Thanks @TomD8 for this immense help.
After I made this change (esp specifiying that i moved out to foreign country from CA in the TT personal info section), it has helped fix lot of issues.
a) I am considered part-year resident in california tax return
b) my date of move shows in lot of worksheets.
Thanks a bunch for helping me avoid this mistake.
But the original issue i mentioned in the first post is still there :(.
In 540NR (Schedule CA) , for the following question, TT is leaving it blank rather than marking my date of move. "4. I became a CA nonresident (enter new state of residence and date (mm/dd/yyyy) of move)"
I will try to play around a little bit more to find a solution.
Thanks again !!
