Just got my second $1200 stimulus payment (based on joint filing of 2019 taxes with immigrant wife with SSN)

[jaysaldi 213]

Wife arrived on K-1 in September 2019, we got married in November.

 

Didn't file 2019 taxes early in 2020 because we were waiting on wife's SSN.

Got $1200 stimulus payment in April(?) based on my 2018 tax filing as single.

 

Wife got SSN and I filed jointly for us on June 13.

 

Today I see another $1200 pending credit to my bank account for stimulus payment.

I had been led to believe I wouldn't get this $1200 payment until filing my 2020 taxes next year.

 

Just wanted to share this data point, didn't know where else to put it.

 

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by jaysaldi

[mvasantos 67]

They're using your 2018 for it. My wife is a US citizen and she couldn't file 2018 and she filed this year 2019 with me. I don't have a SSN because I'm AOSing and therefore she can't get the stimulus which is BS.

[jaysaldi 213]

4 hours ago, mvasantos said:

They're using your 2018 for it. My wife is a US citizen and she couldn't file 2018 and she filed this year 2019 with me. I don't have a SSN because I'm AOSing and therefore she can't get the stimulus which is BS.

They used my 2018 return when they sent me the first $1200. And then after I filed a 2019 joint return two months later they sent me $1200 more.

[Wuozopo 4,293]

On 7/1/2020 at 8:05 PM, jaysaldi said:

I had been led to believe I wouldn't get this $1200 payment until filing my 2020 taxes next year.

 

Just wanted to share this data point, didn't know where else to put it.

 

They picked up on your 2019. I think people who had no hope of a SSN before filing deadline will still have a chance on the 2000 return if they have a SSN by then.