If your wife is considered a resident for tax purposes, she is not required to file form 8843. Also, the wife was not required to have FICA deducted from her taxes if she makes this choice. Here is the procedure for filing your return jointly.
- Prepare your return in Turbo Tax and choose Married Filing Jointly as your filing status. Leave your spouses SSN number blank when it asks for it unless she has one. if she has one, report it.
- When you get to the Let’s get ready to e-file screen, select File by Mail.
- Attach a statement to your return, signed by each of you that states that one of you is a U.S. citizen and the other is a nonresident alien and that you’re electing to both be treated as U.S. residents for tax purposes. You can include in the explanation that your wife has been exempt and FICA taxes were not withheld from her check.
- Include the full name, address and Social Security number (or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) of each spouse.
- Mail the return to the address on the instruction sheet that prints with the return
For 2024, have your wife inform her employer that FICA taxes will need to be taken from her check because she is now a resident for income tax purposes.
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