Yo may have entered something incorrectly in MY INFO. You need to make sure you said in MY INFO that she was a student. We have seen some users who miss the screen to say that. Watch for a screen in MY INFO titled "Less Common Situations" --- there is a list of stuff---you can click that she was a student. Then the over $5050 of income does not matter. You can still claim her as a qualified child. And if she lived away at school, that was a "temporary absence" so you can say she lived with you all year.
It is okay for her to file her own tax return but her return must be marked that she can be claimed as someone else's dependent.
Watch how you answer the weird question that asks if she paid for over half her own support. Say NO.
Make sure you did not say that her SSN is "not valid for employment."
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