How long can we delay NVC? Plus I-864 question

[Zan1 4]

Hi,

 

My wife and I received our letter from the NVC saying that our petition has been approved and that they now require documents for our case.

 

We're currently living in New Zealand (where I'm from) and with our current employment/life situation in NZ and everything going on with covid, we'd like to stick around here a while longer until the second quarter of 2022. The process from here is obviously still pretty long, but we want to ensure that we don't have move earlier than we'd like to if our case moves quickly, so we were wondering if there's any limit on how long we delay sending in our documents to the NVC before it becomes a problem. Are we able to just wait another 6 months before doing anything and our application will just carry on as normal?

 

To follow on from that, my wife and I have been living in NZ for a little over a year, and before that Canada for 2 years. She earns well over the I-864 required income and has filed her US taxes on her NZ and Canadian income, however because she's been earning overseas none of the income is "US income". I just wanted to confirm that because of this, she does not meet the requirements for the I-864 and we'll have to find a co-sponsor as well?

 

Thanks for your help!

Edited February 1, 2021 by Zan1

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You can wait up to a year from each time you take an NVC action.