ITIN Applications
An Individual Taxpayer Identification Number lets you file a federal return when you are not eligible for a Social Security number. As a Certifying Acceptance Agent, we verify your documents ourselves — your passport stays with you.
The part that matters most. Applying on your own usually means mailing your original passport to the IRS and waiting weeks to get it back, or booking an appointment at a Taxpayer Assistance Center. As a Certifying Acceptance Agent we verify your identity documents in our office and certify them with the application, so the originals never leave your hands.
What we handle
- New applications — Form W-7, prepared together with the federal return that establishes the need for the number.
- Renewals — an ITIN that goes unused on a federal return for three consecutive years expires, and a return filed with an expired ITIN gets delayed.
- Dependents and spouses — family members listed on your return, which carry their own documentation requirements.
Who needs one
People who have a federal filing requirement but are not eligible for a Social Security number: certain visa holders, foreign owners of a US business, spouses and dependents being claimed on a return, and people who need to file in order to claim a refund of tax already withheld.
How it goes
- We talk through your situation and confirm an ITIN is the right thing — sometimes it is not.
- We prepare the return that creates the filing requirement, since in most cases the W-7 goes in with it.
- You come in with your identity documents. We verify and certify them, and you take them home.
- We submit the package and tell you what to expect and roughly how long it takes.
Everything in Spanish if you prefer
This is work where being able to ask questions in your own language matters more than usual, because the documentation rules are specific and the consequences of getting them wrong are real delays. You can do all of it in Spanish with us — see esta página en español.
An ITIN is for tax filing. It does not grant work authorisation, immigration status, or eligibility for Social Security benefits, and we will not tell you otherwise.
Start your ITIN application
Bring your documents to us and take them home the same visit. We will tell you first whether an ITIN is actually what your situation needs.
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