AOS - i-864a and other help needed!!

[ohcoffeeeyes 120]

Hello, 

 

my wife makes the money we need to live together but we have a really big issue in that she only just started making it in January of this year. Which means we'll need to wait until the next tax return.

 

Her dad was fine with joint sponsoring us until her stepmother was against it all of a sudden. We stared to look into the 864-a, is this viable? To pool the 15k my wife made last year with the money my father in law made? Or will he still have the same financial reponsibilities

 

if not viable, then what else is there for us? financial hardship waiver? we can maybe show that my wife WILL make over 125% of the poverty line come April?

[Wuozopo 4,293]

1 hour ago, ohcoffeeeyes said:

my wife makes the money we need to live together but we have a really big issue in that she only just started making it in January of this year. Which means we'll need to wait until the next tax return.

No you don’t. Her tax return is a required document, no matter how much it shows she made. BUT she has the option of proving her current income Is more than she made last year  with an employer letter and 6 months of pay stubs.

 

1 hour ago, ohcoffeeeyes said:

Her dad was fine with joint sponsoring us until her stepmother was against it all of a sudden. We stared to look into the 864-a, is this viable? To pool the 15k my wife made last year with the money my father in law made?

Pooling is an option only if she lives in the same house with her father and stepmother. She does I-864 and adds him as a household member. He has to do the I-864a agreeing for her to use his income. He provides proof of his separate income and his tax return and proof they have the same address and are related. If step-mom is against his sponsoring, then she would be against this too because he is accepting the same responsibility. 
 

All of this is explained in the instructions for the I-864 and I-864a.

Edited March 28, 2020 by Wuozopo

[ohcoffeeeyes 120]

On 3/28/2020 at 1:26 AM, Wuozopo said:

Pooling is an option only if she lives in the same house with her father and stepmother. She does I-864 and adds him as a household member. He has to do the I-864a agreeing for her to use his income. He provides proof of his separate income and his tax return and proof they have the same address and are related. If step-mom is against his sponsoring, then she would be against this too because he is accepting the same responsibility. 
 

All of this is explained in the instructions for the I-864 and I-864a.

Ah, actually the stepmother is fine with it. 

 

Would joint-sponsoring or pooling be smarter or are they both the same? She does live with them currently but is preparing an apartment for when I move there.

[Wuozopo 4,293]

38 minutes ago, ohcoffeeeyes said:

Ah, actually the stepmother is fine with it. 

 

Would joint-sponsoring or pooling be smarter or are they both the same? She does live with them currently but is preparing an apartment for when I move there.

I would say there is more paperwork and documentation pooling money. More to mess up and get a RFE. That is intended for when neither qualifies by themselves. Example— Spouse makes $15k. Dad makes $15k. Neither qualifies. The pooling thing makes a household income of $30k which would qualify. My personal opinion is it’s cleaner for spouse and dad  to do separate I-864s if Dad’s separate income is enough for his household (him, stepmom, dependent children) PLUS you.

[ohcoffeeeyes 120]

21 hours ago, Wuozopo said:

I would say there is more paperwork and documentation pooling money. More to mess up and get a RFE. That is intended for when neither qualifies by themselves. Example— Spouse makes $15k. Dad makes $15k. Neither qualifies. The pooling thing makes a household income of $30k which would qualify. My personal opinion is it’s cleaner for spouse and dad  to do separate I-864s if Dad’s separate income is enough for his household (him, stepmom, dependent children) PLUS you.

Thank you very much. Yeah I have noticed theres a lot of paperwork and documentation in pooling money and if the joint sponsor is a much quicker, cleaner way. I think thats the best way. Thank you very much. (just one last question, it says on the instructions my spouse should do an i-864 and submit tax returns too, should she also submit her employer letter her boss wrote for her? considering she isnt the primary sponsor)

[Wuozopo 4,293]

1 hour ago, ohcoffeeeyes said:

Thank you very much. Yeah I have noticed theres a lot of paperwork and documentation in pooling money and if the joint sponsor is a much quicker, cleaner way. I think thats the best way. Thank you very much. (just one last question, it says on the instructions my spouse should do an i-864 and submit tax returns too, should she also submit her employer letter her boss wrote for her? considering she isnt the primary sponsor)

The spouse is always the primary sponsor. She has to submit only one tax return as a requirement. If her employment letter shows she makes more than her latest tax return and it puts her over the required amount, then of course include it. That with paystubs ought to qualify her as the only sponsor.  You seem to still be thinking that the tax return must show enough. That’s not true. People get new jobs, better jobs, raises, that qualify them on that new current income that didn’t appear on last year’s tax return.