# Retrieve Consent Status
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/authentication-consent/documentation/use-cases/retrieve-consent-status/index.md

The following use case describes how a merchant or PSP is able to validate if the consent is still active, by retrieving the record for a specific consent ID.

The merchants must leverage the user consent ID provided after a successful ID\&V and consent storage operation in the message extension in either a:

* Authentication Response
* Authentication Results Response

Diagram retrieve

The sequence of steps:

| Step | Method |   Type   |                         Action                         |                                                                          Comments                                                                           |
|------|--------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1    | GET    | Request  | Send request to /user-consents/{user_consent_id}       | Submit the user consent ID received in the message extension after ID\&V and consent storage is completed.                                                  |
| 2    | GET    | Response | Receive response from /user-consents/{user_consent_id} | The response indicates if the consent was found with the consent date. If no matching consent is found, a 404 resource not found response will be provided. |

## Endpoint {#endpoint}


API Reference: `GET /user-consents/{user_consent_id}`