Hi,
I am getting married in a week to a US citizen. My fiancee and I are compiling all the needed documents to submit. I am a little concerned about the I-864 requirements. Both of us are starting graduate school this summer (she is starting a PhD and I am starting dental school). She will have a stipend of $24,000 per year for the next 4 years. I am thinking it could be considered as income, because she will be working as a TA starting 2nd year. Besides, she is working now and has been working since September, 2009. I am working full-time right now too but will be leaving to start dental school in July.
1) First of all, what should she put under "my current annual income"?
2) Should she combine half a year of salary from the job that she is quitting to start grad school (she earned about 21k for half a year) with the half of the stipend?
3) After doing some searching on this forum, I found that stipends are not eligible for "income".. Is this true? If yes, could someone please post the source of this information?
4) If stipend cannot satisfy requirements for annual income, how will putting assets in the form affect the app? Does USCIS look seriously at assets at all?
5) I more than sure that I cannot use my loans as income, but could someone please confirm that?
6) Tax returns: she was a student and did not have to file a tax return for the year of 2007, do we need to write a separate explanation for that? Or can we just skip that completely, as only the most recent year tax return is required.
With all of this, would it be easier for us to just find a joint sponsor? Also, if my father-in-law becomes the joint sponsor, it will be 125% above poverty line for how many people? Me, himself and his wife (3)?
7) Also, outside of this discussion, I am an asylum applicant and my case is still pending.. Would that affect the I-130/I-485 process at all?
8) I have my Russian passport, which has expired in 2005 and I cannot renew it. My visa (B2) also expired back in 2004, however, I never went out of status because we applied for asylum as soon as we came in 2003 and have had status pending since then with legal right to stay in the country until decision is made. However, now I have to submit the copy of my passport, will my expired passport and visa affect anything?
9) Also, just to double-check, I don't have to submit copies of ALL passport pages, just the ones that have bio, visas and such things on them, right? I am assuming I need to provide translation of those pages. Do those translations have to be done by a licensed translator or could it be anyone with the fluent knowledge of English language?
Thanks a lot!
I am getting married in a week to a US citizen. My fiancee and I are compiling all the needed documents to submit. I am a little concerned about the I-864 requirements. Both of us are starting graduate school this summer (she is starting a PhD and I am starting dental school). She will have a stipend of $24,000 per year for the next 4 years. I am thinking it could be considered as income, because she will be working as a TA starting 2nd year. Besides, she is working now and has been working since September, 2009. I am working full-time right now too but will be leaving to start dental school in July.
1) First of all, what should she put under "my current annual income"?
2) Should she combine half a year of salary from the job that she is quitting to start grad school (she earned about 21k for half a year) with the half of the stipend?
3) After doing some searching on this forum, I found that stipends are not eligible for "income".. Is this true? If yes, could someone please post the source of this information?
4) If stipend cannot satisfy requirements for annual income, how will putting assets in the form affect the app? Does USCIS look seriously at assets at all?
5) I more than sure that I cannot use my loans as income, but could someone please confirm that?
6) Tax returns: she was a student and did not have to file a tax return for the year of 2007, do we need to write a separate explanation for that? Or can we just skip that completely, as only the most recent year tax return is required.
With all of this, would it be easier for us to just find a joint sponsor? Also, if my father-in-law becomes the joint sponsor, it will be 125% above poverty line for how many people? Me, himself and his wife (3)?
7) Also, outside of this discussion, I am an asylum applicant and my case is still pending.. Would that affect the I-130/I-485 process at all?
8) I have my Russian passport, which has expired in 2005 and I cannot renew it. My visa (B2) also expired back in 2004, however, I never went out of status because we applied for asylum as soon as we came in 2003 and have had status pending since then with legal right to stay in the country until decision is made. However, now I have to submit the copy of my passport, will my expired passport and visa affect anything?
9) Also, just to double-check, I don't have to submit copies of ALL passport pages, just the ones that have bio, visas and such things on them, right? I am assuming I need to provide translation of those pages. Do those translations have to be done by a licensed translator or could it be anyone with the fluent knowledge of English language?
Thanks a lot!
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