I do understand and you will not get any other solution that works. When I advise someone to make up something to get TurboTax to work, I explain that they are not lying to the IRS. They are lying to TurboTax and it is a lie to get the program to work properly. The IRS knows that your foreign employer does not have a US EIN number. The programmer who put that question into TurboTax did not understand. If you wait long enough, someone will find the error and fix it, but that might not happen for many months.
I am a computer programmer and an income tax expert. I know what is wrong with the program and how to work around these issues. A made up EIN will get you through filing now.
