I-864 and Joint Sponsorship -- How Does It Work?

[BunsandCroissants 2]

I was told today by the NVC to move ahead with the AOS. I am in the US and do not yet have a job, my husband is in France, waiting for this to be completed. It seems as though I need to ask my father to be a joint sponsor and each of us needs to fill out an I-864 (since my income is nil).
I have looked around VJ, Saylin's Wiki page, and the NVC website a bunch but cannot find good information about how joint sponsorship works. Can anyone please provide links to good resources, or their own knowledge about how to best proceed with a joint sponsorship and two I-864s?

Thanks in advance!

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

I am not sure what you mean with "how it works"?

In terms of filing, basically the two of you provide identical I-864 packets (of course his hosuehold size may be different to yours); he also needs to include proof of citizenship.

[casouqor 0]

I'm in the same boat as Penguin. Could you clarify what you need help with? The last time my wife and I went through this we had my parents file an I-864 for support. They just have to do the paperwork and submit it.

[BunsandCroissants 2]

Thanks to both of you. I think I mostly have it sorted out. As I understand it, I need to do an I-864 and basically fill in 0 for income since I do not yet have a job in the US and my dad also needs to fill one out and provide his three most recent year's income information (amongst the rest of the information requested) and we will send them together in one AOS package.