I am planning to visit my home country (India) for first-time H1B visa stamping. While filling out the DS-160 form and Visa portal questions, I was confused about a few questions on previously lost passport and visa:
- “Has your visa ever been stolen?”
- “Has your visa ever been cancelled or revoked?”
- “Have you ever lost a passport or had one stolen?”
- “Was your most recent U.S. visa lost, stolen, canceled, revoked, or marked CWOP?”
My situation is a bit weird. 2 years ago I thought I had lost my passport while traveling locally in the US. That passport had my F1 visa.
To apply for a new one I had to file a police report. I received the new one, and it mentions that the previous one is “reported as lost”. I used this new passport for successfully applying to H1B - change of status from F1. Note that this new passport doesn’t have any visa stamps yet.
After a while, I then also found the old passport somewhere in my home i.e. it was never really lost or stolen.
Now I am unsure how to accurately answer the above 4 questions since I still have my previous passport and previous visa.