By: DAVID E

DAVID E — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:48:51 +0000

Situation: My Friend has presently accepted a new job that requires visiting abroad including a visit to United States. You are holding a green card since 2004 without any Social Security number.
He started applying for immigrating to America with a young family in 1998 when economic and job situations were not good. Ever since you received the green card in 2004, you did not want to reside in the US and want to remain in Hong Kong because of family situation and job situation had changed.
When He visited the United States in 2004 , he was disappointed in not securing a good job for your family. Since then you have decided to remain in Hong Kong and have a successful career.
He cannot proceed without a Social Security number because he elected not to proceed to go through the process to an abandoned any sort of immigrating to the United States in 2004.
Since then he has made a good living and had changed his preference to remain in Hong Kong, You wish to surrender your green card by ex-patriation.
Because of your new job, recently you have discovered the US IRS laws requires you to report five years of income using IRS form 8845. The five years of income were made totally in Hong Kong .
At the end he wish to visit the United States and legally apply for a Visa to enter it in the United States for business reasons. You wish to do the right thing but cannot proceed in only through the reporting US taxation process.
Question
The question is would he be able to surrender your green card without paying taxes because your present intention was to make a living in Hong Kong rather than in US soil and you have not used the green card to gain any monetary or makes a living as a residence in United States?
If he was to report income, he was not aware about this rule until now and if so, he do not have his Social Security number to report your taxes on IRS form 8845

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