Help with Taxes for my Affidavit of Support. Do I Need to File?

[janamaria 0]

Hey all you lovely people,

You are always so helpful, I massively, massively appreciate it! If anyone could help me out with this, that would be incredible!!

I am a USC but also a British Citizen and have lived in the UK my whole life (apart from 5 months living/travelling in the states around 10 years ago, I did apply for my social security number during this time incase I wanted to move over there in the future)

I am in the process of sorting out the Affidavit of Support form for my husband and the next step in our immigration timeline! We are using DCF at the London Embassy.

I see that question 18a is asking if you have filed a tax return for the last three years. I have never filed a tax return as I have never worked or lived properly in the USA so I just assumed I was exempt. Someone told me in another thread however that I still need to have filed. My questions regarding this are:

1) Do I need to file as someone who hasn't worked or lived properly in the US?

2) 2015-2016 I have been working as self-employed and haven't made enough to pay taxes here in the UK. Is there a similar thing in the US, that if I don't meet a certain threshold I don't have to file? Before being self-employed I was a student, again, does this mean I don't have to file for those years

3) In a different thread someone mentioned something about there being an income threshold for working abroad that also excludes you from filing, is that right?

4) If I do have to file, how on earth do I do it?? I have no idea where to start! Also, how long does the process take and is there a way to expedite it for our interview?

If anyone could help me out that would be incredible and hugely and sincerely appreciated.

Thanks!!

[DorothyLa 107]

I want to know the answers also, waiting for a `captain` to answer

[milimelo 4,193]

London should have IRS office do book an appointment with them to sort out your taxes.

Recommend you also look at your passport- last pages have obligations for citizens- filing taxes is one of them.

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

If you will PM me your exact total UK income earned during the last three tax years, I can give you specific info rather than writing pages of "if this, then that, but not if.....". Need specific amounts of gross income during the calendar year--well as close as you can get. It is reported Jan 1-Dec 31, so not the April to April you are used to.

Also need to know if you were married or single those years. Married during a year counts as married all year.

[janamaria 0]

I want to know the answers also, waiting for a `captain` to answer

Hopefully some of these answers will be helpful to you too then Good luck with your visa journey!

London should have IRS office do book an appointment with them to sort out your taxes.

Recommend you also look at your passport- last pages have obligations for citizens- filing taxes is one of them.

Thanks so much for replying! Apparently the London embassy IRS office is closed, I just googled it. Was there another one you were thinking of? Is there not just a way to do it simply online? I don't live in London so it isn't easy for me and we have a really tight schedule to get this done by unfortunately!!

If you will PM me your exact total UK income earned during the last three tax years, I can give you specific info rather than writing pages of "if this, then that, but not if.....". Need specific amounts of gross income during the calendar year--well as close as you can get. It is reported Jan 1-Dec 31, so not the April to April you are used to.

Also need to know if you were married or single those years. Married during a year counts as married all year.

Thanks Nich-Nick, that would be incredible. I will PM you now.