If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the advance payments were based on a different child.
No, that is not correct.
The "Advance Payments" were meant to be just that. Paying you ahead of time what you would get on your 2021 Tax Year Return as a Child Tax Credit.
The IRS based it on information from your 2020 Tax Year return because 2021 wasn't over yet.
If you received payments based on having 1 dependent, it was based on the idea that you would be claiming one dependent on your 2021 return.
The payments were made to help support a dependent, so whichever dependent that was in 2021, is now the same one you are claiming on your 2021 tax return.
It is true that a Taxpayer that did receive advance payments but no longer has a dependent might have that over-payment forgiven but that is not your situation.
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