Thanks a lot eikenella, for the input and thanks for the suggestion about filing the tax. While on it allow me to share this little thing with you. Most of the employers dont want to take off the Medicare and SSN tax from some selected employees only as they really dont know much about it.It was the same for me for in my OPT days. While filing my taxes I tried to get this SSN and Medicare tax back, the IRS kept on asking for different documents like employer verifications and so on. Even after complying with all the IRS demands, I never got my money back. I think the best bet under these circumstances is not to claim this tax with IRS rather have these taxes not taken out from the pay check -honestly been there faced that!! But of course many payroll accountant are not aware of this fact - and hence ask the employee to claim it from the IRS, so its kind of catch 22 situation. Well to anybody looking forward to claim their SSN and Medicare taxes I would suggest them to really talk about this with their payroll accountants have them not take it out of the pay check in the first place. Anyways thanks alot for all your input and your suggestion. It was really great to hear from you. bye for now.