Does taxes affect i-130 sponsoring process?

[L4help 0]

My wife just recently became a citizen about a year ago. We are in the process of i-130 for bringing her mother over. We have file married filing jointly on our taxes for the pass 6 yrs. This year however if we file jointly we'll get no returns so I'm thinking about filing married file separately. My question is will this affect the process? She make more than the 125% ($20,000) requirement set by the government. Will immigration /or questioning person look at this and think it is suspicious? Like as soon as you got citizenship you are apply for your mother and file taxes married separately instead of the usual married jointly? Should I just bite it and file jointly and wait until next year to file married separate? Her mom got a letter on August 2017 stating they have accepted her application so she should be call for hearing pretty soon. Don't want to mess anything up.

[aleful 1,905]

it doesn't matter how you file taxes, you are still part of her household

 

so she doesn't make enough, she will need  you to be her co sponsor and file the i864A, she will still need to file the i864

 

the minimum for a household of 3 is $25, 525. so she must make over that

 

if there aren't any other dependents, the household is herself, you and her mom. the beneficiary is always included as part of the household

 

 

[L4help 0]

  On 2/25/2018 at 4:49 AM, aleful said:

it doesn't matter how you file taxes, you are still part of her household

 

so she doesn't make enough, she will need  you to be her co sponsor and file the i864A, she will still need to file the i864

 

the minimum for a household of 3 is $25, 525. so she must make over that

 

if there aren't any other dependents, the household is herself, you and her mom. the beneficiary is always included as part of the household

 

 

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I make more than my wife, in 2017 she made $30k that should be enough to cover. No dependents. No beneficiary. No the form I send and they accepted was a i-130 no need to do i864a.

 

So no matter how I file my taxes it should not affect or have anything to do with immigration?

[aleful 1,905]

no

 

 

[Invisible007 0]

To file petition for both the parents who live abroad, how much I should be making? I am single. No kids or any other dependent. 

I work as independent contractor, how much income I should show in my taxes?

Thanks.