Hi everyone, so i know we are all going through things at the moment.

I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing delays in there cases,

AOS, EAD and AP were all submitted in Nov 2019, updates are as follows:

AOS (Case is Ready to Be Scheduled for An Interview on Jan 27th)

EAD (Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken on March 5th)

AP (Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken on Dec 17th)

The prediction on AP and EAD was end of March but since Covid is pushing further back and today is looking like latest June  I realise AOS is how longs a piece of string lol

Its a shame to see the case numbers 1 before us are all approved and done so guess the buck stopped at our case numbers  at the Kansas City MO/National benefits centre at least not sure on the others

Hows everyone else doing

2 hours ago, bahamian86 said:

Hold on Jenny. It might be on its way. Offices are still moving forward with ead approvals and such.

Thanks, were certainly hopeful but just looked and now the latest is 1st May prediction date for EAD it was 31st March but who knows maybe we will be one of the lucky ones to get the Green card 1st and without interview

Checked the cases on USCIS and no updates either

2 hours ago, bahamian86 said:

Hows everyone and their family holding up during these times? Although everything on my end is in standstill I’m still checking the site and I’ve seen some ppl getting their gc approved without interview! I’m hoping it trickles down to b1/B2 visa applicants because they all have different visas Like the  K1 visas and other types. But hope everyone stays encouraged and maybe just maybe a few more will get this lucky chance. 

Not to bad we were hoping for the AP and work permit to go though before all this and was predicted for end of March that's been pushed further and further back now but we still keep checking. Didnt realise some people were getting their green card without interview.

Would have been nice to bring in some extra money as it's all been allot longer than we expected. But the main thing is everyone stays safe

14 hours ago, Orangesapples said:

I saw it said as long as you're not a non resident alien. I might be wrong though. 

Thanks  Yes i read that too just wondered as we declared him on the tax's against his social. I guess we will wait and see.

Wonder if this is covered for my husband. In process of Adjustment of status which would suggest not but it does say that if the individual is a legal resident which I guess he and allot of others possible are classed as because of filling taxes.

We filled ours including the printout to class him as resident for that financial year.

Let's hope he and others get it as it's tough still waiting of work permit which unfortunately is also inevitably delayed 

14 minutes ago, NikLR said:

I think we have 3 pages of off topic.. LOL

Thats what i was going to say, we too are delayed I haven't called since the last time the person i spoke to was rude plus i guess at this time they can only do what they can. Our EAD AP and Change of status were all logged in Nov, Bio-metrics Dec since then very little movement.

Our predicted dates have moved up by at least a week and we should have had it by the end of the month but i guess the algorithm for this will be out now as were in a situation which cant be measured. 

Heres hoping that we get it all soon

Its certainly been pushed back for us, all submitted Nov 19

I-313 AP was from the 1st of March to 31st bu now pushing up and currently upto April 8th

I-765 Work Authorization Again due by the end of the month currently by April 11th

Green card is anyones guess been sitting on Case is Ready to Be Scheduled for An Interview since Jan

I suspect these will be pushed even further back ovet the coming weeks

On 3/20/2020 at 6:28 PM, Mike445 said:

When did you send your 765/131 to USCIS and what office is handling it? Mine was received August 29 approved March 17. So approximately 6 months and my office is National Benefits Center.

Mike

Hey Mike sorry for the delay NOA on both was 21st Nov 2019 all cases are MSC so i think at the National Benefits centre as well

Our EAD and Travel authorization is still pending. The timeline date is by the end of this month but were suspecting delays due to all that is going on

On 2/23/2020 at 1:05 PM, Sona16 said:

I think thats what most of the forum said. Waiting on ssn too

We are the opposite my husband has SSN but yet to recieve EAD or advanced parole. Filled all with change of status on the 14th of Nov 2019.

Do they call you for interview for EAD or just send it to you? AOS is ready to be scheduled currently

Glad people are starting to get there

7 hours ago, Pooley said:

How did you answer this question?

Wasnt asked in that way with taxact but he doesnt have the kind of Visa they are asking this is for a US citizen working abroad so right none

9 minutes ago, Pooley said:

So the P45 is like the W-2? And his only goes from January 2019 to August 2019. I used the money converter on Turbo to estimate what his wages were in US dollars but when I enter that amount and then it shows the summary at the end, it says "It appears he made this amount" which is double what I said he made. 

Only in as much as it will give you both how much he earnt from April 2019 to whenever he left his job if aplicable. Otherwise go from bank account as Wuozopo said this will be the most accurate if no other info. Not sure why things are doubled though

2 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

Are you saying he has no idea how much he earned in the UK during 2019?  Then you aren’t ready to complete your taxes.  When he figures it out, convert it to US dollars for the US tax return. 
 

He doesn’t need any form that says the exact amount. He looks at old pay stubs, his old bank statements, asks his former employer to help him figure it out.  

