NVC status confusion

[justcheckin 0]

I'm still confused about how the NVC updates the case status. 2 weeks ago when I called them an AVR message informed me there was an RFE, which turned out to be false as they must have received all the forms and documents by then. An NVC rep I spoke to said they still hadn't received DS-230. It turned out to be a false RFE and a few days later the message changed saying that a checklist letter response had been received on 7/18 and was being reviewed. Yesterday I tried logging on to the online payment page and couldn't do it anymore and got the message that the case doesn't require any further processing by NVC at this time.

So I called NVC to find out if the case was closed. The AVR message I got said that they received a checklist letter response on 7/27 and are in the process of reviewing it. Got the same information from a rep.

I'm sort of confused now. Based on the inability to log in and posts that I have read here, the case is completed or almost completed but why the message about the checklist letter response has a different date now - it changed from 7/18 to 7/27. Is it because these guys scan the barcode every time they review the documents and this is interpreted by the system as receiving a checklist letter response?

I guess all I can do is be a bit more patient and wait but the NVC could be more accurate with the different statuses.

[griffin 7]

YOU SHOULD BE DANCING BY NOW BECAUSE I HAD THE SAME SITUATION AFTER DAY OR TWO THE CASE WAS COMPLETED.

GRIFFIN

[Svetlana 0]

I have my "Case Completed" next day after I can't login to the pay info

[justcheckin 0]

Thanks for your replies guys. Unfortunately even if my wife's case is completed at the NVC, it still won't do us any good. When I became a US citizen in March this year I upgraded my wife's petition and filed a separate I-130 for my daughter. I requested that the 2 cases are linked. Well, my wife's petition was approved almost instantly upon the upgrade but my daughter's is still pending (receipt date April 10th). Now my wife's petition is almost completed at the NVC.

We'd like to go to the Montreal consulate only once and have my wife and daughter move to the US together. If my daughter's petition is approved after my wife's case leaves the NVC, they won't be able to combine those there to schedule a single interview. So in the end we'll need to get in touch with the consulate in Montreal and ask them to hold off on scheduling an interview until they've received my daughter's application. Or if the interview is scheduled far enough in the future, my daughter's case might get to them earlier than that and they could possibly still combine both cases for the same date.

I'm hoping my daughter's case will catch up with my wife's in the consulate so there won't be any delay but who knows.

I called up the USCIS today to ask them about my daughter's application. They said it had not been assigned to anyone yet and the current processing time is 5 months so I still have to wait for 1.5 months before they can do anything.

It sucks. I don't know why the law requires that a separate I-130 is filed for each family member and no derivative status is possible. I guess this way they can collect multiple I-130 fees.