Now has anyone here purchased kaspersky total and activated it while abroad and did that work?
This question, too, has been answered here (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/780911/kaspersky-total-renewal-questions/#entry5455211) and in your cross-posted threads elsewhere, such as https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kaspersky-total-renewal-questions.11601/post-244129 and https://www.tenforums.com/antivirus-firewalls-system-security/201260-kaspersky-total-renewal-questions-post2500522.html#post2500522
KL strictly enforces geo-restriction and the product pages at Amazon also clearly state that product/license sales are restricted to certain countries. Moreover, gray-market, black-market or other illegitimate "cheap" keys will most definitely be rejected/blacklisted.
ONLY KASPERSKY can definitively answer your license questions.
Options:
Knowledge Base https://support.kaspersky.com/us/kts21
Community https://forum.kaspersky.com/forum/kaspersky-total-security-14/
My.Kaspersky.com https://my.kaspersky.com/#/auth/layout/main
Thank you