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Public Charge
Income Worksheet
The consular officer is effectively running this calculation. Run it first, and know your number before you walk in. It compares an EB-3 Other Worker offer against the poverty guidelines, and keeps the figures with your case.
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- Kept with your casePrivate, and never sold
- Arithmetic, not a verdictThe officer decides
Figures: the 2026 HHS poverty guidelines
Published 15 January 2026, and last checked against the source on 23 July 2026. HHS republishes these every January, so if you are reading this well into 2027 or later, check the form below first.
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Public Charge Income Worksheet
The consular officer is effectively running this calculation. Run it first, and know your number before you walk in. It compares the offer against the poverty guidelines, then lets you add the resources and costs that change the practical picture.
How it works
- 1Enter the wage, the hours, the state and the family size.
- 2See the comparison against the poverty guideline for that household.
- 3Add what the employer covers and what you will be paying for.
- 4Keep it with your case, and revise it when the offer changes.
What you get back
- Your annual figure against the guideline for your state and household
- The monthly margin, or the monthly gap
- How employer health cover, housing and overtime change the picture
- A number to take to a consultation — never a verdict, which an officer makes
Signing up keeps your answers with your case instead of in a browser tab, so you can come back to them, change them as your situation changes, and share them with us when you want help.
About 5 minutes to complete
No payment, and no obligation to work with us. The guides on this site stay open to everyone.
The framework changed on 18 September 2026
DHS rescinded the 2022 public charge regulation (91 FR 45324, 20 July 2026) and USCIS reissued its guidance (Policy Alert PA-2026-09, 18 August 2026). Public charge remains a totality-of-the-circumstances judgement under INA 212(a)(4), and USCIS restates that no single factor can be the sole basis for a finding — except the lack of a sufficient Affidavit of Support, where one is required.
Read the scope carefully, because it is easy to assume this covers you when it does not. That guidance applies to applications for adjustment of status filed on or after 18 September 2026. It does not mention consular processing, the Department of State, or immigrant visa applicants abroad — and this worksheet is written for consular cases. If you are applying from Bangladesh, the Department of State decides your case under its own guidance, which this USCIS policy does not govern.
What this is, and what it is not
Public charge is decided on the whole of your circumstances — age, health, family status, finances, education and skills — by an officer, not by a threshold. This worksheet does the one part of it that is arithmetic: how your offer compares against the poverty guidelines. It returns a number, never a verdict.
Take anything date-sensitive to a licensed immigration attorney. ImmiAxis is not a law firm, and a worksheet is not a substitute for one.
Before you enter this
This asks about your wage, your household size and your savings. In an ImmiAxis account those answers are stored on our systems and held with your case — that is what lets you come back to them. You are giving them to us, not keeping them on your own device, and you should decide to do that knowingly.
- Used only to prepare and progress your case. Never sold, never used for marketing, never published.
- Never passed to an employer, to our US recruiting partner, or to anyone else without asking you first.
- Ask us at any time what we hold about you, and ask us to delete it.
- Tell us what the question needs and no more. Anything optional can be left blank, and you can raise the difficult parts in person instead.
We protect this with encryption in transit and at rest, access limited to the people working on your case, and audited administrative access. We will not tell you it is impossible to reach — no organisation can honestly promise that, and you should be wary of any that does. What we can promise is that we hold as little as the work requires and delete it when you ask.
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Everything the tool is built on is explained in full on these pages, and they are open to everyone.
This page is general information about a US immigration category, not legal advice. ImmiAxis is not a law firm. For advice on your own case, consult a qualified immigration attorney or accredited representative.
Is your margin thinner than you expected? Talk it through, free.
Twenty minutes with our team, any evening between 7 and 11 PM Bangladesh time. Bring the figures from this worksheet.