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我2019年8月給我母親辦親屬移民， 2020年6月I-130批準。 後來因為COVID的關係， 沒有繼續辦下去。隨著疫情的變好， 準備繼續辦下去，但是， 前幾天剛剛得到國務院的通知， 她的所有申請材料已經銷毀。 請問如果想繼續辦下去， 怎麽辦。 是不是得從I-130 開始申請起， 以前批準的I-130是否還有效。

-Normally, if your mother does not submit the DS 260 application for immigrant visa to NVC within one year from the date NVC ask you to submit the application and pay the fee, then NVC will terminate/close your case in NVC. Then, they will request USCIS to revoke your approved I-130 after two years.

So, you may contact USCIS to see whether your appoved I-130 has been revoked. If no, you may file I-824 to USCIS to ask them to forward the approved I-130 to NVC to process it again.

Another choice is that you may just file a new I-130 for your mother and ignore the previous I-130.