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Our situation: last year my spouse worked part time at her dad’s business, made about 10k and filed tax returns with this amount. This year though, she didn’t do that anymore and was unemployed until recently, she just started an independent contractor job last week. This job doesn’t have a fixed schedule and she’ll be paid by the minutes she works. Our question: we’ll have a joint sponsor but as for filling out her annual income this year in form i-864, can I just put a rough estimate for her income? If so, do we have to include supporting documents to prove this? Since she just started out, we only have an offer letter stating the pay rate by the minutes, no pay stub or anything similar. So is the offer letter good enough? We’re also thinking of including a letter explaining our estimate and also explain because she just started out, that’s why we didn’t include her bank statements and paystub. Is this necessary or will we need something more? Thanks everyone!

My spouse (USC) and I (F1 visa holder) are going through the AOS process and currently having some issues with form I-864. A little bit about our situation, my spouse was unemployed, but she just got a job offer as an independent contractor that has the start date is next month. Meanwhile I'm on STEM OPT so I currently have a full-time job and make more than 125% the poverty guideline. We just got married last month so we both filed tax independently last year. So my questions are: 1. Can we use my income by including it under the household member income, and then file form I-864a? Or will we need a joint sponsor? 2. As for my spouse, can she include this new income under "current individual annual income"? She'll be an independent contractor though so there'll be no paystubs or employment verification from employer, are there any other ways that she can prove this income? Thanks!