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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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Hello All VJers,

I have a question.

I am a US citizen and got married last year in July and have filed for I-130 and I-129F. When I was doing my taxes this year I tried to apply by filing for "Married filing jointly" but since my wife is not in the US I don't have a soc sec # for her. Since I didn't have a SS# for her the return got rejected. I ended up filing for Head of household.

After reading couple of topics on this it looks like I should apply for an ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) for my wife (who is still waiting for visa outside of USA) and then re apply as married filing jointly?

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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Your wife will have to go to US embassy to get a notarized copy of her passport and send you a signed W-7 (that is a IRS form) that can be downloaded at the IRS website. Those need to be sent in with your 1040 for them to give you assign ITIN.

I just filed my taxes. I called IRS last winter to varify what forms I would need and the type of notarized copy of passport. If you use passport you only need that one document, if you use other forms of ID you have to use 3 types of photo ID and they all have to be notarized by USA notary at the embassy (the cost is horrible...30$ for the first page and 20$ for each one there after, so I would recommend using passport and making the copy with all pertinant pages of passport on one page)

06/11/2007 Married

07/23/2007 Sent I-130 (priority date)

08/02/2007 NOA-1

12/21/2007 Approval (checked online)Merry Christmas

12/26/2007 NAO-2 postmarked

NVC

01/07/2008 NVC received case number assigned

01/28/2008 NVC generates and mails DS-3032 and AOS bill

01/29/2008 (DS-3032 request emailed by husband and fee paid using James shortcuts)

02/01/2008 AOS fee bill received by NVC

02/05/2008 I-864 packet generated (called NVC for this information)

02/09/2008 mailed I-864 packet priority mail

02/11/2008 IV Fee bill generated and paid IV bill using experimental shortcut

02/19/2008 recieved IV fee bill

03/24/2008 DS-230 generated (NVC operator informed me)

04/21/2008 CASE COMPLETE/ interview date JUNE 6th

06/06/2008 AP

12/15/2008 case returned for further review

10/01/2009 USCIS REAFFIRMS APPROVAL CASE SENT TO DOS

11/09/2009 CASE BACK IN CHENNAI

12/10/2009 2ND INTERVIEW rescheduled twice, now Feb. 12th 2010

02/19/2010 Passport with IR-1 visa recieved

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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Thank you.

Your wife will have to go to US embassy to get a notarized copy of her passport and send you a signed W-7 (that is a IRS form) that can be downloaded at the IRS website. Those need to be sent in with your 1040 for them to give you assign ITIN.

I just filed my taxes. I called IRS last winter to varify what forms I would need and the type of notarized copy of passport. If you use passport you only need that one document, if you use other forms of ID you have to use 3 types of photo ID and they all have to be notarized by USA notary at the embassy (the cost is horrible...30$ for the first page and 20$ for each one there after, so I would recommend using passport and making the copy with all pertinant pages of passport on one page)

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