@RndmNmbr
I have a very similar issue. I had tax credit from 2019. A CPA prepared it for me back then and said I should enter the carry over amount for the next 10 years (even though I am not going to use it unless I report foreign income).
for 2020 I used TurboTax desktop and I entered the carryover manually (that resulted in form 1116), I filed with no problems. For 2021, I am trying to do the same but I get an error that I have to report foreign tax income (form 2555-S), which I don't have. This is preventing me to e-file and I am not sure what to do.
I am leaning towards just deleting all related foreign tax forms, but I am concerned this may cause unforeseen issues in the future, or at least prevent me from using this tax credit in case I have foreign income some how.
