topic Hello..I (H1b Visa) have filed jointly with my Wife who is on Student F1 OPT Visa. I have heard in some websites that F1 Students should file in SprintTax ? in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Hello..I (H1b Visa) have filed jointly with my Wife who is on Student F1 OPT Visa. I have heard in some websites that F1 Students should file in SprintTax ?

arunkesi — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 01:39:06 GMT

Re: Hello..I (H1b Visa) have filed jointly with my Wife who is on Student F1 OPT Visa. I have heard in some websites that F1 Students should file in SprintTax ?

mesquitebean — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 02:13:04 GMT

Since when did each of you come to the USA? i.e., when did you first come and what dates have you been here? Are you saying you used TurboTax to file a joint return for 2018?

I'm going to ask someone familiar with international filing to assist you in this thread.

@pkAre you able to assist here when you are next in the forum? Thanks!

Re: Hello..I (H1b Visa) have filed jointly with my Wife who is on Student F1 OPT Visa. I have heard in some websites that F1 Students should file in SprintTax ?

pk — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 02:55:38 GMT

@arunkesi We still need to know when you and your spouse first came to the USA with the H-1B and the F-1 ( as asked for my Super-User @mesquitebean . Were there other visits to the USA during the last five years? Which country are you from ? ( India ? )

Assuming that (a) you came to the USA early in 2018 and therefore passed the substantial presence test during 2018 with H-1 visa ; (b) Spouse has been in the USA with F-1 longer but has not finished the 5 year exemption period; and (c) you were married by the end of 2018 -------> you should have been filing a form 1040 as a resident for tax purposes; your wife , even though married , should have filed a form 1040-NR with filing status married. Even though I suspect from your post that both of you have SSN and therefore were able to use TurboTax to file a joint 1040 return, the above assumptions , if true, does not allow this.

You would need to amend your return using TurboTax and she would have to file a form 1040-NR ( not supported by TurboTax -- SprinTax, their partner supports this )

Please answer the questions asked or the answer may not be specific enough for your particular case

Re: Hello..I (H1b Visa) have filed jointly with my Wife who is on Student F1 OPT Visa. I have heard in some websites that F1 Students should file in SprintTax ?

arunkesi — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 10:21:41 GMT

Thank You for the Reply..

I have come to US on H1B in 2016 Mar and have been filing my taxes in Turbo since then. My wife had come in 2016 Aug on F1 and she has been working on F1 since Oct 2018. We got married in 2018 July and this year we have filed taxes jointly using Turbo
We are from India

So do I now need to amend my Tax Return and do it again with Sprint Tax