Subject: question about TAX return

From: Ping Ding <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 13:33:53 CST

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We have a friend. Her husband still holds J-1 student visa.
She had income last year. She thought she passed 183 day test
for resident. So she is going to fill 1040 form and let her
husband follow her. In this way, she can include her son and her
mother as her dependents. And she can apply EIC for her son.
Is there any thing wrong for her? Otherwise this is a way to save
money for many chinese with green card.
                       *****
I mean without green card!
ping

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From: Ping Ding <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 14:14:40 CST

You are right. Thanks. But you mean she can fill 1040 form without
claiming depedents, right?

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:56 EST
>From: Xinjian Guo -- Yale Astronomy Dept <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: question about TAX return

Read 1040 instruction on claiming dependents carefully, I don't think  
your
friend can claim any non-resident alien (her mom, even her son) as
dependent for the tax purpose.

Guo

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From: Ping Ding <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 15:00:05 CST

Does Pub. 519 specify J-2/F-2 must fill 1040NR?

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:43 CDT
>From: [email-masked]
>From the Pub. 519, J-1/J-2 and F-1/F-2 holders are not RESIDENT even  
though
they have been in the US for more than 183 days.  The only form they  
can fill
out is 1040NR and benifit from the treaty beteen US and China.