Dear Brit

Hope you are fine with good health. My interview is in the month of May. I am from Nepal. Kindly clarify my following queries.
1. We are total 9 members (sponsor family +dv winner family)
2. (My sister in law, US citizen + her husband green card holder) are going to sponsor us jointly. There joint income is about 56,000$ per year. Individual annual income may be less than the poverty guide line. So, they would like to sponsor us or send affidavit of support jointly.
3. I have gone through the pdf format of I-134. In Part3 (Income and Asset Information) no.3. there is only one space to be filled by sponsor regarding “My annual income is……”
4. My question is I-134 will be filled by only one sponsor. How both (my sister in law + her husband) can jointly fill the same document. How can they mention their joint income?
5. Shall they send me two I-134 individually to sponsor me (including my derivatives) to fulfill the join income 56,000$.
6. or My sister in law shall send one I-134 (shows about 30,000$) and her husband will not send I-134, but he only sends the pay-sheet or income tax (supporting documents) which shows about 28,000$ income. Does it work?

Thank you for your kind response.
Regards
SNO

Hi Simon,

My name is Mark and I am originally a UK citizen. In July 2017 I married my wife, a US citizen, and began the adjustment of status process (Green Card I-485). We finally had our interview last week, but came across a problem that I am unsure of how to fix:

In 2011, I received a ticket for using a fake British ID in NYC (I was in college at the time, and it was my name, just different birth year). I was not arrested or fingerprinted, but told to attend court in a few weeks time. I did, and when I got there they had my name spelled incorrectly on the clip board. Nonetheless, I asked them to correct it and saw the judge who made me do a 1-hour citizens awareness course, and told me that if I stay out of trouble for the next two years, it will be permanently expunged off my record. To date, I have had no further incidents with the law and didn’t think much more about it until this application.

However, in preparing my GC application I told my lawyer about this, who advised I go back to the court to try and either get either a Certificate of Disposition or official letter stating I am no longer in the system (often records are removed after 7 years). I did return, however I explained the full situation (name spelled incorrectly), and they were unable to find any record of me (thus no Certificate of Disposition), and the lady simply would o’t give me a letter stating I wasnt in the system. During my interview I admitted this offence (even though it didnt show up on any of their background checks), and provided evidence in the form of a sworn affidavit detailing the steps I had taken in order to provide some official documentation, as well as an email chain between myself and an intake counselor from the court stating she couldn’t find me in the system, but because of this wouldnt be able to provide me with any official documentation.

The interviewing officer said this evidence was not sufficient in her mind as nothing was official, and was going to have to take this to her supervisor, who would likely issue a request for evidence. I am concerned that: (i) I wasn’t able to get official documentation before so I don’t know how I would now, and (ii) they are going to ask for evidence but not state what, so I dont know what will satisfy them.

I am obviously very worried about this as I don’t want to go back unprepared, but simply don’t know what else to do. I am going to get a certificate of good standing from NYC, but that is fingerprint based and I have never had my fingerprints taken so that will obviously come back negative. I also submitted an FBI search to my interview, which came back negative.

Do you have any advice, or any other evidence I could provide? I am going to go back to the court for a third time and beg them for a letter stating I am not in the system, this may or may not be successful, but would like as much evidence as possible.

I am of the opinion we had a slightly overzealous officer, who had admitted to us before the interview started that a number of her colleagues were out that day and they were pressed for time, and we left this topic until the very end of the interview when she sort of cut me off and kicked us out (I don’t feel as though I got a full chance to explain my side of the story). She did approve our I-130 so believes we’re a bona fide marriage, but I am still concerned about leaving my entire future in the subjective hands of one supervisor because it is impossible for me to get the evidence they are after.

Any help/advice you can give me would be hugely appreciated. I will do anything.