Great to know that you finally got your problem resolved. I patiently read through the entire thread.
QUESTION : How did you report the foreign income by avoiding 2555?
I'm in a similar situation. Trying to claim FTC (foreign tax credit) by filing form 1116 instead of filling in form 2555.
However, in order to claim the FTC, the foreign income needs to be reported under Wages/Income section, and the only way to do that seems to be through the FEIE (Foreign earned income and exclusion) interview, which triggers the 2555 scenario. Now, if I go ahead and manually delete the form 2555 (using the desktop app) I run into an e-Filing error that instructs me to complete form 2555.
