Facing a similar situation except my father is co-sponsoring and files jointly with my mother. From the first post on the thread, I was leaning towards option #3 and ask my mother to fill out an I-864A. My father is self-employed and thus not so easy to break out his income as providing W-2s from an employer. His income alone is enough to sponsor us but to avoid confusion between "individual annual income" and "Annual Household Income" will include my mother as Person 1 with supplementary I-864A. Is there any downside to this type of overkill? Any other advice for providing evidence of income for self-employed co-sponsors beyond tax returns? I seem to read conflicting information about whether co-sponsor needs to provide a copy of just the past year's tax return or the past three years for I-864. It says the additional two years are optional on the form. Do these requirements differ for the Primary Sponsor (me) and the Co-Sponsor (my father)? Lastly, for optional part 7 on I-864 "Use of Assets to Supplement Income", is it an all or none kind of deal? If we wanted to include money in savings accounts with easily printed bank statements but not include real estate assets by obtaining appraised value, etc. is it okay to pick what to include and leave off this other assets category? Thanks for the help!
Thanks, Randy. I like the idea of a cover sheet with their income picture. Are there any templates around the forums showing what that might look like?