I-864 questions

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10 hours ago, pushbrk said:

In my culture, anything untrue is a lie.

Ok, but in a legal setting, a lie is a deliberate misrepresentation of fact. Lying to the government here would be immigration fraud, which I definitely am not suggesting the OP should do.   

11 hours ago, pushbrk said:

The OP has not indicated any such employment.  The word "this" in the sentence you quoted gives a different meaning than if I had used "A" or "Any". 

My point here was that there should be several ANDs and additional clauses in your statement; I was being facetious, sorry.

10 hours ago, Jojo92122 said:

Nice picking out half a sentence and focus on that "where you plan to reside for the foreseeable future."  Why didn't you quote the first half of that sentence?  Why did you leave out "Indicate the country where you maintain your principlal residence?"  Isn't the first part of the question important?

I should probably have written " Indicate the country where you maintain your principal residence and where you plan to reside for the foreseeable future." The point is that domicile means more than just where you reside. (This part is relevant, because, as noted above, depending on the definition of "foreseeable future", it is impossible to answer the question. What would you have written if it had said "Write the name of your brother and spouse"? (assuming that you are not married to your brother)

 

10 hours ago, Jojo92122 said:

Answer the questions that are ask.  Don't be cute or play word games.

 

Your advice is horrible.

Please elaborate on why my advice is "horrible". In my very first post in this thread I gave three clear answers to the OP's questions. @pushbrk took exception to one of my answers, and so we began to discuss what the correct answer is. During this discussion, @pushbrk's stance changed from 

On 6/20/2018 at 12:54 AM, pushbrk said:

Petitioners, beneficiaries, applicants ALL need to ALWAYS tell the truth.  You just told this one to lie.  Not good.

to

 

11 hours ago, pushbrk said:

All that speaks to why what YOU did in similar situations, while technically wrong, in my opinion, is also immaterial and will be ignored in favor of evidence of INTENT to re-establish domicile.

which is a slightly different tone (in my opinion). From my point of view, this was simply an interesting discussion, and find @Jojo92122's addition to be unnecessarily rude.

 

I maintain that my suggestion is not incorrect; the relevant language in Section 213A of the INA is

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) Sponsor Defined.- 

(1) In general.-For purposes of this section the term "sponsor" in relation to a sponsored alien means an individual who executes an affidavit of support with respect to the sponsored alien and who- 

(A) is a citizen or national of the United States or an alien who is lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence; 

(B) is at least 18 years of age; 

(C) is domiciled in any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States; 

(D) is petitioning for the admission of the alien under section 204 ; and 

(E) demonstrates (as provided in paragraph (6)) the means to maintain an annual income equal to at least 125 percent of the Federal poverty line. 

The instructions for the I-864 state

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If you are not currently living in the United States, you may meet the domicile requirement if you can submit evidence to establish that any of the following conditions apply:
 

My interpretation gives the chain of implications: fulfilling requirement 3 listed in the I-864 instructions means that you satisfy the domiclie requirement (C) above, i.e. you are domiciled in the USA. This is not inconsistent with more common definitions (i.e. in tax law) of the term "domicile", which generally use terms like permanent residence or indefinite residence instead of the fuzzy "plan to reside for the foreseeable future" in the instructions for the I-864.

[pushbrk 13,260]

Not worth responding to further.  Point is made or not made based on the reader.

 

Note that what I said about your own situation, differs from what I said about your advice to the OP, as the circumstances MAY be similar but not the same.