I don't have a US phone number either, so used a friend's number in my Intuit account.
I first tried with a number which is probably no longer working; filing didn't go through.
I then put in a number that I know is still valid today, did not verify it, and filing went through.
Such a pain from Intuit. It's been 3 weeks since they know about this bug. I see their software dept is not very agile.
