Your tax return with a non-resident spouse ? (for the NVC)

[Kal22 0]

Hi! I'm new here and wasn't sure where to post, but I would love some help/insight from people who have successfully completed the NVC step of the CR1 visa!

 

My wife and I are currently gathering the documents needed to send to the NVC after her I-130 got approved. We got married in the summer of 2022, she lives in her country and doesn’t have a SSN or an ITIN. This year when filing my taxes I accidentally filed as “single” after getting bad advice from a tax preparer, and I then filed an amended return as “married filing separately”. Under “spouse SSN”, I wrote “NRA” which is what I read people were doing and it worked and was accepted. Now I just looked at my tax return transcript that I need to send the NVC for the financial requirements and on the first page my status is “married filing separately” but “spouse SSN” is left blank instead of saying NRA or something else and I’m wondering if something went wrong, maybe because I filed an amended return? Or if it’s what this is supposed to look like?

 

I want to make sure that I’m sending a valid transcript to NVC and I don’t want to give them any reason to send me a RFE if the transcript doesn’t look right. Did anyone have the same experience with their tax return transcript after filing as “married filing separately” and writing NRA under “spouse SSN”? Or do your transcripts say “NRA” under “spouse SSN”?

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

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5 minutes ago, Kal22 said:

Now I just looked at my tax return transcript that I need to send the NVC for the financial requirements and on the first page my status is “married filing separately” but “spouse SSN” is left blank instead of saying NRA or something else and I’m wondering if something went wrong, maybe because I filed an amended return? Or if it’s what this is supposed to look like?

 

That's normal for MFS filing with NRA spouse -- spouse SSN will be blank on the tax return transcript.  No need to worry about that.  Also, NVC will not care that you filed MFS nor will they care about your spouse's SSN.  What matters to NVC is that the transcript is in your name and is for the correct tax year(s).  The consulate staff at your spouse's visa interview will not care about your spouse's SSN either.  Visa applicants are not expected to have SSN anyway.

 

[Kal22 0]

Awesome, thank you for your answer!