My wife is currently in Pakistan and I want to file married jointly because it will get me a better tax refund. I want to get her an ITIN number and found that I need her original passport or a certified copy. The issue is that she doesn't have easy access to an embassy near her to get her passport certified. She went to DHL a few days ago and they said that it is illegal to mail a passport.
What are my options? Can I just have her mail the passport and lie to the shipping company about the contents of the package? Or would it be better to have a friend bring her passport along when coming to the US and hand it to me in person?
I haven't started here I-130 yet so she's definitely not going to be able to come here herself.
Mailing a passport overseas for ITIN
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My wife is currently in Pakistan and I want to file married jointly because it will get me a better tax refund. I want to get her an ITIN number and found that I need her original passport or a certified copy. The issue is that she doesn't have easy access to an embassy near her to get her passport certified. She went to DHL a few days ago and they said that it is illegal to mail a passport.
What are my options? Can I just have her mail the passport and lie to the shipping company about the contents of the package? Or would it be better to have a friend bring her passport along when coming to the US and hand it to me in person?
I haven't started here I-130 yet so she's definitely not going to be able to come here herself.