UK Visa Application Peculiarity

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If you are rejected, you will know it because it will be explicitly stated to you.

For example, you may get a letter explaining your rejection status (and reason) and any further course of action applicable to you.

You may receive a stamp on your passport for rejection (although rarely done these days).

I wrote to the Canadian authorities and requested to cancel the application and never submitted my passport.

This is called a voluntary withdrawal and is not the same thing as a rejection.

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Having spent some additional time on this, let me post an answer which clarifies the situation.

It appears that if one does not submit their passport to the Canadian visa authorities (even after said passport is requested for visa issuance) the resulting application is classified as "withdrawn" and not as "refused". My source for this is a letter sent by the visa authorities in a circumstance when a decision was made on an application but the passport was never submitted.

Note that the passport request letters from the Canadian officials often have confusing text in this regard. They say that the passport should be sent within 30 days and failure to do so may result in a refusal of the application. Certainly sending the passport after 30 days may result in refusal, but not sending it at all has the effect of a withdrawal, and all further processing on the case is stopped.

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