jasonchen

A spouse is not a dependent. A spouse is a joint tax filer.

But she is unemployed

Hello, everyone. I'm a little confused to I864-Part5 Household Size. I am a US citizen and I have two kids but my kids are living with their ex-wife overseas. They are under 21 years old. I'm not custodial parent but I have to pay child support. I remarried with my current wife.

Part 5

Your household size
1
Provide the number you entered in Part3. Item Number 28. ----- I enter (1) for my current wife who I am sponsoring.

2 Yourself ---- I enter (1) for myself.

3 If you are currently married ,enter 1 for your spouse.-- I do enter ‘0’ here even though I am married because I have already entered my wife in part (1) as the person I am sponsoring and I should not include the same person twice, right?

4 If you have dependent children, enter the number here---- I enter (2) for my sons, right??

5 If you have any other dependent, enter number here---- Do I have to list my ex-wife here? She was a dependent in my income tax return, but I won't include her in the future tax return. It's weird. I only pay child support to children. I read the instruction "You must include each and every person whom you have claimed as a dependent on your most recent Federal income tax return, even if that person is not related to you. Even if you are not legally obligated to support that person, you must include the person if, in fact, you did support that person and claimed the person as a dependent."

I would appreciate any advice anyone has to give regarding this section. Thanks in advance!!!!