Although you can e-file your federal and state taxes together, if you choose to e-file your federal first, you'll have to wait until that return has been accepted before you can e-file your state.
If your federal return hasn't been accepted yet, or you printed and mailed it, you won't be able to e-file your state yet but you can print and mail a paper return.
Married filers: If you e-filed your federal using the joint married status, but you want to e-file your state returns separately, only one of you will be able to e-file. The other must paper-file their state return. See this help article for more information.
Follow the step-by-step instructions in this help article in order to file a joint Federal return and separate State returns. It recommends transferring the joint Federal return to Desktop if you started it in Online so that you can prepare additional mock separate Federal returns to match each State scenario without having to pay for multiple products (since Online only provides for one return for Federal and multiple states).
The TurboTax state program is designed to transfer information from your federal return. For this reason, TurboTax state isn't sold as a standalone tax-preparation product. You can use TurboTax to prepare and file your federal return without your state—but not the other way around.
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