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To proceed now, will require a qualified joint sponsor.

First, what is the exact wording of whatever makes you think you have not met the financial criteria?

Start with the Guide, then study the I-130 and it's excellent separate instructions. Unless there's a sex crime against a child, the criminal record is not really relevant.

Yes, that is correct. Read that question again, and you'll find the words "you are using to qualify...". Since you can't use it, the number is currently zero. Why not wait to submit the affidavit until she has a pay stub from the new American job. The numbers in the tax section will still be zero, but the current income number will be her new annualized pay.

One is enough. As a teacher, you will also have a contract. Right? The trick is to remove the joint sponsor you used to get through NVC to begin with.

"Someone had told me" is a well known source of misinformation. The words Death and Divorce both start with D, so best to be clear in your communication. I advise you to follow the advice I gave you in my first response. Count on ME as a reliable source.

Unless the spouse is coming from India, the current income documented with a single pay stub, will carry the day. You will get a case note from NVC seeming to suggest a joint sponsor, but just ignore than in your situation. State your current annual salary as your current household income in the appropriate section of the affidavit.

Yes, paying a fine is because of a "charge". Traffic tickets don't count in this context, but they all have charges written on the "ticket". Charges are things like failure to stop, speeding, negligent driving, reckless driving, etc.

Number 9 above is a very bad idea. The US Citizen sending money to the Philippines is not evidence of commingled finances. It can hurt, and doesn't help. Much of the rest won't be possible. They did not just ask for financial evidence. It's a laundry list. In this situation, it's best to concentrate on evidence of time spent together in person.

You write the one sentence in the available space under where you would otherwise enter federal tax return numbers.

The I-130 instructions tell you what to send in. If "DC" is Divorce Certificate, that is needed for you spouse but not a second on in the child's package. Marriage certificate between you and the child's mother, combined with the BC showing your wife is the child's mother, is exactly what is needed. Other relationship evidence is about showing your relationship with your wife is more than just legal, but also bona fide.

Leave blank. Indicate "live in Puerto Rico" hand written as the reason, but provide the most recent tax return transcript anyway. What's most important is evidence of current income I mentioned earlier.

The US Citizen does not need a visa to enter Mexico. Since the immigrant does not have a green card yet, but only EAD/AP, they would want to check further about whether they need a visa to enter Mexico, but there should be no problem re-entering the USA. That's what AP is for. For certain a "cruise to Mexico" can be taken without entering Mexico.

The surgical scar is the evidence. This is a non-issue.

If you are indicating another name used, then yes you document it when filing the petition.

It would be best and cleanest to disclose and document the previous civil union.

This subject comes up often and many are quite adamant about it. However, in the twenty years I've been following spouse immigration to the USA, I've never once seen any evidence that filing single when married has any immigration related, or IRS related consequence. Yes, it is not proper, and there's plenty of motivation to amend the return later. But, the topic here is relationship evidence, so the OP needs to just skip the evidence of comingling finances and concentrate on other forms of evidence actually applicable when the couple hasn't lived in the same country together yet. For what it's worth,.....I.....filed single when married and used the refund to finance my second trip to see my then wife in China. Her interview lasted two minutes, with not a mention of anything financial, not even a mention of the affidavit of support, except to hand it over.

In my opinion, don't worry about why, and just upload it. It cannot hurt.

A temporary need to be in the USA for treatment will not carry the day. An extended severe need for home care that cannot be provided by other means, might work. Must be the truth though.

Correct. Without more information, it doesn't look like any special circumstance.

If you are the foreign spouse, you do not provide a birth certificate with the I-130 filing. That comes at the NVC stage, and there is a definite location for it there. If you are documenting a name change, it simply goes the same place the marriage certificate or any other supporting documentation goes.

Not purely standard to ask for relationship evidence. If this is a direct request, that's one thing. If it's just a general email, that's another.

Shared finances is just one item on a list of possible types of relationship evidence. Concentrate on the other items. Most important is evidence of time spent together in person. That would be passport stamps, boarding passes, and photos together.

What is the exact wording that causes you to think they might be questioning what's already there?

Upload again or not. If it's already there, it's already there.