You must use the SSN since you have one; you do not qualify to get an ITIN if you have or are eligible to get a SSN. You need to indicate the correct visa status if a form you must complete asks for visa status; knowingly putting false information on a tax return is the crime of perjury and may also be the crime of tax evasion. You must also report all your earnings from the nanny job. Be aware that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cannot on its own provide provide information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that you worked in this country illegally. Federal tax law significantly limits the disclosure of tax return information by the IRS and its employees. In order for ICE to get that information it must make a specific request for your tax return information. The only reason ICE would do that is if it already suspected that you had violated the immigration laws. In other words, ICE won’t get its first notification of a problem from the IRS. The tax law is written that way to encourage aliens to file and pay the tax they owe without fear that doing so will result in ICE coming after them. While the Congress may want to find and kick out illegal aliens, it wants its tax money even more.![]()


