MariAndJoseph

Hello, I am US citizen and my spouse has no SSN or never worked in the USA. My spouse was a student many years ago but left the country after completed the study. She never had income in the USA but he works in her country right now. I believe I don't need to include her foreign income on my tax return right? This is my first time filing taxes after marriage. I will file my taxes "MARRIED FILING SEPERATLY" Turbo tax doesn't let me enter "NO SSN" for my spouse so I'm confused. Please help me with 3 simple questions that I have: 1 - Can I e-file my tax return? Which software/company is suggested to use? 2 - I heard I have to physically mail my taxes if I want to file "married filing separately" is this true? 3 - Is filing separately an issue at the interview? Thank you in advance. Joseph.

thank you both so much.

Hi, I am naturalized us citizen and married my spose in our home country. We are originally from same country, my wife asked me a question and i cannot find the answer. of course i came here. thankful for you guys. I had a marriage and divorce years ago in Atlanta, Georgia. I don't think I registered that marriage/divorce (don't know if it is a requirement) in our foreign home country. My previous Marriage took place in the usa and we got divorced here legally in the usa. 5 years after this divorce i married my current wife. We married in our home country and she is now going through green card process there. She needs to submit divorce decree for my previous marriage which is fine. I have divorce decree issued here in the us. it is valid and good. Is the divorce decree acceptable and enough? in our case, it was issued by the state of Georgia. My wife asked me if the embassy needs to see divorce decree from the country where the embassy is? I am still a citizen of my home country but divorce doesn't exist there because marriage and divorce happened here in the usa years ago. I didn't even visit my country during that marriage so i think they were never informed about the marriage and divorce. I have submitted my divorce decree with I130 application. is that documentation enough for my wife to bring to interview? thank you guys, my question is simple but i hope i didn't make it sound complicated. Joseph.

thank you very much you were great help. one last question about 130a. I left "blank" "empty" in the fields where it asked if "interpreter helped my spouse filled the form" we didn't put N/A in all of the fields. we just left them empty. do you think this will cause a denial or RFE?

@Micam @pushbrk @Jeanne Adil @Dashinka @JeanneAdil Thank you all, So please correct me if I am wrong. I am worried about making a mistake I'm filing I-130 online for my wife who lives abroad. I'm submitting the form online and i'm filling everything they ask me, and I am only uploading documents that they ask for during online process. For example; if they are not asking for "birth certificate" it is not needed. It looks very simple and light so I wanted to make sure I'm not making a mistake. What i am about to submit is: Questions that I answered 1 passport style photo of each, Proof of marriage, Proof of us citizenship, Proof of relationship, (Bank statements, vacation receipts) Form I-130A (filled in PDF and uploaded) Photos of together That's it. No birth certificates, no tax returns, no cover letter. Everything is uploaded as PDF. Everything is translated in english. And I'm uploading originals in foreign language too. Does this sound correct? thank you if someone can take time answer.

Hello, I completed my online I-130 form following this guide: 1 - Do I need a cover letter and table of content for filing I-130 online? 2 - Is it ok to upload documents in black and white? Or does it have to be in color? 3 - I am the US citizen(Naturalized, foreign born) who is submitting I-130 for my wife. Do I need to upload my birth certificate? I already uploaded my US passport for proof of citizenship. 4 - We don't need to upload birth certificates of foreign spouses, or police records for either of us at this stage, correct? thank you anyone who can reply.

yeah the fact that my wife never used another name. please see the screenshot, i added the entire section. it is asking for full name(first, middle, last) and all of them don't apply to us. I left this blank, is this an issue? it doesn't make sense to enter "NO FIRST NAME" , "NO MIDDLE NAME" , "NO LAST NAME" thanks.

Hi, sorry i'm confused. Are you saying I should type "NONE" in the middle name? But i'm afraid it may be interpreted as my middle name is None.

Hi community, I'm just trying to avoid some stupid mistakes so please help me with this question. I researched this topic but found different answers. My wife hasn't used previous names before, but there is a section that asks "has the beneficiary used other names before.." Please see screenshot for reference. Should I enter N/A in each field or leave them empty? Also there is a field for "PROVIDENCE" in address information. We do not have "providence" in our country, should I leave this empty or N/A? Do we always need to enter N/A for every answer we don't have? Thank you for taking time if you can reply.

hi, i have the same question. do you know if we need to upload photo of both people when submitting I-130 online?

Hi everyone, I'm submitting i130 online for my wife. There is a question: When did your beneficiary's last marriage end? My wife never married before so there is nothing I can enter here but this field is a DATE field and it is forcing me to choose a date. I cannot type in this feild. I didn't choose "my wife was married before" to trigger this question. I'm worried about this because I can't continue without answering this question but the question isn't valid and I can't enter N/A or leave blank. Has anything had this issue like this or am I being computer stupid?

thank you both so much. Do you know if we can combine our photos(5 of them) in 1 pdf? instead of uploading 100 photos, i can group them and upload 10 pdfs, is this okay?

Hello, we are newly married couple. I (US citizen) will submit I-130 for my wife who lives outside of the US. My wife lives in europe. I work and live in the USA. I'm worried about supporting documents. I cannot add my wife to my bank, insurance etc because she doesn't have SSN. I called and asked all of them and they all say, person has to have SSN or tax ID. Since we live in different countries, we don't share an address. No joint lease. We live in different countries, we don't share phone, electric etc bill. We can open a joint bank account in her(also my original) country, but bank wants me to be there physically and I can't travel just for that soon. We have TONS(of 3 years) photos, wedding photo, we also have vacation/honeymoon receipts but this is it. I'm worried that this is not enough, can someone please suggest us what to do? What else can we add to our package?

Hi, no she didn't. She never worked or applied for work, internship or any work related program. She was just full time student.

Hi everyone, I'm filling a form for my wife. She is not in the usa She used to be a student for 3 months in the usa couple years ago. She used her F1 visa and she returned back to her country when her school finished. She never worked or applied for work/internship. She was just a student for 3 months and she returned back to her country years ago. Form I'm filing is asking if she had A-NUMBER. Does F1 visa give A-NUMBER? She doesn't remember anything about it. Her visa doesn't say anything about this. Not sure if she ever had this number. I will appreciate if anyone has answer. Thanks.