Hey friends, join me live for a discussion about the new 2021 income requirements that
were posted by C I S. And so in this session, this live session, I'm going to take you through
what the new numbers are and some other good stuff that you need to be aware of. If you're
petitioning for a relative, for those of you who are new to me, welcome, I'm Latoya McBean
Pompey. I'm an immigration lawyer here in New York, working with people all over the
us and in many different countries for help with your immigration matter, check out our
website at McBean law to C uh, McBean law.com to see the type of work that uh, we do. Now
let's get into it. I see that some people are joining. Thanks so much as you're joining,
just say hello and happy Easter, by the way, I hope you guys are having a terrific Easter
holiday weekend. So this isn't going to be very long, but I have a presentation that
I'm going to get into with you. Now that talks about what the new 2021 income requirements
are to sponsor your relative. Okay. And so, thanks so much for joining. I see folks are
coming in. Excellent. So let's get into it. Uh,
So as you guys know,
When you're petitioning for a relative, whether it's your spouse or your child, um, or Eve,
or your sibling, you have to demonstrate that you have enough income. Uh, you meet the income
threshold to sponsor that relative. And if you don't meet the income requirement, then
there's a joint sponsor as an option, or even the use of your assets as another option for
you to, uh, be able to bring your spouse into the United States, or if your spouse or your,
your relative into the United States, or if your relative is going through adjustment
of status, they would also need to, um, you would also need to demonstrate that you have
the right income to sponsor your
Relative dive into,
Um, the, uh, presentation here. So how is income determined? And by the way, this is
an update from, uh, my video.
Last, I talked about what
The 2020, uh, income requirement numbers are. So this is an update on that, um, on that
video. Okay. So income is determined friends based on your location, where are you, um,
sponsor, where are you in the United States? Which state are you in? Are you in Alaska
or are you in New York? It makes a very big difference with respect to the income requirements.
And I'm going to take you into that shortly. The other thing that is considered is whether
you're in the military or you're not in the military. Um, and then the biggest part here
that you guys that we're going to get into is household size. How big is your household?
Because that will really determine how much income you must have to sponsor your relative,
by the way, if you're watching this live, share this with your feed on Facebook. Okay.
And I see that we have folks in here from Trinidad and Tennessee and from all over happy
Easter again, Jamaica, I see so many, um, so many folks are chiming in now. Okay. So
household size, who do you include? Who should you include?
I must say
This, the household size is determined.
Perfect.
This is versus public charge, which is no longer a requirement that you have to meet.
So many of you may remember. I talked a lot about the requirements under public charge.
I want you to
Set
Is no longer in effect whether you're petitioning for your relative overseas, via the immigrant
visa process, or going through an adjustment of status process for your relative public
charge is not in effect anymore. So this is just the pure affidavit of support comments
that we're talking about in this, um, in this live session. Okay. So you want to include,
you have to include yourself. You must also include your spouse. If you're married, you
must also count the person who is being sponsored, uh, dependent children as well. Those who
are under 21 and unmarried. And then if you have any other dependents who you claimed
on your federal income taxes, you're going to have to include those people. And then
if you have any relative who you petition for, who are now lawful permanent residents
and this, um, and, and guys, I want you to, if you're going through this process on your
own, and you're working on the affidavit of support, you want to make sure that you read
the instructions very carefully with respect to the household size, because then instructions
goes into further details about, uh, these requirements now, uh, on the affidavit of
support form I eight 64, uh, part five breaks down for you, how you're to calculate or include
which who are, who you're to actually include right in your household size.
And so, firstly it, again, it says the person, um, person you are sponsoring in this affidavit,
uh, yourself enter one. If you're married, then dependent children, other dependent.
And then number six says, if you have sponsored any other persons on form 64 or the I eight
64, easy who are now lawful permanent residents, you've got to enter that number here as well,
because remember, you're on the hook for individuals who are green card holders who have not yet
become a us citizen, you're on the hook for those individuals for about 10 years or until
they become a us citizen. That is still that, that obligation is something that the government
wants to know about on the current affidavit of support forum that you're working on. And
so this is where you would actually enter the data for the household size. And this
is not a train in about the affidavit of support.
