LinaJ2018
Intuit Alumni

Deductions & credits

As a F-1 visa holder, you are considered as "exempt" meaning not counting days for five years starting from the date of your first arrival in the United States.  After the five years period, you will start counting days by using the Substantial Presence Test  SPT to see if you qualify to be treated as a US resident for tax purposes. 

In your situation, you changed to H-1B visa during the five year periods ( 2013-2017), and did not meet the SPT after being on the H-1B visa, therefore, in default, you are considered as a nonresident for the tax year of 2016 unless you want to make an election of FirstYearChoice- (see under Residency Starting Date under the First-Year Choice), to make yourself as a dual status. 

-As TurboTax does not support the Form 1040-NR, you are advised to use our partner, Sprintax to complete your filing.

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