Hi everyone!
First of all, I apologise in advance if someone asked this already but I really couldn't find it.
I'm filing my first tax return for 2019 since I've been an intern in the US since July 30th 2019.
I'm currently on a J1 intern visa and my sponsor told me I was exempt from FICA taxes since I'm on that visa.
The issue is that I already got a J1 visa back in 2014/2015 as an exchange cultural student. Someone told me that my exemption is calculated from that visa which does not make any sense to me since I could not work in the US so I wouldn't be able to use the tax benefits.
Even if that's when my exemption started, isn't it 5 years for students?
I pass the substancial presence since I was in the US exactly 183 days in 2019.
Am I a non-resident alien or resident alien for 2019?
Thank you so much in advance!
