@feuerfawkes , Namaste ji
1. If your aim is to reduce your taxable income by using standard deduction, don't think you can do it because you are caught between two options ( rock and a hard place :(
(a) if you left things as they are you do not meet the SPT and therefore you file the form 1040-NR with required itemized deduction OR
(b) you request to be treated as a Resident for the tax year 2022. Here while you would meet all the sundry requirements , have to wait till you pass SPT in 2023, your first day of the Residency for the year is the first day of presence in the States. However you cannot count any days that would have been otherwise "exempt -- your exempt days end on status adjustment Oct 1, 2022. Thus because there is no way to allocate standard deduction, you are back where you started.
I am sorry to bring you info that you did not want to hear , but thems the breaks --
Is there more I can do for you ?
