Thank you for your answer. I'm following the Turbo Tax questions under the Foreign Earned Income and Exclusion and the question askes whether my wife is a Resident Alien or Nonresident Alien. I'm not sure if I missed adding something in a required field. -To use this process, we have to elect to treat my nonresident wife as a Resident Alien by marriage to me, correct? Is this why you are saying she would then file as a "full year resident?" I haven't seen an option for the "Dual Status Alien" in this section, yet. -Selecting "Resident Alien" lets me proceed in the TT software, otherwise I am given the response that if she is a nonresident then I need to file a 1040-NR and TT does not have this form for filing. -What does electing to have my wife be a Resident Alien by marriage do for future taxes? Do we have to put a statement on the top of the form and send in the mail? And can we then file Joint or Separate taxes in the future if things change? Or do we have to mail in a new statement that changes the filing status in future years?
