Ah, okay, I wasn't aware I could use that form for my spouse since they are a nonresident, so I was assuming they couldn't get the exemption from that form.
That was the part that kind of threw me off. I was reading the IRS documentation and may have misread it, but from my understanding, that couldn't be used since they are a nonresident, but then filing jointly treats them as a resident for tax purposes, so maybe that was what threw me off there.
The main reason for filing jointly is to up the income enough to meet the ACA income requirement to get insurance; I'd qualify as single but don't meet the income by myself when married anymore, so that was a discussion we'd already had about it, etc.
I'm assuming using that it'd still consider our income combined and not apart, so that would meet the goal I'd imagine.
