RFE Payment Plan letter from IRS

[Bellaella08]

Ive been a green card holder for the last 26 years. I went yesterday for my interview and it went well. Except I disclosed that we owe taxes from 2008. We filed a while back and have a payment plan that will be paid off in a few months. I gave the IO yearly statement we received last year since we have not received one for this year. She scanned it and told me that should be enough, but would be in touch if it wasn’t. She gave me a congratulations letter and sent me on my way.
This morning I received a letter asking for “A signed agreement from the IRS showing that you have filed a tax return and have arranged and paid the taxes you owe and documentation from the IRS showing the current status of your repayment program”. I was on the phone with the IRS early this morning, they say they don’t have anything like what they are requesting. I was lucky I spoke with a very nice man who agreed to customize a letter for me to provide to them. I was so upset over all this that I was unable to go to work today and now I’m wondering if this letter will be enough for them.
Has anyone been asked for this before? I have not been able to find anything online regarding this very specific letter they are requesting. I just wanna make sure I give them what they need.

[N400questions]

Your exact story shows up every few weeks on this forum

1) USCIS say they want a signed agreement
2) IRS say there is no such thing
3) Applicants waste hours or days weeks fighting the problem

If the taxes are now fully paid...Usually, the best approach is to get an "IRS Tax Account Transcript" for the year(s) in question and this will show that the net balance for that tax year is ZERO.
In your case this may be tricky... I'm not sure how many years back the IRS can provide these transcripts. I seem to recall a 10 year limit. I hope for your sake I am wrong.

If you have a payment plan in place, you can get paperwork describing that plan from the IRS website and that is often deemed sufficient.

If you are getting a hand-scripted letter from the IRS it needs to state clearly and unambiguously that the taxes for the year(s) in question have been paid or that a payment plan acceptable to the IRS has been instigated.

To me it is absurd for people to continually bump into this issue. If the IRS cannot supply XYZ then USCIS have no business asking for XYZ.
They should instead request documents that are known to be available.

Good luck

[Mike E]

Generally I am against going into debt to get out debt but I make an exception for this.

Pay off the IRS.

Eat at rice and beans until you are debt free.

[Bellaella08]

Thank you for taking the time to answer, even if the question has been posted before. I did a search but was unable to find any previous posts.

I would think this letter the irs is sending me would be enough, but I’m also nervous of the possibility of USCIS not being satisfied. You would think by now USCIS would know that this specific “letter” does not exist. I was curious what other people have provided in the past that satisfied this request.

[N400questions]

I think that the USCIS use standard templates that they cut-n-paste from when they create their letters and requests for evidence.
It's easier for the adjudicator to "go with the flow" and use those templates even if they make no sense whatsoever.

The alternative for the adjudicator would be to work through the food-chain to constantly improve these templates and try to persuade their superiors that things need to change.
Some people are passionate about improving their workplace protocols.. other people are scared to appear to be rocking the boat and just take the path of least resistance.

I'm a boat-rocker and my past companies appreciated that fact... my opinion was valuable... unfortunately the USCIS don't seem to have enough bottom-up boat rockers to fix these things.
With the present political climate and craziness the USCIS employees are probably just keeping their heads down and their noses clean.
It can't be a "fun" place to work these days.
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