Question about income from worldwide tax before moving to US

[corvusheart 163]

Im sorry if I've come off that way. I am thankful for the advice, thank you. It's just frustrating. I've searched on VJ for someone else having a similar experience but found nothing.

[corvusheart 163]

I was researching VJ for any similar experiences and came across this article of someone who forgot to report foreign income

He/she says that their green card could be relinquished because of this!! Now we are both in a state of panic.

[Pennycat 880]

Read the whole thing before you panic. Not only does this not apply to you, but everything was FINE for that person.

 

You've already said he has no foreign assets. That FABR is about foreign assets. And anyone, foreigner or born US citizen has to fill one out if they've got foreign assets. Because things like having a hidden bank account in the Caymans (for example) is a crime for anyone. The deal with immigrants is that you can lose your green card for committing a crime. Any crime, not just financial crimes. Also, that thread is about someone who didn't realize they were supposed to file it, realized it, and filed, and everything was OK. You know why they were OK? Because they realized their mistake, and fixed it before the government noticed it. But, this form doesn't apply to you.

 

What does apply to you is the concept. That it's better to make something right on your own before the government notices it.

 

Which is what we've all said several dozen times. That thread proves this point. While your mistake is peanuts compared to not declaring significant foreign assets and therefore IF they notice, it is DOUBTFUL you'd have problems at all. But. If you're worried about it (which, clearly) THEN FIX THE PROBLEM AND THERE WILL BE NO PROBLEM.

 

You seem to think that fixing the problem will be the equivalent to running down to the police station and turning yourself in for murder. It's not. It's "whoops. Should have done that differently, let's make it right before there's any trouble". It's like driving your car with expired tags. You forgot it's the first of the month, the tags expired. You drove to work. You just broke the law. What do you do next? You get your tags renewed, right? Do you think that someone at the DMV is going to figure out that you drove that morning? If they did, what would they do, call the cops on you? Heck, even if (IF) you got pulled over on the way TO the DMV, there's a good chance they'd let you go with a warning when you explain that you're driving to the DMV to renew your tags.

 

I wish you luck, and if you continue to lose your mind on the internet instead of following the professional and lay advice given to you, that is your prerogative. I've got to let go and unsubscribe here. But you are killing yourself over nothing, freaking your poor husband out over nothing and behaving like a foolish child. Your current course, to wait to fix your mistake until after ROC, is the riskier option, verified here and by your own lawyer. I have no idea why you're scouring the internet looking to prove us and your lawyer wrong. But if you're going to do that, I suggest that you learn to stay calm and focus so that you can actually comprehend what you read. Because it seems that the moment you got to "revoke green card" you lost it, and didn't realize that that form doesn't apply to you and that the OP's course of action is the exact one suggested to you time and time again here and it WORKED. 

[corvusheart 163]

I Also read that forgetting to declare income even if you amend it is a Civil crime. And as you said any crime is grounds for losing green card.

Edited May 1, 2017 by corvusheart

[Wuozopo 4,293]

Folks this person is not a troll. I have known her drama since the I-129F.  Her fiancé could not do a letter of intent because he had no printer. Nope couldn't go to the library. Or purchase a 40 quid printer. Nope he had no paper or pencil to scratch it out by hand.  He had no way of getting paper and pencil.

Move to medical. He had long straight animal scratches down his arms and she was worried. Oh wait...self inflicted because everybody saw through that and knew the doctor would. Pages and pages of  help offered but none of it was accepted.  

AOS and ROC- no way to get a bank account. No lease. No nothing. No suggestions accepted. Nobody was smart enough to help because she "heard" [fill in the blank]. 

Save your time and move on to help somebody else. 

[Lemonslice 4,841]

1 hour ago, corvusheart said:

I Also read that forgetting to declare income even if you amend it is a Civil crime. And as you said any crime is grounds for losing green card.

At this point, your anxiety is distorting what you are reading and you're not thinking rationally (people work illegally for years without declaring their income and they still get green cards... Your mistake is very minor and easy to correct).

Stop worrying, reach out to a tax professional.  

 

 

[corvusheart 163]

17 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

Folks this person is not a troll. I have known her drama since the I-129F.  Her fiancé could not do a letter of intent because he had no printer. Nope couldn't go to the library. Or purchase a 40 quid printer. Nope he had no paper or pencil to scratch it out by hand.  He had no way of getting paper and pencil.

Move to medical. He had long straight animal scratches down his arms and she was worried. Oh wait...self inflicted because everybody saw through that and knew the doctor would. Pages and pages of  help offered but none of it was accepted.  

AOS and ROC- no way to get a bank account. No lease. No nothing. No suggestions accepted. Nobody was smart enough to help because she "heard" [fill in the blank]. 

Save your time and move on to help somebody else. 

If you're going to criticize me please be accurate. We both have bank accounts, not a joint account but connected. Also we have a lease i don't know where you got that information. Also we have lots of evidence for our ROC we don have "nothing".

 

 It has been a hard immigration trail for us. We have been hit at almost every corner which is why we had an attorney.

 

 If someone does not want to deal with my so called "drama" they can choose never to read this thread and unsubscribe, I'm not blowing up your phone or knocking on your door.

 

 If you want to avoid drama I suggest you avoid forums altogether since they are full of drama left and right.

 

 Also you yourself are creating drama.

 

[corvusheart 163]

11 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

At this point, your anxiety is distorting what you are reading and you're not thinking rationally (people work illegally for years without declaring their income and they still get green cards... Your mistake is very minor and easy to correct).

Stop worrying, reach out to a tax professional.  

 

 

This website is the source I found that states it's civil crime. And according to others on this thread any crime can revoke a green card. Let me know if you think I'm misunderstanding something.

 

http://budgeting.thenest.com/penalty-failure-report-income-tax-return-28524.html

[corvusheart 163]

I have reached out to tax professionals they say they can't answer my questions because they are not fluent in immigration law, immigration attorney cannot answer tax questions because he's not fluent in tax law. This is unfortunate.

[Lemonslice 4,841]

43 minutes ago, corvusheart said:

I have reached out to tax professionals they say they can't answer my questions because they are not fluent in immigration law, immigration attorney cannot answer tax questions because he's not fluent in tax law. This is unfortunate.

 Then visit your local IRS office. Stop putting trust into random websites or strangers on the internet.