Reply #12: They have to - they are working in the U.S. [View All]

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You can't claim nonresident alien status if you are in the U.S. You'd have to be working outside the U.S. and paying taxes to that government where you were working. I think you'd have to pay any difference if your taxes were lower, IIRR. You in essence get a deduction for having to pay the other country's taxes.

Even illegal aliens are liable for taxes - they even pay them, or could in the days before the government connected the dots with social security - still some have fake cards and thus pay into someone else's account.