ITIN application delayed.

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June 23, 2020
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Hi, I applied my wife's ITIN on Mar 3, 2020, through visiting the IRS office, so it's been more than 3 months. The paper instruction is saying that the mail will be delivered within 9-11 weeks, however, I still don't get any mail for the result yet.

I've called the number [phone number removed](on the instruction) but there's no option to choose for the ITIN application status.

I'm assuming this delay may due to the covid19, but I still wondering the status of my application, since my 2019 tax filing will be processed once we have my wife's ITIN. And also, because of this delay, I couldn't get the stimulus check since my 2019 tax filing is not done yet.

Anyone have the same issue or know how to check the status of the ITIN application??

Thanks in advance!

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Betweencultures

I’m in the same boat as you. I submitted mine on March 30th, and have yet to hear anything back. As my wife lives abroad, I wasn’t able to take her passport to the consulate to get a certified copy, and went ahead and sent the original. It’s been a nightmare since I’d like to be able to send it back to her.

If you ever hear back from the IRS, or get an update from their site, please post on this thread. It would be very helpful!

Jonathan82Author

Hi, @Betweencultures

I've just got a mail today morning from IRS which including the assigned ITIN for my wife. Lol

As I (fortunately) connected with IRS call representative and got answers to this delaying issue a few weeks ago, all the applicants just need to wait for a mail from them with patience under this pandemic situation.

Hope you'll get a mail from IRS in soon as well!

Betweencultures

@Jonathan82 That’s great news! Congratulations!

I unfortunately still haven’t heard anything back from them yet...

I’m assuming you haven’t gotten anything regarding the tax return itself, correct? Just her ITIN?

Jonathan82Author

@Betweencultures

Correct.

I got my wife's ITIN only and haven't got a tax return yet (as I expected) and still waiting for it.

(I also may need to wait for the Stimulus check even after I got my tax return.)

Just hoping everything is done by the end of this year.

I sincerely hope you can get a reply from them soon as well and get your wife's passport back.

Betweencultures

So I ended up receiving the letter for my wife's ITIN as of August 10th. Going to check today to see if anything came back regarding her passport but I highly doubt it.

Once you hear something back about the tax return, please let me know. I'm using you as a reference point to know when I should be hearing something back for the same thing, lol.

Charminder67

@Betweencultures @Jonathan82

Thanks for keeping this thread update. I applied for my husband's ITIN in early June 2020. Based on your experience, it seems it could take 5 months (or longer) for the IRS to issue him a ITIN.

I am assuming once I receive the ITIN, all I would have to do is update the the state tax file. The federal one should be all set to go...right? I'll also update this thread when things progress.

Jonathan82Author

Hi, @Charminder67 !

Yes, you don't need to do anything for the federal tax filing after receiving the ITIN since you already did when you applied the ITIN.

But I'm not sure for the state one, since I live in Texas and don't need to do the state tax filing.

Hope you get the answer soon for your husband's ITIN as well!

Cheers!

DonInPH

@Jonathan82

Hope all is well with the ITIN and your return now!

I'm new here so I have not browsed the topics, so you may have seen this mentioned already. If you file with an ITIN, you are not eligible for a stimulus payment. The exception would be military members. If that is you, thank you for your service and enjoy your stimulus payment!

I file jointly using my wife's ITIN and I am not military, so no stimulus for us. I could have filed single and got the stimulus, but filing jointly saves me more than the stimulus. Hopefully the next stimulus will drop the ITIN rule.

I'm also waiting for an ITIN, but slightly different. We needed to change my wife's name on her ITIN and it was mailed around August 8th, two months ago. I guess we will be waiting a while for the change, based on the experiences describe here.