Leo The Great

Our case is for IR5 visa. My son (Born in U.S) is dependent on us (student) and is living with us in Canada and will move to U.S. with us. Never filed U.S tax return (unemployed). We submitted his U.S bank account opening and his state ID card paper to nvc as a proof of intention. He is using his joint sponsor (relative) 2nd home address and we will be living there for few months after immigration. He has recently done voter's registration but proof was not submitted to nvc. Basically he started the process of establishing U.S. domicile before submitting our applications to NVC. I still believe we need to do more before visa interview in term of establishing his domicile. He will apply for Fall admission (He is planning to take some courses) and transfer some money to his U.S. account.

Question: It looks like your petitioner is spouse and is living in Canada. What document did you submit to nvc and bring with you to Montreal embassy to prove your spouse US domicile?

My folks on this forum says they submitted the proof of income like pay stubs and employment letter. May be other members who are more experience might advice you. NVC follow certain guidelines before they move your case to embassy. If they ask for some additional docs it mean you need to submit those to get DQ.

Did you add yourself as household member of petitioner. If not then send an inquiry to nvc or just ignore it as you are already DQ.

Check if you are missing country specific documents.

In my case they did not ask for current employment of joint-sponsor. They just asked for W-2 of previous year. After that case became DQ

Generally you become DQ and receive 2-3 emails at the same time. May be check your country specific documents to see if you are missing some documents.

Thanks for the reply. I just want to understand the reason behind. Why do i have to take the I-864A that is not required by nvc and is not required as per I-864 and I-864A instructions and never asked by NVC? If the joint sponsor file the tax return with spouse, then the only requirement is W-2/I099 form of joint sponsor so that they can determine if the income of spouse is used for sponsorship or not and whether I-864A is also required from spouse or not. Which is not the case here.

Country is Canada

I do not have immunization record (nor can i get it) for any of the vaccine although i had all vaccinations except for COVID-19. 1. Should I go for one dose of every vaccine (Tetanus, MMR Chicken Pox, Hepatitis B)? 2. Do they accept old Hepatitis immunity test that was done in 2018?

My joint sponsor always file tax return with spouse(Spouse has no income) He used his W-2 income(matches with tax transcript) on I-864 form. I have already received DQ email from NVC. My joint sponsor provided me only those financial document what nvc asked for during processing. Note: nvc asked for joint sponsor W-2 form and was submitted to nvc to become DQ Question Is this necessary to bring I-864A from joint-sponsor spouse to embassy interview if the spouse has no income? From embassy web page If you previously submitted to NVC an I-864 affidavit of support (AOS) completed by a joint sponsor (not the petitioner): Bring proof of the joint sponsor’s legal status in the United States (photocopy of a U.S. passport, birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or legal permanent resident card) and their federal U.S. tax return (Form 1040) from the previous year. If the joint sponsor’s tax return includes a spouse, then the spouse must complete Form I-864A.

Case became DQ today for 2 applications. Submitted docs on 4th April got Case FE note twice for additional docs

Wait until tomorrow morning provided you have received this message today. Missing documents may show up. They seems to run some background processing at night. Just based on my experience with NVC

I guess you have to wait for sponsor approval from NVC in that case. Otherwise you can send a inquiry to nvc if the problem is not resolved even after sponsor approval

You can add household now if the income of household will be used otherwise W-2/1099 is enough for joint return filing. it will reduce the wait time

It took 5 days for me after they accepted Petitioner documents. It is usually less than 24 hours once you add it before submission of any document which is not case here.

I got the similar FE review note on April 14 (Income is consistent on 3 years tax return and way above minimum requirements), even though all documents required for I-864 including 2021 tax transcript were already submitted on April 4. My sponsor filed for tax extension for year 2022. My question is which document option you used in the petitioner/sponsor section to upload the receipt for extension and explanation note. Did you use "Reason for not filing taxes" for that?

NVC usually review the re-submitted documents after 12-13 days. Waiting time restarts again after every new submission typically. This is based on my personal experience during one and half month dealing with nvc processing. Sometimes RFI messages are not very obvious. Sometimes your accepted document become invalid the very next day after it is ACCEPTED and you have to resubmit it. It is better try to submit documents as per I-864 instructions and CIVIL document guidelines based on your circumstances initially so that document review cycles can be reduced. That is what most of the folks on this forum are doing

Got the same message two weeks ago although I submitted the latest IRS transcript. My joint sponsor filed tax return with spouse. I need to provide W-2 form of joint sponsor as spouse has no income.

For initial submission it took few hours to enable household member . Later Nvc reviewed documents and asked for joint sponsor. It took 5 days to allow me to upload financial documents

In my case nvc is asking for the W-2 /1099 of the joint sponsor for 2021 in addition to transcript because joint sponsor filed the tax return with his spouse although spouse has zero income.