@mdean here is the latest notice from the IRS :
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The COVID-19 virus has caused a global health emergency that has prompted the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to provide a waiver of the time requirements of Internal Revenue Code section 911(d)(1).
If, due to the COVID-19 emergency, you were required to leave:
- The People’s Republic of China (excluding the Special Administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau) on or after December 1, 2019, but on or before July 15, 2020; or
- Another foreign country on or after February 1, 2020, but on or before July 15, 2020;
you may still be able to meet requirements of the bona fide residence or physical presence test for 2019 or 2020 for purposes of determining the foreign earned income exclusion and housing cost exclusion or deduction. For more information and examples see Revenue Procedure 2020-27 (PDF).
In practical terms this means you may have to satisfy the TurboTax by putting in a fictitious date of return, print the return, sign date, erase the return date and replace with actual date, attach the revenue procedure ref. and mail the whole thing to the IRS. I will also try the TurboTax software to see if they have up[dated to allow the waiver -- but the mail file will work since that would need human interaction.
See if you can make it work and I will come back after I have simulated the senario
