i-864

[russell82 0]

My wife is a US citizen but left the country aged one and has never lived there since, I am filling out the i-864 and it requires her social security number and tax returns, of which she has neither. What do we need to do?

[samy + janet aly 9]

it looks like you will need a sponsor if she does not have a social security number or even tax returns.

give more information please so people can help.

can she prove she was born in america?

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

She needs to back file taxes for at least three years- USCs are required to file taxes with the IRS even when living abroad.

Depending on how old she is, she may have been issued a SSN automatically. If she contacts the local US embassy, they may be able to look it up for her.

[russell82 0]

it looks like you will need a sponsor if she does not have a social security number or even tax returns.

give more information please so people can help.

can she prove she was born in america?

Yes she has a valid US Passportand birth certificate.

We are currently living in Australia and wanting to migrate over to the USA. We are both giving up our jobs to spend 6 months travelling around before returning back to the UK (my country of origin), so we dont have any jobs to go to but have money to support ourselves for the duration.

[russell82 0]

She needs to back file taxes for at least three years- USCs are required to file taxes with the IRS even when living abroad.

Depending on how old she is, she may have been issued a SSN automatically. If she contacts the local US embassy, they may be able to look it up for her.

Thanks for the reply.

I will have to look in to getting those tax returns done, is its quite a straight forward proceess or does it take time?

She is 32 so not sure if she would have been issued a SSC automatically, will contact the local embassy.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

Yeah it's fairly easy- she won't have to pay any taxes, just needs to file. I don't know the details but the IRS website should have them.