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I'm calling about one of my children who got married this last year, this last summer, to someone who has not got a green card.

And he's grateful for the United States because he wants to live here and make money.

But she's working on getting his green card and the paperwork to do it requires her to have a long time of wages, like over a year's worth of consistent wages.

She just graduated so she doesn't have that.

It's a 10-year commitment and they're asking us, my wife and I, to sign up

for this and be a co-sponsor with him to get his green card, and we're looking at retiring

in about three to four years. So we're kind of on the bubble with what to do, and we know that

it's a relationship impacting thing, too, and we thought we'd ask your advice.

So what is it you're promising when you do that?

They have to make 125% of the poverty wage, and anything short of that, we have to true up.

Okay.

So that's about $28,000 a year he has to make.

And I don't know if her and him or just him,

we're trying to get that clear through the immigration lawyer.

We just don't know.

Okay.

And who has to file paperwork to prove that each year, I assume?

He does.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Part of our questions, too, is do they come back and ask us for our wages each year?

I don't know how that works yet. We're trying to figure that out.

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