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October 15, 2020
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They are asking for SSN for my Wife and child they are not American Citizen

  • October 15, 2020
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I requested TIN weeks ago From SS but nothing back

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Employee
October 15, 2020

@swanfun  are you US citizen/Resident ( Green Card ) ? are you spouse and child living with you in the USA and are they eligible for SSN ?

If you are citizen/Resident, you can always apply for ITIN along with your return.  The process is as follows:

1. You prepare your return  for paper filing  ( filing by mail ) using dummy SSN   ( such as  588-89-900x) for your spouse and dependents;

2. Print the return  and "snopake" out the dummy SSNs and replace with  "N R A";  sign and date  the return  ( you both need to sign );

3. Download form W-7 from the IRS site , print, fill out for  one form for your spouse and  for each of your dependents; attach required documents  as outlined in the instructions for filing W-7.

4.  Mail the return along with W-7  and  required documents.  This will result in human  intervention and issuance of ITIN for your spouse  and dependent retroactive for the year 2019.  Note that once  SSN is issued you must inform the IRS  to cancel the ITIN and you must use the SSN and not the ITIN

 

Does this answer your question ?  Is there more I can do for you?

Critter-3
October 18, 2020

FYI ... the dummy ITIN must always start with a 9  or the return will be incorrect ... so use 999- 88 -9999.