akaufman

Thank you for all the advice!

I was married in August 2013, I'm an American and my husband is British, he still lives overseas and I live in the US. We filed our I-130 in October for him to be able to come to the US as a conditional perminant resident, but haven't gotten any response yet (that timeline I'm told is normal, so I'm not too concerned about it). I'm now trying to file my 2013 taxes and I'm not sure what filing status to use. I was told by a lawyer that it would be much better for our green card application to use the filing status 'married filing jointly', but when I try to use that on the online turbo tax form it requires SSNs for both of us. Since my husband isn't a citizen or resident or anything yet he of course doesn't have one. Does anyone know of a way to file jointly if you don't both have a SSN and you don't live together?