Tax Transcripts

[midge and isi 8]

If you provide Tax Transcripts should you also have copies of your tax return forms? or is the Tax Transcript with W-2s enough?

Do they care about your state forms or is it just federal that the embassy cares about?

Thanks!

[midge and isi 8]

Also should I highlight anything on the W-2s, 1099s, tax transcripts to make it easier for them to locate things or just leave them be? I have a co-sponsor so it would be more important that his are seen. He filled jointly with his wife so I have the w-2s to show his income and not the combined shown on the transcript.

[Matt & Bing 56]

If you provide Tax Transcripts should you also have copies of your tax return forms? or is the Tax Transcript with W-2s enough?

Do they care about your state forms or is it just federal that the embassy cares about?

Thanks!

Federal tax transcripts are all that is needed.

[Audy_Rob 26]

Also should I highlight anything on the W-2s, 1099s, tax transcripts to make it easier for them to locate things or just leave them be? I have a co-sponsor so it would be more important that his are seen. He filled jointly with his wife so I have the w-2s to show his income and not the combined shown on the transcript.

So there are two cases here.

1) You have tax transcripts. You do not need 1040s W-2s or 1099 copies. Tax Transcripts prove all of that.

2) But then your income is apparently not enough so you have a joint sponsor. Hopefully your Embassy/Consulate will accept joint sponsors. In the case of a joint sponsor that is married and filing with joint income from his wife, you are correct to provide his W-2 income only. He also needs to fill out an I-134 listing your Alien Beneficiary as a dependent and his dependents.

You should write a short cover letter to the I-134s (yours and joint sponsor's) and explain his income is shown on the W-2, the tax transctipt includes income from the spouse that is not a joint sponsor.

Good luck.

[midge and isi 8]

Thanks!

Ghana does accept co-sponsors thankfully (or has been for the past few cases- but you never know!)

So the letter will "high-light" the things I want to point out instead of actually highlighting them?

Thanks!

[Audy_Rob 26]

Thanks!

Ghana does accept co-sponsors thankfully (or has been for the past few cases- but you never know!)

So the letter will "high-light" the things I want to point out instead of actually highlighting them?

Thanks!

Yes, again you are correct on all counts. Simply point out the corrected income for the joint sponsor alone in a short cover letter. You do not actually need to highlight it in yellow.

Please plan on accumulating a large amount of all types of evidence for your Embassy interview. It would help a lot if your fiance(e) could be there for each other at the interview.

Good luck.

[midge and isi 8]

They don't let the USC in at Ghana , I know i can be outside and he bring my passport in to show i am there but with the high price RT to Accra, I unfortuatly can't make a second trip this year. BUT Im going in July with my parents (so a whole new set of evidence will be available)for the interview. My dad is also the joint sponsor so I am hoping that will show the embassy its more then just financial support but support of the wedding. Not that they care....

off this topic: Should I include the boarding passes, visa stamps from my parents going? I will definatly include photos at landmarks with all of us(my previous pictures from petiton lack the landmarks). Photos of the two families together, reciepts from hotels, and so on.

THANKS!!!!