@Felicita wrote:
I did file my amendment on the 16th of june so I don't know if that would make a difference to having to wait for filing next year.
I think you're confused. If you have the SSN now, there's no talk of waiting to file your 2021 return next year, just file when you are ready.
Because you got the SSN late for 2020, you should have waited to file your 2020 return, instead of filing without it. Because you filed the amended return before June 17, the IRS should pay the extra child tax credit for 2020 eventually. But amended returns take a long time to process, and the IRS has a backlog of something like 35 million returns. They have to fix all the messes Congress created including the child tax credit, stimulus, advance child tax credit, unemployment insurance. Also remember that extra refunds paid from amended returns are only paid by a check mailed to you, the IRS does not use direct deposit for amended returns. Hopefully you will get a check in the mail, but it might take a long time.
Enrolling your child for the advance child tax credit payments for 2021 is something you can do whenever the IRS web site has the function turned on, but it's not ready yet.
