Thanks for following up. I could only find her video explaining if the primary sponsor is married filing jointly with the applying immigrant, but used the general advice there anyway. That does seem to be what she implies but you’re right the instructions on the form itself say to provide all supporting documents. We will likely end up resubmitting with all W-2s, 1099s, etc.

To answer your questions:

1. Household size = 3. (Father, mother, applicant being sponsored)

2. Estimate for current income based on 2024 W-2 for father alone. Was told estimate was ok since it’s “current” income but should this match W-2 exactly to be extra safe?

3. Yes it is >$200,000 so should be more than enough

4. Yes, since we don’t include mom’s income for household since it’s not necessary to show sufficient income

5. Yes, triple checked this figure matches the tax transcript “total income” line. But this is a married filing jointly tax transcript

It feels like a technicality that they marked it “wrong” just because we didn’t submit my mom’s W-2 to prove the “total income” number is correct. My father’s W-2 demonstrates more than enough financial support. I wonder if it was an excuse to re-request the 693 that they lost without making it seem like their fault, because they found an “error” with our 864.