Filling jointly or separated

[Tegeras 5]

He/she is charging you that much just to file the W-7? or the W-7 and doing your taxes? Because the W-7 is not that hard to fill out, about the hardest thing about it is getting the documents or certified documents from your spouse.

Edited February 9, 2013 by Tegeras

[speedwell 224]

He/she is charging you that much just to file the W-7? or the W-7 and doing your taxes? Because the W-7 is not that hard to fill out, about the hardest thing about it is getting the documents or certified documents from your spouse.

No, I have other tax issues as well.

[Pw3t 6]

Thank you for all your answers. We really appreciate We tried the W7 last year but it got returned to us (reason : no income to declare). Also we didn't know that we had to file for my foreign income (I'm the french person ) so we might have done it incorrectly in fact. And since the IRS doesn't help much when we call them...

Here in France, it seems we're lucky though : it takes 5 minutes at the city hall to get documents certified so it's ok

After a lot of searching on internet (and a big headache lol ), we finally found out that a part of the french unemployment that we wanted to declare for 2012 for my husband (the USC) is not taxable in France because it was transportation and food help !!! Which means the taxable amount comes under the minimum required to file separately now.

Now the question is (to be sure) : does the non-taxable foreign income need to be declared on the us tax returns ? I would suppose that no but everything is so complicated that now we cannot be sure of anything never