I just tried e-filing AGAIN for the 9th time. waiting for the rejection now. it's been 45 minutes, that's the longest amount of time yet, but I'm still not hopeful. typically it's rejected within 20 minutes. It is a holiday weekend too so that may be why it's taking longer.
I don't see any update on the irs site about the issues. They still show the same estimation of mid Feb-March. We'll see shortly.
I don't believe there is a limit to how many times you try to file. Per the IRS, as I said in the other post about this issue, there is only a limit of filing times if it has to do with a security item such as a wrong social or address, etc... then they will only allow 5 tries. I've tried e-filing federal now 9 times and AZ state 4 times, just because I have to wait to file the fed before trying the state again since tt asks for a payment again. tt told me to wait for the fed to be accepted then call them for a new code to re-file the state.
