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Thank you, Pacun. I just meant the foreign spouse was not here to sign.

Thank you for those replies. On the other hand, if my client decides not to go to that much trouble and he files MFS we have to use NRA on the line for the spouses SSN. However, ATX gives me errors for efile when i type in MFS. Is there a way to overcome that error? or do we have to mail the return in?

Thank you for your help.

My client is a resident alien married to a nonresident alien who happens to live all the way over in India.Since the spouse living in India has no income of her own it would be to my client's advantage to file married filing joint. My question is this. How can we file the return if the spouse in India cannot sign the return?

When filing "Qualifying Widower with dependent child" what is the definition of child? I have a client whose child (age 19 and not in school) was her dependent because his earnings were less than his personal exemption. I think that makes him a "Qualifying Relative" but I'm not sure he is a "dependent child" for this purpose even though he is both her son and a dependent. Any help would be appreciated.