"For your wife's residency, I am unsure what section of TurboTax you are working on."
I was referring to the very first few screens of starting a new return in TurboTax, where one enters personal information like name, DOB, SSN, employment status and state of residence. In the state of residence I can say "Foreign or US Possession", indicate that she lived in another state in 2021and also the state she lived before she moved. And then there is a field to enter the date the person became resident of the foreign country, but there you can only go as much back as 01/01/2021. If you try to enter an earlier date, TurboTax gets angry at you. She was a foreign country resident since middle of 2019. That's what made me think that this date only matters for the tax purposes for 2021 since it's a return for 2021.
With all fairness, I should say that if you right mouse click in that date field, a message pops up saying: "Date became a resident should be after Jan 1 for a part-year resident. If you were a resident the entire year, uncheck the part-year resident box" However, there is no part-year resident box to uncheck on that screen or the following screens for that matter and I'm kind of lost here.
