Do the children have Social Security numbers? Were they over the age of 16? If they do not have SSN's or if they are over 16 years old, you get the $500 credit for other dependents instead of the child tax credit. If they have SSN's and are under 17, then you entered something incorrectly in MY INFO about them.
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