Case number assigned

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Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

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I think you need to wait for the message that says that the forms have been generated, which may be another week or two or you risk sending back forms that they haven't even sent you yet, which could be a problem. ttyl,

mich

Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

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Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

so mich what you are saying is that once NVC generates DS 3032 & AOS Fee bill, the automated system will actually mention it? So it's going to be a different message from what i heard before.

thanks

john

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Wait for the mail.

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yeah, the message was different. it gave me the date that they were generated (which wasn't the date on the AoS Fee Bill). I would wait at least until they've been generated. I'm pretty sure that's what's recommended even in all the timesavers - that you don't send them forms that they haven't generated yet. it's probably way too early for you to send them yet. you'll note in my sig that mine weren't even generated until a week after i got my case number. also, i noticed that the PO box and zip code for my AoS Fee Bill were different than that in the document in the timesavers thread. so they might have changed something. not sure. i'm going to post over there to see if anyone else has seen anything similar. stay on top of things, but don't ttyl,

mich

Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

so mich what you are saying is that once NVC generates DS 3032 & AOS Fee bill, the automated system will actually mention it? So it's going to be a different message from what i heard before.

thanks

john

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yeah, the message was different. it gave me the date that they were generated (which wasn't the date on the AoS Fee Bill). I would wait at least until they've been generated. I'm pretty sure that's what's recommended even in all the timesavers - that you don't send them forms that they haven't generated yet. it's probably way too early for you to send them yet. you'll note in my sig that mine weren't even generated until a week after i got my case number. also, i noticed that the PO box and zip code for my AoS Fee Bill were different than that in the document in the timesavers thread. so they might have changed something. not sure. i'm going to post over there to see if anyone else has seen anything similar. stay on top of things, but don't ttyl,

mich

Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

so mich what you are saying is that once NVC generates DS 3032 & AOS Fee bill, the automated system will actually mention it? So it's going to be a different message from what i heard before.

thanks

john

Mich,

So you didn't send the AOS Fee Bill as soon as they were generated! Well i guess i'll also wait. Don't want to delay anything b/c of my stupidity! So did you get any info on that zipcode and po box change for the AOS Fee bill ?

john

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Mich,

So you didn't send the AOS Fee Bill as soon as they were generated! Well i guess i'll also wait. Don't want to delay anything b/c of my stupidity! So did you get any info on that zipcode and po box change for the AOS Fee bill ?

john

yeah, the message was different. it gave me the date that they were generated (which wasn't the date on the AoS Fee Bill). I would wait at least until they've been generated. I'm pretty sure that's what's recommended even in all the timesavers - that you don't send them forms that they haven't generated yet. it's probably way too early for you to send them yet. you'll note in my sig that mine weren't even generated until a week after i got my case number. also, i noticed that the PO box and zip code for my AoS Fee Bill were different than that in the document in the timesavers thread. so they might have changed something. not sure. i'm going to post over there to see if anyone else has seen anything similar. stay on top of things, but don't ttyl,

mich

Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

so mich what you are saying is that once NVC generates DS 3032 & AOS Fee bill, the automated system will actually mention it? So it's going to be a different message from what i heard before.

thanks

john

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howdy john -

i would have come back to this post - no need to put it again it's been a busy week

Anyways, to answer your question, you're right. I didn't send back the AoS Fee Bill as soon as it was generated. This side of the NVC track is really the lesser of the two to cause you concern. The AoS track is usually faster according to the timesavers thread, so the right hand side (DS-3032, IV Bill, and DS-230) is really the one that you need to keep in control.

Because I've been pretty busy the last couple days, I haven't had a chance to review the entire timesavers thread to see if anyone had posted the same issue that I saw, but hope to address that this weekend. Until I hear that other people aren't having issues with this, I'd personally advise (based only on my own experience) to wait until you get your AoS Fee Bill just in case the PO Box is different (maybe I'm just special :energetic: ). Waiting for the AoS Fee Bill to arrive shouldn't slow you down, from what I can tell since that's the faster half of the NVC process and getting that half done early just means that you get to wait longer on the other half. Remeber that your case is not complete in the NVC until both tracks are completed and reviewed.

However, I'll tell you that emailing the NVC instead of sending the DS-3032 (as suggested in the timesavers thread) seems to work pretty well. The automated thingee at the NVC was updated really late Monday night my time (I'm in California) and told us the DS-3032 had been generated, so I had my wife send the email on Tuesday and we got the reply two days later on Thursday... So if this means that we've had our DS-3032 information entered into the system, I estimate that we may have saved about a week and a half of sending forms back and forth. The actual DS-3032 arrived for me on the 7th, then round trip Fedex to the Philippines (4-5 days) or at least 1 way if I had just sent her a scanned pdf, then a day or so more for priority mail to the NVC, then a few (or so) more days for it to be entered from the form. Hopefully (!!) I'll get the IV bill next week or early the week after, but we'll see. So this may be of more help to you if you're trying to make sure you do what you can to expedite your NVC processing. Naturally you can keep up to date with my timeline. That's one of the first things I think of when I get a new form or get to a new step in the process - "Have to update my timeline!"

