I134 Part 3 Q14 Petitioner's Income

[drussell024 12]

Petitioner will only be using income, do we list the petitioner's salary there for income contribution to the beneficiary? Or how should we fill out this question? 

 

Just seems strange to say I will be giving X amount of dollars to the beneficiary annually when we are getting married and will be living under my income together. 

 

 

[Vickys_Mom 223]

"My annual income is..."

 

You put in your annual income.  You're not giving it all to your beneficiary.  It represents the income you have to support your household including your beneficiary.

 

Regards,

Vicky's Mom

[drussell024 12]

My confusion is that it's not asking what my salary is in the below question (and no where else in the form) but rather how much will I contribute to the beneficiary annually. 

 

So is it correct to put my annual salary in the far right column? Or do I need to come up with an arbitrary number below my salary that is still satisfactory for income requirements? 

[Vickys_Mom 223]

I was looking at an older version of the form.  Sorry about that.  In the old version of the form it just said "Income".

 

I don't like the way it's worded, but I still think the correct answer is all of your annual income in the "Income Contribution to the Beneficiary Annually" column.  Since that's the only place they ask for income under "Information About the Individual Agreeing to Financially Support the Beneficiary Named in Part 2", you don't have anywhere else to enter your income.   I don't think you put $0 in there, and I don't think you'd put a partial amount in there because then the reviewing officer would say, hmmm, why didn't he put all of his income there?  There should also be some relationship between that number and your paycheck or tax transcript that you'll include with it.

 

I'll use myself as an example.  My wife and are both wage earners.  My mother-in-law wants to immigrate and live with us.  According to that form I'd list myself and my wife as well as both of our incomes.  The total at the bottom of the list would hopefully be really close to the amount on our joint tax transcript.

 

Regards,

Vicky's Mom

 

[Annafez 0]

Hi there - my fiance and I are working on filling in the I-134 and have the same question as above regarding the 'income contribution to beneficiary' column. I was just wondering whether OP or anyone else had found further information on what this amount should be?  The wording is quite confusing, but currently. I'm leaning towards including total income under the 'self' row, even though that amount will obviously not be 'paid' to my beneficiary, but shared amongst the household.

 

Thank you!!

[drussell024 12]

I listed my total income reported on the form in that section, and then in the explaination section I said that since we are getting married I will be supporting any and all financial needs of my fiance. We had no issue with the I134 doing that. 

[drussell024 12]

BTW - even filling out the form in Adobe Acrobat and removing Javascript, there were still sections I had to manually fill out by hand and then re-scan and send to my fiance. Let me know if you have any other questions I'd be glad to help 

[drussell024 12]