Amend for Dependent

Pats Fan · 2009-02-05T20:50:00+00:00

2 scenarios, just want to know if they're correct.1. Spouse lives with husband in US for 2 years before receiving SS#.Husband amends for those two previous years to retrieve the exemptionfor his wife.2. Taxpayer has child living in native country (not Mexico or Canada)for 2 years, then child arrives here in early 2009. Child can becarried as dependent for 09 (all else being equal) but parent canNOTamend for 08 and 07.Correct?

Feb 05, 2009 1 Replies

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Pats Fan 17 years ago

2 scenarios, just want to know if they're correct.

Spouse lives with husband in US for 2 years before receiving SS#. Husband amends for those two previous years to retrieve the exemption for his wife.

Taxpayer has child living in native country (not Mexico or Canada) for 2 years, then child arrives here in early 2009. Child can be carried as dependent for 09 (all else being equal) but parent canNOT amend for 08 and 07.

Correct?

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Seth 17 years ago

You don't specify citizenship.

I'm sure that when US citizen resident parents send a US citizen child to school in Europe for a year, they still get the dependency.

Seth

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