RFE for I-864

[threeoceans 0]

I received for RFE today which asked to "Submit a complete Federal Income Tax Return submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from the petitioner/sponsor on Form I-864, Affidavit of Support, for the most recent tax year" and to "Submit evidence of the joint sponsor's status".

I searched the VJ forums which led me to order the free transcripts from here: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc156.html?portlet=1

Is the transcript sufficient/complete or do i need to fill in the Form 4506 and pay the $57 fee? I can't figure out what they really want or mean by "complete".

Also, how do we best prove our joint sponsor's status? They already have a copy of the joint sponsor's birth cert. Should we just send it again then?

Thanks for the help.

[Romancita 3]

I received for RFE today which asked to "Submit a complete Federal Income Tax Return submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from the petitioner/sponsor on Form I-864, Affidavit of Support, for the most recent tax year" and to "Submit evidence of the joint sponsor's status".

I searched the VJ forums which led me to order the free transcripts from here: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc156.html?portlet=1

Is the transcript sufficient/complete or do i need to fill in the Form 4506 and pay the $57 fee? I can't figure out what they really want or mean by "complete".

Also, how do we best prove our joint sponsor's status? They already have a copy of the joint sponsor's birth cert. Should we just send it again then?

Thanks for the help.

Hello!

I sent my husband's tax returns for the last three years and my tax returns for the last three years and did not get any RFE about it. We ordered the tax transcripts after we sent the package, just in case, and it took two weeks to get them. But we did not pay any fee. It was free.

I dont' think that they said "complete" because you did not have the transcripts. If you included both the petitioner and the joint sponsor's tax returns you should be fine.

[Inky 1,111]

Proving the join sponsors status would be the US birth cert, US passport pages copys.

If they are asking for the COMPLETE tax return that you filed to the IRS. I don't think they want transcripts, sounds like they want all pages of your actual tax return that you sent to the IRS. Transcripts are a short form version of the tax return.

[katie & sifa 25]

What did you send in initially? I think the tax transcripts should be sufficient.