![]() ![]() Any joint sponsors and household members who allowed the sponsor to combine their income with the sponsor’s income to meet the minimum income requirements are also legally responsible for financially supporting the sponsored immigrant. If you do not repay the debt, the agency or the immigrant can sue you in court to get the money owed. If an immigrant you sponsored receives any means-tested public benefits, you are responsible for repaying the cost of those benefits to the agency that provided them. ![]() Note: Divorce does NOT end the sponsorship obligation. Your obligation as a sponsor also ends if you or the individual sponsored dies or if the individual sponsored ceases to be a lawful permanent resident and departs the United States. citizens or are credited with 40 quarters of work. When you sign the affidavit of support, you accept legal responsibility for financially supporting the sponsored immigrant(s), generally until they become U.S. citizen and if admitted for permanent residence on or after February 27, 2001, would automatically acquire citizenship under Section 320 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 Can be credited with 40 qualifying quarters as defined in Title II of the Social Security Act.Already worked 40 qualifying quarters as defined in Title II of the Social Security Act.Note: An individual listed above does not need to submit an affidavit of support if they can show that they EITHER: citizen or permanent resident relative filed the immigrant visa petition, or such relative has a significant ownership interest (5% or more) in the entity that filed the petition. Employment based preference immigrants in cases only when a U.S.citizens, their spouses and their unmarried minor children Fourth Preference: Brothers and sisters of adult U.S.Third Preference: Married sons and daughters of U.S.Second Preference: Spouses of permanent residents and the unmarried sons and daughters (regardless of age) of permanent residents and their unmarried children.citizens (Adult means 21 years of age or older) ![]()
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