need advice on joint tax filling for citizenship

[kams 0]

please i need advice on joint tax filling for citizenship. my wife and me filed our tax jointly in 2008 and 2009, but in 2010 due to W-2 form delay, we filed as married but separately with same home address. is it ok to use the tax transcripts of both 3yrs to file for citizenship without a problem to the one we filed as married but separate? would filling tax as married but separately in 2010 be a problem? i mean one out of the 3yrs.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

That is not a problem. All that counts is that you both filed your taxes as being married.

[kams 0]

Thanks Just Bob for your advice of your reply. Am bit relieved now with your answer. I appreciate it.

[NickD 203]

Thanks Just Bob for your advice of your reply. Am bit relieved now with your answer. I appreciate it.

If its legal with the IRS, legal with the USCIS. Now if both of you filed as head of household, living in the same residence, claiming the same kid to get a tax advantage, they you will have problems. But not only with the USCIS, but with the IRS as well.

I prepare my tax returns both ways, filing married separately and a joint return. Really not that difficult, what is difficult is gathering those numbers. But we also have Wisconsin State income taxes. To date, filing jointly lets us pay less taxes, paying less taxes is my rule for the way to file.

If I were to ask a question, it would be why the USCIS even gets involved with the IRS and recently with the DMV, if you don't pay your taxes or traffic fines, you won't be able to attend your interview, you will be in jail! IRS knows everything about you, have access to your income, your bank accounts, your credit card statements, what you legally own, they know more about you than you know about your own financial situation.

But the only answer I can come up with, it is convenient for them, along with all the other information you have already provided as proof of a valid marriage. While it takes you hours to figure out what in the hell they want in interpreting those questions on the N-400, and having a stack of all of your evidence in front of them. Can review that in minutes, but yet they charge enormous fees.

But that is the way it is if you want your citizenship and they are without any competition that is suppose to be the basis of this country. So just do it and smile.

[kams 0]

Thanks a lot NickD for your advice, yeah only one person(my wife) filed as the head of household and claimed also for kids. I filed not as household and i did not claim any kids. Yet we all filed as married except that it was not joint but separate. Once again thanks and my appreciation NickD.

Edited June 27, 2011 by kams