Do I need a Joint Sponsor?

[panpan 0]

Hi, Guys. Me and my fiancé are getting married next week and having the small civil wedding ourselves in the court. (Save the money for the big wedding next year). I will try to send out my AOS next month based on her USC status. I have a question about if we need a Joint Sponsor. She graduated from college last month and currently works at a company at $32000 a year while I am graduating from college in December this year, but currently I am doing my summer internship and getting $10000 in this summer.

So our situation is she has no income pervious years, I had $11300 last year from last internship, and we total have $50000 in our saving, which we can list it as our assets. According to a household with 2 members, the poverty line for year is $18212. Do we meet the requirements?

I mean since my fiancé just start to work, do they only look at the past, or the current?

Thanks Guys!

[belgrade09 0]

According to USCIS website:

If you cannot meet the minimum income requirements using your earned income, you have various options. You may:

• Add the cash value of your assets such as money in savings accounts, stocks, bonds, and property. To determine the amount of assets required to qualify, subtract your household income from the minimum income requirement (125% of the poverty level for your family size). In most cases, you must prove the cash value of your assets is worth five times this difference (the amount left over).

Example for a household size of 4:

125 percent of 2008 poverty guideline $26,500

Sponsor's income $20,000

Difference $ 6,500

Multiply by 5 x 5

Minimum Required Cash Value of Assets $32,500

So, for you it would be $18,212 - $10,000 = $8,212, multiply by 5 = $41,000 required in cash assets - I think you are fine!

[Minya's wife 24]

Hi, Guys. Me and my fiancé are getting married next week and having the small civil wedding ourselves in the court. (Save the money for the big wedding next year). I will try to send out my AOS next month based on her USC status. I have a question about if we need a Joint Sponsor. She graduated from college last month and currently works at a company at $32000 a year while I am graduating from college in December this year, but currently I am doing my summer internship and getting $10000 in this summer.

So our situation is she has no income pervious years, I had $11300 last year from last internship, and we total have $50000 in our saving, which we can list it as our assets. According to a household with 2 members, the poverty line for year is $18212. Do we meet the requirements?

I mean since my fiancé just start to work, do they only look at the past, or the current?

Thanks Guys!

USCIS wants to know if your sponsor has enough income to support you now and in the future, so you will not become a public charge. To this effect, prior income is used to show 'constancy', but in your case, since your wife was a student, it cannot apply.

If your wife makes enough now, you are meeting the sponsorship requirements. Include tax information for previous years, as required, and I think you can include a statement explaining that previous income was low due to student status, but that current income is at or above the 125% of the poverty guideline for this year.

So, no you would not need a joint sponsor.

-P

[panpan 0]

Thanks.

Since only me had income last year with $11300, that is the only thing we need to mail. So what we need is : My tax return /W-2 from last year, and my wife's current monthly pay stub, and a letter from bank states the amount of our saving account. That should be it for the I-864 right?

Hi, Guys. Me and my fiancé are getting married next week and having the small civil wedding ourselves in the court. (Save the money for the big wedding next year). I will try to send out my AOS next month based on her USC status. I have a question about if we need a Joint Sponsor. She graduated from college last month and currently works at a company at $32000 a year while I am graduating from college in December this year, but currently I am doing my summer internship and getting $10000 in this summer.

So our situation is she has no income pervious years, I had $11300 last year from last internship, and we total have $50000 in our saving, which we can list it as our assets. According to a household with 2 members, the poverty line for year is $18212. Do we meet the requirements?

I mean since my fiancé just start to work, do they only look at the past, or the current?

Thanks Guys!

USCIS wants to know if your sponsor has enough income to support you now and in the future, so you will not become a public charge. To this effect, prior income is used to show 'constancy', but in your case, since your wife was a student, it cannot apply.

If your wife makes enough now, you are meeting the sponsorship requirements. Include tax information for previous years, as required, and I think you can include a statement explaining that previous income was low due to student status, but that current income is at or above the 125% of the poverty guideline for this year.

So, no you would not need a joint sponsor.

-P

[Linkin 0]

based on the Info, I have by reveiwing various sources on Internet regarding AOS filling and Poverty Line, my opinion is

When you file For AOS, you have to submit last three years tax return inlucding 6 recent pay stubs. On these basis, USCIS verifies the eligibility of Petitioner to support the intended immigrant. If your income is reaching more then poverty line, then you dont need to include joint sponsor. Moreover, Last three years tax returns also checked for how much he or she been earning in the last three years. If she had no income last year but you have some savings from the last year. list them up as your assets...USCIS Wants to see if petitioner could support the intended immigrant unless he gets the EAD and start working. There could be those ppl who don't work but have enough saving to apply for AOS and shows their saving as assets to prove that they can takecare of immigrant. Again The both look at past and present, but as long as you have good savings the time you are applying for AOS. you shouldn't have any problem.

This is my opinion on what info you gave here. So dont take it as expert advise.

Hi, Guys. Me and my fiancé are getting married next week and having the small civil wedding ourselves in the court. (Save the money for the big wedding next year). I will try to send out my AOS next month based on her USC status. I have a question about if we need a Joint Sponsor. She graduated from college last month and currently works at a company at $32000 a year while I am graduating from college in December this year, but currently I am doing my summer internship and getting $10000 in this summer.

So our situation is she has no income pervious years, I had $11300 last year from last internship, and we total have $50000 in our saving, which we can list it as our assets. According to a household with 2 members, the poverty line for year is $18212. Do we meet the requirements?

I mean since my fiancé just start to work, do they only look at the past, or the current?

Thanks Guys!