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Please know I'm answering for everyone reading because many make these miniscule but catastrophic mistakes. If you didn't file 2024 taxes yet when you filed AOS, there would be no reason to show your 2024 tax info UNLESS the tax year has rolled over when you filed AOS. Up until April 15th 2025, the tax year is 2023. You are not required to submit anything tax related for 2024 until after then UNLESS YOU WANT TOO and IF you want to your tax proof must be COMPLETE. A W2 alone is not a Complete tax proof. You didn't need to add it then. You were never required to submit anything tax related for 2024 until April 15th 2025. Your error was submitting your 2024 W2 AT ALL. Please please please read through those instructions to gain clarity. Ensure you understand what a complete federal tax return copy consists of because unfortunately now that you've submitted your 2024 W2 in error, they won't allow a simple transcript. You'll be required to submit a complete return copy without missing pages to satisfy that part of the RFE. If you're going to use an EVL for c current income (can't tell if you are still) ensure it contains your start date, estimated annual income AND it's on official company letterhead. Ensure you read the part of the instructions that state EVL is primary and paystubs are secondary/optional and no less than 6 months.

No! As the instructions state, you can't ADD paystubs without an EVL. Paystubs are SECONDARY proof not primary. Your amount in Part6Q7 comes from the amount your employer made up and input ON your EVL as your estimated annual salary/earnings. Six months paystubs only proves you are HEADED IN THE DIRECTION of the amount your employer stated on the EVL. Just like the W2, paystubs are NOT standalone. Do not submit paystubs without a properly filled out EVL that states your annual salary/earnings. IF you submit an EVL, THEN you can help them to do the math If you want FROM your paystubs in the Additional Information section. Ie. I've earned $X in Xnumber of pay periods so far in the year so I'm estimated to earn $X in 52 payperiods in the year. Or you can say nothing at all and just use the amount from your EVL and back it up with 6m current paystubs. Do you have an EVL? No? Then you can't submit paystubs. ? If you are choosing 1C. because you now have a 2024 Tax RETURN TRANSCRIPT? (Which in the above comments as far as I've read, you didn't have yet?) Do you have a 2024 Tax RETURN Transcript now? Then yes, you can use the amount from the Transcript? Do you NOT have a 2024 return transcript yet? Then you can only use a 2024 complete federal tax return copy including all pages and schedules AND your earnings statements. Please reread what I took the time to write. And please review the i864 instructions too.

Do you mean acting as a joint sponsor for a K1 AOSer as you've posted this in K1 AOS forum? Or for someone completely doing another process that you've not indicated in your post? Your VJ timeline is blank so we cannot guess. Please fill it out. Are you a US citizen or GC holder so this post can be moved so not to confuse K1s in this forum. Yes. No. 1040 is not a complete federal tax return and not the preferred format. No you should submit a Tax Return TRANSCRIPT and (as the form instructions state) your W2's also to indicate your personal income to differentiate your income from his on your MFJ transcript. The copy of the actual tax return is not the recommended format as the instructions state. Ensure you've read the instructions. Your personal income should be in input on Part 6 Q7 where it asks for current individual income. Q12 is for if you are adding the income of household members above it. Your joint tax reported income should be in Part 6, 16a-c. Please use Part and question numbers for anything else. Not sure what this means? "The total income"? Who's income? Yours alone or yours combine which you cannot use unless he agrees to sponsor too? Part 6 Q7 is YOUR current income and by what you've eluding to, you are using your W2 to prove it. (There are other methods as described in the instructions). Part 6 Q12 is your households' total income for ALL household members agreeing to sponsor. Your Q7 and Q12 will be the same number. Part 6 Q16a-c only proves you filed taxes which you are required to do to sponsor so it will have the total income of your MFJ file return. The amounts don't matter unless your W2 shows you cannot support your household alone including all immigrants you are sponsoring and have sponsored previously and everyone living in your household now. You ALONE must earn enough for all household members and that includes your husband whether or not he is willing to sponsor or not. He is still included in your household size. Details on your household size is necessary to elaborate. Please indicate your immigration status so this post can be moved ASAP if necessary and fill out your immigrants VJ timeline as required.

