@seakmike , agreeing with my colleague @mesquitebean about the dearth of information in trying to understand the issue you are facing, just wanted to point out
(a) your "email address" suggests that you are an employee of US State Dept. If that is true (??), your wages are not eligible for Foreign Earned Income exclusion ( using form 2555).
(b) you indicated that you had filed last year with no issue --- under same circumstances ? what is different this year ?
Please provide more info so one of us can help resolve the issue you are seeing.
