Stimulating
As you may have heard, President Bush, or Congress, or whoever, have decided that the economy needs stimulating. In order to do this, they're going to give everyone $600 to do with what they want. Free money! Hurrah! Just don't go spending it on Chinese toothpaste.
Unfortunately, everyone does not mean everyone. In particular, those of us who are non-resident aliens. Now, residency status in the US is confusing. Meaning badly organised. You can be resident for tax purposes whilst being non-resident for immigration purposes. You can be resident in a state without being a resident of the country. Essentially, no-one cares about what we do or think, and we pay taxes without being allowed to vote on how those taxes are used, or get free money along with everyone else.
posted by Claire @ 4:43 pm
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Hey Claire,
Not sure, but I think even resident aliens (different to lawful permanent resident as you nicely point out) for 2007 might not necessarily get their stimulus check. I think you need an unrestricted SSN. Yours and mine both say "Valid for work with DHS authorisation only" and as such I don't think I'll be getting cash from the mighty US :(, despite having to pay $600 of tax on my UK income. Boo.
You can see all the details here.
So does (non-)resident alien mean immigration or tax status?
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