Help with visa fee

[simba001]

I accidentally made a visa fee payment to another Unique Beneficiary account number instead of mine. Is there any way I can get a refund to this payment?
This beneficiary id was saved in my payee list and thus the mistaken payment.

[rayb]

Good question. Both USCIS and NVC have displayed various responses to refund requests. If an error occurred because of a system (online) problem, and you can provide sufficient description for them to track or debug it, you stand a good chance of a refund.

If your payment was "encumbered" and allowed a benefit procedure to proceed, USCIS has a strong argument for having provided service(s), despite any input error you made.

Early in the NVC online payment process, I received a refund in 4-6 weeks after I described the duplicate payment I had made, which might even have been a system problem of which they were already aware.

Later, however, I stopped payment on a Naturalization payment after about 6 weeks had passed and it seemed to have been lost. USCIS and the Treasury Department got very aggressive and threatening to me to recoup the N-400 payment from me, plus interest and penalties (totaled $725) because two separate N-400 procedures had been started.

--Ray B

I accidentally made a visa fee payment to another Unique Beneficiary account number instead of mine. Is there any way I can get a refund to this payment?
This beneficiary id was saved in my payee list and thus the mistaken payment.

[simba001]

Good question. Both USCIS and NVC have displayed various responses to refund requests. If an error occurred because of a system (online) problem, and you can provide sufficient description for them to track or debug it, you stand a good chance of a refund.

If your payment was "encumbered" and allowed a benefit procedure to proceed, USCIS has a strong argument for having provided service(s), despite any input error you made.

Early in the NVC online payment process, I received a refund in 4-6 weeks after I described the duplicate payment I had made, which might even have been a system problem of which they were already aware.

Later, however, I stopped payment on a Naturalization payment after about 6 weeks had passed and it seemed to have been lost. USCIS and the Treasury Department got very aggressive and threatening to me to recoup the N-400 payment from me, plus interest and penalties (totaled $725) because two separate N-400 procedures had been started.

--Ray B

Thanks, Ray for your response. I have also contact the support helpline. I will update on this thread on the response