I always thought that withdrawing a petition was basically the same as being denied, and that after it you’d have to start everything over — pay the fees and the premium processing again, and resubmit the petition. But people say you can withdraw and refile without paying anything again — is that how it works for a US visa? Or when you withdraw do you still lose everything?
There is a fundamental difference between the two situations. A consular revocation concerns only that single application at that particular consulate — you can reapply either there or at another one; the fees and the petition are not lost. But when the embassy itself sends a recommendation to USCIS to revoke the petition, that’s more serious: a Notice of Intent to Revoke is issued, and that must be handled separately.
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Oh, so if the consulate just withdraws the application without USCIS’s involvement, the petition remains active? For some reason I thought any withdrawal automatically went through USCIS.
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Basically, these are two parallel processes — approval of the Form I-129 petition and adjustment of status. The consular application relates only to the second. If you withdraw it from the consulate, the I-129 petition continues to proceed with USCIS — nobody touches it. That’s why you can later apply again at another consulate without having to pay for the petition again.
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