ITIN denial due to foreign address???

[MichelleSaga 2]

My husbands ITIN application was recently denied due to address. Originally we had put his town, city and country of Guatemala. I then received a paper stating the address was not valid to provide another one. On this paper it stated IF YOU NO LONGER HAVE A PERMANENT RESIDANCE DUE TO RELOCATION, PUT THE FOREIGN COUNTRY YOU LAST RESIDED. Therefore we put Gautemala which I then received the rejection notice. As most of you having dealt with any US government agency will know, calls to the IRS were close to useless. I asked one women what they wanted considering his town doesn't have house numbers and street names like ours to which she told me, well you need to put where he's from. HELLO THATS WHAT WE DID. so now I'm refilling the application and considering finding a larger city that has some type of house number and street name just to satisfy them.

Any suggestions ?!?

[Adil & Jeanne 296]

Did you enclose copy of marriage licence in English, birth certificate and passport plus national ID if his country has one?

That should provide his address

They would have sent him a letter asking for these required documents if you did not provide them

you can take your letter as received to any IRS office and provide true copies of all these (I had to do it even though i sent these documetns with the W7)

the office at IRS can copy them, sign that he saw original and you should be ok

If you get someone who doesn't help, try a different person in IRS (I hate to say it but some governement employees are poorly trained )

[MichelleSaga 2]

Went to an H & R block where she did authorize his passport (which only says his county on it). his birth certificate only says Guatemala but at the top shows its out of his town so maybe we'll try that in addition this time. His ID from the consulate also only has "guatemala, guatemala, guatemala" listed. I think they're looking for like a street name but he's from a small town where they don't have mailing address like that.