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My brother is a foreign student on F1 visa, he is 20, lives with me since Aug 2015. I am his sponsor (college, food, health, everything). Can I claim him as a dependent?
I got a legal document made in Cameroon (our home country) saying parental authority on my brother was given to me.
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My brother is a foreign student on F1 visa, he is 20, lives with me since Aug 2015. I am his sponsor (college, food, health, everything). Can I claim him as a dependent?
If he is not a resident of Canada or Mexico, you cannot claim him.
As a F-1 visa holder, he is considered as a nonresident and 'exempt' for not counting days when he resided in US for five years. In order to meet the dependency rules, the qualifying person must be a U.S. resident alien, U.S. national, or a resident of Canada or Mexico.
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