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Application for TurboTax Refund Advance opened on December 19, 2025.   You will receive a final decision of whether you are approved for a Refund Advance after you file your taxes and the IRS accepts your return. You won't receive your funds until the IRS starts accepting returns, which is typically late January. https://turbotax.intuit.com/refund-advance/   See details and questions What is Refund Advance?

@sandcbrow  ADDENDUM       The info above was assuming you used the desktop product, but it's not really clear.  However, if it turns out that you used Online TurboTax for your 2024 return, then you need to let us know, and we can tell you how to find a 2024 online return.  The directions for getting a PDF and tax data file from an Online account are quite different than from the desktop product.

@ sandcbrow  wrote: I just attempted to log into my 2024 Turbo Tax Deluxe and the 2024 .tax file is missing.  I cannot find it anywhere on my computer either.  I have always faithfully saved my tax returns for the last 20 years.  What is happening?  Can anyone help?   I'll assume you are using 2024 desktop TurboTax (you didn't specify), and if so, that you are looking for the *.tax2024 data file.    If using the desktop version, are you using the Windows or Mac version?   Some people using Windows have had a data file mysteriously end up in One Drive or the Recycle Bin.  So also check those places in addition to searching your entire system for the data file.   In Windows if you have more than one Windows user account (such as a separate Admin account or additional user account), log into each Windows account and do the searches from within each account. 

@larryak wrote: I've been using Turbo Tax for years. This is the first time there has been a problem. The IRS sent me a letter stating that although they received the taxes that I owed they didn't receive a return for 2022. According to Turbo Tax they did receive the return. Right now the IRS is asking for a paper return or the money I sent them goes away...  "According to TurboTax they did receive the return."   Where are you seeing that, or did you recently phone TurboTax Support?   After you efiled the 2022 return, did you get an initial email that the return was transmitted, then another email later saying if it was accepted for processing by the IRS?      Did you use Online TurboTax or desktop TurboTax?     If you used Online TurboTax, we can tell you how to find the 2022 return PDF, and in your online account it should also show if it was accepted, rejected, printed, started, etc.

@wael-hamdan , thank you for your detailed answer.  Let me digest  your response including what you are trying to achieve. Will come back to you in a day or two. I know that Australia  ( is this your home country ? ) does have totalization agreement with US and probably ( I need to read through the actual language ) allows for portability of benefits.   Should I assume that you are  (a) Australian  and (b) meet the superannuation age  ?   Will be back.   pk

My situation is i left the USA back in 2008 , I have worked in the USA for well over 15 years around ). My green card expired 2017 and I am residing in Australia . I need to access my social security and IRS and in order to do that my only option is through ID.ME and to be able to sign in from ID.ME to SOCIAL SECURITY website I need to add my social security number which I know but the actual card is lost and in order for me to add to my file with ID.ME I must have the physical card handy so a live ID ME staff can see it at the time of identity verification . Since I don’t have the card my other way is to have A W2 from previous year which shows my name and social security number , I tried to request a replacement social security card through social security administration but with no success because my green card expired even though I have foreign passport driver lic …..so I contacted my previous employers but with no success since they don’t keep very old W2 prior years . The main reason I need to access my social security because I was it know that since I worked in the USA for more than 10 years I am entitle to apply for social security retirement regardless what my status in the USA now ( even if you don’t live in the USA and not holding a valid green card ……) so I want to access my account with  social security administration and check it out 

@sandcbrow wrote: I just attempted to log into my 2024 Turbo Tax Deluxe and the 2024 .tax file is missing.  I cannot find it anywhere on my computer either.  See https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US   Do you not have a backup on any media?

I just attempted to log into my 2024 Turbo Tax Deluxe and the 2024 .tax file is missing.  I cannot find it anywhere on my computer either.  I have always faithfully saved my tax returns for the last 20 years.  What is happening?  Can anyone help?   Cathy B.

@denver45380  Sorry I don’t understand you question.    Yes you can transfer 2024 into 2025.  From either Desktop 2024 or Online into Desktop 2025 or Online 2025.   You only need 2024 to transfer, not the prior years.     If you used the Desktop program for 2024 your tax return is in a separate data file ending in .tax2024 and not kept in the program.  You only need the .tax2024 file to transfer into2025 (either to the Desktop program or the Online version).   If you used the Online version last year you just log into the same account and it will automatically transfer 2024.  You can transfer the Online version into the Desktop program or.   So how did you do 2024 and what will you be using for 2025?  Desktop or Online?