A situation with the tax

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Scholesy

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Hi all thanks for reading this.

We just submitted I-485, so I'm all excited until my lawyer asked me this morning if I did all my duty in regards to tax reporting. Then I remembered one thing, I did a freelance a few times, but there was one time when my client reported the transaction to the IRS and I did not do it on my end. It was simply because I forgot, he sent the 1099 a week after I submitted my tax return. The amount was 1500 so it was quite big.

I know it was illegal, but there were times when you needed those extra money because you simply needed. I knew the consequences and I did it so it was my fault.

Now the question is, is this gonna jeopardize my green card application? My lawyer said it would but I wonder if anyone have a similar case but goes through okay?

Thank you so much
 
Assuming you've paid your back taxes, you won't have an issue with the IRS. Your problem is with the unauthorized employment that you were doing, violating your H1B/L1/whatever status, unless the particular status you had actually allowed freelance employment (e.g. L2 with an EAD). Have you exited and reentered the US since doing that freelance work?
 
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