Legal Question in Immigration Law in California

Are you a US citizen student? Or a foreign student? It's not clear from your post.

If you are a US citizen who is petitioning for his foreign wife, you still must be a primary sponsor and have to execute a legally binding Affidavit of support promising to financially support your wife.

If your income is below federal poverty guidelines, your US citizen friend can be a joint sponsor (and also undertake financial responsibility for your wife). Minimum income for him would depend on how many dependents he has, has he ever petitioned for someone else, etc.

If it's only two people household (a friend and your wife), mimimum threshold is $18,212.

It can be found here: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-864P.pdf

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