By Coral Lu<\/p>\n
Writing down the name, date of birth and amount of income, 27-year-old foreign student Trevor Tao carefully filled in the blanks of his tax form step by step.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number, like how much I gotta pay and how much I gotta pay for the tax,\u201d Tao said. \u201cThe thing I would be aware of is that there are a lot of blanks. I don\u2019t want to mess up like putting the wrong numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tao was a teacher assistant at DePaul University. That was his first official job in the United States and also his first time filing a tax form. Tao said he thinks for most foreign workers filling out the tax form might be complicated in the beginning, but he said that the process is just time-consuming.<\/p>\n
But Tao still missed his deadline. An envelope containing a late tax penalty notification arrived, causing him to worry that the news would have a negative effect on immigration record.<\/p>\n
According to the Illinois Department of Revenue, U.S. citizens will be assessed a late-payment penalty for unpaid taxes if they did not pay the total taxes they own by the original due date, which was April 15. But for non-U.S. citizens, they might face more risks of filing their tax forms late, said Dhenu Savla, a local immigration attorney.<\/p>\n
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