EldarB
Returning Member

Received back my joint return and form for a missing signature

We received back our joint return and form 3531 with only one point checked "Your return doesn't show a valid signature on the Sign here line(s)". But me and my wife put our signatures there, you know the symbolic ones, where you put some letters from your name and add some lines around it. We didn't write our names, since it's clearly asking for a SIGNATURE. Did IRS mean "Write your name" where it says "Sign here"? 

 

I'm so confused. What am I supposed to do now? We filed by paper, and there's no way to e-file since my wife didn't have SSN at the time we filed. There's almost no empty space around our symbolic signatures in the line to fit in the names.