citizen.texas
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hello.I am a citizen, and trying to adjust my wife's status. Everything is fine when we filled out our paperwork, except when we get to the income.
listing my past 3 yrs income based on W2's
2002-36,000
2003-18,000
2004-6,870
in 2003 my father passed and I quit my job to help my mother's business, not taking pay for half of 2003 and 2004. My mother pretty much used me for work. as I had not seen her in 12 years, which is why I went to her after my father passed.
so I am below the poverty line for my most recent year 2004. Currently for 2005 I am over the poverty line. It's just 2004 which looks bad on paper.
I spoke with someone at USCIS about this and they gave me three senarios:
1. Its fine because if you go thru regular paperwork, the whole process will take a year to get an interview anyways so we are ok.
2. (I asked about the pilot program here in dallas) which gets you an interview date much sooner, about 3months, where our paper is reviewed and we are interviewed, and approved on the spot in one take. Here they would look at my 2004 income and not approve us.
3. or she said I can go ahead and try the pilot program and explain my situation but she didnt give me a solid answer on what the answer would be.
SO.
Do I wait until I file my 2005 taxes? or just apply now for pilot and cross my fingers and plead my case???
main reason we want to finish as soon as possible is my wife pays the higher rate at school and she has a year left of school, I want her to pay less.
sorry for the long post any thoughts or advice or links to other site would help..
THANK YOU.
listing my past 3 yrs income based on W2's
2002-36,000
2003-18,000
2004-6,870
in 2003 my father passed and I quit my job to help my mother's business, not taking pay for half of 2003 and 2004. My mother pretty much used me for work. as I had not seen her in 12 years, which is why I went to her after my father passed.
so I am below the poverty line for my most recent year 2004. Currently for 2005 I am over the poverty line. It's just 2004 which looks bad on paper.
I spoke with someone at USCIS about this and they gave me three senarios:
1. Its fine because if you go thru regular paperwork, the whole process will take a year to get an interview anyways so we are ok.
2. (I asked about the pilot program here in dallas) which gets you an interview date much sooner, about 3months, where our paper is reviewed and we are interviewed, and approved on the spot in one take. Here they would look at my 2004 income and not approve us.
3. or she said I can go ahead and try the pilot program and explain my situation but she didnt give me a solid answer on what the answer would be.
SO.
Do I wait until I file my 2005 taxes? or just apply now for pilot and cross my fingers and plead my case???
main reason we want to finish as soon as possible is my wife pays the higher rate at school and she has a year left of school, I want her to pay less.
sorry for the long post any thoughts or advice or links to other site would help..
THANK YOU.
