Revised i864 at interview - Add Joint Sponsor or Use Updated Info

[SileNZ 4]

I filed an I-864 in December 2019 (for my spouse).  At that time, my income was low and did not meet the minimum as I was on an unpaid 2-year leave of absence from my US-based employer and I relied primarily on our assets (which are comfortably over 3*125% of the poverty line). I also provided a letter from my US employer stating that I was on a leave of absence, was scheduled to return to pay at the end of January 2020, and stating my annual salary.

 

My spouse's case has been documentarily qualified with the following note from the NVC (as predicted by users here)

<Petitioner> does not meet the minimum income requirement to sponsor the intending immigrants for this case. The consular officer will make a decision regarding this requirement at the time of the interview. For more information, please visit https://www.uscis.gov/i-864p. To avoid delays, an additional Affidavit of Support Form I-864 for a joint sponsor may be submitted.

 

I have now returned to pay status at my US job (as of the end of January) and I am returning to the US with our child ahead of my spouse. As my address is changing, I will be completing a new I-864 stating my 2020 US income (based on my salary) is comfortably above the requirement for our household size. I intend to provide a new letter from my employer along with paystubs since I returned to pay status, and I also intend to list the same assets as in my previous I-864. My spouse plans to take this new I-864, and supporting documents, to the interview.

 

Our question is: Should I also have one of my parents be a joint sponsor? My concern is that it would be overkill, administratively burden my parent, and too much extra information will result in administrative processing and our family will be separated for longer than is necessary. However, we'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

All advice is appreciated.

 

 

[Lois K 121]

I don't have an answer for you, sorry, but I have a similar situation so I'll share what I've done. I had enough income and enough assets, but between the I-130 and the I-864 I became unemployed. I do have a new job starting here in two weeks, again with enough income. But I didn't want to delay submitting paperwork. Nor did I want to risk a denial. So I asked my dad to be a Joint Sponsor (with mom's income added as a Household Member). (And yes, you are right, it was a lot of effort to put the I-864 packets together with my parents. Using the tax transcripts helped.)

 

When I submitted all the paperwork via CEAC, I added notes that I'd value the opportunity to be the sole sponsor but I leave that up to their discretion. I don't know what they might do with that info yet. This is not advice, this is just sharing how I approached a similar situation.