回複：請教關於foreign source income 和 EITC 的問題

You might have some tax problem. F1 status is considered non-resident, so you were not supposed to claim either EITC or Child Credit. See the IRS website http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc601.html for more details.
If you qualified for those credits, you could have also claimed other credits for higher education tuition.

IRS probably rarely checks taxpayer's immigration status with USCIS unless they have reason to suspect something... For example, if you filed as a resident last year but file as non-resident this year, it might raise a red flag.

However, tax issues are very serious and have a lot of impact on immigration decisions if you want to obtain green card or citizenship in the future. Now, if you filed the wrong return by mistake, you can always file a 1040X to fix it, but you might have to pay some panelty and interests.

By the way, U.S. has tax treaties with China and the first 5000 dollars of your scholarship/assistantship/fellowship is non-taxable.

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• gardener61 is right -poplar150- ♀ (533 bytes) () 02/24/2010 postreply 23:25:36

• 可是我已經超過5年了，去年就以resident alien報稅了 -f1的困惑- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/25/2010 postreply 05:45:53

• 回複：可是我已經超過5年了，去年就以resident alien報稅了 -gardener61- ♂ (133 bytes) () 03/01/2010 postreply 21:00:41

• 回複：可是我已經超過5年了，去年就以resident alien報稅了 -gardener61- ♂ (950 bytes) () 03/01/2010 postreply 21:14:34

• 非常感謝 -f1的困惑- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/03/2010 postreply 19:30:08