Attached federal efile status e-file error

The attached Federal Efile needs to have one of the following statuses: Qualified, Accepted, or Awaiting Acknowledgement.
You get this error when the federal e-file doesn't have a status of qualified, accepted, or awaiting acknowledgement and attempting to e-file the state return.

Solution

  1. Go to
    Organizer
    ,
    States
    ,
    State E-file
    ,
    Enable Create Returns
    , and then the
    Federal Copy
    tab.
  2. Select
    Attach the federal XML created in another return
    and then in columns C, D, and E, enter the information from the locator that has the accepted federal return.
  3. Perform a full re-compute, re-create the e-file, then re-submit.
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