Affiadavit of Support Help!!

[Easyflier 0]

Hello all,

Many thanks for your help!

I am aware of the poverty guidelines etc to meet the requirements of the forms, but here is my problem. I am the USC petitioning for my French spouse. I am employed by a US airline but on a leave with no income and have exhausted my savings. My wife works, self-employed but her income does not meet the asset criteria stated in the affidavit, but we have a joint sponsor.

To ease the paperwork process, should we simply state we both have no income and no assets and use the joint sponsor to cover both of us? (the joint sponsor's income is well enough for his household of 2 and both of us). Would that work or would immigration frown when they see we have nothing coming from us?

To get it straight, the only paperwork I need to file then is one one I-864 for myself (the sponsor) and one from the joint sponsor, right?

Many thanks for all your help so I can expedite this paperwork!!

Cheers!

[pushbrk 12,898]

Hello all,

Many thanks for your help!

I am aware of the poverty guidelines etc to meet the requirements of the forms, but here is my problem. I am the USC petitioning for my French spouse. I am employed by a US airline but on a leave with no income and have exhausted my savings. My wife works, self-employed but her income does not meet the asset criteria stated in the affidavit, but we have a joint sponsor.

To ease the paperwork process, should we simply state we both have no income and no assets and use the joint sponsor to cover both of us? (the joint sponsor's income is well enough for his household of 2 and both of us). Would that work or would immigration frown when they see we have nothing coming from us?

To get it straight, the only paperwork I need to file then is one one I-864 for myself (the sponsor) and one from the joint sponsor, right?

Many thanks for all your help so I can expedite this paperwork!!

Cheers!

If you have no income, how would you state anything else for income except zero? Yes, one I-864 for you and one from the joint sponsor but the sponsor is not sponsoring you. They just sponsor the foreigner. US Citizens need US passports, not sponsors.

[Easyflier 0]

If you have no income, how would you state anything else for income except zero? Yes, one I-864 for you and one from the joint sponsor but the sponsor is not sponsoring you. They just sponsor the foreigner. US Citizens need US passports, not sponsors.

Many thanks for your help and clarification! Obviously no income= $0. The instructions are confusing to me when it states how to use assests and whether or not one should list them.

Thank you!

[pushbrk 12,898]

Many thanks for your help and clarification! Obviously no income= $0. The instructions are confusing to me when it states how to use assests and whether or not one should list them.

Thank you!

When you clearly don't qualify, there's no need to list assets. The same is true if you clearly qualify. However, assets are not ever listed as income. When you list "liquid assets" (see definition in instructions) they can substitute as $3 in assets replaces $1 in income shortfall. So, if you have more than three times the income requirement in document-able liquid assets, you qualify on your own.