We have received an RFE for I-864, Affidavit of Support yesterday.
My husband is my sponsor and has been making over the poverty guideline for the past 3 years (2021-2023). On my USCIS online account, USCIS uploaded a scanned version of our I-864 and all the supporting documents we have provided with it so we are able to double check what we have sent them. We used the last version of the form, we sent all pages, the form is signed, the household size is correct (2 as it is only my husband and I, no kids).
In 2023, he made 63k, in 2022, 60k and in 2021 51k. All of this in NY state. We proved this with the IRS tax transcripts for these years. Now we are in California where our current household income (only his) is 120k. We supported this amount with 7 months of paystub, his contract and employer letter and 2024 W2s.
Yet we received this very generic RFE (see attached) and are pretty confused about it. I compared this RFE to other I-864 related RFEs on this forum and reddit and it seems that everyone is kind of getting the same. I saw some RFEs saying specifcally that the I-864 had a deficiency that needed to be addressed (and our RFE does not say this). I have attached a copy of the RFE we got if it can help.
My husband and I are wondering whether they are expecting us to provide a 2024 IRS tax transcript? Our Package delivery date is February 10th and at this time my husband had not filed is taxes for 2024 yet. He is planning on filing his 2024 taxes and send them the transcript when ready. Also should we list our assets (even though we should not be required to do that because he exceeds the 125% poverty guidelines) or get a joint sponsor (again I do not see why we would need one)? We were also wondering if the current housefold income (we listed 120k should match the 2023 IRS atx transcript which was 63k)? Should we resubmit the whole I-864 form or just tax transcripts?
Thank you for your help!