Refund is being mailed but I requested direct deposit

[AndreaC1]

This usually happens when the following things occur:

• The financial institution that you bank with rejected the direct deposit from the IRS. 
• Or the account number you entered may have been wrong 
• Or the name on the account may not have matched what was on your return 
• If a bank account has already received 3 direct-deposits from the IRS, any additional deposit requests will instead be mailed out as refund checks.
  
• You requested to have your refund direct-deposited into a foreign account 

If any of those occur, the bank sends your refund back to the IRS. And then the IRS will then have to re-process the refund, cut a check, and send it by mail.