Hello.
We moved to US last year and my father is self-employed. I’m an international student and I’ll fill CSS profile. But I’m not sure how to fill the financial part since he started working in the beginning of this year, so we don’t have tax returns etc. from 2016 or 2017 (we weren’t here!).
So how am I going to fill it? Can we write estimates? (The income isn’t consistent)
Thanks
You need to honestly put what your parents earned in 2017…in whatever country. Do they have some records of their earnings? Convert to USD and put on the forms.
It doesn’t matter where you were, and no, you shouldn’t provide estimates. You’re reporting income that has already been earned (and possibly taxed). Does your father not know how much he earned in 2017? Does he not have records of the income that he previously earned?
Unfortunately we don’t have income statements with us and we cannot request them from our country because we currently have a political asylum application. But he knows what he used to earn monthly when we were there.
If he knows what he earned monthly…then put that in. The total for the year.