ChrystalM
Intuit Alumni

Get your taxes done using TurboTax

In general, if you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien married to a nonresident alien, you are considered “Married Filing Separately” unless you qualify for a different filing status. You do not have to include your husbands income with your income. You do need to file this year because you made more than the minimum income required to file. 

In addition to the tax return, if you were the owner of a Foreign account (or had signing power on a Foreign account) that had more than $10,000 at any point in time in the year, you are required to file an FBAR.  If that was the case, or even if it is very close, filing the FBAR will be a protection for you.

You can't file the FinCEN 114 through TurboTax (there is a separate website which exclusively handles this),  but you do need to answer the Foreign Accounts questions accurately and TurboTax can direct you to the site to file the FBAR if you need it.

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