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@ezraswife , generally agreeing with the excellent and expansive answers by my colleagues @Vanessa A  and @DaveF1006 , my only additional comment here is : (a)  I think it is better to declare the " Foreign Source " income as Schedule-C  because  (1) a visiting professor  whom teaches a specific course  once a year is generally   equivalent to US J-1 visa ;  (2) a visiting professor , especially for a short two month sojourn  is unlikely to be classed as an employee if visiting the US  ( because employee implies  all the benefits associated  with employment , such as vacation,  40 hours of work, medical benefits, retirement etc., that are offered to all other employees; (3) Schedule-C allows for  Schedule-SE and adjustment of the 50% SE tax from Gross Income for the AGI computation. (b) you did not mention which country we are dealing with  -- tax treaty consideration if any (c) you also did not mention as to whom pays the travel expenses ---- a likely deduction, if paid from your own sources (d) the fact that you are not paying any taxes to the host country  on your earnings from this stream strengthens the case that the host institution regards this as contract labor -- expensed  on their books.   that is my take on this  Is there more one of us can do for you ?

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I'm not sure who's behind this with it is Santa Barbara TurboTax the IRS whoever it is but here I am about taxes January 12th of 2026 and received the email and everything says I get my return on February 25th and now it is February 27th and they're telling me that it was rejected from my bank when it was sent on the 20th and now that it's supposed to come back on the 25th the bank doesn't see anything pending or see anything that has been sent or received I cannot get in touch with the Santa Barbara text product group their email is bogus is not found the phone number you call it you enter your last for your social and then you supposed to answer your ZIP code I've ever lived in and the one that I told my lady that I was doing nothing happened also on the website all you can do is get in touch with your tax preparer because it says that if your tax prepared if your check was sent back by your bank because of the Fast Track or a fast forward payment where they were trying to send it they would send it back to your tax prepared and form of a cashier's check or to the address that your tax prepared put on your return so now I'm blowing up my tax preparer's phone trying to find out how do we get my money instead she needs to get in touch with the people at Santa Barbara because this is the company that is helping her company as a third party I came to her to find my taxes I know nothing of this company and she needs to fix it and that's just where I am today