Minimum yearly income required for a spousal green card sponsorship is $27,050. This stands as long as the sponsoring citizen or green card holder isn’t an active military member and only sponsoring one person. Additional sponsorships require higher income.
Cost Details
The Minimum wage levels for spousal green card sponsorship are:
- One sponsored individual: $27,050.
- Two sponsored individuals: $34,150.
- Three sponsored individuals: $41,250.
- Four sponsored individuals: $48,350.
- Five sponsored individuals: $55,450.
- Six sponsored individuals: $62,550.
- Seven sponsored individuals: $69,650.
- All additional sponsored household members require $7,100 each.
Minimum wage requirements come from the number of people in a sponsors household, this includes:
- The sponsor.
- The green card applicant.
- All unmarried children under the age of twenty-one.
- Additional dependents claimed on tax returns.
- Individuals planning on applying for a green card and arriving in the U.S. alongside the green card applicant.
- Anyone else the sponsor listed on a separate Affidavit of Support.
Sponsors can include income from people outside the household only if the combined annual income of all household members doesn’t meet the required minimum wage.
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