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US citizen filed for Indian spouse. had arya samaj wedding (small wedding) then registered marriage with the gov't and got the certificate. now reading stuff online that US consulates looking at this suspiciously. like #######. https://www.njimmigrationattorney.com/blog/2020/09/marriage-visa-based-on-arya-samaj-wedding/ https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/AILA/AILA-Agenda-Fall-2019.pdf anyone done this and faced issues? thoughts? everyone was done according to rituals but wedding was small. freaking out here.

Hi InaneTripe, I am filing MFS and I will sending my tax documents to IRS in the mail (I couldn't find a single website who can do efile with 'NRA' as input for wife's SSN/ITIN). I used a tax preparer for this year. My question: Did your paper mail got processed on time and you were able to get your tax transcript in about 6-8 weeks? after filing it? This is making me nervous because IRS can have a backlog and not process the damn tax forms for like months and I would need my tax transcript for year 2023 for the affidavit of support of my wife. So if you can share your experience on how long did it take for you to get your paper mail tax return processing would take a lot of anxiety away for me. My refund can come in late summer and I don't care. I just want my tax transcript available by end of April/mid-may.

Thank you, I appreciate your response! Ok, so two of my friends who went through this process said they did it single...and it did not cause any problems at the embassy stage of things. lol I am super confused now. Part of me just want to do it single and once she comes here, I do it MFJ.

Pardon me if this has already been asked. I am super super confused. I130 petition pending next steps are NVC and embassy interview married in 2023, wifey is in India. I have been filing single ever since. Last year I filed single for year 2022 return. Now, I called 4 different tax services (local to my area). all of them said file it single since wifey is not in the US and don't have a ssn. I read the IRS webpage and they are saying to file it married either separate or jointly. Are these tax services trolling or just don't know what's up?? If you have been in my shoes, I would really appreciate if you say what you did when you were filing this for the very first time. Also, when wifey is here is it just a matter of switching from MFS to MFJ on the form (next year of course). Thank you all!