📒 What Happens After an H-1B Is Withdrawn or Revoked? ❓

ZENG QI

6 days ago

2 min read

Many people ask:

“After my H-1B is withdrawn or revoked, will I receive a notice from USCIS? And what will my Case Status show when I check it using the receipt number?”

Actually, the follow-up notices and Case Status can be different depending on whether the H-1B had already been approved or was still pending when the employer requested the withdrawal.

Today, Attorney Xiaozeng will walk through real-world cases involving two different situations: an already-approved H-1B and an H-1B that was still pending when the employer requested the withdrawal.

1️⃣ H-1B was already approved, and the employer requests withdrawal after the employee leaves

In this situation, the notice issued by USCIS is typically titled:

“Revocation of Nonimmigrant Petition: Automatic Revocation”(See Figure 2)

Let’s first look at the timeline of this case (Figures 2 & 3):

📅 May 27, 2026: USCIS received the employer’s withdrawal request.📅 June 2, 2026: USCIS mailed the revocation confirmation notice.

It took less than one week, which is very fast.

However, this case was filed with premium processing, which may explain the relatively quick processing time.

Why do we say that?

Let’s look at another case in Figures 4 and 5. Again, the H-1B had already been approved, and the employer subsequently requested withdrawal:

📅 January 5, 2026: USCIS received the withdrawal request.📅 May 5, 2026: USCIS finally mailed the revocation confirmation notice.

That’s a full four months between the two dates.

But there is one very important detail:

👉 Even though the revocation confirmation notice was not mailed until May, USCIS confirmed that the Automatic Revocation effective date was January 5—the date USCIS received the withdrawal request, not the date the confirmation notice was mailed.

Also, Case Tracker typically does not show exactly when USCIS received the withdrawal request.

You generally need to look at the official USCIS notice to confirm that date.