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yellow67r   0

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Hello all,

I have a small question. I am sure everyone on this website have been pouring time and money into this process. I am sure every dollar spent is worth the end result. But I must ask, what is deductable on taxes?

Travis

Novosibirsk to Minneapolis

Sent to Moscow September 26th, 2006

Waiting for Interview, and to be together.

Saw my smart beautiful wife to be, and my baby girl on July 3rd, 2006

We expected her to be in Minneapolis on May 6th, 2006

Arrived October 27th

Married December 3rd

Baby girl born on December 29th

Started paperwork on AOS April 1st

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zyggy Experienced

zyggy   9

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Nothing that you have spent on immigration in any way shape or form is deductable...

Knowledge itself is power - Sir Francis Bacon

I have gone fishing... you can find me by going here http://**removed due to TOS**

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payxibka   10,045

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Hello all,

I have a small question. I am sure everyone on this website have been pouring time and money into this process. I am sure every dollar spent is worth the end result. But I must ask, what is deductable on taxes?

Travis

Don't we all wish......

YMMV

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diadromous mermaid   36

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Hello all,

I have a small question. I am sure everyone on this website have been pouring time and money into this process. I am sure every dollar spent is worth the end result. But I must ask, what is deductable on taxes?

Travis

In a general sense, nowt, unless employment based. Of course, a creative accountant might find something. ;)

"diaddie mermaid"

You can 'catch' me on here and on FBI.

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peejay   327

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The first year my wife and stepdaughter lived here I was able to claim my stepdaughter as a dependent and that put a few extra $$$ back in my pocket. :)

She is still dependent on us financially, but I can't claim her as such on my taxes because she is now too old and won't go to college, so I'm out of luck. :crying:

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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The first year my wife and stepdaughter lived here I was able to claim my stepdaughter as a dependent and that put a few extra $$$ back in my pocket. :)

She is still dependent on us financially, but I can't claim her as such on my taxes because she is now too old and won't go to college, so I'm out of luck. :crying:

Actually you can at times

If you provide more than half of her support and she makes less than $3,300 a year, she can qualify as a qualifying relative on your tax return...

If not.. then you're right.. you're SOL...

Knowledge itself is power - Sir Francis Bacon

I have gone fishing... you can find me by going here http://**removed due to TOS**

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Mr. Big Dog   10,747

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I remember that there was a nice side-effect of having an overseas spouse with (in USD) little income as we decided to file a joint tax return treating her as a US resident even though she wasn't one at the time - she hadn't even set foot into ther US. You get the extra exemption and, if you're using standard deductions, an extra one there as well. The foreign earned income, as long as it meets certain criteria is exempt from US taxation up to whatever the current amount happens to be. Back then it was 80K. This worked extremely well for us back in 03/04.

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