DoninGA
I think you're probably right, even though the chilld's SSN/ITN wouldn't show up in the e-filed or mailed return, TurboTax probably won't efile it. I have that issue every year with another daughter's 1040 because she's married to a NRA (and her three children are definitely NRAs). Her husband wants nothing to do with the IRS. She pays no tax and gets no refund so she's only out the postage. FBARs are more of an pain: I told her to put all the kids' bank accounts with her NRA husband as custodian but she didn't listen. (FWIW: The US and Britain are two of very few countries that allow offspring of their citizens, born abroad, to be stateless: it's just good fortune if those kids get a nationality jus soli, or like mine have several. The daughter mentioned above has four citizenships but has hardly ever been to the USA: only on vacation sometimes. Happily the IRS doesn't go around looking for potential citizens who don't file: the IRS closed all its overseas offices anyway.
