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Hi! Trying to plan ahead. How does the interview scheduling work? What can we expect? Does the Manila Embassy allow us to choose dates for the interview? Or if we won't be able to make it to the interview date that the Embassy arranged, may we request it to have the interview at a later date? How much later can we schedule it? Say, we got an IL mid October/November, can we schedule an interview in January ourselves? Thanks!

Thanks you two!

For the CFO, I have questions regarding the FBI clearance for the petitioner: 1) Does the FBI clearance have an expiration date? Will it be ok if I get one a few months early? It seems like this only lasts for a day? 2) Will an FBI clearance suffice, or do I need a clearance from the local police as well? 3) Does the FBI clearance need to be apostilled?

As title says: for those DQ'd in August of any year, when was your interview date?

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Thank you so much for the quick response! Sorry for not including this detail but my step dad passed away. Would my mother still do i864 then?

Hi! Two questions about the I864A: 1) If my household sponsor, my mother, doesn't know her retirement date, should we just leave out filling in the date? Or should she give an approximate date? 2) If my mother's surname on my birth certificate is now different, will I have to ask my mother for her marriage certificate with my step dad? For example...her name on my birth certificate says Jennifer Smith, but now she's Jennifer Smith Jones. Or, will this detail not matter to USCIS?

I've been lurking, no worries. I've been very ignorant of all things tax-related for the past few years but with each post from you guys I've learned something of value. Thanks everyone! I've decided to follow many of your(plural) insights and instructions and asked my original CPA about the amendments and possible tax penalties, etc. Turns out, if I were to follow CPA Two's instructions regarding amending to above the poverty guideline, I would owe around $2000 + interest + penalties + around 8 weeks to process. In addition to that, the interviewer I would wager would get confused and ask for a sponsor anyway. But I'm also amending my previous taxes as well as what CPA Two said, but not to the point where "I get enough to show the NVC that I beyond the poverty line". And yes, my goal is to find a joint sponsor. And yes, I do have details I'm withholding since it is far too embarrassing for me to say. Even anonymously. The details that I'm withholding are my main frustrations. Thanks again everyone. You all helped lighten my frustrations.

Hi! Petitioner here. Context: Originally, when I filed my taxes with a CPA and on my own for the past few years, the total income for each year fall 50% below the i864p poverty guideline. But I showed my tax documents to a different CPA about a week ago. He realized I've been filing wrong all these years. My total income for every year should actually be around $36000 for every year, which is $10,000 above the poverty line! So, the current CPA recommended that I amend all my federal tax returns for the past few years and send the amended forms to the NVC so that I will not need a joint sponsor. However, I've been DQ'd recently, my original 3 tax forums have already been submitted to the NVC, and the NVC requested that "may" need to find a joint sponsor. I have not received the interview letter yet. Questions: 1) Would it be wise to follow the current CPA's advice? 2) Won't the Interviewer be suspect of the amendments? Or will the interviewer accept the amendments? 3) Should I contact NVC regarding my situation? Or is there a likelihood that they'll see my situation as a red flag? 4) Will amending tax forms delay the NVC process by months and months? 5) Even having earned $36000 per year for all three years and its anticipated for 2025, should I still have a joint sponsor?

Hi! For the CR1 interview, were any of you refused and requested a joint sponsor by the mere fact that the sole petitioner did not make enough, even though the petitioner made around $10,000 over the poverty guideline? For example, the poverty guideline is $26,437, but he/she every year made $36000 per year for the past four years?

