it came to that?

If it's impossible to reschedule the interview and it falls on a major, non-negotiable date, I'll go to the interview, of course, and take the hit - though it would be a major one. Just wondering what my options are and how much wiggle room I have, given the difficulty in reaching a live human being at USCIS who can help you outside the scheduled mailings and hard dates they give.

We recently used the USCIS.gov "Case Inquiry" option (Case outside normal processing time) regarding AOS. We filed for my AOS in May of 2020, had the biometrics appointment in February 2021, and nothing had happened since then. About a month or two after using the "Case Inquiry" option on USCIS, I checked my USCIS online profile and saw that my case was ready to be scheduled for an interview. A little over a week later, it said an interview had been scheduled (as of April 4) and they would be mailing me a notice.

I bring this up here because I realize now that I used the exact same "Case Inquiry" function to ask about my biometrics appointment back in late November 2020. From May to November 2020, I received no update on my case; shortly after making a formal inquiry, I was invited to the biometrics appointment (rescheduled twice for reasons too complicated to get into here). In any case, it seems now that the "Case Inquiry" is a gentle way to poke and prod about the status of your application, and in our case it seems to have worked.

Unless it's entirely a coincidence!