Hi all-
A family friend recently married. Their spouse is still in their home country of Ghana.
Friend has already filed IR-1/CR-1 since February. They're just waiting.
Question: Clearly for taxes, friend will file "married, jointly"
but how does he go about doing this? As in - wife is still out of the country. She has no SSN.
Is there a special form he completes?
Just want to make sure we have some education before he hires an accountant that will mess things up. lol
*Disclaimer - I know this is not a tax forum. Just asking how people went about it because I read a while ago some horror stories with folks hiring accountants that are not well versed in immigration and things got complicated.