Hi! Petitioner here. Context: Originally, when I filed my taxes with a CPA and on my own for the past few years, the total income for each year fall 50% below the i864p poverty guideline. But I showed my tax documents to a different CPA today. He realized I've been filing wrong all these years. My total income for every year should actually be around $36000 for every year, which is $10,000 above the poverty line! So, the current CPA recommended that I amend all my federal tax returns for the past few years and send the amended forms to the NVC so that I will not need a joint sponsor. However, I've been DQ'd just yesterday, my original 3 tax forums have already been submitted to the NVC, and the NVC requested that "may" need to find a joint sponsor. I have not received the interview letter yet. Questions: 1) Would it be wise to follow the current CPA's advice? 2) Won't the Interviewer be suspect of the amendments? Or will the interviewer accept the amendments? 3) Should I contact NVC regarding my situation? Or is there a likelihood that they'll see my situation as a red flag? 4) Will amending tax forms delay the NVC process by months and months? 5) Even having earned $36000 per year for all three years and its anticipated for 2025, should I still have a joint sponsor? Thanks in advance for answering these questions!

Thank you so much!

Hi, my wife just got DQ'd! But a few questions: Because I (the original sponsor & petitioner) already submitted an i864 pre-DQ, is my joint sponsor limited to filling out another i864 form? Or can the joint sponsor, my mother, who is under the same household as I am, fill out the i864a? If my mother fill out the i864a, does that mean I need to adjust some information under my original i864 (ie. add my mother's name into the original form)? Or is that unnecessary at this point, post DQ? Because mom barely understands English, I'm able to fill out most of the form on her behalf, right? She just needs to sign it and provide evidence of her financial situation?

Oof. Looks like I'll be looking for a joint sponsor then. 😅 Thank you @pushbrk and thanks the rest of you, too.

I did a lot of tax write offs in business expenses for all three years. I'm self-employed.

Curious. Have any of you been Documentarily Qualified for spouses even when... Your total income (according to the 1040) for all three years is only barely half of the i864 Poverty Guideline. You have no joint sponsors. Your annual income is around $10,000 above the Poverty Guideline (ie. $35000), and you have sufficient proof of this? Your assets are insufficient.

Thank you so much!

Thanks everyone! Would it be safer to include income information for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024? Or would just 2022-2204 suffice? I have tax transcripts from 2021-2023, not 2022-2024.

Hi! For i864, as the sponsor, do I print out all 12 pages just to sign page 10? Or, would I only have to print out page 10 to sign the form, and then after, scan page 10, and digitally (via Adobe) insert page 10 back into the entire i864 form?

Hi, because my wife and I applied for an ITIN to file taxes jointly, and the ITIN processing will take awhile and so I cannot obtain my 2024 Tax Transcript... What should I do? Should I upload 2021, 2022, 2023 Transcripts instead? And should I write a brief letter to NVC as to why they won't be able to obtain my 2024 Tax Transcript? And for i864, Part 6, 16a-16c, should I exclude 2024 but include 2021 total income? If this is the case, then will NVC look for more proof of income for 2021? Since I won't have any paychecks available from 2021. For the 2024 Tax Return, I've already uploaded the 2024 1040, Schedule C, 1, 2, SE, every monthly paycheck and bank statements for all of 2024, and all the 1099s to the NVC webpage.

Thanks! Not the Philippines birth certificate. The Philippines Marriage Certificate includes a section about my birthplace. The birthplace that was written on the PH Marriage Certificate is wrong because the written birthplace is different from the birthplace mentioned in my US birth certificate, from where I was born. (ie. San Diego as opposed to San Francisco). So the concern is, will NVC tell us to to redo our Philippines marriage certificate? Or, should that not concern us?

Hi! If we lost our vaccination documentations for the NVC stage, will we have to get all of our vaccination for America again? Also, my (the petitioner's) Philippines Marriage Certificate mistakenly has my birth place inconsistent with my US birth certificate. Does that mean we have to redo our Philippines birth certificate for the NVC stage? Thank you for answering.

Thanks y'all!

Hi! Husband filing CR1 for a spouse. Few questions about social media as it relates to DS-260. 1) Is she required to list her social media usernames? 2) What if my wife deactivated one or more Facebook accounts in the last few years? Is she still required to list that on the DS-260? 3) For all of her deactivated Facebook accounts, is she required to reactivate them all for NVC purposes? At least one of her deactivated accounts involves a major past trauma. 4) What if it's a deleted YouTube account that was she frequently used (ie. with uploaded videos)? Is she required to list that one as well?