Married filing jointly with wife as NRA and does not live with him for whole year
My friend is a US citizen got married on Nov 2007 in his native country. His wife came to US as permanent resident in March 2009, and she might be able to get her SSN in two weeks time. What will be the effect on his 2008 Income tax return? Can he file married filing jointly or married filing separately since wife was a non-resident alien in 2008? Can she also get her stimulus payment? What other things I need to know in preparing for his 2008 income tax return?
Please help... many thanks!