2024-2025 Student marital status verification

You may use one of the following methods to request your 2022 Tax Return Transcript. Before choosing the first option, please read the IRS user requirements to see if it is a viable option.

• You can instantly retrieve your TRT online at the IRS Get Transcript website by clicking the Get Transcript Online button. The online tool requires the user to register before submitting a request. The user must have the following:
  • Access to a valid email address.
  • A Social Security number.
  • Filing status and address from the last-filed tax return.
  • A text-enabled mobile phone in the user’s name (pay-as-you-go plans cannot be used).
  • A personal account number from one of the following: credit card, home mortgage loan, home equity line of credit or car loan.

If the tax filer has a credit security freeze with Equifax, you must request a temporary freeze lift until you successfully register or the IRS will not be able to verify your identity. You will need to contact Equifax to resume the freeze unless you scheduled it to resume automatically. For more information, visit IRS Get Transcript FAQs.

• Request a 2022 TRT be mailed to you by visiting the IRS Get Transcript website and clicking the Get Transcript by Mail button. Once requested, it will take seven to ten business days to receive by mail.
• You can call 1-800-908-9946 and use the IRS automated phone system to request your 2022 TRT be mailed to you. Once requested, it will take seven to ten business days to receive by mail.
• Print the IRS Form 4506T-EZ from the IRS website. Complete lines one through four and enter your 10-digit ASU ID number on line five (i.e., customer file number). Enter the tax year 2022 on line six. Then, sign and submit to the IRS. After the IRS processes the IRS Form 4506T-EZ, the TRT will be mailed to you in seven to ten business days.

• Request a replacement copy from the employer who issued the original.
• You and your spouse can instantly retrieve a wage and income transcript online at the IRS Get Transcript website. The online tool requires the user to register before submitting a request. The user can only use this option if they have the following:
  • Access to a valid email address.
  • A Social Security number.
  • Filing status and address from the last-filed tax return.
  • A text-enabled mobile phone in the user’s name (pay-as-you-go plans cannot be used).
  • Personal account number from one of the following: credit card, home mortgage loan, home equity line of credit or car loan.
    • During the registration process, the IRS will send the user a confirmation code via email and an authentication code via text. The IRS email and text will contain a one-time code that the user will use to finalize your registration. After a login has been created, continue by entering your IRS username.
    • Select the reason the transcript is needed: Higher education or student aid.
    • Go to the wage and income transcript section and click the 2022 year to print your transcript. 
• You and your spouse can request a 2022 wage and income transcript from the IRS by printing and completing the IRS Form 4506-T from the IRS website.

If you or your spouse has a credit security freeze with Equifax, you/your spouse must request a temporary freeze lift until you/your spouse successfully register or the IRS will not be able to verify your/your spouse’s identity. You/your spouse will need to contact Equifax to resume the freeze unless you/your spouse scheduled it to resume automatically. For more information, visit IRS Get Transcript FAQs.

• Request a 2022 TRT be mailed to you/your spouse by visiting the IRS Get Transcript website and clicking the Get Transcript by Mail button. Once requested, it will take seven to ten business days to receive by mail.
• You/your spouse can call 1-800-908-9946 and use the IRS automated phone system to request your 2022 TRT be mailed to you/your spouse. Once requested, it will take seven to ten business days to receive by mail.
• Print the IRS Form 4506T-EZ from the IRS website. Complete lines one through four and enter your/your spouse’s 10-digit ASU ID number on line five (i.e., customer file number). Enter the tax year 2022 on line six. Then, sign and submit to the IRS. After the IRS processes the IRS Form 4506T-EZ, the TRT will be mailed to you/your spouse in seven to ten business days.

Please use the tips below to complete the 4506-T:

• Enter your/your spouse’s 10-digit ASU ID number on line 5 (customer file number).
• Check box 8 (Form W-2).
• On line 9, enter 12/31/2022.
• Sign and submit it to the IRS.
• After the IRS processes the IRS Form 4506-T, the wage and income transcript will be mailed to you or your spouse in seven to ten days.

If you or your spouse are unable to retrieve a W-2, a signed and dated statement including following will suffice:

• If you have a SSN/TIN/EIN; and
• Sources and amounts of earnings for 2022, to include name and contact of employer; and
• Other income received for 2022, and
• Resources (local/state/federal assistance) received for 2022.