What DOCUMENT did your Current Income as listed in Part 6, Q7 come from? The only options are as an EMPLOYED sponsor: 1. A. The total income on your 2023 tax RETURN Transcript IF you filed your I864 before April 15th 2025 and have not filed 2024 taxes yet. Your 2023 Return Transcript is your document to submit to fulfill the proof. W2s are NOT REQUIRED as the instructions state when you submit a Transcript and will get you an RFE if you do for not following instructions. OR NOT AND 1. B. The total income on your 2023 FEDERAL actual tax return copy IF you filed your I864 before April 15th 2025 and have not filed 2024 taxes yet. Your 2023 FEDERAL actual tax return copy (ALL pages and schedules, could be many many) AND all Earnings statements for that year too (W2s) are your proof. OR NOT AND 1. C. The total income on your 2024 Taxes IF you filed I864 before April 15th 2025 AND you WANT TO use 2024 tax reported income BUT you have to have: I. A copy of your 2024 Return Transcript OR NOT AND II. A copy of your 2024 complete FEDERAL tax return (all pages and schedules) AND your W2s. It DID NOT NEED to be accepted or processed. You just needed a copy which you would have gotten the moment you submitted it. OR NOT AND 2. An employment verification letter (EVL) stating your ESTIMATED ANNUAL earnings that you will make in 2025. You will back this up by submitting the most recent 6 months of paystubs that will BACKUP the estimate your company came up with. At minimum, your issue is you submitted a W2 for 2024 BUT you did not submit the matching 2024 Complete Federal tax return copy as required in the instructions. If you didn't have a copy of your tax return yet, you should not have submitted the W2 as it proves nothing. Now they know you filed and that you want to use 2024 income so you have to prove it. And once you submit a W2, they'll ask for the corresponding COMPLETE federal tax return for that year and they won't allow you to submit a Transcript instead which runs the HUGE risk of missing a page. Remedy: #1 Provide the complete FEDERAL tax return copy (all pages and schedules) AND the corresponding W2 (again). If you wish to put that amount in Part 6 Q7 as current income that's all you need as proofs for that question. Know the RFE is asking for these documents now regardless because you submitted the 2024 W2 in error. #2 if you wish to use your EVL amount as current income in Part 6 Q7, you'll need to submit that ALSO AND it is recommended to ALSO submit 6 months of current paystubs too as back up. You MUST HAVE AN EVL to submit paystubs. Paystubs are ONLY recommended SECONDARY to the EVL. You cannot use Paystub amounts alone for Part 6 Q7 MOTS: the numbers in the boxes have to match the documents you provide exactly. They are not estimates. For others reading, ill say this time and time again....do not submit useless documents that prove nothing. Only submit documents for the purpose of proving an exact amount you input on the form. And if you have to explain it, DO THAT in the Additional Information section.

You've posted this in the K1 AOS forum AND your timeline is STILL blank. I've moved it to the appropriate forum. I ask that you fill out your timeline immediately as you've already been asked, be wary of where you post, explain when you post so that K1 AOSers reading this in their forum aren't confused by what doesn't apply to them.

You can: 1. Apply for citizenship and request a name change. 2. Apply for a legal name change through your local government and then apply for a new GC when eligible. 1 is feasible.

"Actively bring Reviewed" means nothing. Sometimes the status never changes. I've been a GC holder since 2019 and my i485 is still received. It means nothing. Please fill out your VJ timeline in reciprocity as it is completely blank. Your statistics help all VJ Members while we help you personally. A blank one helps no one.

Please complete your VJ timeline in reciprocity. Your statistics help all members while we help you personally. A blank one helps no one and that's not fair.

It does make sense merely because it specifically says not to in the instructions. RFEs for not following them are petty but extremely common. Likely the RFE is for unmatching amounts between form and document and irrelevant documents submitted.

Not needed BECAUSE you submitted Transcripts. Only needed IF you submitted an ACTUAL tax RETURN. Should have included 6 months of current paystubs originally to accompany the EVL IF you used your EVL income as current income. Nope. You already submitted transcripts. Your RFE is likely due to incorrect amounts in the boxes. If you input tax reported income as current income instead of EVL income as current income they would have sent you an RFE for providing useless info Ensure you've read the I864 instructions through. Less is more. Amounts must match Too many proofs proving nothing because those amounts aren't listed on your form and you'll get an RFE for "what exactly is this applicant trying to show us?" No to the EZ. Please fill out your VJ timeline in reciprocity as it is completely blank. Your stats help all members while we help you personally.

