I am a US citizen married to an F-1 international student. We married in October 2022. She (F-1 student) has SSN already as she came to the US via Au Pair program (babysitter). Now she's in college (the whole 2022) and she's not working. She earned $2,040 during her summer internship though (she got 1099-NEC form from them).
I have two questions + one optional:
1. Can we file jointly at all?
2. If we can, can we use TurboTax for that?
3. (Option-based) If we can, should we file jointly? (I earn ~150k, so the difference between MFJ and MFS is pretty big, but I don't want to force it if IRS doesn't like it)
