Posted by: Barely_Known July 21, 2012
Sponsoring Parents
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Greetings Sajha Users !

after rejection of visitor visas couple of times for my parents, I am planning to file Green Card for them.
I pretty much got some ideas about the forms I need to fill & overall process.

with regards to I 864 / sponsor income requirements, I work for a company on hourly basis & I regularly get overtime ( not less than 15 hours per week) every week which pays me time & half with pretty decent wages. The HR manager can not provide me the written document for the overtime I get every week, its a company policy to let their employee get overtime, not often but in regular basis ( sounds odd but i think its the type of technical work that we do requires high frequency). Long story short, I DO MAKE enough money to sponsor my parents within the level of 2012 Fed Poverty level. But I read somewhere that I can not prove income based on BONUSES and/or OVERTIME.

I needed to prove at least 33k income to sponsor my parents according to # of household incl. of my parents. this is my first professional job after school, that means I DO NOT have enough income for the last 3 years since i was in school to prove my income of that level. In this situation, Basically i can see the available options as:

Options:

=>>Looking for some sponsor: which i did in local areas i live but not being able to find any comfortable person to whom I can ask for the favor (or even pay decent fee) meeting the criteria of either Citizen or Permanent resident
=>>Bank assets:which i personally belive one of the weakest proof eventhough the amount of money i needed to collect gonna be a large sum to connect the dot up to that level 
=>>Looking for another part time work: which i can not do because of the hours I work & classes I am taking.

Now, what you guys think i should do? is it some sort of Unethical Behaviour to persuade someone to sponsor my parents paying some sort of fees?? The chances of getting burden of sponsoring & back biting is certainly going to be NIL, especially we all know our nepalese society. There s a good chance of me making better money next year after finishing my graduate school, but on this case, I dont have choice, I got to act now !!!

Please Help !! I appreciate you guys help in advance

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