Yes, you may file jointly now if you wish. Here is the procedure for filing.
- Prepare your return in Turbo Tax and choose Married Filing Jointly as your filing status. Leave your spouses SSN number blank when it asks for it.
- When you get to the Let’s get ready to e-file screen, select File by Mail.
- Attach a statement to your return, signed by each of you that states that one of you is a U.S. citizen and the other is a nonresident alien and that you’re electing to both be treated as U.S. residents for tax purposes.
- Include the full name, address and Social Security number (or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) of each spouse. Since you wife does not have a Social Security Number, indicate in the statement you have applied for one for your spouse. in fact, once your return is printed, you may write in "applied for" in her Social Security Field in the return. This won’t affect the immigration status of the nonresident alien.
- Mail the return to the address on the instruction sheet that prints with the return.
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