RFE response Vs Withdrawal of petition

[Ayaan84]

Hello All,

I wanted to know your opinion on responding to RFE Vs withdrawal of amendment petition. My H1B extension beyond 6 yrs was recently rejected and I came back to India. We will be filing a new H1B soon. Meanwhile, there was one amendment filed for me which has received the RFE. This was filed after my original beyond 6 yrs extension petition, which got denied as mentioned above.

My confusion is since I am no longer in US on active H1B, Do we really need to respond to that RFE. This was an amendment petition to update my client details while I was in US. I want to avoid another rejection/rfe before we file the new H1B.

Our lawyers are of opinion that we should respond to RFE even if I am no more on that project and in US.  They suggest that withdrawal might cause issues in future for my Green card processing (AOS process). I have my I 140 approved since 2016.

Please let me know your opinion.

Thanks in advance.