i-864 question 28 (total number of immigrants you are sponsoring)

[iedoc 0]

i've looked all over the net and am still having troubles with this question.

My wife is the principal immigrant. we are applying for her AOS, as she is now in the US, so we are supposed to fill out this affidavit form. Anyway, the problem i'm having is the household size.

I am one person (the sponsor), and my wife is one person (the principal immigrant). the house hold size should be 2 right? So the problem is question 28 says "Enter the total number of immigrants you are sponsoring on this affidavit from Item Numbers 1.a - 27. part 2 (starting at 1.a) is about the principal immigrant, which is my wife, so i should enter 1 in question 28 right?

then it comes to household size. i have 1 for myself, 1 from question 28, and there is "if you are currently married, enter "1" for your spouse". so i should put 1 here, because we are legally married and living together (she came here 2 months ago on her k1 visa). that brings the total household size to 3...

Can someone please shed some light on this? i promise i have spent hours looking for an answer before registering to these forums to ask about it. I'm not sure but it seems this must be a new form or something, either way i'm still confused with the answers that are out there.

Thank you so much for any help!

[teeak 224]

Don't enter 1 for 'if you are currently married'. They already know the person you are sponsoring is your spouse.

Enter 1 for 'total number of immigrants you are sponsoring' and then 1 for 'yourself'. This will give you a household size of 2. The form says not to count anyone twice and entering 1 for 'if you are currently married' will mean you're counting your wife twice.

That box is for people sponsoring other family members or for people who are acting as joint sponsors so they may count their spouses in the household size.

[Dave&Roza 748]

It has been a while, but I seem to remember in the instructions it says to not a person twice. So if your wife is the immigrant and your are the husband and sponsor, the family size is two--one for her and one for you like you are thinking, but you are then counting yourself again.

Your family size is two.

Dave

[iedoc 0]

Thank you so much. i was wondering if i should keep "if you are married" to 0. yeah, it says not to count anybody twice, i was just wondering where i should count her. thank you! These forums have been an incredible help btw

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[ameribrazil 37]

Could someone please tell me what I need to put here on Part 11 of the I-864. Thanks

[Dave&Roza 748]

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Could someone please tell me what I need to put here on Part 11 of the I-864. Thanks

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Edited October 20, 2015 by Dave&Roza

[Dave&Roza 748]

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Could someone please tell me what I need to put here on Part 11 of the I-864. Thanks

If you need additional space to answer a question in the form, you complete your identifying information--i.e. name and A#--then you tell the USCIS person which question--i.e. page number, item #, etc--that this additional information applies to. If you do not need additional space then leave this section blank.

In the past people who required more space would attach an additional piece of paper and put all kinds of identifying information on this paper and the USCIS employee might or might not be able to know which question it applied to. So they standardized the process.

Dave

[ameribrazil 37]

If you need additional space to answer a question in the form, you complete your identifying information--i.e. name and A#--then you tell the USCIS person which question--i.e. page number, item #, etc--that this additional information applies to. If you do not need additional space then leave this section blank.

In the past people who required more space would attach an additional piece of paper and put all kinds of identifying information on this paper and the USCIS employee might or might not be able to know which question it applied to. So they standardized the process.

Dave

Thank you Dave for the clarification! Makes sense.