How should immigrants be bonded in America?

Everyone who lives in the United States, has income and meets certain eligibility requirements has the responsibility to declare federal income tax. The eligibility requirements for declaration are not determined by immigration status, but by income and other factors. Tax payment and filing are stipulated by American law, and failure to comply with this provision will result in civil and criminal penalties.

According to American law, everyone listed in the tax return must have an identification number. The number listed on this tax bill is usually the social security number issued by the Social Security Bureau.

1. Do I have to declare tax?

If you are a US citizen or a resident as defined in the tax law, and you meet any of the following eligibility requirements that apply to you, you must declare federal income tax.

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If you are a citizen or resident of the United States as defined by the tax law, whether you have to file tax returns depends on three factors:

Your total income

Your tax return status

Your age

2. Who wants to file tax returns? Classification of taxpayers

In the United States, the identity of tax returns can be divided into the following categories: American citizens, American nationals, residents defined by tax laws and residents not defined by tax laws.

The definition of residents in the tax law is: people who have passed the green card test and residence test; According to the tax law, residents' income is usually taxed as American citizens, and all interest, dividends, wages, other remuneration, rental property income/royalties and other types of income must be declared on the tax bill, regardless of whether their sources are in the United States or abroad.

Green card test: If you become a legal permanent resident of the United States at any time in the calendar year, you are a resident of the United States federal tax. This is called the "green card" test.

Residence test: If you meet the actual residence test in the calendar year, you will be regarded as an American resident.

Non-tax law defines residents: foreigners refer to people who are not American citizens or American nationals. Non-tax residents refer to foreigners who have not passed the green card test or residence test.

If you are not a resident as defined in the tax law or meet any of the following conditions, you must declare income tax:

(1) Engaged in or deemed to engage in trade or business in the United States during the tax year; However, if your income in the United States is salary and the amount is lower than personal allowance, you don't need to file tax returns;

(2) Not engaged in trade or business in the United States, and the withholding tax earned in the United States has not reached the taxable amount;

(3) Representatives or taxpayers who are responsible for filing tax returns for the individuals mentioned in Item (1) or Item (2);

(4) Trustee of residents' estate or trust defined by non-tax law;

(5) Domestic trustees or other persons entrusted with custody of residents' property not defined in the tax law may be required to declare and pay income tax for individuals according to regulations.

To sum up, if you are an American citizen, an American national, a resident defined by American tax law, or a resident not defined by tax law, but meet certain requirements, you must file tax returns in the United States!

Recommended reading: an important tip for American citizens to apply for parents' immigration.

(a) U.S. citizens whose parents apply need to submit two applications.

(2) If the parents of American citizens adjust their status in the United States, the application for i- 130/i-485 should be filed 60 days after the parents enter the country, otherwise, the application for i-485 will be rejected due to immigration tendency.

(3) The immigration law does not require the parents of American citizens to be valid when applying for i-485, as long as they are legally recognized. Therefore, even if the parents who apply for i-485 overstay in the United States, when their i-485 application is accepted by the Immigration Bureau, their status has been legalized, that is, they live legally, waiting for i-485 processing. During this period, they can apply for work permits, etc. However, the immigration law stipulates that if the applicant has lost his identity for more than six months when submitting the i-485, the immigration bureau will generally not approve the return paper to the United States. In some cases, the Immigration Bureau will still approve the documents for returning to the United States, but even if the applicant has a "return document" to leave the country, he may not be allowed to re-enter the United States. Because the immigration law stipulates that people who have lost their identity for more than six months are not allowed to enter the country for three years.

(4) The kinship between American citizens and their parents is extremely important in the examination of immigration applications. If the American citizen's father is not his biological father, but he married the American citizen's mother before his birth, and his father's name is written on the birth paper, then the father still meets the requirements of American immigration law.