So I get back from the tax person (HandR Block), and are rather disjointed in terms of what she had told me, and I'm not sure any of what she had to say made sense. Can anyone shed some light on my scenario?
I am the U.S. sponser to my wife (who is currently the nonresident alien here on a K-1 with her daughter - my step-daughter). I worked here in the U.S. all last year. She worked in Canada last year, and came into the U.S. on December 11th, 2005...then got married on December 13, 2005. She obviously did NOT work when she got into the U.S. in 2005, and is still not working as of this moment. We didn't even file for an EAD, so we'll be applying for an ITIN number too. All of my wife's income was gained in Canada as a supermarket customer service person, so there was nothing extra special.
I assumed for our situation that we were going to just file Married filing jointly. The tax chick starts talking about a 1040NR, which I never heard of, and subsequently trying to do so quick research on it from the IRS web site. Then she says she has to do some research on this, and get back with me. In the same conversation, she's throwing out that she needs my wife's statement from canada.....some terms like worldproperty, etc..etc..etc. then just goes on about how she's gonna look it up some more.
I'm not sure if anyone has had this happen, but I'm completely lost in terms of what is right and what is wrong here. I know this isn't the tax hotline, but I'm just trying to avoid some mistakes and crazy costs associated with preparing my taxes.
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So I get back from the tax person (HandR Block), and are rather disjointed in terms of what she had told me, and I'm not sure any of what she had to say made sense. Can anyone shed some light on my scenario?
I am the U.S. sponser to my wife (who is currently the nonresident alien here on a K-1 with her daughter - my step-daughter). I worked here in the U.S. all last year. She worked in Canada last year, and came into the U.S. on December 11th, 2005...then got married on December 13, 2005. She obviously did NOT work when she got into the U.S. in 2005, and is still not working as of this moment. We didn't even file for an EAD, so we'll be applying for an ITIN number too. All of my wife's income was gained in Canada as a supermarket customer service person, so there was nothing extra special.
I assumed for our situation that we were going to just file Married filing jointly. The tax chick starts talking about a 1040NR, which I never heard of, and subsequently trying to do so quick research on it from the IRS web site. Then she says she has to do some research on this, and get back with me. In the same conversation, she's throwing out that she needs my wife's statement from canada.....some terms like worldproperty, etc..etc..etc. then just goes on about how she's gonna look it up some more.
I'm not sure if anyone has had this happen, but I'm completely lost in terms of what is right and what is wrong here. I know this isn't the tax hotline, but I'm just trying to avoid some mistakes and crazy costs associated with preparing my taxes.
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