Thanks for your response. Though we had asked that of the general IRS help-line when this first happened (who by the way are no help... won't tell you anything) when we didn't know what to do and was informed that his SS# "may" just be in the TurboTax system, though we chose not to purchase another e-file method at that time in case it was false info assuming his amended would go through quicker and we could still e-file ours, didn't know amending didn't remove SS# for e-filing then.
Our concern then for printing our behemoth and mailing it, which we see is recommended to mail certified, is if you're it's in the overall IRS system, and his amended return still hasn't been processed, our return would just reject, wouldn't it? So we'd probably need to wait until his is amended is processed to avoid another possible rejection?
It looks like there is another option...in reading another post it appears we could go ahead and e-file with TurboTax removing him, so that we would get the lion's share of our refund and then once we know his return is amended we would file an amended return, like a couple pages, to re-claim him and recoup the $500 we'd lose by removing him on this initial return. Sounds like the best option for us.
