Sometimes people use immigration legal terms in a casual manner, and that may be the case here. Your friend may be serving as a "joint sponsor" or "co-sponsor" for a family-based immigration case where the petitioner did not have sufficient income to meet the requirements. In such cases, the U.S. citizen or U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident serves as the petitioner/sponsor, and another U.S. citizen or LPR with sufficient income may co-sponsor the beneficiary. The first person provides the family relationship necessary to sponsor the beneficiary, and the second person merely becomes obligated to safeguard the U.S. from having to provide welfare, Food Stamps, etc. to the beneficiary for 10 years.
[Note: Consistent with policy, this communication is intended as general information and not specific legal advice, and this communication does not create an attorney-client relationship.]
David N. Soloway
Frazier, Soloway & Poorak, P.C.
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