You can enter your foreign wages as foreign earned income and if you meet the qualifications, you can take a foreign earned income deduction.
To enter your foreign wages (converted to USD), please type in the search bar, foreign income and click on the Jump to at the top of the responses.
You need to meet one of 2 tests for the foreign earned
income exclusion. Either the physical presence test or the bona-fide
resident test.
For the physical
presence test, what you need to do is (a) request for an extension ( even
though you may not need it because being out of the country on April 15th you
have till June 15th to file ); (b) prepare your return as follows
--
- On the personal income area ,
select I will work on my own
- Go down the list of income
categories till near the end you will see Less Common
Income and
- Below that foreign
earned income---
work through this. -- do not enter your foreign income under W-2 /
wages. This will create form 2555 where it will ask you
about the days absent from the USA during a 12 month test period -- you
need 330 days away from the USA in a continuous 12 month test
period. If you test period spans across calendar
years then your exclusion will be prorated for the tax year.
Please see IRS
publication 54, link attached for information on both the physical presence
test and the bona-fide resident test.. Tax Guide for US Citizens Abroad
2018
