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Deductions & credits
I wasn't meaning to debate you, just laying out the facts of the broad situation - it wasn't pointed at you directly.
The facts are
1) Congress created these rules in the CARES Act. The way they wrote the law, nonresident aliens were not eligible for the stimulus
2) Any married couple with this SS# / ITIN situation could file married-separate so that the person with the SS# could get the stimulus they were afforded under the law
The time for debate was before the law was passed and our Congressional representatives debated this before the law was signed. There is nothing to debate now; facts are facts.
this is the CARES Act
and in section 6428, section 3 it states:
ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘eligible individual’ means any individual other than—
“(A) any nonresident alien individual,