For an expat return with a US citizen married to a non-citizen: the non-citizen, naturally, does not have a SSN.  He is not going to get an ITIN.  They file married filing separate as required.  They do not efile because the spouse does not have a social or an ITIN. 

"NRA" is supposed to be in the SSN field for the non-citizen spouse.  In CCH, we could put all 6's for the non-citizen and "NRA" would print.

I can type NRA into the social field but the return gives me very angry error messages.

Now, the return has to be paper filed anyway, but is there another way to handle this and get rid of the angry messages?