If you filed your tax return with Form 8288-A showing your federal withholding, then you must wait for the IRS to process your tax return before releasing any refund. Although you needed to send a copy of the form to the IRS with your tax return, you should have also kept a copy with your files. It's not clear which process you used to report your withholding.
- Filed with your tax return and included a copy of the form, or
- Did not use it on your tax return and filed form 843 to claim the refund.
You can file a Form 843 (Claim for Refund), together with a Form 8288-A, to show the estimated tax on the sale. This is the IRS's official process for obtaining an early refund of FIRPTA withholding.
Regardless, the IRS has been extremely slow since COVID, the response time is very lengthy, so if you are asking when the refund might come you should not expect anything for at least two months and it could be longer.
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