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Thanks NickD!

Thanks jons_wifey! His income meets the requirements alone but I am the petitioner and therefore primary sponsor so from what I can tell he will have to file the I-864A to have his income included.

I think I've gathered that the current income is asking for a best estimate for 2014. So aside from that my main questions are:

1. What do we put for our income on the last three years tax returns if we filed jointly? We're both self-employed with multiple income streams (some shared) - do I just do my best separation of our income, or do I put Line 22 from our joint 1040 return?

2. My income was negative, do I put $0 or do I have to write the negative?

3. For the last three years:: 2013 income was 26,000 ($300 above the Federal poverty guidelines for our future household of 3) , 2012 was $1500 and 2011 was $55,000. Is it worth including the 2012 and 2011 returns? Would that help or hurt our case?

Hi there,

I am the US citizen sponsor and petitioner for my stepson's I-130. I am married to his father and we file our taxes jointly. It is his income that will allow us to meet the guidelines for the I-864.

So I will fill out the I-864 and he will fill out the I-864A.

However, we file our taxes jointly and are both self-employed. So I have a few questions:

1. Part 6 Question 5: My current individual annual income is:

Do I put my personal income from the 2013 1040 Schedule C I just filed (Line 31)? Or the total from the front page of our 2013 1040? Or an estimate for 2014?

2. Part 6 Question 6C: Same question as above but for my husband - 1040 Schedule C Line 31? Or are these asking for estimates for 2014 income?

3. Our combined Schedule C income is still a little bit short of the 125% above poverty line. However our Total Income from the 2013 1040 we filed (Line 22) is above that. This is because we have income on a Schedule E. Where does that go, under my income, under his, or somewhere else entirely?

4. Part 6: 13.a.1 through 13.c.1 - For this "Total Income", is this now the 1040 Line 22 for our most recent joint tax return?

5. Finally, our total income is only $300 above the minimum. The year before our income was extremely low, but the year before that it was twice the poverty guidelines for our household size. Would it help or hurt to attach copies of the last two years, in your opinion?

Thanks so much for all your help, this forum has saved our butt a few times now!

Britta

Hi everyone,

I am a US citizen, my husband is from the UK but now has permanent resident status. I filed a separate petition for his son (my stepson) in May 2013. This week we received a request for evidence:

Wow thanks I didn't realize about the 90 day thing that could make all the difference! Yay wiggle room!

Appreciate everyone's advice so much. It's exciting, I think we can make this work.

Thanks! That's what I was hoping you'd say.

So basically if he turns 18 on July 11 2014, and his father can apply to naturalize on Dec 3rd 2013 - it's a close call but if all went well we'd:

1. Apply for stepson's green card now.

2. Apply for father to naturalize Dec 3rd.

3. Hopefully he would naturalize before July 11th 2014 and therefore have automatic citizenship and be able to file N-600 or just apply for passport.

As long as he moves in with us in the US once he has his green card and remains resident here through N-600 application?

Is that an unrealistic time frame?

OK great, thanks. So my second question is, once his father is a citizen does that make it easier for him to become one more quickly? How long will it be before he can become a citizen?

I am a US citizen (born here) and I am married to a UK citizen who is a permanent resident, conditional status removed. He is also eligible to naturalize this December (3 years on his green card).

His son (my stepson) is about to apply for a green card and move to the USA with us. He is 16, will be 17 in July.

Firstly, am I correct in saying I can petition for him as his stepmother and that that would be preferable to his father petitioning? Or am I not allowed to do that since I am not his adoptive parent?

And secondly, is there any shortcut to citizenship for him considering his father will be a citizen (hopefully!) shortly?

Thanks so much!

The USCIS customer service number 1-800-375-5283, but I think it's highly unlikely that calling will make a difference since his entry will be handled by CBP, not USCIS. However, he should be let in, but may undergo more scrutiny to verify his status.

I don't know whether the green card is valid on its expiration date or only on the day before. If it's valid on the expiration date, he should have even less trouble. I wouldn't worry too much, just allow extra time.

