LucyWasTaken

Hey guys, I might need some help explaining some Affidavit of support stuff because we are starting to go into circles with our specific situation! 1. How do you count the household number? Me (beneficiary), my husband (petitioner) and his mother live together in one household. Both him and her are going to help sponsor me. Does that make us a household of 3 or a household of 2 (me, the beneficiary with my husband, the petitioner, as household of 2, and then me, the beneficiary, with his mom as a household of 2)? This leads me to to my next question: 2. My husband, the petitioner, does not meet the minimum income requirements - he is a contractor and annually is supposed to get around $17k-$18k. His mom will help us sponsor me for my AOS. She works part time, annually making around $10k-$12k, while she receives social security checks for her late husband (survivor checks), for around $21k every year. We understand that my husband will be filing an I-864 as the petitioner, but would his mom be filing an I-864A to be able to combine their incomes to make double sure we meet the minimum household requirements or does she file her own I-864 as a joint sponsor? I've read that if she filed her own I-864 as a joint sponsor, the incomes are unable to be combined - which if we were counting us as a household of 3, neither of them would be making the minimum to sponsor me ($32k). 3. Do social security checks for a survivor actually count as income that we can use in the affidavit? There's very vague information online and we'd rather make sure that his mom IS even able to help us! I apologize if this sounds messy, it's a lot of numbers and I'm getting lost in them myself at this point lol. Any help is appreciated! Thank you very much in advance! 💕

That's perfect! My income in those 5ish months was barely up to 8k, hah! Yes! I've applied and received it before the wedding, so my SSN is now in my maiden name. From my understanding, I'll be able to change it to my husband's name after I receive the GC (or that's what they at least told me at the Victoria, TX office...). Thank you!!

Hey guys! I have arrived to the US on 2nd of June, 2024 and got married 11th of July (yay!). We will be filing for the AOS in the next upcoming days. We would like me to be added to my husbands health insurance plan, which has asked us if we will be filing our taxes jointly as a married couple or not. This has created some questions for us, so I've come here to make sure. Before arriving to the US, I was working until the 17th of May 2024 in Slovakia. After that, for the next 2 weeks, I was registered as an unemployed person, and have received unemployment support for those 2 weeks from the Slovak government - this support ended the day of my flight to the US to not create any mishaps. Since then, I have obviously not been employed, am not getting any support and have zero income. From our understanding, the smartest choice would be to file the 2024 taxes jointly, with me adding all the payslips from my old job for IRS to check as nonresident alien (that will be treated as a US citizen for tax reasons due to the marriage). I have also heard something about my foreign income not having to be taxed by IRS, via the tax treaty with the US. Slovakia seems to have the tax treaty signed to exclude my income from being taxed, anybody that understands this more that could double check for us please? Honestly just looking for any advice or experiences of K1 visa holders, who had to deal with taxes in the first year after the arrival and post marriage! Thank you all so much in advance. ☀️