Itin for dependents got rejected for expired documents
Hi, I am on H4 and My husband is on H1 and He recntly filed for my ITIN no . We got a rejection letter stating that we did not provide sufficeint documentation proving foreign status. But we did provide all the necessary documents. We came to US in oct 2008 our visa expired in Feb 2009 . We had filed for extension and got the same. But we haven't stamped it yet. So for applying the ITIN we sent a notarized copy of our passport along with the extesnion petition documents and new I-94. So am not sure why it was rejected. Should we have written a cover letter explaining the same . Also in the rejection letter they had mentioned this and I quote
" A valid US federal tax return will be processed with a temporary IRS number.
In addition a valid US federal tax submitted with a rejected form W-7 application for dependtent or spouse will be sent forward for processing. The dependent exemption will be dissallowed and a spuse who is declaring income will be assigned a temorary internal revenue service center number"
Can some one please explain what the above paragraph means? Also would like to to know if we can resubmit the ITIN application and once we get the approval can we proceed with the returns and will we get the refunds.