AOS Income Requirement

[needadvise]

I just had a question regarding my I-864 and the petition for my husband.

For line 23 where it says "My current individual annual income is," am I supposed to use the income that I am expecting for the current year (as in 2010) for which I have not yet filed my taxes or the income from the previous year.

Furthermore, my income for 2009 and 2008 were very low as I was a full time student and I just graduated from college and now I have a full time job with $40k salary. Since I have not yet filed taxes for the new job and my income from last year is very low, I am wondering that when the NVC looks at my income to see if I am above the poverty line or not, will they look at my current salary or previous year's tax file.

Would it be safer to just include bank statements having high savings account balance?

Thanks for your advise.

[daru786]

I just had a question regarding my I-864 and the petition for my husband.

For line 23 where it says "My current individual annual income is," am I supposed to use the income that I am expecting for the current year (as in 2010) for which I have not yet filed my taxes or the income from the previous year.

Furthermore, my income for 2009 and 2008 were very low as I was a full time student and I just graduated from college and now I have a full time job with $40k salary. Since I have not yet filed taxes for the new job and my income from last year is very low, I am wondering that when the NVC looks at my income to see if I am above the poverty line or not, will they look at my current salary or previous year's tax file.

Would it be safer to just include bank statements having high savings account balance?

Thanks for your advise.

Use the amount you expect to make this year. Also a letter from your current employer will greatly help.