With regards to bine22's point# 2, if I were to use the foreign paid tax credit option using a Tax Treaty, I may not be able to exercise my choice of being considered as Resident Alien, since I'm also being treated as a resident of India under the Tax Treaty. Is that understanding correct? In other words, can I consider myself as resident of both India and US for the purposes of filing my tax returns, thereby also making use of India-US Tax Treaty provisions?
