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According to what I read on I-864 instruction, the immigrant himself can use his own income to meet the financial requirement if the US citizen spouse dont meet it. The only condition that they state is that immigrant will continue to get the income from the same source after immigration.

Can someone explain this? how could immigrant applying for GC have a job without legal paperworks? Of course he could have a job but only illegally, so that cannot be provable...

According to what I read on I-864 instruction, the immigrant himself can use his own income to meet the financial requirement if the US citizen spouse dont meet it. The only condition that they state is that immigrant will continue to get the income from the same source after immigration. Thats not the only condition. The income must be legally authorized income.

how could immigrant applying for GC have a job without legal paperworks? The immigrant applying for a GC could have a work visa or employment authorization card.

Jackolantern, thank you, that answers my question.
I have one more question... on the form I-864 and I-864A, it asks to put 3 yrs of tax info.
I know that if tax info cant be provided for some reasons, the sponsor could be exempted and just needs to provide a reason.
The following is the exact wording on the form:

"If you were not required to file a Federal income tax return under U.S. tax law for any other reason, attach a written explanation including evidence of the exemption and how you are subject to it"

What kind of "evidence" would they want? I mean, for my case, there is not 3 years of tax return information because the sponsor simply have not been working for that long.

Is the sponsor a young student? Then they should simply say they X years old, are enrolled a student in XYZ college, and earnings in the past 3 years were $A, $B, and $C which are all not enough to be required to file a return. Attach a copy of W-2 forms to show that the income matched those low figures. Or if income was zero, the explanation should state that fact and USCIS will normally accept it for somebody in their late teens or early twenties who is a full time student.

However, note that if the sponsor is claimed as a dependent on their parents tax return, the dollar amount where filing a tax return becomes mandatory drops to about $4000 instead of $8000*. So you need to double check to find out if it is actually true that their income was too low to be required to file a Federal tax return.

*approximate figures only, the exact amounts change year to year, check the 1040 instructions for details