Authorization for release of taxes

[AMarina 0]

Dear VisaJourney members,

does anybody know whether the sponsored immigrant is also supposed to sign the Authorization for Release of Taxes form if joint taxes were filed for several years, but the immigrant's income is not used in the Affidavit? My husband believes unless I sign as well, the form would be invalid because our taxes are joint, and IRS won't release information because both need to sign.

And a probably silly question about DS-230 - should there be a picture attached to the form? There is a space there that looks exactly like a picture space, yet nowhere did we read that the picture is needed...

Thank you as always!

AMarina

[Mr&Mrs2859 0]

I as the petitioner for my husband I had to sign that form but we did not have joint taxes. Just to be on the safe side it couldnt hurt to make a copy of the same form and have him sign a seperate one to save you some time in the end.

[AMarina 0]

Thank you for answers. The only problem is that I didn't notice that I need to sign that before, and as a result waisted time because will now have to be sending it the original to him...