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I was commenting on your preceding post.

I don't generally delve into state matters....

If you marry your wife before you get a GC, she is entitled to get GC at the same time you are.

Wiki is not gospel.

There is absolutely no requirement that the new job be anything like the old in order to 'port' or begin working as sson as the paperwork is submitted. It just needs to be H1 eligible, which is usually a slamdunk.

Where did you get that idea?!

Doesn't your prop tax assessment divvy this out for you?

That is more like it.

I wouldn't get too hung up on the WITHHOLDING forms, as they don't really mean anything in terms of your final TAX bill. Regardless of how much or how little is withheld, you still have to file a tax return to figure what you ultimately owe. I will say, that NR rates are usually the highest, so the ...

It is better to defer US income declaration until you have Cdn taxes to match the US tax.

I looked over the 1040NR and I just don't see how the TAXRATE that you calculte on you proforma is greater than the taxrate on your 1040NR. There is no standard deduction, no mortgage deduction, no Cdn charity and the taxrate is higher. Look again. Remeber: it's the TAXRATE, not the total tax that y...

1. Probably not. I'lll even say definitely not. 2. You may file jointly in US but would need to include his income. This would have no effect on how he filed in Canada. 3. He is a non-resident alien. But since you are a resident alien, you can elect to have him file with you as a resident. 4. there ...

You can claim your CDn resident spouse, as long as she has no US income.

Yes.

Most pepole leaving the US find it better to file a full-year 1040, excluding their post-departure foreign wages using form 2555. Dual-stats will usually yeild a higher US tax.

PLease read countless posts on US treatment of RRSP withdrawals, and calculaton of 16b.

Be sure that, if you have been in US a few years, that ALL reporting requiremnts in prevvious years had been met.

I would verify what 'deductions' you got on 1040NR. There are very few that are eligible, if I remember.

Cdn charities for example, are not. They may have losebed the definitions over the years, but I doubt it.

The rule of thumb is 6 years. The IRS accepts when you come forward on your own. When they discover on their own, they hammer you.

My advice back then may have been specific to this case.