Hi guys,
maybe someone already tried this
so here is the story:
I came here on H1 (like most of you guys
Wife got H4. She was not eligible to get SSN so she got ITIN instead.
ITIN was used to file taxes and other purposes.
Now we got EADs.
My wife is looking forward to applying for a job.
She already applied for SSN but it will take at least 60 days . . . she was told that documents have to go to the INS first vor verification (?!), then come back, then probably get lost, etc, etc. Her previous experience with the IRS was not the best . . . it took about 6 months to get ITIN
Form I-9 says that if you have EAD everything is OK and you don\'t need to present SS card . . . So . . . my question is:
Suppose she starts working on Jan 1st with ITIN.
Later on she gets her SSN and by the time we file taxes for 2002 we\'ll do everything with the SSN, not ITIN.
Do you guys have any experience with using ITIN like this?
Do you think she can work with ITIN at all?
Will it be a problem with having two numbers at the same time?
Well, she is going to have two numbers anyway . . . I can imagine what we\'ll have to go thru while filing taxes after that
but what the heck . . . when she waited 6 months for ITIN we filied jointly and she didn\'t have ITIN yet. a couple of letters to the IRS advocates + a visit to the IRS and we were all set. As a matter of fact, IRS guys are very nice in person (comparing to the INS folks for example
but not on the phone and certainly not by mail . . .
Anyone have any experience? Any thoughts? Any speculations?
Thanks in advance!
maybe someone already tried this
so here is the story:
I came here on H1 (like most of you guys
Wife got H4. She was not eligible to get SSN so she got ITIN instead.
ITIN was used to file taxes and other purposes.
Now we got EADs.
My wife is looking forward to applying for a job.
She already applied for SSN but it will take at least 60 days . . . she was told that documents have to go to the INS first vor verification (?!), then come back, then probably get lost, etc, etc. Her previous experience with the IRS was not the best . . . it took about 6 months to get ITIN
Form I-9 says that if you have EAD everything is OK and you don\'t need to present SS card . . . So . . . my question is:
Suppose she starts working on Jan 1st with ITIN.
Later on she gets her SSN and by the time we file taxes for 2002 we\'ll do everything with the SSN, not ITIN.
Do you guys have any experience with using ITIN like this?
Do you think she can work with ITIN at all?
Will it be a problem with having two numbers at the same time?
Well, she is going to have two numbers anyway . . . I can imagine what we\'ll have to go thru while filing taxes after that
but what the heck . . . when she waited 6 months for ITIN we filied jointly and she didn\'t have ITIN yet. a couple of letters to the IRS advocates + a visit to the IRS and we were all set. As a matter of fact, IRS guys are very nice in person (comparing to the INS folks for example
but not on the phone and certainly not by mail . . .
Anyone have any experience? Any thoughts? Any speculations?
Thanks in advance!