AussieYo

Hi all!

Thanks so much for all the wisdom and insights shared. Some of my questions have been asked before but the posts were old so I thought I'd check again to get the most recent information. Here they are:
 

• My husband (petitioner) has started receiving EDD unemployment insurance due to COVID- what should we enter for “My Current Individual Annual Income”?

• How to calculate current income in this situation? I read that when self employed you use the income from the last tax return?

• Can we combine my income as a contribution to household income?

• I was told that because we have a joint sponsor my husband’s i864 is not overly important. Is this true?

• Will this contribute negatively on the basis of concerns around becoming a public charge?

• Is USCIS understanding regarding COVID’s impact on employment?

• The joint sponsor is my Mother In-Law and she is now retired. What are the best documents for her to provide?

• Can we just bring a copy of her passport as she lives a 9 hour drive away?

• Our interview is February 9th and I’m concerned we may not have sufficient evidence for co-mingling of finances. We don’t have a joint account because I’ve only been working a few months and not earning much plus that’s not how we manage our finances. Is this essential? I’m guessing it’s too late now for that.

• The official co-mingling documents we have are three joint leases, shared auto-insurance, AAA, joint filing tax transcript, we could get joint utilities (or try if possible) and we bought a TV together. Is this sufficient?

• Do we need to bring all original forms, photos, messages with us or just new ones?
  
  Thank you!

Oh I was wondering if there was a more appropriately suited forum. Thanks for the move! I've done a lot of searching around to find answers to these questions though and haven't been able to find a whole lot so if anyone is able to share their insights that would be super helpful! Thanks!

Hi VJ Community,
I've been soaking up all the knowledge here for a while but had a few questions I couldn't find answers to so I thought I'd reach out. Firstly my situation is I came to the country in July 2019 on a B1 visa, met my partner and in a whirlwind romance we got married in November. My visa expired in December and I have been in the country ever since, on the recommendation of an attorney. I'm now hearing mixed ideas around the impact of being "out of status" on the immigration process. My questions are:

- Is there anyone else out there who transitioned from a visitor visa > out of status> successful approval of AOS?

- Given the short amount of time together we don't have a lot of the harder forms of evidence like joint lease which requires an SSN at my husband's building (but we have evidence showing cohabitation) and very little evidence of commingling of finances other than a few bank transfers. Has this been a problem for any of you in the past?

- We were curious as to whether we should also each include a letter for the evolution of our relationship/ nature of relationship? I can't find a whole lot about these but they've come up from time to time.

Thanks so much for your help!