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To Catina who suggested just use 123 Main St for your address- this is bad advice. You can’t put a fake US address on your 1040 when filing from abroad. Turbotax then can’t apply the extra tax forms and requirements for expats. The IRS also doesn’t look kindly on fake addresses on your tax return. 

Ok User177 I found a work around for now but will be transferring my tax preparation to MyExpat taxes in future as Turbo Tax has become increasingly non supportive of us taxpayers abroad.  Which is a shame as I first filed with turbo tax back in 2000- before it was online based.  you need  - US Credit card registered to a US address a relative kindly gave me permission to use his address.  - This same US address must be listed as a mailing address for the bank account you wish to have your refund deposited to. Most US banks will allow your residence address to be your foreign address and allow an additional mailing address that is a US one. You often have to call customer service to set it up.  - this year you also need a US phone number linked to the US address you give (relative came to my rescue again)    this is NOT required by the IRS or the credit card companies “for security” but is purely a Turbo Tax thing. I just helped my graduate daughter do her first US tax return on myExpat taxes and there were zero of these issues. So I will be switching to MyExpat taxes starting next year.    good luck 🤞 

@trivera8925 wrote: my 1099 nec has box 6 and 7 filled out but nothing in box 5 or the state number and turbotax wont let me move forward, what do i do? What state are you in?  Is it a state that has no state income tax?

The online version doesn't bring up anything other than 'revisit' - and clicking on it simply brings back another 'revisit' - a useless loop.  I decided to switch to the desktop version, assuming that entering the SSA-1099-SM would be simple there...but it still was a problem in the line-by-line prompt mode.  It never gave me an opportunity to enter the data that way.  I finally succeeded by going to view FORMS - and requesting the SSA-1099 form - which actually brought up something more like a 'worksheet'.   I was able to type in the few numbers that the form contains (income, medicare part B amounts for self and spouse) that way.  All looks ok...except I don't know if Turbotax was able to compute correctly what portion of the SSN payments were going to be taxable.   I'm just gonna have to trust that it did get SOMETHING right!  (I'm kinda shocked that this glaring bug exists in the software - and I got the impression that it isn't just the 2025 year version that had this problem.)

First be sure your return was successfully efiled and accepted.  You can check at the Tax Home.   No one in this community forum can know your situation, but if you chose to pay fees out of your refund, some people end up with it taken out of the state refund, which may use Cross River Bank instead of SBTPG's bank.   Fees can come out of the state refund in these states:   Arizona, Colorado, California, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Michigan, and/or Wisconsin.   If you have both Federal and state refunds and live in one of those states, it's possible that the fees may be taken out of whichever refund arrives first and large enough to cover the fees.

 Prepared with Bing Translator:   Avez-vous besoin d'aide avec TurboTax aux États-Unis ou au Canada ?   Ceci est le forum communautaire TurboTax des États-Unis. Cherchez-vous la version canadienne de la communauté?   Si vous souhaitez accéder au site Canada TurboTax, voici un lien.   Sur cette page, en haut à droite, vous pouvez sélectionner Canada et anglais ou français.   https://turbotax.community.intuit.ca/community/turbotax-support/help/03/en-ca   In English: Do you need help with TurboTax in the United States or Canada? This is the United States TurboTax community forum. Are you looking for the Canadian version of the community? If you want to access the Canada TurboTax site, here is a link. On that page in the top right corner, you can select Canada and English or French.

It is Croatia and there's  no Treaty unfortunately, so looks like no  specific directions to do it either. I'll try call specialist again but have no big hope and no idea whom should I talk to if not TT specialist. Maybe try some other company?

if rejected you can fix it. If it's accepted, you'll have to file an amended return 1040-X available later this month  However, i wondering how TurbooTax allowed you to file as HOH without a qualifying dependent included in your return. There is the situation where you are the custodial parent, but allow the non-custodial parent to claim the dependent by providing them with Form 8332. As the custodial parent, you can file as HOH provided you meet the other tests for HOH.     you can check your filing status at this iRS website https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/what-is-my-filing-status 

the law: Moving expense deduction eliminated, except for certain Armed Forces members. For tax years beginning after 2017, you can no longer deduct moving expenses unless you are a member of the Armed Forces on active duty and, due to a military order, you move because of a permanent change of station.