Topic moved as this is not K1.

A K1 waiting to adjust status and who has had I131 Advanced Parole approved can renew I131 when it expires. Since your timeline is completely blank and you've posted this in the K1 AOS forum, we can only assume you are a K1. Filling out your timeline in reciprocity so we can answer you properly is required. Do that ASAP.

Check out your VJ timeline and you'll see the next step as a K1.

A month since your shipping receipt says it was recieved? That's when the 30 days is counted for eligibility to email A Lockbox. Response (IF ANY, other than the obvious receiving Noa1 or a returned package), can take up to 10 weeks.

As a K1, you must FILE I485 within one year of the date of your overseas medical. When you are INTERVIEWED is irrelevant. Please complete your BLANK VJ timeline in reciprocity. Your statistics help all VJ members while our answers help you personally. Please fill it out ASAP!

USG means? Your wife could not be a Greencard holder AND waiting to adjust status. If she is a GC holder she has already adjusted her status. Is she waiting for her 10 year GC and removal of conditions? Your VJ timeline is completely blank. If filled out, these questions above could have been avoided. Please fill it out before we continue answering.

Note for a discrepancy above: The medical abroad is not completed on an I693 form. Only US Civil surgeons use I693 so a K1 who completed their medical abroad would not have an I693 from abroad. Panel Physician's abroad use the DS30xx series of forms only.

Your K1 medical is valid for one year from when it was completed to when you FILE. When you are interviewed is irrelevant. If income has changed complete a new one and provide new financial Supporting Evidence. Yes. No. It is your K1 documents that you submitted with your AOS packet. BUT you only submitted PHOTOCOPIES so now you BRING the ORIGINALS AND another PHOTOCOPY of everything. Overthinking

They DO have your medical. It was sent from PP to the embassy, and you carried it to your POE in the sealed visa envelope and handed it in to them. It was then transferred from DHS to USCIS for storage in your Afile. Submitting a photocopy of the DS3025 Vaccination Record is only a recommendation here. Why do we say that? Because most adjudicators are NOT used to K1 AOSers and are expecting I693s included in the AOS packet as they are required from EVERYONE ELSE BUT K1s. When they see a photocopy of the DS3025 in the K1 AoS packet, it reminds them to go look for your Afile to retrieve your medical package. So the answer is a FIRM no. Unless you are requested for a new medical, do not get one. You'll just have to hope your adjudicator has more than half a brain and knows about K1s and the medical exception.

You should submit a photo copy of your personal copy of the Vaccination Sheet only. Neither. You shouldn't have it. Don't show anyone you do. Your choice. But never send originals as form instructions state.

Alright, then ensure you read the instructions on how to fill it out when you have not filed for each of the the 3 most previous years. Not only do you have to fill out the form but you'll need to make a written statement explaining why 3 weren't filed. See the instructions for details.

Your sponsor of your K1 visa is a US citizen, correct? You'll need to explain why they have not filed taxes for the previous 3 years as, to qualify to be a sponsor, they MUST file taxes UNLESS their taxable income did not meet the minimum filing threshold. Is that true? Or is there some other reason why your original sponsor didn't file? *also note USCs must report all worldwide income AND must file even if they were not living in the US during the tax year.

You are asking about I485 in the title if this thread but your post is about your embassy appointment documents? Please clarify so this post can be moved to the correct forum. Also, your VJ timeline is completely blank. Please fill it out in reciprocity asap. Our answers help you while your statistics help all VJ members.

Also note that the I864a can only be filed by a CO-sponsoring Household member who is also BOTH: 1. A parent, sibling or child of the original sponsor and 2. Lives with the original sponsor at the same physical residence. Any other person than that is automatically a Joint Sponsor and that means they are standalone, can't combine income with the original sponsor and must meet the $$ guidelines for their own household PLUS any immigrants.

Post removed from the K1 AOS forum as you are not a K1 and moved to the Bringing Family Members of Permanent Residents to America forum.