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Hi people of CFL forum, I am new to this forum but I have spent the last 8 hours reading tons of posts on here and I want to thank all of you for taking the time to share your experiences and knowledge with others who are going through this difficult and confusing process. Quick summary of my situation. We got married in Asia in March last year, 2016, submitted I-130 in early this year 2017. After submitting the petition we decided to move to the US and continue the process here so we arrive early June, I entered the country with a B2 tourist visa. Since my husband has been gone for too long, almost 10 years, we had to wait 90 days consecutively for him to get is resident status back (he is a US citizen). I have been filling out all the forms for adjustment of status and waiting for the day we can submit it. The problem I have is he didn't file his tax returns for the last 3 years. Now we are scrambling to get this done. A CPA accountant told us that I need to get an ITIN so he could file as married for 2016 tax so he could get tax breaks, he is too late in his tax returns that they might not accept his deduction (foreign earned income under $100k). This means we have to either wait 6-7 weeks to get the ITIN back from the IRS or pay a few hundreds for a professional to do it and this would take 2-4 weeks. I plan to submit this Sep 4, exactly 90 days since we got here to save time. I was wondering if he could file as "married file separately", we submit our I-485 as planned, meanwhile I make an appointment with an IRS service office (we got the earliest one which is Sep 21st) and a few weeks later get my ITIN, file my late tax return then? OR should I wait till I get my SSN and then file an amended return as "married file jointly"? 1. Have any of you done this before or could give me your opinion on this? If it's okay to do so, in the field where he needs to put my SSN he will put "Applied for ITIN"? or "000000000" if we file electronically? 2. For his last 3 year tax filing, he would need to fill out 1040, 4852 and 2225? Is there anything else? 2. We have his mom as our co-sponsor by the way and I have her last year tax return and her passport copy which I hope is good enough? Thank you for reading my loooong post.