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jaishreeram

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Hi,
Me and my wife have joint bank acount.The main acount holder is my wife who is on F2 (dependent visa) and I am second acount holder on F1 visa. We have earned 33 dollars interest on our savings which bank has reported to IRS. Ofcourse I have to show this income to IRS while filing my tax return. But would it create problem while filing I485? The reason I am concerned beacause this interest is associated with my wife's social and she is not suposed to do a job while on F2 visa. Of course she is not doing job but now she has earned income. So what would be the consequences?

Your responses are appreciated.
 
I don't know any written rules here, but I don't believe it matters. There is many other ways to earn income besides working. USCIS is not so stupid to not realize that. Just file your joint return and you shouldn't have anything to worry about.
 
jaishreeram said:
The reason I am concerned beacause this interest is associated with my wife's social and she is not suposed to do a job while on F2 visa. Of course she is not doing job but now she has earned income.
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Interest on a bank account is NOT earned income.
 
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Hello,
I am new to this board and find it absollutely awesome. I have a similar question.
I am an USC and my husband is an F1 student. He has worked for the past3 yrs and earned income.
Will this jeopardize our chances of getting him a GC??
Please let me know.

It does ask on the 485 if u are currently working and we do not want to lie about anything.
 
Famdog said:
Hello,
I am new to this board and find it absollutely awesome. I have a similar question.
I am an USC and my husband is an F1 student. He has worked for the past3 yrs and earned income.
Will this jeopardize our chances of getting him a GC??
Please let me know.

It does ask on the 485 if u are currently working and we do not want to lie about anything.
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Hi Famdog, unfortunately your husband is in some sort of trouble given that he worked off-campus and more than 20 hours to earn while he was on F1. You can lie or tell the truth while filing application, but the truth always comes out, specially working with SSN (I'm sure he used his SSN).

But then we all know if there weren't flaws in the law then lawyers wouldn't exists. So get a good lawyer to represent you both, if you haven't done so.

This is not to frighten you but I'm sure he knew the rules of F1, especially work related. Every student works more than 20 hours, we all know, probably the immigration people knows too. But doing so, they jeopardize their chance of filing a processing I485 smoothly, coz it will come up one way or another as they do really investigate the school you went to.

I am telling you these from my experience as a former F1, but I'm sure there are ways around.

Goodluck.
 
sillious_mk said:
But doing so, they jeopardize their chance of filing a processing I485 smoothly, coz it will come up one way or another as they do really investigate the school you went to.
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The husband is an immediate relative of a US citizen. He could have worked illegally for 20 years and USCIS still couldn't deny the I-485 on that basis.
 
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