HCMC Pkt 3 & 4

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

I just got a reply to my email to the consulate. They included a copy of the packet 3 PDF. It's identical to one Scott posted, so I assume nothing has changed there.

[vietazn 1]

Can anyone that recently got pkt 3 or 4 confirm if the pkt is still the same as these I have posted?

I sent my I-129F a week after you did. Should I be getting an NOA2, and these 2 documents soon? Are these two documents sent to me or to my fiance? How is the process moving so quickly because I thought the processing times were still stuck in May...

People that filed after you are already approved... Check the USCIS site to see if they approved you yet. Setup an email and or mobile one and they will let you know when your status has changed... Then a few weeks later the consulate should have your file.... they will send the SO the pkt 3. once the response to pkt 3 is received, they will set an appt and send the SO pkt 4 with the appt date/time and a list of all docs that must be brought to the interview. I posted examples of pkt 3 & 4 above and so far they are the same ones that are being used to date based on what feedback has been posted. Use those as examples of what to expect in the coming month...

I checked online, still on NOA1. I thought the process followed the FIFO, first in first out? If I haven't received mine, what does it mean? Did it get lost?

[ScottThuy 140]

I checked online, still on NOA1. I thought the process followed the FIFO, first in first out? If I haven't received mine, what does it mean? Did it get lost?

Not FIFO brother.. They pick and choose and you should see it soon... select the mobile notification.. I signed for it when they announced it and a few days later everyone here was surprised to hear from me that it actually worked... There have been a few others that got mobile notification since.

Here is a group that you can see to know where they are working on July files...

And Here is Igors list so you can see who got approved this week.

Go through the files that are posted at the beginning of this topic so you know what to get ready for the next leg.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

I checked online, still on NOA1. I thought the process followed the FIFO, first in first out? If I haven't received mine, what does it mean? Did it get lost?

The adjudicator's pull the petitions in bunches, in the order they are received. For instance, an adjudicator may pull a dozen petitions at the same time to work on. Some adjudicators work faster than others. Some petitions take longer to work on than others.

So, one petition may get pulled at the back end of a set for one adjudicator (to be worked on last in the set), and the very next petition may get pulled at the front of another adjudicator's set (to be worked on first).

Generally speaking, they are worked on in the order received, but that doesn't guarantee that a petition received on a specific day will be adjudicated before a petition received the following day.

[Ronnie&Hang 12]

Was there any delay getting Pkt 3 from them?

Same thing happened with Package 3...never received it so I called while I was still in Calif. and they said they've sent it out long ago. I had Hang go straight to the Info Window to submit DS230 and DS2001.

Good thing we just a short ride to the Consulate, I can imagine that can be so much trouble for those not living in Saigon.

[toddandhien 2]

I have been looking at the times between NVC and interview and it can be shorter than in the past as well...I saw one from last month that has an interview 77 days after NOA2. I am actually affraid of the remote possibility that they schedule it before our Dam Hoi. If they schedule our interview in the first part of Dec it will be like hittin the lotto. It would save me a trip..

No doubt in my mind that they have your case @ HCMC at least a week or two ago..... if you have her complete the first half of DS 230 and the DS 2001 she can fax them to the consulate or email them... An interview should follow by about 60 days... NVC gave you your HCM# right?

Yeah, I got the HCM number over the phone, and then a couple days later in the mail from NVC.

I helped Phuong with the DS-230's (three of em), and sent them DHL. She'll probably get them this week. The DS-2001 she can handle herself.

I just got done chatting with her. I wasn't sure if they actually delivered mail to her home, or if she had to go to the post office and pick it up. She says they deliver it to her home. I'm mystified how they can find her home. Her address consists of her name, hamlet, ward, district, and province. There are hundreds of homes in the hamlet, on dozens of streets. I have visions of the letter carrier looking at the mail and saying "Hmmm. Where is the Nguyen family home?".

Its the same with Thuys family house... out in the countryside.... To be sure mail gets to her I often put her fathers name on it because everyone knows him...half of what I send her in the mail does not get there.. Her 230 only needs the number and a signature and its done. We were going over the list of questions that they could ask and she knew things that I did not know she knew. I am surprised at how much she really knows about me and my family already.The reality of how close we are getting to a possible flight together back to the uS is just sinking in... There are so many little details that I know she has not addressed yet when it comes to moving here... The good thing is the fact that I will be traveling back and forth more often for work next year and she can go with me (after they allow her to travel outside the US).

You guys are lucky to have SO's that actually get mail delivery. In Hien's hamlet, there is no mail delivery. If you want your mail, you need to know that you have something coming and then go to the post office and rummage through a big pile that sits out front. Once Hien got to know them (never had received any mail before in her life), they would take her mail out and set it aside but she or her brother had to go and ask for it. Out of about maybe 30 letters I sent to her, only 1 went MIA.

Might be worth having her swing by the PO and asking for mail.

[VN10 0]

How long will i get p3 since NVC sent our k3 to vietnam ? Thanks.

[ScottThuy 140]

it really depends on the mail service and where it is going.. a week or two is normal... Jim just waited a long time for his...

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

it really depends on the mail service and where it is going.. a week or two is normal... Jim just waited a long time for his...

Phuong never got P3. I ended up sending an email to the consulate, and they had made a minor mistake in the address. Probably not enough to explain why she didn't get it, though. They said she could go ahead and send her DS-230's and DS-2001, since they had the petition and were ready to proceed.

[Greg_n_Lien 0]

Can anyone that recently got pkt 3 or 4 confirm if the pkt is still the same as these I have posted?

Congrats!!!

Thanks for upload of the forms from Packets 3 & 4

that will give us time to review and be prepared. I still ahve a ways to go, I am only at NOA1

[lindal24 1]

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[BinhJerome 14]

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[J+T 0]

ScottThuy,

Thanks for upload the 2 Packets (3 & 4)

We can use those as examples for the next step...

(Still waiting for Pk3)

so worried....

Can anyone that recently got pkt 3 or 4 confirm if the pkt is still the same as these I have posted?

Edited November 18, 2009 by hantinh

[ScottThuy 140]

We got Pkt 3 finally almost two months after NVC got our file from USCIS... I emailed them the signed forms as well as mailed them hard copies... the pkt 3 looked just like the example posted... if he responds this week, you should have an interview mid Jan like I expect we will.