@marley77 , as far as filing status goes , because you are married to a Non-Resident Alien and have a child , you generally have three options:
(a) you file as Married Filing Separate --- you declare your husband as NRA ( TurboTax may stop you from e-filing because you have to provide spouse's tax id ( and he has none, requiring to you to use dummy SSN to satisfy TubroTax and then print, replace dummy SSN/TIN with "N R A ", sign , date and mail in.
(b) you file as Head of Household, using your child as qualified child and still declare your spouse as NRA --- TubroTax may give you trouble because you have to be considered unmarried and you pretty much have to agree that you are considered unmarried because your spouse is NRA .
(c) you file as married filing joint but your spouse agrees to be treated as a US resident, source his salary as foreign sourced -- an embassy of a foreign nation is sovereign territory of that country and that country is paying the salary and therefore can use the foreign tax credit to ameliorate the effects of double taxation. And if that country has totalization agreement with USA then also does not have to pay FICA ( Social Security and medicare at 15.3 % of gross salary ).
That is general info. If you want more details , then please tell me the country he is from and the country he works for.
I will circle back once I hear from you
pk
