Owing taxes before petitioning

[Ninjam 1]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

[Dakine 26]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have a payment program you are good to go.

[Ninjam 1]

Well... The money is due in November for my Federal taxes and I wont have it in time. As for my State taxes, I havent contacted anyone about it so I recieved a Lien in the mail about a month ago. I had no idea how this sort of thing worked so I made some mistakes. What can I do?

[Leah 1]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

My former fiance and now my husband owed the IRS for unpaid taxes. He filed the petition for me back in 2005 and he owes the IRS for year 2002 and 2004. It never a problem for us when it comes to immigration stuff. Now that I am here we still owe them every year because we don't have any dependent to claim. I am now on the process of my citizenship and waiting for my interview to come, but back taxes was never mentioned during my Green card interview 2years ago and few months ago for my renewal of residency.

My advice is gather your K1 documents then file as soon as you can. If, for some reason they will ask you a proof of payment program then show them what you have. As long as your income is above the poverty line and can support yourself and your fiance when she's here you should be fine. Don't worry too much.

[Ninjam 1]

Cool, thank you very much

[Dakine 26]

Well... The money is due in November for my Federal taxes and I wont have it in time. As for my State taxes, I havent contacted anyone about it so I recieved a Lien in the mail about a month ago. I had no idea how this sort of thing worked so I made some mistakes. What can I do?

USCIS and IRS don't communicate with each other much. If I remember right theres's no place on the forms at this stage to put taxes owed.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

[Stephen + Elisha 92]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

Um... can you cite any specific instance of this occurring? Because, frankly speaking, it sounds like you're talking out of your 똥곳.

A tax lien is an encumbrance upon real property. It has nothing to do with income. If it were going to be counted against anything, it would be against the value of property being used to satisfy the support requirements. If the IRS has obtained an order garnishing wages/salary, that might be a different story; even so, all the affidavit of support forms ask for gross income, not net.

[Ninjam 1]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

Um... can you cite any specific instance of this occurring? Because, frankly speaking, it sounds like you're talking out of your ??.

A tax lien is an encumbrance upon real property. It has nothing to do with income. If it were going to be counted against anything, it would be against the value of property being used to satisfy the support requirements. If the IRS has obtained an order garnishing wages/salary, that might be a different story; even so, all the affidavit of support forms ask for gross income, not net.

Yes, I do have a lien. Hmm, I don't own any property so I think it just might be that they did obtain an order garnishing wages/salary. I don't have the document anymore, I happened to be wearing my placebo pants when I read it, so I threw it away...

[Stephen + Elisha 92]

Yes, I do have a lien. Hmm, I don't own any property so I think it just might be that they did obtain an order garnishing wages/salary. I don't have the document anymore, I happened to be wearing my placebo pants when I read it, so I threw it away...

Are they deducting money from your paychecks?

[Ninjam 1]

Not sure yet, I recently switched jobs so I should know when my first paycheck arrives in about 2 weeks. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

Um... can you cite any specific instance of this occurring? Because, frankly speaking, it sounds like you're talking out of your 똥곳.

A tax lien is an encumbrance upon real property. It has nothing to do with income. If it were going to be counted against anything, it would be against the value of property being used to satisfy the support requirements. If the IRS has obtained an order garnishing wages/salary, that might be a different story; even so, all the affidavit of support forms ask for gross income, not net.

Yes, I can. PM VJ member Daboyz for details of how this exact thing happened in his case. There were several others, I think Daboyz may have a better list of all the VJ members..

And I would appreciate your not referring to which orifice I am talking out of just because you are uninformed of what they do with tax leins at the consulate level. If you wish to respectfully ask for information regarding something please do so. Reported. My account was suspended yesterday for MUCH LESS and I am about tired of this. You can play by the same rules regarding offensive statements and I am about to get offended a lot more often.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

Um... can you cite any specific instance of this occurring? Because, frankly speaking, it sounds like you're talking out of your ??.

A tax lien is an encumbrance upon real property. It has nothing to do with income. If it were going to be counted against anything, it would be against the value of property being used to satisfy the support requirements. If the IRS has obtained an order garnishing wages/salary, that might be a different story; even so, all the affidavit of support forms ask for gross income, not net.

Yes, I do have a lien. Hmm, I don't own any property so I think it just might be that they did obtain an order garnishing wages/salary. I don't have the document anymore, I happened to be wearing my placebo pants when I read it, so I threw it away...

The consulate will have information on the lein. They will deduct the amount owing on the lein from the calculation of your income. If you make $30,000 they will deduct $2800 and calculate that you make $27,200. I foyu are still over the guidelines you will be fine. The leinn, once imposed will remain on your "record" until paid in full. Pay it off and it goes away.

[daboyz 36]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

I had a tax lein, and my wife got 221g at the interview because of it. The amount I owed put me below the guidelines.

Also, I was on a payment plan and it didn't matter.

Edited September 15, 2009 by daboyz

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I owe about $2800 in taxes and payment will not be on-time, however payment will be made in due time. I have not yet filed for my fiance's K1 visa. Will this affect the process or will i absolutely have to pay them before filing?

As long as you have not incurred a tax lein, you will be fine. It will not affect the petition in any case BUT it could affect you at the consulate level. If you have a tax lein of $2800 they will deduct $2800 from the calculation of your income on the I-134 which could cause tyou to be ineligile to sponsor. Get a payment plan in place.

I had a tax lein, and my wife got 221g at the interview because of it. The amount I owed put me below the guidelines.

Also, I was on a payment plan and it didn't matter.

Thank you Daboyz. Your experience in the matter has been helpful to the OP.