Client has been a CA resident for years. Moved to HI for work 4/19/23. Then moved to New Zealand 12/1/23.

She is maintaining a residence in HI currently but is in NZ indefinitely.  HI is the mailing address she wants to list on her tax return.  But in regard to domicile, she says she considers CA "home base." Hawaii seems temporary.

So my inclination is to list CA as domicile on screen 55.011.  Feedback welcome on that.

My question is on Screen 1, what to list as resident state?  CA, HI, US or something else?  Experimenting with leaving it blank, I get diag #5636 "required to track state e-file returns."

An aside: I did consider and inquire abt FBAR. She's using TransferWise for money handling there, so everything appears domiciled in the states, so I'm fairly confident no FBAR disclosure is needed.