I'm also going to be posting my results on the timesavers thread when I have definitive results so that others can easily find all the info in one place. I'm also "auditing" all the barcode stuff too I've generated all the forms from that thread and will match them up as I go along to make sure nothing has changed.

Hope this helps! Feel free to keep asking questions ttyl,

mich

PS - Have you checked out the timesavers thread? I'm guessing you have since you're talking about sending forms that they haven't sent you yet, but I'm not sure. It seems like some of your questions are covered there, but maybe I just read them in another thread somewhere else. After working on this for 5 months, it's all starting to run together, I think.

Mich,

So you didn't send the AOS Fee Bill as soon as they were generated! Well i guess i'll also wait. Don't want to delay anything b/c of my stupidity! So did you get any info on that zipcode and po box change for the AOS Fee bill ?

john

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Hi Mich,

how y'all doing up there! Thanks for that detailed reply. Like you mentioned i'll concentrate on speeding up things on the right hand side; ie, the DS 3032, IV bill etc.

Now, was this the Return address for your AOS Fee Bill:

National Visa Center

P.0.Box 790135

St. Louis, MO 63179-0135

I'll keep you posted about what's happening. So according to what you said, NVC could most probably generate my DS3032 & AOS bill by next week? They assigned the case number on 6/7/06.

thanks

john

Mich,

So you didn't send the AOS Fee Bill as soon as they were generated! Well i guess i'll also wait. Don't want to delay anything b/c of my stupidity! So did you get any info on that zipcode and po box change for the AOS Fee bill ?

john

yeah, the message was different. it gave me the date that they were generated (which wasn't the date on the AoS Fee Bill). I would wait at least until they've been generated. I'm pretty sure that's what's recommended even in all the timesavers - that you don't send them forms that they haven't generated yet. it's probably way too early for you to send them yet. you'll note in my sig that mine weren't even generated until a week after i got my case number. also, i noticed that the PO box and zip code for my AoS Fee Bill were different than that in the document in the timesavers thread. so they might have changed something. not sure. i'm going to post over there to see if anyone else has seen anything similar. stay on top of things, but don't ttyl,

mich

Today (6/8/2006) NVC assigned a case number for my I-130 application. Thank god!

Well, my question is about the automated system response. The system says something like this:

" NVC has assigned a case number: XXXXXXXXXXX. It will take 6 to 7 weeks for the beneficiary to receive the DS3032 form ...."

Will it be safe to send in the signed DS3032 form now? The system doesn't say anything about the AOS Fee Bill. Can i send the AOS Fee bill now or should wait? How can i get some information on the AOS Fee bill?

Plz help.

thanks

john

so mich what you are saying is that once NVC generates DS 3032 & AOS Fee bill, the automated system will actually mention it? So it's going to be a different message from what i heard before.

thanks

john

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howdy john -

Not a problem, I try to help as I can. Hopefully I'm being of some assistance to you. And if I'm not, I hope someone will correct me!

Yes, that is the address that was printed on the fee bill and return envelope. I notice now that the address stated in the timesaver thread is correct, but it is incorrect in the AoS Fee Bill document. The document has this incorrect address (maybe an old one? maybe it still works? i'd rather not test it with my bill to find out ):

National Visa Center

P.O. Box 952200

St. Louis, MO 63195-2200

Hopefully someone has fixed that later in the thread, but I still haven't had time to go through it yet. You don't think I just answer questions on here all day? just kidding.

All I really have to guess at what you might expect from the NVC is my own experience and keep in mind that's all this is. My DS-3032 and AoS Fee Bill were generated exactly a week after my case number was assigned. However, for whatever reason, it didn't show up on the automated system until the week after that - the day before it actually arrived in the mail. So I guess it actually arrived about 2.5 weeks after I was assigned a case number. So if your timeline is anything like mine (which is unlikely, but just for estimation purposes), the forms would get generated on the 14th, the info line would tell you about it on the 20th, and you would receive them on the 23rd (or maybe a day or two sooner if you're closer to the east coast). This is complete guesswork, so don't make plans or assumptions.

Yeah, the waiting sucks... but such is the government here. And as noted in this thread: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16920 it could be even worse! Can you imagine how all these massively impatient people would handle getting a driver's license at the DMV? I just use the time as an opportunity to prepare the other things that we'll need - like the interview evidence. A couple weeks will pass before you know it. ttyl,

mich

Hi Mich,

how y'all doing up there! Thanks for that detailed reply. Like you mentioned i'll concentrate on speeding up things on the right hand side; ie, the DS 3032, IV bill etc.

Now, was this the Return address for your AOS Fee Bill:

National Visa Center

P.0.Box 790135

St. Louis, MO 63179-0135

I'll keep you posted about what's happening. So according to what you said, NVC could most probably generate my DS3032 & AOS bill by next week? They assigned the case number on 6/7/06.

thanks

john