Vanessa A
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Retirement tax questions

A resident alien is treated like a US Citizen for tax purposes.  If the fellowship payments were for services performed or used for anything other than Qualified Education expenses, they are taxable income. 

 

So, if you reported the fellowship as income and it was not used for qualified education expenses, you did it correctly.

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