My company's state and city's tax returns were rejected with error details showing as The IRS Submission ID referenced in the State Submission Manifest must be present in the e-File database.  The Error resolutions told me that my state return could not be processed for the e-filing ahead of the federal return and asked to wait for the Federal return to be accepted by the IRS before resubmitting the State return electronically. 

I tried as the resolution suggested but there is another error telling me that I cannot efile my state returns because a duplicate one has already been submitted. I have no idea if my state returns have been filed successfully because the status keeps showing as Rejected. So confused.