This is Rule 14 for the EIC - you cannot have lived outside the US more than half the year, to be eligible for the EITC. See IRS Pub 596, page 17.
Also did you try to add form 2555 (foreign earned income exclusion) to your return? That disqualifies you from the EITC.
Check the Interactive Tax Assistant at the IRS for EITC.
$200 is a small amount for the EITC, but if that is what the initial amount for the EITC was, then when you got disqualified, then all of that would be added to your tax due.
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