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I just received an RFE that states that our income does not meet the 125% federal poverty guidelines (which it does) but also asking to re-submit form I-864 because there were deficiencies in the one we provided.
I found one issue with the one we provided and one other possible issue. First one is that we made a mistake when adding the household size (we added items 2-7, not 1-7). The other possible issue is that since my wife is now unemployed (homemaker), her income doesn't match what the taxes say (and they asked us to submit her tax return + all supporting docs again). Her last income taxes says a number of about 40k but the current income says 4k (income that we will claim in next year tax return from having worked January) and she's now unemployed. My income as a grad student is 10k above the required guidelines anyways so I doubt that was a problem. We also didn't claim any assets which we have (18k in a joint account).
How would you fill out the income part in this case? Would you claim current income as 0 and include the money in the assets? That way the income would be about 37k when considering mine + assets. Or would you still claim 4k for her given that she worked in January and we will have to claim that income in the next tax return we file together?
This is my timeline so far:
04/24/2019 Application sent to Chicago
04/30/2019 Application received by USCIS
05/04/2019 Received NOAs in the mail
05/12/2019 Received biometrics appointment letter
05/22/2019 Biometrics appointment
06/22/2019 Notification that RFIE has been mailed
06/28/2019 RFIE received (request for new i-864 and i-130a (forgot to send it!))
Thanks!
I found one issue with the one we provided and one other possible issue. First one is that we made a mistake when adding the household size (we added items 2-7, not 1-7). The other possible issue is that since my wife is now unemployed (homemaker), her income doesn't match what the taxes say (and they asked us to submit her tax return + all supporting docs again). Her last income taxes says a number of about 40k but the current income says 4k (income that we will claim in next year tax return from having worked January) and she's now unemployed. My income as a grad student is 10k above the required guidelines anyways so I doubt that was a problem. We also didn't claim any assets which we have (18k in a joint account).
How would you fill out the income part in this case? Would you claim current income as 0 and include the money in the assets? That way the income would be about 37k when considering mine + assets. Or would you still claim 4k for her given that she worked in January and we will have to claim that income in the next tax return we file together?
This is my timeline so far:
04/24/2019 Application sent to Chicago
04/30/2019 Application received by USCIS
05/04/2019 Received NOAs in the mail
05/12/2019 Received biometrics appointment letter
05/22/2019 Biometrics appointment
06/22/2019 Notification that RFIE has been mailed
06/28/2019 RFIE received (request for new i-864 and i-130a (forgot to send it!))
Thanks!
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