MRSALFI

We just had our interview a few days ago (see previous post)..

I was just curious, how much info. the USCIS shares with the IRS?

The IO was REALLY interogatting me about my taxes..Not what was on my 1040 but my state tax.

She was so focused on it that I feel as though she may pass along the info.

Do they do that?

She made me VERY nervous.....

Thanks for any replies!

Thanks Everyone for the replies! : )

I'm still wondering how we had gotten as far as the interview without anyone noticing my application didn't qualify..

I remember having made an infopass appointment while filling out the forms to specifically ask that question about gross/net..and being told it was the total of my 1099s..I guess I'm a little bothered because I got two different answers from the people who should know..

Since the interview I have been surfing around on the net and found MANY references to the gross being the amount that determines whether or not you reach the poverty line..

Does anyone have any official info. on being self employed?

Any extra infor would help..

Thanks again for the replies! : )

Hi!

Although I am not super active here on the boards, I just thought some people may benefit from reading about our experience!

We arrived a 1/2 hour early for our interview..Went through security and then were asked to wait in a small corridor next to some offices..There were maybe 4 couples before us.

The line moved swiftly and after about a 35 minute wait, we were called in.

A woman told us to remain standing and swore us in. Then she retrieved our file.

She asked for my id (i am the USC). I asked if she wanted my passport or driver's liscense...She said she then wanted both of our passports. My husband and I handed them to her.

She immediately asked me what I did for a living. I told her I was an entertainer, and then qualified that with "a singer." Then she said, "Am I supposed to know you?"....which sort of caught me off guard, and I said, "no, some people do, some people don't.." (i'm you're typical wedding singer/ convention/lounge singer)...

Then she asked me where I sing...I told her a few of my gigs, none are steady because I work frequently all over the place, even outside of the US. Then she asked me "HOW" I sang..like with a band or in a show or whatever..I told her with a band that I hire. Then she still was asking a lot of questions so I gave her my business card which happens to have my picture on it..

She said, "Is that YOU?"....Well, yes it was-- all gussied up for the stage..not how i walk around on a regular basis...Anyway, i was starting to feel uncomfortable..Please notice she had not said a word to my husband. Then she opened our files and started flipping frantically through all the documentation-back and forth, back and forth...she'd mark a little here and then little there..

Then she asked me...How do you get paid when you sing? I told her I am an indepedent contractor and that I invoice my clients on a gig per gig basis, to which she said rather increduously, "WHAAAAA?"..I re-explained and then she FINALLY moved onto my husband. She asked him what he did for a living and why he was never married before. She felt he was rather "old" to be marrying for the first time... (he's 41)...Then she asked about his daughter from a previous relationship and whether or not i had met her. Which I had. Then she went back to the paper work and asked me why I put $39,000 as my income. I told her that was the total of my 1099s..

Here's where I screwed up. According to her, your income when you are self imployed is your net income, not your gross. Naturally, as a self employed independent contractor my net is less than my gross due to deductions,etc. and therefore I didn't reach the poverty guidelines...

She told me to get a joint sponsor.

She asked no questions about our relationship, nothing about where we live, nothing about our families or the medical or how we met, etc...

She said she felt our marriage was bona fide and that we are still in process until we find another sponsor.

On the way out I asked her if my husband could sponsor himself and she said, "hmm, i don't know.."

Which boggled my mind because I thought that was her job to know, but, hmmm, I could be wrong...

So we are now off to my Dad's to have him fill our the joint sponsor application.

Hope that helps anyone who is self employed!

Don't make the same mistake as me!

Thank you Salto and ELW for your quick replies!

it helps to put our minds at ease!!

ALOHA!

Hi!

my husband and i have a flight booked to Germany the day after his interview..

We are hopefuly for a successful outcome, but, if for some unforseen reason the GC approval is delayed,

will he still be able to use his AP Document for the travel out of the country?

Thank you for any help!

Hi!

My husband has his interview for AOS this coming Tuesday.

We never had intent to marry but did marry while he was here on a tourist Visa.

The visa has since expired, but, we married and applied for AOS before it had..

The reason we decided to marry was that we had heard on the news that the fees were going to increase in July of 2007.

Already suffering from the cost of traveling every 3 mos back and forth from Germany we figured the best thing to do would be to marry and then adjust his status...

So we got married 1 week later in a civil ceremony.

He still has his business in Germany and also his daughter is there. We haven't had a chance yet to send his belongings here, he still just has the stuff he came over with in his suitcase..

We did not have any plans to marry prior to hearing about the fee increase...

Does this show intent to marry or consitute any sort of fraud?

Any information would be greatly appreciated...

Thank you..

My husband just traveled within the US on an expired I-94, he had no problems at all. Currently he is awaiting AOS and has only received NOA1.

At the airport they just looked at his passport for identification purposes, not really interested at all in his status...

I don't think you will have any problems..

hope this helps!

-Mrs. Alfi

Hi!

We filed on the 28th of July and still no movement...no checks cashed,no receipt notices. Only proof of receipt at the Chicago lockbox is that someone signed for the ceritified package!

Thank you so so much!!

Now if only the lines weren't so long!!

Aloha!

HI!

I am an absolute newbie here! I've really enjoyed reading the boards and have found so much information extremely valuable!

I have a question regarding travel WITHIN the USA.

My husband just recently filed for AOS and like many others, we have received no notices or info. as of yet. In the packet we sent, he also applied for the Advanced Parole....and right now there has been no movement on that.

We are scheduled to take a trip to California (from Hawaii) in Sept. and are wondering if there will be any trouble with security at the airport if they see that his I-94 has expired. He passport is valid (Germany) but his I-94 expired about 1 month ago.

As I understand it, because we are married he is allowed to remain here in the US with me, but, not able to travel OUTSIDE the USA until he gets the advanced parole...

Any insight would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Thank you!