I-864 question

[aussiewench 9]

Thanks everyone for your advice. I sent an email to the consulate just to be sure about this question and they got back to me less than a day later which is excellent! My fiance does have to meet the 125% for all 5 members but only for the last financial year (which he does thankgoodness!) and they said that they now only require his most recent tax year, not the past 3 (their response confused me a bit because they didn't say whether that is what used to be the case (prove the threshold for 3 years) or whether they now only require his latest tax return. But the form still asks you to provide all 3 tax returns so we will take them anyway, even if they no longer need them.

Thats what I have been waiting to see, that embassy's ARE indeed only requiring one years tax return now, which is in line with the new law regarding I-864 for adjustment of status in the US from other visas There had always been a requirement to submit 3 years with the I-864 for DCF/CR-1......so this is great news.

Edited March 17, 2006 by aussiewench

[laura428 0]

Eeeeek... thanks for posting this. Since we haven't gotten our packet from Montreal yet, I haven't been pouring over the specifics of the I-864 and hadn't realized that we'll have to count my parents (with whom we'll be staying very temporarily until we can move into our new house). With me not working, I truly hope that my husband's (the sponsored immigrant) income makes up for the fact that we won't quite make the asset requirement for six household members (instead of four).

Big eeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

[Yodrak 7]

Lorelle,

What new law? The law hasn't changed.

USCIS policy and procedure may have changed, but policy and procedure isn't law.

Yodrak

Thanks everyone for your advice. I sent an email to the consulate just to be sure about this question and they got back to me less than a day later which is excellent! My fiance does have to meet the 125% for all 5 members but only for the last financial year (which he does thankgoodness!) and they said that they now only require his most recent tax year, not the past 3 (their response confused me a bit because they didn't say whether that is what used to be the case (prove the threshold for 3 years) or whether they now only require his latest tax return. But the form still asks you to provide all 3 tax returns so we will take them anyway, even if they no longer need them.

Thats what I have been waiting to see, that embassy's ARE indeed only requiring one years tax return now, which is in line with the new law regarding I-864 for adjustment of status in the US from other visas There had always been a requirement to submit 3 years with the I-864 for DCF/CR-1......so this is great news.

[aussiewench 9]

I know that but for the life of me when I posted that, I couldnt think of the word. Anyways.......its a good thing that it is going across the board to include applications for IV's.

Lorelle,

What new law? The law hasn't changed.

USCIS policy and procedure may have changed, but policy and procedure isn't law.

Yodrak

Thanks everyone for your advice. I sent an email to the consulate just to be sure about this question and they got back to me less than a day later which is excellent! My fiance does have to meet the 125% for all 5 members but only for the last financial year (which he does thankgoodness!) and they said that they now only require his most recent tax year, not the past 3 (their response confused me a bit because they didn't say whether that is what used to be the case (prove the threshold for 3 years) or whether they now only require his latest tax return. But the form still asks you to provide all 3 tax returns so we will take them anyway, even if they no longer need them.

Thats what I have been waiting to see, that embassy's ARE indeed only requiring one years tax return now, which is in line with the new law regarding I-864 for adjustment of status in the US from other visas There had always been a requirement to submit 3 years with the I-864 for DCF/CR-1......so this is great news.