Your fiancé can’t file a joint return with you until the
year that you are married. She doesn’t have to file a tax return at all if her
only income was wages of and she had gross income of less than $10,350, but she
might want to file a return to get all of her withholding refunded.
You might be able to claim her as a dependent if she lived
with you, you support her, she doesn’t
provide more than half her own support,
she’s not a qualifying child for another person, she doesn’t file a joint
return with someone else, and she had income less than $4050.
But as you say, if she’s your dependent and she didn’t have
health insurance, it would be of no advantage to claim her if your taxes go up
significantly because of that.
You have to compare the two options and choose between them.
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