I started adoption proceedings in 2019. I have fees that I paid in 2019 as well as 2020. We have not yet successfully found a child to adopt and are still in progress on that front. The fees I paid in 2019 should be eligible to claim on my 2020 taxes but TurboTax tells me I am not eligible for the Adoption Credit unless I fill in a name and birth year for the child, which I do not have because we have not been placed with a child yet. The irs.gov help topic (https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607) states that "Qualified adoption expenses paid before the year the adoption becomes final are allowable as a credit for the tax year following the year of payment (even if the adoption is never finalized and even if an eligible child was never identified)." So I shouldn't have to have a child's name to file for the credit because they should qualify even if no child was ever identified.
