*** Questions about 765 WS***

ok so it seems a lot of us have a lot of questions about form 765 ws. Why dont we ask the questions here and help each other out? To those of you that have sent your packet already. What did you put on the form where it asks for income and annual expenses? It would be very helpful it all of share our ideas.

Same here, if I make literally $0 a year but I do have expenses which are covered by my parents because they support me would that be weird to put in there?

I have questions on this as well. I think this is the part of the application that will determine our acceptance. Are we allowed to put income? I work as 1099 subcontractor as part-time and pay my taxes through ITIN number. Technically I have working and getting income.. and I am not desperately in ecnomic hardship.

I live at home with the family and don't have a job for obvious reasons, so how am I supposed to prove economic necessity? I want the work permit, but I don't want to fill in $0 for income and $0 for expenses...

I-765WS is not for your benefit; it's for USCIS. There is a clause in the immigration law stating that only immigrants with "economic necessity" may get EAD. I-765WS is a formality; every lawyer that I know are telling their clients to just write down your income (if you live with your parents and don't work, this would be $0, no matter how much allowance you get from your parents), expenses (somewhere between $9k ~$11k, unless you have college tuition, hospital bills, etc), and assets, and simply write that because of your family's financial situation (blah blah), you need to work.

The fact that they specifically tell you that evidence for I-765WS are unnecessary should hopefully placate your worries.

But be honest with how much you earn.

When my parents submitted I-485/I-765 joint filing, they had to write up their "economic necessity" paper too - except USCIS doesn't even have a form for that. So they were told to just write up guesstimates with no evidence and they submitted it.

Guess what? USCIS did not give a rat's ass. "Economic Necessity" is a formality, and unless you write down that you earn $5 million or has $10 million in assets (or other outlandish numbers), they are not going to care.