pushbrk

It is the year your husband is sponsoring his spouse to immigrate to the USA. Sometimes plans need to change, to qualify. Luckily, you only need three times the income shortfall in liquid assets to qualify. The Consular Officer will consider the totality of circumstances when making the decision. When asked, be far less vague in your answers than you have been in this discussion. Be prepared to tell the truth, and the whole truth including details. Reading between the lines, it sounds like all your husband's daily living expenses are paid by his family. If that is true, make sure it's clear to the Consular Officer.

I take it you are submitting the affidavit NOW or soon. If your income qualifies NOW, you'll get past NVC. Whether a Consular Officer approves, is going to be based on the totality of circumstances, including your current income at THAT time. If it's still going to be marginal, you should proceed with the joint sponsor.

If it will let you leave it blank, leave it blank. Note that there may be several questions that don't make sense to you. They don't have to make sense to you, but you'll still need to answer the questions asked. If it will let you leave it blank, it will also let you make things clear by entering "NONE". And NO, they will not think she formerly was known as None None None.

If you are confident, your current income qualifies you and clearly well over the minimum, just ignore the message, and thank your potential joint sponsor for their willingness to help, but explain it will not be necessary.

Change of Consulate is not a USCIS issue. You do it at the NVC stage.

My point was that if you do an online marriage, you must have evidence of being together in person during or after the online wedding, before it is valid enough to file the I-130.

Note, that since your parents are married, one will be joint sponsor and it's best practice for the other to provide an I-864a as household member. This will be a year or so from now, where you might find you qualify to sponsor on your own.

Try it on a PC. Type Not Applicable, then copy and past as needed. If the first field in a series in N/A, just indicate it once. Note that some answers ARE applicable with the answer being NONE. It's not the same thing.

Which is a different choice than the OP is making. Both work.

For US Immigration, you do not need notarization for any documents. Print the Certified translation to go with the original.

Proper concept is to answer each question independently. That the form seems repetitive, is because it is. So will your answers be.

What happens when you print the form? Do you see the barcode? I can't really replicate as I use the full version of Adobe Acrobat, and DO see the barcode.

Presumably, you already submitted/uploaded the document, it's translation and certification of translation, to NVC. Take the original to interview. What language is the original?

That would only be correct on the current income if you are showing zero business expenses on your schedule C. For the self employed, what money you receive, is "revenue". It is NOT "income" until it appears on a tax return. My best guess is that you'll be fine that way, but I already gave my two recommendations.

If the two cases are at NVC together and processed together, the interviews will be "together".

You'll be fine with the above, but the 1099s are all you need as evidence of self employment. What's tricky in your situation is how you state your "current income". Two options. The simplest is just to use the "Total Income" line from your 2022 federal tax return. If that's clearly enough, that's what I would do. Other option is schedule C income on page one of your last 1040 plus your stated annual income from the Employer letter. I see you've listed specific portions of your 2022 related tax return. If that is the COMPLETE tax return, fine. Otherwise, make sure it is.

Perfectly understandable, particularly since the online marriage is NOT valid (for US immigration purposes) UNTIL you are together again in person, afterwards. It's travel TO marry, or travel AFTER marriage. Your choice, which you already made.

That advice matches what I always say, except I DO recommend listing the married name as her current name, as long as she intends to change it. Put the maiden name as the other name used. If she intends to legally change her name on Passport etc. it will be completed before an actual USCIS officer starts adjudicating the petition. Also, When Jane Doe, marries John Smith, the marriage certificate correctly indicates that. She wouldn't be "Jane Smith" until AFTER the wedding. The marriage certificate is all the evidence you need of any name change. Here's an example. If an American female divorcee is filing the I-130 for a foreign spouse, her birth certificate says Jane Doe, but her divorce certificate often shows Jane Smith divorcing John Smith, with no mention of the name Jane Doe. How are we to determine the Jane Smith that divorced John Smith, is the Jane Doe, on the birth certificate? Answer: Provide that marriage certificate between Jane Doe and John Smith. That's why before marriage names are on marriage certificates. If YOU are the foreign spouse of Jane Doe SMITH, you probably married Jane Smith, not Jane Doe.

Hard to misinterpret that you used another name and all three names were NONE. If you are just saying you have no middle name, that's another issue. In that case, or in yours, for the middle name, type NO MIDDLE NAME. We are not talking about your actual name, but the fact your wife never used ANOTHER name. Right?

Yes, of course it's possible.

The name question is applicable. The answers are "NONE". It's "province". Leave it blank. As you move forward, there may be some fields that, if left blank, will not let you move forward. Usually, questions really are applicable, even if the answers are "NONE". It's not the same thing. You will be asked about children. The paper form has room for 4 or 5. Typing No Children one time is enough. That answer renders the remaining questions not applicable, and you can just leave them blank. If the online form is like the above, where you ADD a child after the first, then NONE or NO CHILDREN in the first space, is sufficient.

Correct, and the case gets sent to the Consulate, only AFTER the interview date is assigned. Immediately after, electronically.

Correct, but checking the box is not accurate, as the box applies to all three years. Hand writing once for each applicable year is more accurate.

Had you already completed Part 3? If not, do that first. That is not an error. Complete the earlier numbers and that one will populate automatically. Hard to say try my suggestions first, and if that doesn't work, try it on a PC instead. What's the problem with the I-130a? Basic concept here is fill the field out in their proper order, and don't try to enter data in fields that are intended to populate automatically.

Mixing your sources of information has a tendency to confuse. You do need evidence of current income. It CAN be a letter from an employer, but I've found that a recent pay stub, is even better. Have the beneficiary, take a copy of a most current pay stub to the interview too. Pay stubs are actually better evidence of employment than letters. No need for both. No need for six months of pay stubs either. One, from a payroll service will show year to date income anyway.