I have a question about taxes and my wife's green card and later her naturalization.
Here is our situation:
- We got married in 2004
- I got US citizenship in the beginning of 2005, we filed documents for her green card
- She got her conditional green card in September 2005
- Starting 2004 we filed taxes married filing jointly as California residents and did it through 2006
- In 2007 I moved out of US (spent 2 months in US)
- In June 2007 she filed for removing conditions from her GC and she got permanent GC in September 2007
- She lives in California, I live in Russia
- In 2007 I withdrew money from my 401K in part to finance her education, I don't have any other income.
We would like to file taxes jointly again and I want to put myself as a non-resident. (1040 and 540NR) (Filing taxes as a resident will cost us a lot of money, if we file separately as well).
My question: will my wife have problems in the future when she files for citizenship? (She will file after 5 years). How will USCIS look upon taxes where her husband is a non-resident?
And is it going to look to them like a fraud when we filed to remove conditions in the year where in taxes it says I am a non-resident?
We had some difficulty last year in our marriage (we were thinking about a divorce) but luckily things changed.
Thank you for your responses.
Here is our situation:
- We got married in 2004
- I got US citizenship in the beginning of 2005, we filed documents for her green card
- She got her conditional green card in September 2005
- Starting 2004 we filed taxes married filing jointly as California residents and did it through 2006
- In 2007 I moved out of US (spent 2 months in US)
- In June 2007 she filed for removing conditions from her GC and she got permanent GC in September 2007
- She lives in California, I live in Russia
- In 2007 I withdrew money from my 401K in part to finance her education, I don't have any other income.
We would like to file taxes jointly again and I want to put myself as a non-resident. (1040 and 540NR) (Filing taxes as a resident will cost us a lot of money, if we file separately as well).
My question: will my wife have problems in the future when she files for citizenship? (She will file after 5 years). How will USCIS look upon taxes where her husband is a non-resident?
And is it going to look to them like a fraud when we filed to remove conditions in the year where in taxes it says I am a non-resident?
We had some difficulty last year in our marriage (we were thinking about a divorce) but luckily things changed.
Thank you for your responses.