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It is a mistake to times you weekly Gross X 4 weeks per month X 12 months due to as the above post mentioned; There are months when you receive 5 Paydays.

Wrong statement.

There's been a discussion on forum and the bottom-line was: you can use either way, especially monthly count is good for those who have overtime hours (like in my case). Or paid bi-weekly. Because, let's say if: 1st week you earned $700, 2nd - $800, 3rd - $500, 4th - $400, which week's salary are you gonna use?

There are months when you receive 5 Paydays

I bet, you meant paychecks.

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If the employer writes in the letter that the employee is employed full time then they'll more than likely multiply the weekly rate of pay by 2080 hours(number of work hours normally in a years time) to get an annual figure. OR, you can average the last say 3 months worth of paychecks, and multiply by 52 weeks in a year (I believe she gets paid weekly?) This will more than get you in the ballpark. Hope I didn't muddy the water for you!! I'm not sure of the method they use, these are ballparks. I used the employment letter from my work that listed both hourly rate and yearly compensation.

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and does the embassy when checking this count by the weeks then so its accurate?

My suggestion to you: forget about employment letter (this is exactly what I'm gonna do) and just use your last pay-stub as evidence of your employment and current income. I hope it has "Year to date" income (or have 4-6 month checks if there's no) and the date your pay-check was issued (and the period it covers).

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yeah she will send me the past 6 months of paystubs...and she said she got 40 hrs a week...so i am thinking i should just multiply by 52 weeks...you think? Thanks for the answers!!

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yeah she will send me the past 6 months of paystubs...and she said she got 40 hrs a week...so i am thinking i should just multiply by 52 weeks...you think? Thanks for the answers!!

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You filed DCF.

We just completed DCF through Riyadh. The first packet that you receive will be a request for you to accumulate a ton of documents. These are:

DS-230 Part I (will be in the packet)

Marriage cert

Prior marriage termination documents (for both)

Birth certs

Police cert

Deportation records (if any)

Military records (if any)

Court prison recored (if any)

They send a form for you to return after you have accumulated all of these documents. For us, we only returned this form (says "yes our documents are ready") and the DS-230 part I.

After you send the forms back in they will send you another packet WITH an INTERVIEW DATE - this will request the affidavit of support and medical. They asked us to return all the forms above (translated to english) + the medical + the I-864 + the DS-230 Part II at least (1) week before interview.

They do not send an I-864. Their packet instructions say to go to uscis.gov and read the instructions and prepare one.

That's all there is to it. Hope that helps.

Ok so let me see if i'm understanding this correctly. So, if the cosponsor makes $9.02 per hour and works 40 hours a week that is 360.80 a week multiplied by 52 is $18,761.60...which is just over a little. Is that ok? And, also all year up until this week she worked 40 hours but it will change this week to 35 hrs a week which would be $16,416.40....so what should we count? The 35 hrs a week or 40? And, my last question was i am in Cairo and filed here...the I-130 was approved and we are waiting to get the package from DHL with all the forms we need to fill out..which i am assuming the AOS will be in there for me to fill as i am the sponsor. Will the embassy send her an I-864 and she sends it back to them or can she print it out and fill it and send it to me here in Cairo and i submit it when i send back the papers to the embassy? Thanks so much for replying...this is helping me out so much!!

 

i don't get it.

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As to the affidavit of support - the pay stubs usually give the ytd income. The base income is usually what one would put (40 hr week / hourly wage) but several things can add to that -

A letter from the bank with their letterhead giving total deposits over the past year period (we used this)

A letter from the employer with hire date and hourly wage (this gives base income see above)

The I864 specifically asks for adjusted gross income from the tax return - it'S line 34 or some such

Only previous year income tax has to be included - and we never filed anything but copies. Copies require every

W2 / 1099 / other income document so that the numbers all match on the return otherwise an IRS transcript will be required.

Good luck

You filed DCF.

We just completed DCF through Riyadh. The first packet that you receive will be a request for you to accumulate a ton of documents. These are:

DS-230 Part I (will be in the packet)

Marriage cert

Prior marriage termination documents (for both)

Birth certs

Police cert

Deportation records (if any)

Military records (if any)

Court prison recored (if any)

They send a form for you to return after you have accumulated all of these documents. For us, we only returned this form (says "yes our documents are ready") and the DS-230 part I.

After you send the forms back in they will send you another packet WITH an INTERVIEW DATE - this will request the affidavit of support and medical. They asked us to return all the forms above (translated to english) + the medical + the I-864 + the DS-230 Part II at least (1) week before interview.

They do not send an I-864. Their packet instructions say to go to uscis.gov and read the instructions and prepare one.

That's all there is to it. Hope that helps.

 

i don't get it.

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My suggestion to you: forget about employment letter (this is exactly what I'm gonna do) and just use your last pay-stub as evidence of your employment and current income. I hope it has "Year to date" income (or have 4-6 month checks if there's no) and the date your pay-check was issued (and the period it covers).

Hi Nickky,

I thought the employment letter is mandatory to include, hence not optional. Have you heard/read otherwise?

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Ok so let me see if i'm understanding this correctly. So, if the cosponsor makes $9.02 per hour and works 40 hours a week that is 360.80 a week multiplied by 52 is $18,761.60...which is just over a little. Is that ok? And, also all year up until this week she worked 40 hours but it will change this week to 35 hrs a week which would be $16,416.40....so what should we count? The 35 hrs a week or 40? And, my last question was i am in Cairo and filed here...the I-130 was approved and we are waiting to get the package from DHL with all the forms we need to fill out..which i am assuming the AOS will be in there for me to fill as i am the sponsor. Will the embassy send her an I-864 and she sends it back to them or can she print it out and fill it and send it to me here in Cairo and i submit it when i send back the papers to the embassy? Thanks so much for replying...this is helping me out so much!!

This is a little over for two people, not three or more. If using a cosponsor their income should cover not only you and your husband but the cosponsor and any other person/people in their household.

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