Case sent to the wrong consulate!

[Kathleen 0]

So, my Nigerian fiance has been living in Kenya for the last 5 years (where we met!) for school, and when we started this whole K-1 process we thought he would be in Nairobi for the duration of the procedure. Alas, life doesn't always work as planned, and he had to return to Nigeria at the end of July. As soon as I got his address I called USCIS to change the destination of our case from Nairobi to Lagos, but lo and behold, I called the day AFTER our petition was approved! Good news, yes? You'd think so, but because the case was already marked for transit to the NVC, they couldn't help with the address change. I called the NVC immediately, and was told that I needed to write a letter explaining the change of address and send in copies of my fiance's passport as proof of Nigerian citizenship. Fine. BUT I call back the next day to make sure they are holding my case and not sending it off... only to find out that they already assigned it a Nairobi case number and shipped it off to Kenya!!

It figures that after 5 months of waiting around, they would suddenly start to move way too fast on my case!

So I called... someone... today (the State Department I think? I've been on the phone so much I don't know who I'm talking to anymore!) They said that in order to have the case moved, I have to first talk to the consulate in Lagos and get them to agree to accept the case. Then, I have to talk to the consulate in Nairobi and get them to agree to send the case to Nigeria. This seems like such a monumental feat of coordination that I feel like crying at the thought of it. So, I'll begin making calls to Lagos tomorrow morning.

Anyone have advice for me, or similar experiences to share? I could use some comiseration at this point

Thanks for reading, anyway

[katiemanny 64]

So, my Nigerian fiance has been living in Kenya for the last 5 years (where we met!) for school, and when we started this whole K-1 process we thought he would be in Nairobi for the duration of the procedure. Alas, life doesn't always work as planned, and he had to return to Nigeria at the end of July. As soon as I got his address I called USCIS to change the destination of our case from Nairobi to Lagos, but lo and behold, I called the day AFTER our petition was approved! Good news, yes? You'd think so, but because the case was already marked for transit to the NVC, they couldn't help with the address change. I called the NVC immediately, and was told that I needed to write a letter explaining the change of address and send in copies of my fiance's passport as proof of Nigerian citizenship. Fine. BUT I call back the next day to make sure they are holding my case and not sending it off... only to find out that they already assigned it a Nairobi case number and shipped it off to Kenya!!

It figures that after 5 months of waiting around, they would suddenly start to move way too fast on my case!

So I called... someone... today (the State Department I think? I've been on the phone so much I don't know who I'm talking to anymore!) They said that in order to have the case moved, I have to first talk to the consulate in Lagos and get them to agree to accept the case. Then, I have to talk to the consulate in Nairobi and get them to agree to send the case to Nigeria. This seems like such a monumental feat of coordination that I feel like crying at the thought of it. So, I'll begin making calls to Lagos tomorrow morning.

Anyone have advice for me, or similar experiences to share? I could use some comiseration at this point

Thanks for reading, anyway

Me and your Nigerian Fiance are in the same boat, I am a haitian citizen and ive been living in the Dominican Republic for the past 10 years, NVC shipped our case to the Consulate in Haiti instead of the Dominican Republic, now its a pain in the neck, I dont have any address in Haiti right now they told us they was going to send me packet 3 to my address in D.R. and to my Fiancee in the US, untill now we are still waiting for packet 3, our case has been in their hands since June 26, my fiancee called they said they received a transfer authorization from the Consulate in Santo Domingo and was going to mailed packet 3, NOTHING still, but still they dont even answer to our emails. We are in the air right now we dont even know where exactly we are going to have an interview.