I don't think either of your options is correct. I was going to say, "He was refused a visa," but that doesn't sound quite right and I'm not sure why. "
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hanuman_20001.They refused him a visa.The Passive form of the would beAs you have discovered, an active sentence with a ditransitive verb, i.e., a sentence with both an indirect object and a direct object, has two passive forms. You can make either object the subject of the passive form.
hanuman_2000A. I was made coffee by her. (Does it makeNo way.asense?)
fivejedjonHe was refused a visa sounds OK to me.Okay -- it sounded odd to me, but obviously only in the way something perfectly normal does sometimes when you think about it too much! Thanks!
AnonymousI was bought lunch. Is it wrong then?Technically, it's not wrong. But we don't say it.