Yes, exactly that's what I'm doing.
Actually, earlier before your first reply, I took a workaround by making TT decide that I was ineligible for 2555 exclusions by failing the physical presence test, as I really don't meet the physical presence test criteria. That subsequently took to me a screen that asked me to explicitly delete the 2555 form (without me having to remove it following the Tools delete path). Subsequently I went ahead claiming the FTC.
One follow up question I have though is how I should go about reporting passive income (foreign interests) , besides foreign earner salary (that gets categorized as general category income) that I want to claim FTC on (on 1116). Typically I report such foreign income by manually entering a 1099-INT form on TT, but the FTC guide seems to specifically ask to exclude 1099-INT data as passive income, even though in this case it's sort of made up 1099-INT.
