citizenship & tax

[laurarajesh 0]

hello friends

I have question is based on 3 year marrige with us citizen and apply applying for citizenship and 3 years tax returns requriment.

if somebody entered in usa in sep 2010 and he only got job in 1 jan 2011 and he will pay tax

TAX ========== CITIZENSHIP 3 Year Requriment PORT of entry- 28 SEP 2010

1 jan 2011 - 1 jan 2012 = 1 year ========== 28 sep 2010 - 28 sep 2011= 1st year

1 jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2013 = 2 year ========== 28 sep 2011 - 28 sep 2012= 2nd year

=========================================== 28 sep 2012 - 28 sep 2013= 3rd year

i can apply for citizenship 30 days early means JULY 2013. if see this timeline i cant pay tax till JAN 2013.

MEANS I WILL NOT ABLE TO FILE TAX IN JULY 2013 Because i have to wait for Jan 2013.

SO my Question is The time i will file for Citizenship I will only have 1 year tax paper.

HOW WILL IT EFFECT MY CASE. OR I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FRO JAN 2013 TO FILE FOR MY CITIZENSHIP. IF I WILL APPLY IN JAN 2013 THEN

ALSO I WILL ONLY HAVE 2 YEAR TAX PAPERS.

PLS ADVISE

Edited October 25, 2011 by laurarajesh

[Inky 1,111]

You should be filing JOINT taxes regardless of having a job or not. Then you submit the joint taxes for the petition.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

If you stay married, you can become a U.S. citizen as early as 3 years after having become a resident. You will find this information on your Green Card, where it reads: RESIDENT SINCE xx/xx/2010.

When applying for naturalization, you will submit tax transcripts for the time since you became a resident, which would be three years. You hopefully file your income taxes jointly with your spouse. Thus, it doesn't matter who made how much money, as it goes all into the same pot from which you withdraw to pay the bills.

[NickD 203]

Do to the long delay in our AOS, wife was able to show four tax returns even applying 90 days before her 3rd green card anniversary. You can file a tax return with even zero income, no law that says you have to have an income to file taxes. The IRS even recommends it as you may get beneifts. Don't know how long your AOS, but surely you can come up with three returns.

Course, the easy out of tax returns and all of the marriage evidence they want is to wait another couple of years and file for the standard five year. We didn't gain anything from applying for the three year, still have to maintain the expense of foreign passports. And the politicians don't give a damn about Wisconsin, election is already determined even before we get a chance to vote.

[laurarajesh 0]

Do to the long delay in our AOS, wife was able to show four tax returns even applying 90 days before her 3rd green card anniversary. You can file a tax return with even zero income, no law that says you have to have an income to file taxes. The IRS even recommends it as you may get beneifts. Don't know how long your AOS, but surely you can come up with three returns.

Course, the easy out of tax returns and all of the marriage evidence they want is to wait another couple of years and file for the standard five year. We didn't gain anything from applying for the three year, still have to maintain the expense of foreign passports. And the politicians don't give a damn about Wisconsin, election is already determined even before we get a chance to vote.

if i will file joint and apply after 3 year and 4 months then also i will only have 2 year tax. because my wife was staing in india almost one year in 2010.

is it mean i cant apply for citizenship i have to wait 4 years.even i am married to us citizen.

pls reply

[Inky 1,111]

if i will file joint and apply after 3 year and 4 months then also i will only have 2 year tax. because my wife was staing in india almost one year in 2010.

is it mean i cant apply for citizenship i have to wait 4 years.even i am married to us citizen.

pls reply

US citizen are required to file taxes even if they are living out of the country. She can still file for her taxes and if you were married at the time she can file joint married taxes.

[NickD 203]

if i will file joint and apply after 3 year and 4 months then also i will only have 2 year tax. because my wife was staing in india almost one year in 2010.

is it mean i cant apply for citizenship i have to wait 4 years.even i am married to us citizen.

pls reply

In theory at least, when applying for marriage, you are a better citizen because you are living together, the key reason they require all of that evidence. Recently was a guy here that wanted to take a job over a thousand miles away where showing joint residence would be impossible. Can only recommend he wait the extra two years. Feel the same about you.

Really no requirement that you have to file a joint return, filing married but separately goes along with all the rules. But those that both filed separately claiming head of household status would not only have problems with the USCIS, but the IRS as well.

For the five year, don't even have to show tax returns,

[warlord 73]

As for the joint tax it doesn't matter as long as you file either Joint or Married filing single. The only one you don't want to do is Single filing Single, but either of the above ones are perfectly fine to do...