Claiming children as dependents.?

-My husband and I are working in the US while our children live overseas with the grandmother, if we support them financially by sending money, can we claim them in our tax return?. I have to do this as i m going to school at the same time.If your children are US citizens and you can prove you provided more than half of their total support (including the value of housing while living with grandma), you can claim them as qualifying RELATIVES only. No EIC, No child tax credit, but the $3700 exemption may be possible.



See the support test worksheet in IRS pub 501. Since they are 12 and presumably have no income, the only test is the suppor test. As I said, you have to use the "relative" rules, not the "children" rules as they are not living with you.if they don't live in Canada or Mexico, they do not qualify for living in your household 6 months of the year, one of the requirements of claiming you children

providing more than 50% of their support is the other part of the qualification and you may very well do that but they don't live in your household
Listen to tax lady. TRO's answer was probably posted before your additional info that they are citizens. Jack Bauer's answer is advising you to try to commit tax fraud by lying.
Call IRS at 1-800-829-1040 to find out if you can claim your children. Or visit the local IRS office in your city to ask them. Better to get your answer from IRS



good luck
take them as dependants. you have all the correct infor. and say they live with you 12 months

all is well that ends well