W-4 form

[mtron 0]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

[Cloudy9 11]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

It is your W-4 and should be filled out as need be. You are married, therefore you should put that on your form, it has nothing to do with your wife just you. When it comes time to file your taxes should she still not be with you you can file for a tax ID number for your wife so that you may claim her on your taxes.

[mtron 0]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

It is your W-4 and should be filled out as need be. You are married, therefore you should put that on your form, it has nothing to do with your wife just you. When it comes time to file your taxes should she still not be with you you can file for a tax ID number for your wife so that you may claim her on your taxes.

^ Except on the W-4 form, this is what it says. Question 3.

__________________________

Choose: Single; Married; Married but withhold at higher Single rate

Note: If married, but legally separated, or spouse is a nonresident alien, check the "Single" box.

__________________________

I'm worried about the incurred penalty in tax that I would need to pay from not choosing Single.

[mlybrand 0]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

It is your W-4 and should be filled out as need be. You are married, therefore you should put that on your form, it has nothing to do with your wife just you. When it comes time to file your taxes should she still not be with you you can file for a tax ID number for your wife so that you may claim her on your taxes.

^ Except on the W-4 form, this is what it says. Question 3.

__________________________

Choose: Single; Married; Married but withhold at higher Single rate

Note: If married, but legally separated, or spouse is a nonresident alien, check the "Single" box.

__________________________

I'm worried about the incurred penalty in tax that I would need to pay from not choosing Single.

Get IRS Pub 519 and determine if, in your circumstances, you can/have to/can't/etc designate her as "resident" or not.

Mark

[payxibka 10,045]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

It is your W-4 and should be filled out as need be. You are married, therefore you should put that on your form, it has nothing to do with your wife just you. When it comes time to file your taxes should she still not be with you you can file for a tax ID number for your wife so that you may claim her on your taxes.

^ Except on the W-4 form, this is what it says. Question 3.

__________________________

Choose: Single; Married; Married but withhold at higher Single rate

Note: If married, but legally separated, or spouse is a nonresident alien, check the "Single" box.

__________________________

I'm worried about the incurred penalty in tax that I would need to pay from not choosing Single.

If you are worried then choose married but withhold at single rate.... The result will be the same....

[Cloudy9 11]

Greetings,

I am a US citizen living in the US right now. My wife is a foreign citizen living in a foreign country (S. Korea). We got married about a month ago in Korea and we are in the midst of form I-130.

I have started working a week ago and I need to fill in my W-4 form and send it back to them. As I understand correctly, I should check "single" in the W-4 form due to my wife being a nonresident alien. However, is this necessarily the case? How should I go about this so that I(we) can maximize our earnings? She'll be coming to US in about 3 months. Thanks!

It is your W-4 and should be filled out as need be. You are married, therefore you should put that on your form, it has nothing to do with your wife just you. When it comes time to file your taxes should she still not be with you you can file for a tax ID number for your wife so that you may claim her on your taxes.

^ Except on the W-4 form, this is what it says. Question 3.

__________________________

Choose: Single; Married; Married but withhold at higher Single rate

Note: If married, but legally separated, or spouse is a nonresident alien, check the "Single" box.

__________________________

I'm worried about the incurred penalty in tax that I would need to pay from not choosing Single.

If you are worried then choose married but withhold at single rate.... The result will be the same....

The W-4 is like a guideline of how you want to file. You could file single if you want, heck you can even leave that one blank, payroll will legally have to file you as single when they enter you in their Tax program. It really doesn't matter on the form. I work in payroll. The form is for you to decide how much taxes you want withheld from your paycheck. I've even had people leave that blank when they filled out the form, plus leave the exemptions blank. By law we have to enter filing single and 0 in our tax program when we enter you.

The real important decision will be at the time you file taxes with the irs. Like I said you can get a tax ID number for your spouse if they aren't here with you by next year. There have been lots of folks on this board that filed their taxes without their spouse present in the states.