For EIC, the question asks if my wife and I had lived in the U.S. for more than 6 month in 2017. My wife and son where in the U.S. for the entire year. However, I was deployed to Iraq for 9 of the 12 months in 2017. Now it asks:
Did you or your wife live in the U.S. for more than six months in 2017?
and when clicking on the link it says:
What counts as being temporarily out of the country?
Temporary absences are those due to special circumstances such as illness, education, business, vacation, or active military service.
So my question is because my wife and son were stateside, am I still able to answer we were stateside for more and six month? I have read in a few other questions to treat the deployment as if i was stateside. But why would it say to include any months I was temporarily out of the country, to include active military service?
