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Hello everyone,

i have an urgent question, my husband (US citizen) is about to file his Tax Return. My I-130 was approved and now Im in the middle of my pending I-485 application and I-765.

My question is, does he need to change his status from married to single when he files his Tax Return?
I have a SSN, which says "VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION". I got the SSN when I came over here as an Au-Pair, 8 years ago.
Ive been working with that SSN and filed taxes before, which I know is not allowed.

Can anyone help me, I dont want him (us) to in trouble.

Thank you so much.

My question is, does he need to change his status from married to single when he files his Tax Return? Depends on what his marital status was last year. See the IRS instructions. http://www.irs.gov/publications/p501...link1000220721

I have a SSN, which says "VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION". I got the SSN when I came over here as an Au-Pair, 8 years ago.
Ive been working with that SSN and filed taxes before, which I know is not allowed. You will keep using that same SSN including the employment restriction wording until you get the green card. You should not have worked after overstaying your visa, but if you worked when overstaying, filing taxes with that same old SSN was the right thing to do.

After obtaining the green card, you can visit a Social Security office to apply for a SS card without the restriction wording (and with your new name, if you changed your name with marriage), but the new card will have the same number.

he filed Single last year. We got married in July 2010.

he filed Single last year. We got married in July 2010. My tax preparer advised us to filed the correct way to avoid getting in to legal trouble. She said that if you are married and you file single there may be problems when they see your tax returns and ask you to ammend them. Causing them to put your case on hold.
We got married in Nov. of last year. We would have received a larger tax return if I would have been excluded from the tax return.