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Its additional supplemental information about your spouse: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-130a.pdf It should be filled out and submitted with your I-130.

Hello again, My wife lives on the island of Okinawa, but her interview with the U.S. Embassy or Consulate is slated to be held in Tokyo (mainland Japan). No date has been scheduled just yet. How do we go go about having her interview changed from Tokyo to Okinawa? Do we just submit an inquiry via this form?: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/ask-nvc.html?fbclid=IwAR3yTD25H5FBWGpYUj1FCz_rGiA4g8nQh3Stst5P_S1i4-Yu3Ek_Bd6IzB4 Is there a better, more preferred way? Ideally, we'd love to save her the unnecessary cost of travel and hotel expenses to conduct her eventual interview. Thank you in advance for any insight, Michael

Hello there, I am presently working my way through filling out my AOS Form I-864 and am getting stuck on a few (potentially trivial) things and was seeking clarification please. For starters, in the Form I-864 instructions, it states, "If your answer to a question which requires a numeric response is zero or none (for example, “How many children do you have” or “How many times have you departed the United States”), type or print “None,” unless otherwise directed." Does this include parts where it asks me not applicable A-numbers or USCIS Online Account Numbers for nonexistent additional 'Family Members'? I.E. - for Part 3. 7 & 8, do I put "None" or N/A" since I am only sponsoring my wife and no one else? Am I overthinking this part? Is the NVC as strict with their "everything must be filled out 100% perfectly" rules as the USCIS? Additionally, for Part 6, line 7: are they asking me to input my current individual annual income as of last year? Or do I put what I am making now, taking into consider my modest but most recent salary bump? I only ask this as I work a part time job additionally on Saturdays and can only 'ball park' what that particular job's annual income will yield as I occasionally miss a week here and there. In other words: is a rough, but fairly accurate and truthful, individual annual income "guesstimation" sufficient? And lastly (for now), for Part 7. use of Assets to Supplemental Income, I definitely exceed the Federal Poverty Guidelines for my household size. Just put 'N/A/ in all the non-applicable boxes even though they are mostly asking for numerical values? Thank you emphatically in advance for feedback and insight! Best, Michael

Hmm. I am earnestly unsure. My immediate thought was that they, perhaps, thought something was missing, only to find out that it actually *wasn't -- hence the cancellation in RFE request? Have there been any updates since? Any subsequent emails?

I hear ya -- I hesitated a month before submitting as I securitized every and last detail for those said reasons! I cannot say with absolute certainty which way is better but I am personally "old school", so I printed and mailed mine out Priority Express. Was received next day and approved a week later though! If mailing, do your OCD/anxiety a favor and make copies of everything before you send them so, if ever in doubt, you can always look at your 'back ups' and remind yourself exactly what was sent. It's what I always do at least. Good luck, you can do this!!

Okay. Will reread them. I guess I just assumed it'd be the regular one but I'll take another look! Thanks.

You're welcome! I honestly don't feel that you *need one but again I felt it couldn't hurt to include one so that's what I did. (It also just shows appreciation for their extra efforts, etc.) Mine said: "Dear USCIS officer, Please find the enclosed revised and corrected I-130A form, completed in full. I sincerely thank you for your time and for allowing me to fix my previous errors. If any additional information is needed on my part, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask. Thank you again, XXX" And I included my reference number, etc. There's plenty of available examples if you search online. Hope this helps! 🙂

Thank you! I am a full time educator with a side job as a PCA and I'd only be sponsoring my wife (and possibly her two cats lol). Will relook at the form instructions. Would it not just be the regular I-184 though? Thanks in advance.

Hi there. I'm about to start the arduous task of filing out my AOS document for my spouse. Seeking confirmation first that: A.) I can ask questions here (after carefully skimming the thread to see if they've already been addressed)? B.) To start, I'd just fill out the regular I-864, no? Not the I-864EZ? Thank you in advance.

Sorry for the super late reply. I ended up taking someone from here's advice and just went to H&R Block (my first time ever having someone help me with my taxes). The agent who assisted me was amazing and helped me get everything squared away and (finally) filed. Thank you so much for your tips and reccomendations though! All The best, Mike

Yep! That's more-or-less what I did. I just signed as the spouse's petitioner and made sure to write 'N/A' in any boxes that did not apply to us.

Hello there. Sorry for the late reply! YES -- everything went PERFECT with the RFE I-130A (re)submission. We were approved eight days after receiving! I was in genuine shock and elation. I ended up submitting a very short cover letter JIC and just rewrote everything by hand. For the USCIS provided cover letter I did also end up checking off "other" and just writing 'I-130A'. Again, don't know if this was absolutely necessary but I figured definitely better be safe than sorry. Hope this helps! Good luck to you and your submission!

Hello there, I am in a somewhat similar situation. My wife's I-130 petition was officially approved this previous Thursday (June 08, 2023). I tried filing my taxes 'married jointly' online via TurboTax (she is still living in Japan), but I was unable to file due to not having an ITIN number for her. I filed for an extension and had her fill out a W-7 form and mail it to me along with an international driver's license and her country's equivalent of a birth certificate. Her filled out W-7 form and corresponding documents arrived finally and now I wish to get this and my federal taxes mailed out ASAP, but I have a few burning questions still if I may ask here: After numerous attempts, I was able to *finally* finish my taxes on Turbo Tax and save as a PDF for mailing but after a careful examination of them, it says on the final page marked 'ELECTRONIC POSTMARK - CERTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC FILING', "Your return has been rejected by the IRS". Does it just say this, because I had to fill in all 9's for my wife's social security number to be able to submit? If I mail in what I have now, will they (my 2022 taxes) still be accepted? And secondly, the instructions on the IRS website say to leave the social security field for the spouse that you are applying an ITIN number for blank -- but clearly I had to put all 9's in to be able to (attempt) to file. Will this qualify my taxes (or at least my ITIN application) rejected?? Any insight into this would be GREATLY appreciated; I am quite vexed what exactly to do and time is officially ticking... 😓 Thank you in advance.

Hello, First time posting! I am seeking clarity on an RFE I received from USICS the other day. I received a message, and then letter, stating the following: “FORM I-130A REQUEST The Form I-130 Instructions indicate that the petitions filed on behalf of a spouse must be accompanied by a completed and signed Form I-130A, Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary. Although you submitted the required Form I-130A, it is incomplete and is missing page 4, page 5, and page 6. Submit a fully completed and signed Form I-130A, Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary, for XXXX. If your spouse is overseas, Form I-130A must still be completed, but your spouse does not have to sign Form I-130A.” I believe my mistake was, feeling that the last pages mostly didn’t apply to us, I merely left the fields blank and just stuck a post-it on the pages that read ‘N/A’, along with my signature. Obviously, now I realize that was a dumb move. So now, obviously, I just have my wife refill out the form, write ‘N/A’ in every box and put a ‘0’ for any numerical questions that do not apply to us? For boxes like ‘Interpreter’s Signature’, she just leaves that blank or should she write ‘N/A’ in that box as well? And lastly, for the coversheet that I must mail back on top of completed I-130A, where it says: “Please check the appropriate box regarding if there is a new Form G-28, Notice of Entry of Appearance as Attorney or Accredited Representative, additional fees, additional forms, etc. Please place the new Form G-28, additional fees, additional forms directly under this sheet.” Do I leave those boxes empty or do I check ‘additional forms’ or ‘other’? Thank you in advance so much for taking the time to read through all of this and answering my (most likely incredibly daft) questions!