January 2025 AOS Filers

[SL2024 142]

11 hours ago, Aserc said:

Best of luck! 

 

Thank you! Best of luck with your applications too!

[KoreaninHawaii 59]

My wife SS card should be arriving later today. 😊

Hopefully everything will be all set so me and her can go visit my family on the East Coast later this year. 💓

[KoreaninHawaii 59]

Trying to do my taxes now and I am filing married jointly but with turbotax one of the questions is if my wife is a nonresident alien or dual-status alien spouse. It's a checkbox. Do I check it or not since we filed for her greencard but she doesn't have one yet. Not sure the correct answer.

 

[MalloryCat 365]

1 hour ago, KoreaninHawaii said:

Trying to do my taxes now and I am filing married jointly but with turbotax one of the questions is if my wife is a nonresident alien or dual-status alien spouse. It's a checkbox. Do I check it or not since we filed for her greencard but she doesn't have one yet. Not sure the correct answer.

 

Since she has a SSN she doesn't have to be marked as a nonresident alien.

 

You can considered her as a resident alien for last year only for tax purposes. But you have to include all foreign made income. So if she worked last year you have to include it.

 

We ended up paying someone to do our taxes cause it was too confusing lol

[KoreaninHawaii 59]

24 minutes ago, MalloryCat said:

Since she has a SSN she doesn't have to be marked as a nonresident alien.

 

You can considered her as a resident alien for last year only for tax purposes. But you have to include all foreign made income. So if she worked last year you have to include it.

 

We ended up paying someone to do our taxes cause it was too confusing lol

Thank you for the reply. She wasn't working for a few years while in Philippines so there's no income to report. I filed married jointly so hopefully that is ok. For next year would I have to change anything resident or non resident when she gets (hopefully by end of this year) her green card?

[MalloryCat 365]

27 minutes ago, KoreaninHawaii said:

Thank you for the reply. She wasn't working for a few years while in Philippines so there's no income to report. I filed married jointly so hopefully that is ok. For next year would I have to change anything resident or non resident when she gets (hopefully by end of this year) her green card?

Ahh ok

MFJ was fine then. Yours was much easier since she had no income to report lol

 

If you didn't mark her as NRA, no I don't believe so, you can just file normally.

[MalloryCat 365]

got both NOA1s today, before the access codes.

 

can't even ask emma since no one is there on the weekend 😭