scarletffalcon

39 minutes ago, scarletffalcon said:

I filed my petition on July 2018 and received a receipt shortly after. It is now June 2019 and I haven't received anything? Every time I call all they tell me I stop wait. Is there anyway while we are in the progress that my husband can apply for a tourist visa to come visit meanwhile? I visit often about every 2 months but it would be nice for him to come for a change. Is this possible? if its not, what else can we do?

We have absolutely no intent for him to stay. I would just much rather have him come look around and get to know the place.

I filed my petition on July 2018 and received a receipt shortly after. It is now June 2019 and I haven't received anything? Every time I call all they tell me I stop wait. Is there anyway while we are in the progress that my husband can apply for a tourist visa to come visit meanwhile? I visit often about every 2 months but it would be nice for him to come for a change. Is this possible? if its not, what else can we do?

On 3/23/2019 at 1:05 AM, aaron2020 said:

You say that he is currently not working.  Did he have any income in 2018? 
 

To file jointly, your spouse would need to file for an ITIN with your tax return.  He would volunteer to be treated as a US taxpayer and you must include his foreign income.  Generally, this works out great when the foreign spouse has little or no income and entitled to a personal deduction that shields $12,000 from income tax and bumps you into a more generous tax table than filing separately. 

 

If your spouse has a good income last year, then you would have to do the math to figure out whether filing jointly or separately is better.   

He wouldn’t report any income, currently he is not working. He has a hobby where he gets paid some money but it won’t total up to more than 1000$ for the entire year due to the money conversion 

I got married to my husband in Dominican Republic, May 1st 2018. We filed for Petition I-130 on July 19th 2018, and we have yet to receive any notice apart from the receipt.  I am now filing my taxes for 2018 and I'm not sure what to file, Married- filing separately or Married filing jointly? My accountant suggested for me to get a Passport certificate to obtain an identification number to file for my husband and I under Married filing jointly. Is this the best option? He currently is not working so he would not report any income.