As per above i had my P45 which whs from April 2019 to End of Jul 2019 as that was 4 months and I left 1st Aug i multiplied that by 2 converted it to $

11 minutes ago, Pooley said:

Okay, I'm not sure I'm doing this right. It said he qualified for it but my tax return when to basically nothing now. 🙄

Sounds like we are very much on the same time line my husband moved here in Aug 2019, Thanks to Wuozopo and his wife we just about managed to get ours sorted. Make sure his income is on a 1040 other income or 1040 FEC (Foreign Earned Income) then make sure you fill out the for 2555 it should then work it out for you. My understanding is TurboTax is better than Tax Act that we used

19 hours ago, markandoliv said:

Hi, did you have to pay to upgrade from basic taxact so that they could help with the 2555 form?  Thanks

Yes we had to use the Delux to get the extra forms i dont think they come with the classic

22 hours ago, panamerican said:

Looks like we figured this out simultaneously. H&R Block online stopped me from proceeding stating I never entered the foreign income. I fixed that and the magical bump in refund went away; sad, but it makes more sense since it was seemingly going against nothing. I think we are ready to file at this point, although I am still not sure about including this letter stating we are filing as RA for her. I've seen that floating around these forums.

Looks that way Im still not going to push the button just yet and also think the state Tax is incorrect as its done a similar thing of take the UK wages off my earnings so think thats also wrong

Thankyou pretty much the same situation nice to know were not the only ones

Ive got a little further with this today my Husband has been playing around with it online through Tax Act.

The reason for the jump was we needed to enter foreign income with the Form 1040 FEC - Foreign Employer Compensation and Pensions prior to the 2555 thus the 2555 then waiving it with the Physical presence or bona fide test

Without the above it took my husbands earnings off mine which was not correct

The only issue we have now seems to be it has taken into account some of his earnings somewhere and taken around $400 away so this is our next step and reviewing it all

I think its possibly the Foreign Earned Income Tax - Itemized Deductions or Exclusions (which i think maybe the same figure as his income as that puts my tax back to where it should be)

We still have a little way to go just to make sure its correct.

For some reason it apears to be taking $23000 of my earnings rather than adding them and excluding them

By the looks of it it fills ou the 1040 by answering the questions for the 2555 should we be ticking that box for If your bona fide residence has not ended, check here. and keep the dates as from birth to the day he moved over maybe thats causing an issue

Sorry if I confused things.

TaxAct doesn’t appear to automatically do any of this.

As we were worried the figure kept changing by so much, we went to see if H&R were of any help and they didn’t see to understand his situation as they stated he wouldn’t be able to get pass either of the 2 tests which we knew wasn’t true. so we didn’t want to place any faith in that at all so we went back to doing it online as realistically It’s all done apart from this foreign earned income.

Nothing is filed yet

We are filing married jointly as we were under the understanding this was the best way

When filling out online we are including his $23000 there has so far been no prompt for Form 1040

Thankyou so much for the reply, 

So if we put his Bonafide start date as Birth and his end date the day he moved here which is what we did from your advise on another thread that should be good

With the days spend in 2019 should we be including a 2 week trip he had here to see me as well or leave that out to less complicate it. So from the 1st of Jan 2019 to 1st of Aug 2019 is 213 days in the UK (Excluding his 2 week trip here)

Theses are a few of the quitions i worry we are putting in wrong :

- Foreign Earned Income - Tax Home Information

Enter the address of your tax home and the date the home was established.

(This will be the UK and from Birth date I assume)

- Foreign Earned Income - Bona Fide Test - Dates

Enter the date that your period of bona fide residence began and the date it ended.

(Think this is correct but unsure if we need to check the box)

- Foreign Earned Income - Exclusion - Qualifying Days

Enter the number of days in your qualifying period that fall within your 2019 tax year.

(This seems to be the one that addjust the Federal and state refund for some reason and the bit that is concerning us if I put the days at 213 we get a bigger refund on both Federal and State which worries me and makes me think its thinking my husband is a US citizen working abroad and getting a tax refund it changes by $1200 for fed and $600 for state)

Were just worried this is incorrect and could land us in trouble with the IRS

Once again really appreciate the help we even went into an H&R block but they really didnt seem to understand, and considering the rest of the tax is complete just need to get this form 2555 right we didnt want to go through them

Totaly respect that and believe me we have been reading through allot of the forum and google. We are still stuck in as much as filling out the 2555 through Tax Act from Jan to Aug his foreign income is only $23000 we just cant work out if its taking the form into concideration or not and how to make sure he passes one or both the tests to exclude the earnings.

The weird thing was if we put his presence at 365 the federal tax jumped and additonal 1K and around the same for state which cant be right as that would be giving tax back from his UK earnings im guesing 

Hey Everone looking for some help.

We are about to file our tax's for 2019, our understanding is My husband (from the UK) who came here on the 1st of Aug 2019 can file as if he were here for the entire tax year and use his income to give us roughly $10,400 off my taxable income is this correct?

We married in OCT and the change of status / work permint / advanced parole were submitted in NOV (Not sure if this makes a diffrence)

I have my W2 and he has his P45 from his old Job in the UK Showing his earnings.

I plan on using TaxAct and im sure there is more to it but would be great if someone knows or has experience in how best to file 

Liam this is so helpful, thank you! We just got NOA2 but it's looking like things might progress quickly so it's good to know about the experience! When you say South coast where are you? My fiance lives in Devon

Got my NOA2 in the mail today with an approval date of 05-02-19! Can someone post the link to the May NOA2 group because I guess we'll be there now So much research to do on the next steps. 

The notice came in the mail two hours before I drove my fiancé to the airport to return to England, so the timing was amazing