14-15 July 2005
1:45 a.m., Friday 15 July:
Hi. Well, here I am at the obscene hour. Well, I am not going to take up a lot of time. Can't. It's too late. So here it is.
Ok, I admit it. Just like everybody who gave a fig about the whole matter. Chief Justice Rehnquist is staying at the Supreme Court, according to an official announcement to the whole world. Everybody else was dead wrong, including me. Well, that's what you get for playing prophet and junior pundit. But of course, I won't quit, it's too much fun. Who will President Bush wind up picking to replace Justice Sandra O'Connor? Well, I still think it will be Judge Edith Jones from Texas and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (for 20 years). A woman for a woman, and a conservative the way Bush likes them. We'll see.
In the meantime, I wanted to make note of an article in Immigration Law Weekly (www.ilw.com), by Paula Singer, a top immigration and tax lawyer from Boston, about the circumstances facing international students in USA universities and colleges who are legally working while attending university, or on summer break. The title of the article is straightforward: US FICA Exemptions for Foreign Students. There are two exceptions to the general rule that such students, scholars, or researchers with F-1, J-1, M-1, or Q-1 visas are still subject to all the tax withholding requirements from their wages or salaries that are imposed on the rest of the workforce: the Student FICA Exception, and the NRA FICA Exception. Knowing that information may be important for anyone you know who is studying in an American university, and is concerned about the benefit of accepting employment with an American business or department of their university or college.
Well, I'm gone for now. You all take care. God bless.
Hi. Well, here I am at the obscene hour. Well, I am not going to take up a lot of time. Can't. It's too late. So here it is.
Ok, I admit it. Just like everybody who gave a fig about the whole matter. Chief Justice Rehnquist is staying at the Supreme Court, according to an official announcement to the whole world. Everybody else was dead wrong, including me. Well, that's what you get for playing prophet and junior pundit. But of course, I won't quit, it's too much fun. Who will President Bush wind up picking to replace Justice Sandra O'Connor? Well, I still think it will be Judge Edith Jones from Texas and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (for 20 years). A woman for a woman, and a conservative the way Bush likes them. We'll see.
In the meantime, I wanted to make note of an article in Immigration Law Weekly (www.ilw.com), by Paula Singer, a top immigration and tax lawyer from Boston, about the circumstances facing international students in USA universities and colleges who are legally working while attending university, or on summer break. The title of the article is straightforward: US FICA Exemptions for Foreign Students. There are two exceptions to the general rule that such students, scholars, or researchers with F-1, J-1, M-1, or Q-1 visas are still subject to all the tax withholding requirements from their wages or salaries that are imposed on the rest of the workforce: the Student FICA Exception, and the NRA FICA Exception. Knowing that information may be important for anyone you know who is studying in an American university, and is concerned about the benefit of accepting employment with an American business or department of their university or college.
Well, I'm gone for now. You all take care. God bless.
