Need help with my FAFSA

Paying for College
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<p>Hi, my problem is a complicated one. I live in Panama and I am a Permanent Resident Alien of the US and I will transfer to my college in Spring 2011. Now the problem is: Both of my parents are owners of a single restaurant, and here in Panama the tax return corresponds not to the individual but to the business in hand, so we only have ONE tax return, corresponding to the restaurant (the business), and the legal representative of both of my parents is my mother. So the tax return file only shows my mother name.</p>

<p>So what do I fill in my FATHER income?
Do I split the income of the restaurant between the two? Should I split the income evenly between the two?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I don’t know the answer, but there’s no rule that both parents have to have an income. It’s totally ok for only one parent to have income.</p>

<p>When your parents file their US taxes, how do they file?</p>