Carl
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So my ex fiance, We were not married claimed me as a dependent in 2018 and 2019. We lived together. I am 27.

Since you were without a doubt over the age of 23 in both tax years, and you earned more than $4,200 in both tax years, you can not be claimed as a dependent on "any" tax return. Period.

You personally are required to file a tax return for those years if you had more than $12,000 in gross earned income in either tax year.

And each year i made about 12000 in cash.

Regardless of your income amount, if any taxes were withheld from your income and your income was less than $12,000, then you "should" file a tax return to get all that withheld tax money refunded to you.

Note that weather you file a return or not, your ex needs to amend her tax returns for both years to remove you as a dependent and she can expect to have to pay back a few bucks to the IRS when she does. If she doesn't do this on her own, then when the IRS auditors catch up with her (and rest assured they will) the fines and penalties that will be imposed for claiming a dependent she didn't qualify to claim, will be quite a bit higher.