The TRDBV will be requested to verify the 2022 federal tax information for victims of IRS-related identity theft who are selected for verification. You and your spouse may no longer have your 2022 federal tax return and cannot obtain a 2022 Tax Return Transcript from the IRS.

1. The victim of the IRS tax-related identity theft can call the Identity Protection Specialized Unit toll free number at 1-800-908-4490.
2. After IPSU authenticates the tax filer's identity, you/your spouse can request that the IRS mail you/your spouse an alternate paper tax return transcript, known as the Transcript Database View.
3. Once the TRDBV is received, submit a copy to ASU along with the required signed and dated letter.

• Request a 2022 Foreign Tax Return Transcript from your/your spouse’s foreign tax authority (or applicable years to cover income for the entire 2022 calendar year).
• If you and your spouse are unable to obtain a free copy of your/your spouse’s foreign tax transcript from your foreign tax authority, upload a signed copy of your/your spouse’s 2022 foreign tax return (equivalent to the IRS 1040), along with a statement regarding the charge of a fee for the transcripts. See guidance for foreign tax filers below for more information.
• Upload a signed English translation of the foreign tax document, to include the type of currency used on the document.

The necessary documentation depends on the foreign country, U.S. territory, or commonwealth of which you/your spouse are a citizen.

Residents of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Upload all of your/your spouse’s foreign W-2 forms (or equivalent) for each source of employment income received, and list all the sources and the amounts of earnings, other income, and resources that supported you/your spouse in the 2022 calendar year, your/your spouse employers, and amounts earned for 2022, a Verification of Nonfiler Letter (VONF), and whether you/your spouse have a SSN/TIN/EIN in the eForm below.

Residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau or the Federated States of Micronesia: Upload all of your and your spouse’s 2022 Wage and Tax Statements from each employer, and list all the sources and the amounts of earnings, other income, and resources that supported you/your spouse in the 2022 calendar year, your/your spouse employers, amounts earned for 2022, and whether you/your spouse has a SSN/TIN/EIN in the eForm below.

Residents of other foreign nations not mentioned above: Upload all of the following, along with a signed English translations of the documents:

1. A copy of all your foreign W-2 forms (or equivalent) for each source of employment income received.
2. A signed and dated letter that clearly states that you/your spouse did not and were not required to submit a 2022 tax return in your foreign country, and a list all the sources and the amounts of earnings, other income, and resources that supported you/your spouse in the 2022 calendar year.of the income sources and amounts you/your spouse received for 2022.
3. Documentation from the foreign tax authority* that indicates you/your spouse did not file taxes for 2022 (equivalent to the IRS Verification of Nonfiling Letter).

*If the foreign tax authority does not provide confirmation of nonfiling, please include that information in the signed and dated letter in step two, along with proof of the foreign taxing authority's filing requirements (i.e., copy of the foreign tax authority's website which states who is exempt from filing tax returns).

The necessary documentation depends on the foreign country or U.S. territory of which you/your spouse are a citizen. You/your spouse must also attach an English translation of the document.

Residents of Puerto Rico: Upload your/your spouse’s signed 2022 Puerto Rican tax return (equivalent to the IRS 1040) into the eForm below.

Residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau or the Federated States of Micronesia: Upload copies of all your/your spouse’s 2022 Wage and Tax Statements from each employer, and identify all of your/your spouse’s income sources and amounts for 2022 in the eForm below.

Residents of American Samoa: Upload your/your spouse’s 2022 American Samoa tax transcript, which is free of charge from the American Samoa Tax Office, into the eForm below.

Residents of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Upload your/your spouse’s signed 2022 tax return from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands (equivalent to the IRS 1040) into the eForm below.

Residents of other foreign nations not mentioned above: Upload your/your spouse’s 2022 foreign tax transcript* into the eForm below (or applicable years to cover income for all of 2022). A tax transcript is a document your/your spouse’s requests from the foreign tax authority (i.e., Canada Revenue Agency or Servicio de Administración Tributaria). It confirms the foreign income reported to the foreign tax authority.

*Per the U.S. Department of Education, only in situations where you are unable to obtain a free copy of your/your spouse’s foreign tax transcript from your/your spouse’s foreign tax authority can you/your spouse submit a signed copy of your/your spouse’s foreign tax return (equivalent to the IRS 1040), along with proof that your/your spouse’s foreign tax authority charges a fee.