Affidavit of Support - NVC want a correction

[jman0war 0]

While living and working abroad with my foreign spouse we applied for a green card.

No direct embassy filing here.

My petition went to the NVC and I sent in the Affidavit of Support and organized a Joint Sponsor.

A few months later the NVC emaild me to say i've made an error on my form.

They said:

The income you enter must match the total (gross) income reported on your most recent Federal income tax return. If you filed Form 1040EZ, use the adjusted gross income instead.

However i wrote my total wages that was listed on my 2013 return.

I can't use a 1040EZ when filing abroad; rather a 1040. So does that mean I shouldn't use the Adjusted Gross Income?

There are no answers to such questions.

I thought about ringing the NVC but I have rang them before and found them to be just call center staff that give canned answers that would not be specific to my case. So they would most likely be useless for information.

I emailed the tax agent I used to file from abroad and he suggested I should use the Adjusted Gross Income.

Which by the way is : 1$ for 2013, and 0$ for 2012 and 2011.

Why?

Because you see, when I am filing abroad I am also filing an exemption form as well for my entire foreign earnings.

So the taxable amount really is 0$.

However when e-filing from abroad (as we did for the 2013 taxes), you can't enter a zero on the online form.

Therefore a 1 was entered.

Anyway I re-did the Affidavit of Support form and put down 1$ for 2013 and 0$ for the other 2 years. I certainly hope this is the correct answer the NVC is looking for.

It's expensive to FedEx packets to them from here.

Do you think this is the correct answer?

[jman0war 0]

114 views and nobody with an opinion?

Does anybody have experience in filing US federal income taxes abroad, using a 1040?

And then later sending in an AOS for their spouse?

And have correctly answered I-864 Part 6 "Sponsor's Income and Employment

Item 13.a.1 (2013 tax year).

Which line on the 1040 is the correct amount?

The I-864 instructions don't go near this question.

Edited July 31, 2014 by jman0war