In article <0765cc33-0e42-4f09-9b76-c96b1e3a91bc[at]q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com> ,
Pats Fan <kingfish02375[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
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You don't specify citizenship.

I'm sure that when US citizen resident parents send a US citizen child
to school in Europe for a year, they still get the dependency.

Seth

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2 scenarios, just want to know if they're correct.

1. Spouse lives with husband in US for 2 years before receiving SS#.
Husband amends for those two previous years to retrieve the exemption
for his wife.
2. Taxpayer has child living in native country (not Mexico or Canada)
for 2 years, then child arrives here in early 2009. Child can be
carried as dependent for 09 (all else being equal) but parent canNOT
amend for 08 and 07.

Correct?

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