F1_to_Green

A joint tax return does not indicate who earned what. It is all lumped together. Since Mom has to qualify on her income, she needs to include extra proofs (besides the tax return) that clearly show that she earns enough. Employer letter, teacher contract, six months of pay stubs..... Things that show her name and her separate income.

Don't forget her proof of being a USC.

Ah, good to know. Thanks so much for pointing this out!

Thank you so much for clarifying!

Hello everyone,

I've read and re-read the rules and guidelines so many times that they don't make sense any more and I'm just over-thinking everything! So I'll explain my situation briefly, and then ask what I hope is a simple question!

I'm British, on F-1 visa, married to USC. We're applying for AOS (I-485, I-130, I-131, I-765 etc etc). We are both Grad students, so do not meet the income threshold. My wife's mother (my mother-in-law, also a USC) is going to be our joint sponsor. She is a teacher, has steady salary, easily exceeds the income threshold.

So, my questions is: my joint sponsor (my mother-in-law) files taxes jointly with her husband (who is retired, hence why it's easier to use her as the sponsor). Does her husband also need to submit an I-864, or is it only her that submits one?

I'm hoping only my mother-in-law fills out an I-864, as it'll be one less form to fill out, and one less pile of documents to collect!

Apologies if this is a stupid question.

Many thanks in advance for any help

I would like someone to confirm this, but recently the rules changed with the medicals as they expire within a year and to avoid getting RFE for them expiring they now allow you to submit later, see on the USCIS website:

If you are applying for adjustment of status, you may submit Form I-693 in one of the following ways:

• Submit Form I-693 by mail, together with your Form I-485, Application to Register for Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, to the location specified for your Form I-485 (see “Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-485”).
• Submit Form I-693 by mail, after filing your Form I-485, to the location specified in your most recent communication with USCIS (for example, a Request for Evidence letter from USCIS).
• Submit Form I-693 in person, at an interview in a USCIS field office (if an interview is required).

We sent our AOS 2 months ago and just got a RFE for income, we got told that they now send letters asking you to either send it closer to the interview or ask you to bring it to the interview.

It is all over VJ that you HAVE to submit it with the i485 but this is no longer true, according to a lawyer we spoke with and USCIS - and our own case.

Great, thanks!

And regarding your point about your RFE: are you saying that it is now possible to resolve all RFEs by bringing the missing documentation to your interview, as opposed to having to go through the slower process of re-submitting stuff by mail? Because that would be brilliant, and take a little pressure off in terms of being so hyper-worried about making a stupid mistake or forgetting something!

**** post split from a over 3 year old one where the Op has not been back to the site for more than two years. Please always ask your won questions about your own case in your own thread. ******

Duly noted - sorry!

Hello,

I came across this old thread, and my situation is almost identical to what yours was. I just have a couple of quick questions I was hoping you might be willing to help me with:

1. The medical form (I-693) - did you submit that with your original application (along with your I-485, I-130, etc etc), or did you fill it out later on and take it to your interview?

2. For the Advance Parole form (I-131), when you had to state a reason for travel, did you put specific reasons and dates? I need to go home to UK for Christmas to see my family (ok, 'want', not 'need'!), and, additionally, in a year's time I need to go to Mozambique to conduct my fieldwork (hopefully I'll already have my green card by then, but just in case...).

I don't know if you're still active on this site now that you're all done and dusted, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Or maybe someone else might be able to answer my questions? Though I realise this is a very old post, so I don't know if my new post will turn up in a visible place, or be lost in the annals of time...
Many thanks!

Best wishes,

Welcome Aboard !

Whatcha cooking? or any news of gardening?

Thanks for all the welcomes everybody! I've already found answers to so many questions I had! As regards cooking and gardening... you've lost me!

Hello,

Thought I'd introduce myself since I'm likely to be spending a lot of time here in the upcoming months (...years?)!

I'm from the UK, and married my US citizen wife in April of this year. We dated ten years prior, so thankfully evidence shouldn't be too much of an issue as I now try to get a green card. I moved to the States in August '14 on an F1 visa, so will be doing an adjustment of status.

So far I am completely and utterly overwhelmed by the amount of forms there are to fill out, and the difficulty of some of them! Hoping to find a not too painful path through it all

Greetings to you all!

I would also love to know the answers to these questions - I'm wondering the same on most of them!