Thanks for that! I guess it's fingers crossed then!

there is not much time,call the customer service number first thing this morning tell them what happen, hope they will report it in there system doe's your husband have his permanent resident card that expired he'll show that to the border officer he may be taken to the office for more proof if they look in the system they can see his extension letter was sent,i think he will be ok

Thanks for that, who exactly do I call for customer service on this issue?

Hi there,

My husband has been in Bangkok working longer than expected. He is now traveling back to the US on the day his provisional green card expires. In anticipation of this I FedExed him the original letter of receipt that proves his extension to work and travel for one year while his permanent green card application is processed. FedEx says it was delivered and signed for but theres been no sign of it! Unfortunately he's leaving Bangkok tomorrow, going to London and then flying back to the US on Monday! Not much time to figure out what happened. And I somehow (stupidly) didn't even keep a copy of it, thinking FedEx overnight international was foolproof.

Is there anything I can do ahead of time to alert customs/USCIS or anything? Are they going to let him in the country???

Thanks so much in advance!

Brittany

You may want to call about this. The danger here is that if they don't get your rescheduling request in time they'll consider the appointment missed—and a missed biometrics appointment leads them to consider the I-751 application abandoned. When that happens, his LPR status technically terminates immediately, meaning he can't work until you get it all sorted out. Tread very carefully here.

There's another current thread dealing with rescheduling biometrics here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/398924-biometrics-appt-for-751-bad-idea-to-reschedule/

Thanks that's what I was thinking. Do I call the main 1-800-375-5283 number or is there a better one? I'm currently lost in phone bank limbo.

He will definitely need the original letter when he gets ready to travel back to the U.S. CBP will have record of his extension at the POE but the airlines will demand to see the original letter before they'll let him board a US-bound flight.

I can't speak to the questions regarding biometrics scheduling. We did a walk-in on ours the day after we got the letter, a few weeks before the scheduled appointment.

Just out of curiosity, how long has your husband been out of the country?

Thanks for that!

So I will send him the original letter then to travel with.

Any other ideas on the biometrics appointment?

My husband will have been away two months by the time he gets back - two months too long in my book!

Hi,

My husband has applied to remove the conditions on his Green Card. I have already rescheduled his biometrics appointment once, but now he is going to miss the rescheduled one because his job in Asia was extended. His appointment is Tuesday (today's Friday), a bit last minute to write in to reschedule. Should I call and tell them or is writing in still OK?

Two other questions:

1. His date of return is still uncertain, and he will only be back for a few days before we travel to a different part of the country. This means the next time he would be here and free to do appointments for more than a few day period would be January 8 2013. His green card expires Dec 3rd. He has the letter extending status for a year. Would it be OK to postpone biometrics till January? Seems easier.

2. It is possible he will return very close to or even after Dec 3rd. Will they have it on record that he has his status extended or should I Fedex the letter to Thailand to have with him while he's traveling?

Thanks for your help!

Brittany

Thanks guys!!!

Thanks, although I just read somewhere else on this site that the Packet 3 from DCF London is said to be enclosed in the letter we got (which it did say it was) but really you have to access the documents on the internet and print them out? Can someone confirm this?

Additionally, when we mailed out our response to the request for additional documents, we included my partner's original Kenyan birth certificate with a self-addressed stamped envelope and a request for its return in the covering letter. We have not received this back (!). Can I assume they have it when we go to the interview? It will take another 14 weeks to get a new one from Kenya!

Thanks again!

Hi Everyone,

After applying DCF London for a Spouse Visa for my husband, we received the letter entitled "Approval Notice of Relative Immigrant Visa Petition" in the first week of July, it was dated June 23. From what I understood we are to wait for Packet 3 to arrive, which we send back to show we are ready for the interview. We have not heard anything else. Are we supposed to print forms off the website to send them in? If not, is the only way to sort this out to call their expensive hotline?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I filed the I-130 for my British husband here in London and we received a letter requesting more information, including a sworn affidavit by me as well as three other affidavits by third parties. It is noted in the footnotes that 'Affidavits do not need to be notarized; the affidavit only requires the bold statement listed above "I declare...".

I had never heard of an affidavit not being notarized before and just want to check that all is required is a statement signed by the person making it, with no witness (solicitor or otherwise)?

Is there any benefit to having it notarized anyway?

Thanks!

Brittany