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You count the nights they actually stayed with you as time with you. Also you can count the days (months) the child or dependent lived away from you towards the total time with you as long as it was for:
As long as the number of days with you is over 184, then in TurboTax you would select at least 7 months as time with you in the US.
@DMarkM1 Thank you. May I ask one additional question ? So what IF their visit to me in June , a relative, turned into living with me ? They came to visit me in mid June .. we returned to their home at the beginning of July for a family event ... they returned immediately back with me and never left. Would the time they went back home for the family even count as a reset date so to say or would the time they came to initially visit in June be counted ALTHOUGH they were initially considered on vacation but the vacation resulted in them moving in after the brief return in July ?
You are going to count all the time they were with you; the time in June and then the time once they came back from the family event. In this case, I would say the time at the family event would not count as time with you since they didn't officially move until after the family event.
Any time on vacation after the July return to you would be time with you as well.
Thank you @DMarkM1 ... I was afraid that because they were initially visiting in June that it would mean their mother (although she gave me permission to claim them ) would still be the only person that could claim them since I’m not their parent and the rule of “Temporary Time Away from Home
If your child was temporarily away from home, we count that as time lived with you.” being applied to my sister.
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