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Title: Green Card Through Marriage Process Steps: Exceeding New Poverty Guidelines Thresholds. Has Green Card Process Became Easier?


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Green Card Through Marriage Process Steps
Exceeding New Poverty Guidelines Thresholds. Has
Green Card Process Became Easier?
  • www.DoItYourselfGreenCard.com

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The green card through marriage process steps
  • Involve meeting or exceeding poverty guidelines
  • New 2016 guidelines published here
    https//aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines

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Green Card Application Implications
  • Who is affected Sponsoring spouse
  • Must demonstrate adequate income to support one
    and ones spouse lifestyle
  • Establish beyond doubt, the new immigrant will
    not become public burder

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Application of the Poverty Guidelines
  • What qualifies as income?
  • Income must exceed poverty guidelines by at least
    25 (multiply the guideline number by 125)
  • Use the appropriate number for your specific
    household, assuming the sponsored spouse is
    living in that same household with his or her
    dependents

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Poverty Guidelines 2016 What Changed From Last
Year?
Source www.hhs.gov
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Poverty Guidelines 2016 Observations of Changes
From Last Year
  • Small revisions up from the previous year
  • None exceeding 0.6
  • 7 and 8-person household guidelines stayed flat
  • 1-person household guideline grew by 0.9
  • This number is irrelevant for green card seekers
    because husband wife at least 2-person
    household

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Poverty Guidelines 2016 Observations of Changes
From Last Year (continued)
  • But inflation in 2015 was 0.7
  • Vs. largest increase in guidelines by 0.6
  • Does that mean it became easier to qualify to
    become a sponsor for ones immigrant spouse?
  • Some people may argue so

Source http//www.usinflationcalculator.com/inf
lation/current-inflation-rates/
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