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"Cash" jobs should have been reported on Schedule C of your income tax returns. That way this income will be reflected on your tax transcripts. This is not just a suggestion, it is the law. If you did not report it when you filed, then you have filed a return which the IRS may consider to be fraudulent. You should file amended returns (form 1040X) for those years in which you had unreported "cash" income. If you did not file at all, then file now. BTW, if you had Schedule C "cash" income over $400 you are required to file because, although you may not have an income tax liability, you will owe Social Security and Medicare taxes. The filing requirement threshold is different for "cash" income than it is for reported W-2 income. Consult a tax professional.

Many people think that there is no need to report "cash" (Untraceable ?) income, but it can later become a problem.

Just an update.....I got email from NVC on July 12th that DS3032 was received and entered in the system and invoice for IV generated. So I paid it on line and got the cover sheet. Now my spouse can send the DS230 and documents from overseas. Thanks for your comments.

I had a lot of problems with this form also. I am older than most of you, and my income is from non-taxable sources....specifically Roth IRA withdrawals and Social Security. So I struggled with this form because line 22, form 1040, total income, only shows total "taxable" income. It does not show a person's total non-taxable income. And, of course, adjusted gross income is also useless in this situation. I sent in a cover letter with an explanation and am waiting to see the result. Of course I sent in copies of my 1099-SSA's and 1099R's, and IRS transcripts for two of the 3 past years when I was required to file. If I get an RFE on this I will be calling my Senator ( again ).

Thanks everyone, at least I know that is normal. BTW, my spouse had signed the DS 3032 a while back and sent to me in the US so I had it ready to go as soon as I got the NVC #. I cut out the barcode from the from the NVC email copy of the DS 3032 and pasted it onto the form that my wife had signed previously and sent it in the next day via USPS.

This in reference to a CR1 case now at NVC. They generated the AOS fee right away and I have paid it and sent the AOS packet. At the same time my wife (the foreign national) sent in her DS 3032. But the fee for the IV is not available to be paid yet. Is that normal ? Will the IV invoice only be generated after NVC enters her DS 3032 into the system ?

My I-130 petition was approved May 10. The notice from USCIS says that is "was sent" on that date to the NVC. The notice does not say it "will be sent" or that "we are sending", but the past tense "was sent". Silly me, I believed what it said !!!! So after 30 days, with no word from the NVC I started calling. Not received by NVC and a very condescending response from USCIS that they have 90 days to send it.

I went to my Senator's web site (Mark Kirk, R-IL) and he has a form especially for immigration problems right on his web site. I filled it out and less than 1 hour later I had an email from his office. They sent me a form to sign authorizing them to inquire on my behalf. I signed and sent that form to them and the very next day they had called USCIS and found my file sitting in the Chicago Field Office. The Senator's office told me that they had been told that USCIS would be sending shortly to NVC and if I had not heard from NVC in 2 weeks to notify the Senator's office. One day shy of the two week mark, I got the email from NVC with case # etc.

Moral of the story...check out your Senator's and Representative's web sites. My local Rep also had a form but required a trip to his office to turn in the authorization form. But I believe that they will and can help USC's.

irs form 4506T is a request for a tax return transcript. I never heard of a form that verifies that you are not required to file. I would think that if you used a 4506T to request a transcript for a year in which you did not file you might get a response that there is no return on file for that year, but I doubt that it would verify that there was no return required to be filed.

I found this thread very interesting and would appreciate member comments on my situation and plans.

I am USC and my wife is Bulgarian national. We were married last December in Bulgaria and USCIS approved our I-130 on May 10. I am assuming that she will get a CR-1 Visa late this summer or early in the fall, allowing her to immigrate within the following 6 months. I am currently in residence in the US and she is in Bulgaria awaiting visa approval.

Our long term plan, however, is to live in Bulgaria for 5 months of the year and in the US for 7 months each year. We hope that such will be sufficient time in the US to avoid the problems mentioned on this thread, i.e., losing LPR status in the US. We would like to do this for the next 3+ years until she can get US citizenship and then we can decide where to live full-time on a more or less permanent basis. Comments ?