I need an ITIN and a 1040-NR. Should those really go in one package?
I kept looking for a separate ITIN workflow because it felt cleaner to get the number first and then worry about the return. But the IRS guidance now makes it sound like the Form W-7 and the 1040-NR are often meant to travel together. That changes how I think about the whole filing sequence.
Before I mail anything, I want to know whether serious filers actually treat the W-7 and the nonresident return as one combined package and what that means for document consistency. If the forms disagree even slightly, I assume the whole process slows down fast.
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