Continuing the job from my host country after moving to the US

[imtay 0]

Does anyone have any experience or information regarding continuing a job from a foreign location after moving to the US on a K1 visa? My fiance may have the opportunity to work remotely for his present employer but we want to know in advance what this would mean for the AOS and the difficulties that would arise when filing taxes, etc. If anyone has any knowledge on this matter, we'd greatly appreciate any help or input. Thanks in advance. Cheers!

[motu 6]

You may want to contact a tax preparer for this - call before hand and tell them what you want to talk about - he/she may have to research it for you. Generally speaking, income from all sources (world wide) is taxable in USA but there are exceptions, exemptions and tax credits (so you do not end up paying taxes on the same income twice). I would assume that since he would be living here, his employer would have to pay him here and issue appropriate tax documents which he could then use for filing taxes. If the employer is not based in USA then it gets complicated and requires one to dig the material up on this. Good Luck

[CoCo1020 0]

I called the IRS, the international department and they answered all my questions for free. Their phone number is: 215-516-2000. I followed their instructions and I did the 2007 taxes myself and got my refund in 4 weeks. You will not be able to file electronically because if you want to file as married filing jointly ( in my case it helped me get a bigger refund) you need to include a signed statement making the option to be treated as a resident for tax purposes for the first tax year. You will need to include your spouse's foreign income, but if it less than $86,000, it is tax exempt. You don't need to have any foreign document equivalent to a W2. You just file Form 2555, and the amount your spouse made in his or her country is first added to your income and later deducted, so the tax liability is zero. It is not difficult to do.

I did not pay anybody to help me with the taxes because the so called "experts" knew less than me. It was not difficult, and I am far from being aa tax expert myself.

Before I called the IRS, i became familiar with the terminology, so it was easy to understand what they were talking about. You can find everything on the IRS website, but it really helped me when I talked to a human.