Thank you again for the response. I would prefer to just file as a resident alien of course, but on what basis can I claim to have been a resident for the whole year? I agree that a minor absence for a vacation should not negate that, but I read the following in IRS pub. 519, p. 10:
First Year of Residency
If you are a U.S. resident for the calendar year, but you were not a U.S. resident at any time during the preceding calendar year, you are a U.S. resident only for the part of the calendar year that begins on the residency starting date. You are a nonresident alien for the part of the year before that date.
Residency starting date under substantial presence test. If you meet the substantial presence test for a calen-dar year, your residency starting date is generally the first day you are present in the United States during that calen-dar year.
That makes it seem that my residency starting date should be Jan 6, which would render me a dual-status alien.
I am from Berlin! That is interesting that you lived in the same city as Genscher. I learned about him but he was before my time.
