Fight for stimulus checks for couples of mixed immigration status ends with partial victory “It’s better than nothing but wildly insufficient in proportion to the actual problems,” says a Dallas man married to a Vietnamese immigrant. Spouses Aaron Jones (right) and Trinh Nguyen pose for a portrait at their apartment complex in Dallas on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Jones, a U.S. citizen, and Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born legal resident, filed their joint federal income taxes this year with Jones’s Social Security Number and Nguyen’s ITIN, a tax identification number used by both legal immigrants and unauthorized immigrants — a move that earlier this year knocked them both out of receiving about $2400 in federal stimulus check money offered this year due to the pandemic.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)