Dreaded RFE!

[clairehair 0]

My affidavits of support (I have two petitions running at the same time) were entered into the sytem yesterday and when I checked the messages today it had changed from "documents were generated and will be sent" that has been on there since I paid the IV fees to the dreaded-"Information incomplete and they will send a checklist etc etc" on the cases. My situation is that they have my affidavits of support, the IV fees are paid as are my AOS reveiw fees and the DS 230 forms have been generated and have been for a few weeks but due to some delay from police certifcates for my parents they have not received that pack of documents with DS 230's from me yet . I went through to the operator who said the AOS were still being reveiwed and she had no idea why I had an RFE message as they had not finished reveiwing them. When I asked why they would put that message up at all l when they hadn't finished she didn't know. That was a waste of time I must say. Is it possible that the RFE has been generated from the delay between the IV fees being paid and them not receiving the DS 230 and it refers to that? I am assuming it is not from the AOS as they haven't finished with them or I could be wrong? Who knows, she certainly didn't!

Any ideas from my ever well informed forum collegues?!

[queuedup 1]

Your assumption is probably correct. Call NVC and see if they have accepted your Affadavit of Support. If they have then your RFE is caused because of the timing of the review of your AOS and not having your DS-230 information submitted. I got an RFE because of the timing.

Good Luck!!

[clairehair 0]

Your assumption is probably correct. Call NVC and see if they have accepted your Affadavit of Support. If they have then your RFE is caused because of the timing of the review of your AOS and not having your DS-230 information submitted. I got an RFE because of the timing.

Good Luck!!

Its been received but if you mean accepted as in reveiwed then no its still in process of being reveiwed but if you mean accepted as in , it has been scanned in and is in the system then yes it has.

[AddyG 0]

The AVR gave me some wierd message and it said there had been a letter sent out to us regarding what we were missing. Turned out the thing we were "missing" was the entire DS-230!! Like you - we had been waiting for one of my police checks. We had not even sent the DS-230 yet so we thought maybe it was to do with the I-864. Seems like this may be the same in your case. The only way to really know is call back until you get an operator who can explain it! The AVR is usually a day or two behind and sometimes makes things sound worse than they are!

[12345678 1]

The AVR gave me some wierd message and it said there had been a letter sent out to us regarding what we were missing. Turned out the thing we were "missing" was the entire DS-230!! Like you - we had been waiting for one of my police checks. We had not even sent the DS-230 yet so we thought maybe it was to do with the I-864. Seems like this may be the same in your case. The only way to really know is call back until you get an operator who can explain it! The AVR is usually a day or two behind and sometimes makes things sound worse than they are!

Agreed 100%!!!! I also had the same RFE, which was after our I-864 was accepted and DS 230 was under review...So don't worry, I am sure that is not an RFE from AOS, it is a general RFE, many of us experienced the same, and got accepted right after the RFE was generated...

Sonia

[clairehair 0]

The AVR gave me some wierd message and it said there had been a letter sent out to us regarding what we were missing. Turned out the thing we were "missing" was the entire DS-230!! Like you - we had been waiting for one of my police checks. We had not even sent the DS-230 yet so we thought maybe it was to do with the I-864. Seems like this may be the same in your case. The only way to really know is call back until you get an operator who can explain it! The AVR is usually a day or two behind and sometimes makes things sound worse than they are!

Agreed 100%!!!! I also had the same RFE, which was after our I-864 was accepted and DS 230 was under review...So don't worry, I am sure that is not an RFE from AOS, it is a general RFE, many of us experienced the same, and got accepted right after the RFE was generated...

Sonia

Thanks to all who posted I am not going to get my knickers in a twist just yet, it seems that this must be the missing DS 230 as the AOS has even been reveiwed yet.

[AddyG 0]

Let us know what you find out!

[robbyrob 2]

Many of us have gotten this "false" rfe. Mine basically stated it was missing waiting for ds230. I think that the avr sometimes jumps the gun. Just give it a few days for it to finish the review or work its self out. Goodluck.

My affidavits of support (I have two petitions running at the same time) were entered into the sytem yesterday and when I checked the messages today it had changed from "documents were generated and will be sent" that has been on there since I paid the IV fees to the dreaded-"Information incomplete and they will send a checklist etc etc" on the cases. My situation is that they have my affidavits of support, the IV fees are paid as are my AOS reveiw fees and the DS 230 forms have been generated and have been for a few weeks but due to some delay from police certifcates for my parents they have not received that pack of documents with DS 230's from me yet . I went through to the operator who said the AOS were still being reveiwed and she had no idea why I had an RFE message as they had not finished reveiwing them. When I asked why they would put that message up at all l when they hadn't finished she didn't know. That was a waste of time I must say. Is it possible that the RFE has been generated from the delay between the IV fees being paid and them not receiving the DS 230 and it refers to that? I am assuming it is not from the AOS as they haven't finished with them or I could be wrong? Who knows, she certainly didn't!

Any ideas from my ever well informed forum collegues?!

[clairehair 0]

Let us know what you find out!

As requested an update!-Yesterday the affidavits of support went through just fine. The AVR message had changed from "A packet of forms has been received and information was found missing or incomplete" to "A packet of forms have been reviewed and information was found missing and complete" That didn't do much to soothe me as the last operator had been so unhelpful, offering no advice at all and now this message. I went through again and the operator was able to confirm this time that this message as we all suspected was indeed a response to them waiting for the DS 230! What a releif!

[queuedup 1]

Love the false RFEs....you will probably receive a missing checklist in the mail, which will say the DS-230 part I and II are missing. You can ignore that letter, and just send your DS-230 with the bar code coversheet that is generated after the IV payment.

[clairehair 0]

Love the false RFEs....you will probably receive a missing checklist in the mail, which will say the DS-230 part I and II are missing. You can ignore that letter, and just send your DS-230 with the bar code coversheet that is generated after the IV payment.

They are a bad idea. Its something they need to reveiw. The AVR messages are in dire need of an overhaul in general. They need messages for affidavit of support reveiws and a message that says they are waiting for a DS230. To have the same message for that and for a real RFE , is crazy and causes unecessary worry to the petioners and unecessary calls for the operator to handle. I would have thought they would benefit also by that change.

My IV packet is already to go complete with barcoded coversheets, I am waiting on police certifcates from my parents. I asked them to apply earlier for them but they dithered over it because they weren't sure when they were going to be ready to come because of property complications and they were worried they would expire. I tried to talk them out of this but they insisted. Now the property issue has resolved and we are behind. I try to be patient however, because they are elderly and worry more than a younger person would and this is huge deal for someone of any age let alone their age. I am trying to spare them too much stress and so go with the pace they set. Its a little frustrating but I had better get used to it!