Can I deduct and of these fees

[tmma 467]

No pity needed here.

Save it for the "tired/hungry".

[maliciant 7]

On the same train of thought, I wonder how much, if any of the expenses involved could be deducted as moving expenses. I did not try, but has anyone found a way to recover some of the cost, other than the obvious tax savings of being able to file a joint return, that first year?

Moving expenses are a write off ONLY if you move due to your job or to start a new job in another location, you can't just write off moving expenses because you moved.

The question if it's possible to write off any of the fees/expenses is NOT degrading to his fiancee, it's a legitimate question about filing taxes, and has nothing to do with love no matter how you want to twist it. If he asked the same question regarding his wife being pregnant or giving birth, would that somehow be degrading to his wife because he asked if some of the expenses can be written off on taxes? And yeah, anything medical CAN be written off on taxes once it's beyond 7.5% of your total income and of course a baby is another dependant etc. The k-1 process can not be written off, none of the fees, the plane trips, etc... What *MIGHT* be possible to write off is the $213.35 medical fee but since you aren't actually married, I don't think so (and again, your total medical for the year would have to be over 7.5% of your total income, and then you can only write off the portion over that... if you make 100,000 a year and paid 10,000 in medical, you could write off 2500 of it...).

[tmma 467]

In the beginning it just seemed bizaar to me that the OP of this thread was looking for somehow the regular American taxpayer to pick up some of the tab for the costs of his fiancee's immigration...But he already explained that he believes Uncle Sam should pay because we welcome 'the tired, hungry and yearning for freedom masses' and because of that-his fiancee's immigration should be subsidized. All makes sense to me now.

Edited January 18, 2009 by tmma

[PhiLandShiR 18]

In the beginning it just seemed bizaar to me that the OP of this thread was looking for somehow the regular American taxpayer to pick up some of the tab for the costs of his fiancee's immigration...But he already explained that he believes Uncle Sam should pay because we welcome 'the tired, hungry and yearning for freedom masses' and because of that-his fiancee's immigration should be subsidized. All makes sense to me now.

Nope, wrong, wrong, wrong...

So far no one gets the point I am trying to make.