So there's the, uh, I'm not going to get into anything further related to the form itself.
This is just an overview of where you're going to put the information related to your household
size. Now, um, next the new income requirements went into effect on April 1st, 2021. And you
could find the data and we're going to get into the numbers shortly, but you could find
the data on chart. I eight 64 P on USC website. Uh, let me go ahead and pull that up for you.
So this is a USC website and I eight 64 P the 2021, um, HHS poverty guidelines for affidavit
of support. And as you can see, this is B this was, uh, updated as of, uh, April 1st,
2021. Also, this is broken out according to where you live, right? If you're within the
48 48 States, DC, Puerto Rico, us Virgin islands, then the below numbers apply to you. But if
you're in Alaska, you have a completely different set of numbers and the same thing with respect
to Hawaii, and we're going to get into, um, get into the numbers any second. Now, give
me a moment here. Let me get back on here. So that's where you're going to find this
data. Okay. That's where the data is. Um, hold on a moment.
Okay, here we go. Now, um, assets, as I've mentioned, assets can be used. You can use
assets is if, um, if you, your income, if you don't meet the income threshold and again,
read the instructions very carefully about how to come, uh, which assets you may include
and how to compute the assets. There's actually a formula in terms of determine how to determine
the assets and that formula is found in the instructions. Now, if you live in any of these
States or territories, then the following numbers that I'm going to go through with
you now applies to you. Okay? So if you're in any of those 48 States, this is excluded
Alaska and Hawaii. Um, and it includes DC, Puerto Rico, the us Virgin islands, Guam,
um, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana islands here are the income requirements that
you must meet. So this again is based on your household size.
And so if your household size is two, meaning that you petition in spouse and your spouse
who you're, um, uh, sponsoring family size is only two. So you must meet a minimum threshold
of $21,775. These numbers did go up guys. They went up slightly from the 2020 numbers.
Um, if you have a household size of three, the number is 27,450, a family size of four.
You must have an income annual income, total income of 33,000, $125 family size of five
30, 8,800 family size of six 44,475, a family size of seven 50,000, um, 50,000, 50,150.
And then for a family size of eight that you need to have earned $55,825. Now there, again,
the affidavit of support, it can be a little tricky and complicated. There are times when
you're able to combine your income with the intendant immigrant or the person you're sponsoring.
There are times when you can do that.
Then there are times when you could include other household members income, um, to help
meet the requirements. And so it gets, if you need help, figuring out how, you know,
how, who you should include and all of that, the form instructions does provide those ins
instructions for you. And so these are the new numbers, um, friends, and then also for
any additional purpose, uh, persons for any additional person you must include or add
$5,675. Now this is for everyone who is, um, who are non military. This is the non-military
numbers. If you're in the military, then the numbers in the middle of this table applies
to you. And as you can see, the threshold is lower for those who are an active duty
member of our armed forces. Okay? So this is, these are the new numbers friends that
you need to meet. Um, if you're sponsoring someone now, lastly, as a reminder, if you
don't meet all of the, if you don't meet the number here, even if you're off by a dollar
or $2, it does matter to the government.
Believe it or not, you can get a joint sponsor in that joint sponsor must be able to fully
meet the income threshold. Again, assets may be used and you want to fill out the I eight
64 very carefully. Um, because the last thing you want to see happen is your case be slowed
down delayed, um, or even denied for failure to complete the [inaudible] correctly. And
then lastly submit all of the required evidence, all of the required evidence related to the
form I eight 64 should be completed. So that's what I wanted to share in this one. Guys,
the new numbers are out April 1st. Don't make the mistake of, um, submitting your filing.
Um, these days by using the old 2020 number, uh, you want to use the new number and meet
those requirements. If you're not able to get your joint sponsor or use your assets,
I hope you found this helpful.
I see that, um, guide has given me some likes and some hearts as I'm Chi-Ming off. I wanted
to jump on real quickly on this Easter weekend and give you that information so that if you
were to submit your petition next week, uh, or your application next week, you'll know
exactly what you know, what you need to meet. Okay. Don't want any mistakes in this process.
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