won987
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Thank you for your advice. We recently got DQ’d and my wife received her interview letter. We did receive a notice saying the CO may require a joint sponsor and I am preparing to still use my mom as a backup joint sponsor since she is the only other sponsor I can ask. The dilemma I have now is I am wondering if my mother, who I am living with and we share meals together, could be counted as a household member. I don’t know if she would be considered elderly since she is still under 65, and I am over 18. If so, could I just prepare an i-864a form to combine our income and update my i-864 document with an additional household member (my mom) to bring to the interview? Thank you for your help!
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DS-260 previous addresses
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DS-260 previous addresses
won987 replied to won987's topic in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures
Thank you for replying. I'm wondering if they would need us to update our DS-260 form with this address? I found others in a similar situation who were advised to request the CO to help update their DS-260 at the interview. Not sure if the 5 months tourism stay in Turkey would be considered residency, albeit it was an apartment lease through tourist residence permit. -
We already got DQ’d and are waiting for our interview letter. I now remembered my wife and I had previously leased an apartment in Turkey with a residence permit for tourism purpose, and stayed there for 5 months. I’m not sure if i should have added this address for the apartment in the previous addresses section of the DS-260 form. Does this 5 month stay at this apartment count as something I should add? We stayed in Turkey with a residence permit that was applied under tourism. I made a letter for now to have my wife bring it to her interview to show the CO in case we need to update it.
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The joint sponsor I plan to use is my mother who is divorced. She is, however, self-employed so I'm not sure if that would be a cause for concern - but she does earn well above the minimum required level. I'm wondering what is the reason for not involving a joint sponsor yet when I submit our documents to the NVC. I'm guessing this will complicate things?
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Thank you both for taking the time to respond. One lingering question I still have is, I did talk to a lawyer friend, and she mentioned I should still include my bank+checking account funds, and even go ahead with submitting a joint sponsor's I-864 as well, to avoid future RFE's due to my concerning 2022 tax transcript when I was unemployed. Would doing all this hurt my case in any way? Or would worst case scenario be the officer just ignores the extra information and joint sponsor if my overall income for the past 3 years is good enough.
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My current annual income for 2023 is comfortably above the 125% poverty level guideline (almost double), but I was unemployed for my most recent tax return (2022) so I only have a couple hundred income from my savings account interest. I plan to upload tax transcripts from all 3 recent years, and my 2021 and 2020 total income both triple the 125% poverty level guideline. I also plan to upload a letter from my employer (employment verification letter), along with the 5 months of paystubs I received during my employment that started this January. My I-864 form specifically states my current annual income will be used to determine if my income is above the minimum threshold, but I've been reading a few conflicting opinions that the NVC would look at my most recent tax return (2022) to determine that. Would I need a joint sponsor, or is this nothing to worry about? Should I include a note saying I was unemployed from quitting my job to pursue another career during my most recent tax return, but I had a steady job for 5 consecutive years before that?