I am on the same boat. I am H1 holder my wife has H4 as well ITIN number, my kid is US citizen. We jointly filed taxes every year for last 11 years but suddenly this clause gave us a shock. US government issued ITIN and H4 but now they are saying ITIN means unauthorized or illegal immigrants what an irony!!! How can a legal tax doc issued by government get accepted while filing Joint returns but gets ignored and labeled as illegal during pay back? This shows the blatant hypocrisy of this government. Now US citizens and SSN holders also not getting this payment because one of the family member, my spouse in this case doesn’t have SSN. This system is really broken and full of some racist and anti immigrant morons! It’s a disgrace that my kid being citizen with valid SSN is deprived due to 1 ITIN holder in the family while this useless government is issuing checks for international students. At least, citizens and SSN holders in a family should be eligible and not expected to be knocked off with mere excuse of ITIN existence. It’s a shame for this government to turn a blind on citizen’s rights!
