i-864 help!!!

[Jmilvain 0]

Hi

I posted some questions below but did not get many answers. I am assuming it's because I included too many questions.

So I would like to ask just one, most crucial, question here.

My husband(USC) has been his mother's dependent until last year and therefore has not filed any tax return ever.

He started working full time last year in October. but changed to a part-time again because of his school.

I was going to have my mother-in-law as a joint sponsor but unfortunately the store she had been working closed down a couple of weeks ago and now she is out of job.

I'm assuming it means that I cannot have her as my joint sponsor since the unemployment began before I had a chance to submit my i-485. Is that correct?

do I need to wait until she gets a new job?

I do have my husband's W-2 form from last year that shows his income earned between October-December, and it might reach the poverty line if annualized because he was working full time at that time. Would it be possible to use that? I know that he will start working full time again after this semester.

I am just trying to think of ANY way possible because I cannot think of anyone who could be a joint sponsor and don't know what to do anymore. I really need to submit this packet asap...

I would love to get an advice from a professional but we cannot afford a lawyer right now.

so, any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks.

[Lillen Faith 5]

What about his friends who has a full time job? They could be a sponsor.

[Penguin_ie 5,997]

If your mother-in-law makes enough on unemployment, you may still be able to use her. If not, yes you'd need to wait or get a different co-sponsor(unless you also earn? You can add your income to your husband's if it is from legal sources such as OPT).

- Your husband's old paystubs/ tax return is irrelevant because what maters is current and ongoing income, and currently his annualised income is not sufficient.

- Cast your net wider for a co-sponsor- ask EVERYONE. Post on your and his Facebook, ask neighbours, old colege friends, co-workers, distant relatives at the other end of the country, church/ mosque friends etc.

[akihon 129]

to be honest, it would be very difficult for the OP to find someone who isn't family to be a sponsor. though the 864 may not be regularly reinforced, it is a binding contract that requires the sponsor to be financially responsible for the immigrant until citizenship. It's a pretty hefty responsibility.

heck, I asked a very close friend if he would sign on as a co-sponsor (or whatever the term is for "the person who will be financially solicited in the event that rent is reneged or fallen behind on") on my sibling's lease and he hedged on it, even when there was absolutely no chance that rent would be reneged. 864 is way more than that.

Edited February 24, 2013 by akihon