Lost green card - fee waiver questions

[garnet80 1]

Hello,

My husband came to the US from Canada on a K-1, adjusted status, had his 2 year green card. His wallet has been missing for a few months. We don't believe it was stolen. Accounts haven't been touched, etc. Honestly, he didn't even notice it was gone for a couple of weeks. We had been in the NICU with our newborn son when he lost it, and during his (our son) 3 month stay, an emergency hospital transfer, and the uncertainty of if he would even make it, the wallet was the last thing on our minds.

My husband did not normally carry the green card on him, but he had it with him for reasons even he doesn't recall. >.<

Our son is home right now, (can change at any time - the PICU is where he would go next) so I realized we better get going on fixing this, since he now can't drive, and more or less has no id. We have a copy of the front of the green card, but not the back.

Anyway, his 2 year card expires next November I think? So we have a bit under a year to get this replaced. We really can't afford the hefty fee of a replacement card, but I looked at the fee waiver, and since we make less than 150% of the national poverty line, I think we could get a waiver. I ordered a tax transcript for 2010 which shows our income.

In 2010 we both worked, but I think we still would have been within the poverty lines. Now, I am unable to work, because I stay home to care for our son, so even less money is coming in.

My questions are:

*Myself and my mother had to be his financial sponsors with the K1 and AOS. My husband is not on ANY public assistance, although my son and I (both USC) are on Medicaid (No WIC, Welfare, Food stamps, etc). Since my mother and I are his sponsors, does that mean that she and I are responsible for the replacement fee? Either before the waiver, or could the government come after my mother and I after the waiver was granted? I was trying to read about it, but got confused...

Could they deny his request for the waiver because he has sponsors? Could having to have used a waiver screw him up next fall when he applies to remove conditions?

*I think I understand this part. My husband, son, and I all share a house with my mother. We do not claim her on our taxes and she does not claim us. From what I could tell, we do not need to list her or her income, for the poverty line determination?

*Does he just apply for the waiver first? Wait for a response, if it's approved, he begins the card replacement process?

Should he be denied, I'm not sure what we would do. I hope there isn't some sort of rule where you have to file for whatever it was you wanted the waiver for within so many days of the decision on the waiver.

Our son is still very very ill, this could not be happening at a worse time. Having to go do biometrics again and such, it's like a 3 hour car drive away.

When we apply to remove conditions, I just pray there is no interview. I don't know how we would both get out there, if our son is still in the condition he's currently in. He could not come with us, and he has intense medical care routines. He can't be left with anyone because of that, as well as the possibility of him picking up an illness from new person. Even my mother is unable to do his medical care.

Anyway I'm sorry this is so long. I really did try to figure this all out myself, but my brain is fried, and I want to make sure I am not making stupid assumptions.

Thanks to anyone with advice/answers.

I WILL be ripping this house apart one more time before we start this process. I don't have much hope, but it's worth one more shot...

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Did you make a copy of the front and the back of that Green Card?

[garnet80 1]

No, unfortunately we only have the front. We fail.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

No, unfortunately we only have the front. We fail.

Have you called the hospitals? It could be in their lost and found.