I-864: dumb checklist request re. gross income when it's ZERO

[Olives24 9]

Thanks for the update! Question:

I filed my 2013 US Taxes from overseas (I'm the petitioner living in Aus with my husband who his the beneficiary). During 2013 I only made AUS income and my 1040 lists my total income as 0.

I wrote 0 in the i-864 form per the instructions which say to write the total income from my 1040.

Is this okay?

[NikLR 13,227]

Yes. write 0 (zero) if that's what it says on your tax transcript.

[aelix 2]

Thanks for the update! Question:

I filed my 2013 US Taxes from overseas (I'm the petitioner living in Aus with my husband who his the beneficiary). During 2013 I only made AUS income and my 1040 lists my total income as 0.

I wrote 0 in the i-864 form per the instructions which say to write the total income from my 1040.

Is this okay?

The difference in my wife's case was that she actually earned no Australian income at all, so she wasn't required to file a US tax return. That's why writing "0.00" for the US tax return question was wrong - the correct answer was "did not file" (although as pointed out in my post above, they didn't ultimately ask for the revised I-864).

Thanks for the update! Question:

I filed my 2013 US Taxes from overseas (I'm the petitioner living in Aus with my husband who his the beneficiary). During 2013 I only made AUS income and my 1040 lists my total income as 0.

I wrote 0 in the i-864 form per the instructions which say to write the total income from my 1040.

Is this okay?

The difference in my wife's case was that she actually earned no Australian income at all, so she wasn't required to file a US tax return. That's why writing "0.00" for the US tax return question was wrong - the correct answer was "did not file" (although as pointed out in my post above, they didn't ultimately ask for the revised I-864).

[mojorisin 5]

Thanks for sharing. I was going to leave it blank. I will write "Not Required to File" now.