N-400 and tax return question!!

[eagle2020 0]

Hi

I've been a green card holder for more than 5 years now. I want to apply for my US citizenship. All these 5 years I have been working part time and never had to file for my tax returns for having low income. I have all the W-2 forms. Does anyone know if that will affect the approval of my N-400 application? If not, Do I have to send USCIS copies of these W-2 forms or letter from IRS stating I didn't have to file??

Thank you very much

[Miami_Boy 9]

Hi

I've been a green card holder for more than 5 years now. I want to apply for my US citizenship. All these 5 years I have been working part time and never had to file for my tax returns for having low income. I have all the W-2 forms. Does anyone know if that will affect the approval of my N-400 application? If not, Do I have to send USCIS copies of these W-2 forms or letter from IRS stating I didn't have to file??

Thank you very much

You could send your w2 and the letter from IRS to support your application. Everything will depend on the person who will take your interview. He has main power to adjudicate your case approval unless you dont have any criminal history in the last 5 years. Good luck.

B.B

[v333k 59]

If you have a letter from the IRS stating that you do not need to file, then I do not see what the problem is. Just make copies of the documents you mentioned and submit them with your application.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Hindsight is always 20/0,but I would have filed a tax return anyway, even if I had only made $15.41 per year. The tax returns (or transcripts) is what they want, and dealing with explaining to the Immigration Officer why you "have failed to file a tax return since becoming a LPR" and how you made a living seems to be more inconvenient to me than to file that damn thing once a year.

[NickD 203]

Hindsight is always 20/0,but I would have filed a tax return anyway, even if I had only made $15.41 per year. The tax returns (or transcripts) is what they want, and dealing with explaining to the Immigration Officer why you "have failed to file a tax return since becoming a LPR" and how you made a living seems to be more inconvenient to me than to file that damn thing once a year.

Debatable if you want to fill out a form, get an original sales receipt and somehow cut out the UPC label to get a two buck rebate. Plus you need a 15 cent envelop and a 43 cent stamp so you are only $1.42 ahead.

Was so much easier to fill a 1040EZ on line, no stamps, no envelops for my stepdaughter, took hardly five minutes and she got back $110.00. Then a free call to that 800-xxx-1040 line got her free tax transcripts. Was five minutes very well spent, with the kind of work she is getting going through college, would take a miserable long 22 hours working in a hell hole to get that kind of money.

My niece earned over $15,000, had a nice refund coming, but didn't file, now she has to pay a 400 buck fine, hold my brother responsible for that, sure help his kids, but never was that kind of a guy. Plus she lost that nice refund.

[atshai 0]

You could also call IRS and ask them to send you a letter indicating the years that you didn't file taxes. I did that and got the letter within a week.