Amended returns must be mailed. They cannot be e-filed.
If you are amending a federal return and getting a refund the IRS only issues that refund as a paper check that is mailed to the address on your tax return. They do not do a direct deposit for an amended return.
Further....do not try to amend a return that has not been fully processed already. If you send in an amended return before the original return has been processed, you are just setting yourself and the IRS up for confusion and delays. You have three years from the filing deadline to file an amended return.
Right now, the IRS is digging its way through months of mailed returns that have been piling up in trailers. So there is no hurry to mail your Form 1040X to a trailer. Hold off for awhile.
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