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Is the expense of filing for a US Green Card tax deductible?
I'm a "residential alien" - i.e. a foreigner living and working in the US. I'm not talking about legal fees or if Employers can deduct expenses - I'm talking individual filing the I-90 form. I had to renew my green card and payed a $290 filing fee + $80 biometrics fee (fingerprint) + 2 hours drive two ways.
The money was payed to the US Federal Government so all logic says it should be tax deductible. However, it wouldn't be the first time US bureaucracy screwed us legal hard working, law obedient, tax paying immigrants. So the question is, can I deduct these expenses? Please reference your sources. Thank you.
No 'best answer' without references. Sorry.
There is a section on Schedule A - Itemized Deductions where you can deduct Other Taxes. These include such items as Drivers License Fees, Vehicle Registration Fees, Professional Registration Fees, License Tag Renewal, Dog Tags, and anything else you pay to Government as a prescribed Fee for a permit, license or registration. Green Card filing fees would be deductable, but the amounts paid to third parties such as photographs and mileage would not be deductable.
Of course this presumes you itemize your deductions. If you use the standard deduction, this question is moot.
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| | Biometric Passport $203.92 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles A biometric passport, also known as an epassport or ePassport, is a combined paper and electronic passport hence the e, as in email that uses biometrics to authenticate the identity of travelers. It uses contactless smart card technology, including a microprocessor chip computer chip and antenna for both power to the chip and communication embedded in the front or back cover, or centre page, of the passport. Document and chip characteristics are documented in the International Civil Aviation Organisations (ICAO) Doc 9303. The passports critical information is both printed on the data page of the passport and stored in the chip. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used to authenticate the data stored electronically in the passport chip making it virtually impossible to forge. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 410 Publication Date: 2009/12/21 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.91 inches |
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| | Facial Recognition Biometric Systems $98.77 There has been considerable amount of work done in the past decade by different biometric vendors as well as researchers in order to improve the accuracy of both biometric data collection systems as well as the underlying algorithms to perform different mapping and matching. Biometric Facial recognition systems are continuously improving with advancements in technology as well as decreasing hardware costs. However, in order to develop efficient biometric facial recognition systems, organizations must take into account different technical issues which include reliability, usability, interoperability as well as data collection, dissemination and evaluation of such systems. Adherence to standards is a key for interoperable systems and user acceptance along with trust can lead to easy deployment of such facial biometric systems in a society. These technical as well as social issues were identified by regular discussions with the Chairman and members of Swedish National Biometric Associations and conducting interview sessions with different biometric companies who are specially dealing with face recognition biometric systems. Author: Khan, Shaukat Ali Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2010/08/24 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.15 inches |
| | Biometric Cryptography Based on Fingerprints $117.9 This work describes certain special art of biometric systems. If we try to combine a biometric (fingerprint) system with some cryptographic system, we are confronted with the question, if there is enough information in the fingerprint. Some computations of the similarity among fingerprints have already been published but they have considered the matching of fingerprints. For cryptographic tasks, it is more important to exploit the information strength hidden in fingerprint papillary line structures. The answer to this question can be found in this work. If the information strength is adequate to the cryptographic requirements, we can design a system, which uses fingerprint technology as a biometric information input and offers biometric keys to the cryptographic subsystem. The detailed description of such biometric security system can be found also in this work, where all processes needed for the computations and processing are described. Author: Drahansky, Martin Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 2010/05/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.37 inches |
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| | Biometric Person Recognition $114.71 Over the last decade, interest in biometric based identification and verification systems has increased considerably. One application is the use of speech signals, face images or fingerprints in order to supplement security systems based on passwords. Biometric recognition can also be applied to other areas, such as passport control (immigration checkpoints), forensic work (to determine whether a biometric sample belongs to a suspect) and law enforcement applications (e.g. surveillance). While biometric systems based on face images and/or speech signals can be effective, their performance can degrade in the presence of challenging conditions. In face based systems this can be in the form of a change in the illumination direction and/or face pose variations. Multimodal systems use more than one biometric at the same time, for two main reasons: to achieve better robustness and to increase discrimination power. This book can serve as a useful primer for face and speech processing, as well as information fusion. It reviews relevant backgrounds and reports research aimed at increasing the robustness of single and multimodal biometric identity verification systems. Author: Sanderson, Conrad Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 156 Publication Date: 2008/06/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 inches |
| | Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems $46.77 Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems is organized into nine parts composed of 30 chapters, including an extensive glossary of biometric terms and acronyms. It discusses the current state-of-the-art in biometric verification/authentication, identification and system design principles. It also provides a step-by-step discussion of how biometrics works; how biometric data in human beings can be collected and analyzed in a number of ways; how biometrics are currently being used as a method of personal identification in which people are recognized by their own unique corporal or behavioral characteristics; and how to create detailed menus for designing a biometric verification system. Only biometrics verification/authentication is based on the identification of an intrinsic part of a human being. Tokens, such as smart cards, magnetic stripe cards, and physical keys can be lost, stolen, or duplicated. Passwords can be forgotten, shared, or unintentionally observed by a third party. Forgotten passwords and lost "smart cards" are a nuisance for users and an expensive time-waster for system administrators. Biometric security solutions offer some unique advantages for identifying and verifying/ authenticating human beings over more traditional security methods. This book will serve to identify the various security applications biometrics can play a highly secure and specific role in. * Contains elements such as Sidebars, Tips, Notes and URL links * Heavily illustrated with over 150 illustrations, screen captures, and photographs * Details the various biometric technologies and how they work while providing a discussion of the economics, privacy issues and challenges of implementing biometric security solutions |
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| | Are Biometric Passports the Way Forward? $113.11 The need to introduce a travel document which would be harder to forge than the ones currently in circulation has been a major priority. Incorporation of biometric technology within the passport has been identified as one of the countermeasures to significantly reduce the forgery of travel documents. An important aspect of this project has been the investigation of approaches taken by international bodies and governments towards the successful adoption of biometric passports. Numerous individuals have argued in favour of biometric passports as being the right tool to eliminate terrorist activities. Events leading to the realisation of terrorist attacks had to be properly researched and analysed before formulating an opinion. Another target which I have set to achieve when conducting this project has been the proposal of new uses for biometric passports. Although there is a lack of research and information on this topic, the hightech components within the biometric passport can be exploited in such a way that governments would be in a position to offer a range of avantgarde services to their citizens. Author: Mangion, Ramon Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2011/04/18 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.22 inches |
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| | Privacy Protecting Biometric Authentication Systems $108.33 There is an increased concern over the loss of privacy and potential misuse of biometric data held in central repositories. The major concerns are about the use of biometrics to track people, the non revocability of biometrics (if compromised they can not be canceled or reissued), and disclosure of sensitive information such as race and health problems. The suggestion of keeping the biometric data in a user owned token does not completely solve the problem, as malicious users can claim that their token is broken to avoid biometric verification. Overall, these concerns brought the need for privacy preserving biometric authentication methods in the recent years. This book analyses existing privacy preserving biometric systems and provides a novel framework, which combines multiple biometric traits to obtain a multibiometric template that hides the constituent biometrics and allows the possibility of creating nonunique identifiers for a person, such that linking separate template databases is impossible. The book should be a useful reference for those interested in a contemporary technology to remedy privacy issues raised by the widespread of biometric systems. Author: Kholmatov, Alisher Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2009/05/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 inches |
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What does changing the flex pattern of skis mean?
I have some older Marker 7.1 bindings. They also have written on the bindings "Selective Control", "Biometric" and "Logic". Anyways, at the toe of the binding is a lever that can be moved to a setting of 1, 2 or 3. Apparently these change the flex pattern to be for "free flex under foot", "resistance flex underfoot", and "no flex underfoot". This is discussed at http://www.epicski.com/forum/thread/56819/marker-selective-control-bindings. But what does this mean? Can someone explain this whole flex thing? And what setting would be best for a beginner/intermediate on groomed runs?
"free flex under foot" > The plate between the toe and heel can expand and contract allowing the ski to flex under the boot. Smooth flex pattern under foot from tip to tail. Allows the ski to flex as designed. Better for normal skiing conditions, soft snow, forgiveness etc..
"no flex underfoot" > The plate is locked so it doesn't move. The idea is that the ski would be a little stiffer...for maybe hard pack/ ice and faster speeds.
That was the theory... It created a flat spot under foot when set on "no flex underfoot" so the ski flexed in front of the toe piece and behind the heel making a nice carved turn ...not so clean.
It would try to make your ski stiffer than it was designed to be.... Does it work? Yes...sort of... but by making it stiffer you compromise the shape of the ski during the turn.
Set it for #1, "free flex under foot", the softest to get the best performance from the ski and especially on today's modern skis there is no need to make them 'stiffer'...but hey if it's icy...try it and see if you like it.
BTW... new bindings are WAY better/safer and I am guessing you can't get a shop to mount and/or adjust them since the 'standards' have improved. If you still ski on older design skis you are also missing a real technology improvement.... new skis are much shorter and perform much better and EASIER!
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