1. US SAR User Guide
  2. Filing Regulatory Reports
  3. Rejecting Reports from E-File

8.7 Rejecting Reports from E-File

You can reject reports from an E-File at any point in time before completing the SAR process. After a SAR report is rejected from an E-File, it is removed from the reports list and the status of the rejected report changes to Rejected from E-File. For reports that are not rejected, a new E-File is regenerated. If the acknowledgment file is already uploaded, you can complete the SAR process of the regenerated E-File by clicking Complete SAR Process.

You can correct/amend a rejected report and submit it for Super User's approval. After the corrected report is approved, you can follow the workflow of filing a regulatory report all over again. Subsequently, while uploading the acknowledgment (XML) file received from FinCEN into the OFS CRR application, a new BSA Identifier overwrites the previously associated BSA Identifier of the rejected reports.
In the SDTM mode, when rejected Message XML is uploaded via batch while parsing the Message.xml if the value for attribute "Level" is as FATAL or WARN, the associated reports in the corresponding E-File will be automatically rejected. This will be captured in the Audit history for each report being rejected. It will also have associated rejected Message XML, which can be downloaded from the Attachment column in the Audit tab.
With the reports, left after the automatic rejection of reports, a new E-File will be regenerated.
After an E-File is uploaded and accepted by FinCEN, you cannot reject SARs from the E-File until the acknowledgment file is uploaded and parsed. If you reject a report after submission but before processing the acknowledgment files there will be a mismatch in the files referenced in the acknowledgment file and the current E-File. If a report is rejected prior to uploading the acknowledgment into the application, then you have to re-submit the E-File at FinCEN’s BSA E-Filing System to get the latest acknowledgment file.
To reject the SARs from an E-file, follow these steps:
  1. On the E-file Summary page, go to the E-file List pane, and select the E-file. The Report List for the selected E-files is displayed.
  2. Select the report or reports you want to reject from the E-file and click reject . The rejected reports are removed from the E-file List results.