Tax filling and Tax return for this year.

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On 3/4/2020 at 1:52 AM, Wuozopo said:

The IRS Form 1040 instructions say on page 12:

Married Filing Separately
Check the “Married filing separately” box at the top of Form 1040 or 1040-SR if you are married and file a separate re- turn. Enter your spouse’s name in the entry space below the filing status checkboxes. Be sure to enter your spouse’s SSN or ITIN in the space for spouse’s SSN on Form 1040 or 1040-SR. If your spouse doesn’t have and isn’t required to have an SSN or ITIN, enter “NRA”.

I meant above that tax software that people use (online or installed at home) to do their own taxes like TurboTax and H&R Block software have the SSN field programmed to only allow numbers to be entered. If software won’t let you type an alphabet character in that field, then how can you type NRA? How can you finish the return and get the software to efile? It will just keep telling you there is an error because the SSN field is blank, yet it won’t let you put anything but numbers there. 

So people print out the return and write NRA with a pen in that SSN field that they left blank. Then they mail the return to the IRS instead of e-filing with the software. 

 

I don’t know how filing separately would hurt the visa. He has stated on his tax return “MARRIED Filing Separately” and he has entered the name of his spouse. Right there is evidence of being married to you. 

Thank you so much for your so detailed instruction! I am going to fellow your instruction. Thank you so much!