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Dave, I thank you for sharing your advice! I worry about this issue every year. However, after reading your message, I checked a few other sources, and I'm pretty sure that I am doing it correctly on the tax form. Take this link for one example among many: it tells me to write the income exclusion as a negative number on line 21. If my entire income is contained in that "foreign income exclusion" then I have a total of zero income when I reach line 37.

BUT I take your first point. I will match my numbers on my tax form to the i-264. Which leads me to Ryan H.

Ryan, thanks very much for telling me that. It's quite a relief to hear. In that case, if it's not just a mechanical process in a USCIS office somewhere, I'm sure this can be understood by the consular officer. Sounds good.

I'm going to write my income as zero in the i-264. Just to be safe, I'm going to ask my parents to send their own i-264 as joint support. This increases my risk of another mistake (and another 60 days!!), but I think we can get it all correct this time. If that sounds like a dumb idea, I'm glad for anyone reading this to tell me. Thanks again!

Hey everyone,

I'm an American filing for a CR-1 Visa for my wife. I think we're almost to the interview stage, but my affidavit of support (the i-864) came back with a couple of mistakes. Most seem simple but this one has me a bit stumped:

I've been living abroad for the last few years, and each time I filed my taxes I claimed a Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. This means that I include my W-2's from my (Japanese) employer, which are my sole source of income, and because Japan is my current tax home and my income isn't above a certain amount (something like $80,000), I can exclude that amount from my total income. This means that my adjusted gross income is zero when I file my taxes, even though they can see all this paperwork and how I arrived at that amount (my salary, minus my salary, equals zero).

So... am I just setting myself for failure when I include this paperwork and tell USCIS that my income is zero, on form i864? When I sent my paperwork I wrote the salary amount as my income, and was told that it should be my adjusted gross income. But that's zero?? Should I just write a note explaining this? (even though my taxes should already explain it) Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Is this in regards to Japan?

If so, the following page from the Japan Embassy site states, "The police certificate will be issued in duplicate, both in English and Japanese, within two weeks for no fee."

http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/visa/tvisa-ivpolice.html

Thank you so much! I hadn't noticed that... sorry!

I have a related question, which might deserve its own thread, but I'll try here:

How are we supposed to translate the document, if the document is sealed? How does this work?