4 months from NVC to consulate???

[JiaYou 22]

I wrote to the consulate in Guangzhou asking if they had received our case from NVC which was mailed on the 22nd and got this infuriating response.

Thank you for your inquiry.

We have received notice that the NVC is sending the case file to the Consulate. We have not yet received the case file. Shipments of case files from the NVC can take four months or longer to arrive in China and clear Chinese customs. We have no control over how quickly case files are cleared by Chinese customs, and long delays are possible. We will send out an instruction package to your beneficiary once we receive the case file. Your patience is appreciated.

Bullsh*t. I lived in China for a lengthy amount of time and it never took more than 7 days to receive anything that was sent to me.

[Not me 1]

I wrote to the consulate in Guangzhou asking if they had received our case from NVC which was mailed on the 22nd and got this infuriating response.

Thank you for your inquiry.

We have received notice that the NVC is sending the case file to the Consulate. We have not yet received the case file. Shipments of case files from the NVC can take four months or longer to arrive in China and clear Chinese customs. We have no control over how quickly case files are cleared by Chinese customs, and long delays are possible. We will send out an instruction package to your beneficiary once we receive the case file. Your patience is appreciated.

Bullsh*t. I lived in China for a lengthy amount of time and it never took more than 7 days to receive anything that was sent to me.

I know it sucks, and I understand what you mean about getting packages and documents inside China. But the package isn't coming from inside China, they are coming from the US.

Customs is the main reason that you will waiting for up to three months before the consulate will even touch your case. The NVC isn't sending your case through FedEx. All of those applications are sent in bulk. China is always suspicious of large boxes of documents coming from "unfriendly" countries. \ After the embassy actually gets your case it will take about three to four weeks before your significant other gets the P3, and then another three to four weeks before they get the P4, and then another three to four weeks for the interview. So you still have about six or seven months before you'll be finished.

The main reason guys wait over two years to get there visa's is because it takes over six months to get the I-130 approved, and then six months to clear through customs and the embassy. That's why DCF is faster because it only deals with the embassy and has no customs checks. Not because they are expediting our cases.

Hang it there, your half way there.

[Snickerz 0]

wow that is too long

Maybe NVC also uses DHL in sending packages to China??

See link below under NVC forum, where a lot from the forum were able to track their package through DHL website from NVC to Consulate, as long as you know approximate date when your package left NVC.

You can try it if possible...i was able to track mine through this...

http://www.visajourn...nvc-to-embassy/

[Bob g 11]

I wrote to the consulate in Guangzhou asking if they had received our case from NVC which was mailed on the 22nd and got this infuriating response.

Thank you for your inquiry.

We have received notice that the NVC is sending the case file to the Consulate. We have not yet received the case file. Shipments of case files from the NVC can take four months or longer to arrive in China and clear Chinese customs. We have no control over how quickly case files are cleared by Chinese customs, and long delays are possible. We will send out an instruction package to your beneficiary once we receive the case file. Your patience is appreciated.

Bullsh*t. I lived in China for a lengthy amount of time and it never took more than 7 days to receive anything that was sent to me.

I received an email from NVC in Jan that my case was being sent to Guz. I called Dept of State in March before I went to China to visit my wife. DOS said Guz had received my case by electronic, but my Documents Case was still in Customs, which is their bullcrap code for sitting in the DHL warehouse. April 17, two days before my flight to return to USA, my wife received the Notice from Guz that she had an Interview date of 4 May, turn in documents 3 May. I met up with friends in China, that their case was sent from NVC 6 November, and their Interview Date was 12 April. DOS had gave them the same bullcrap story, "still in Customs".

[Darnell 8,479]

K-1 casefiles mostly travel via DHL, and the 'hold' is true, at China Customs.

Sorry, welcome to the Waiting Club.

You declare bullsh|t? I declare steamed bullsh|t, wrapped in grape leaves.

Edited April 29, 2011 by Darnell

[Operator 1,927]

K-1 casefiles mostly travel via DHL, and the 'hold' is true, at China Customs.

Sorry, welcome to the Waiting Club.

You declare bullsh|t? I declare steamed bullsh|t, wrapped in grape leaves.

"mostly"... is it true that some are selected for electronic processing?

[JiaYou 22]

I know it sucks, and I understand what you mean about getting packages and documents inside China. But the package isn't coming from inside China, they are coming from the US.

This is what I mean though. I had plenty of packages and documents sent from the US to me or my fiance in China and they always arrived within 7 days. One would think a large package sent from some random American would take longer to clear in customs than one sent from the government.

[Not me 1]

This is what I mean though. I had plenty of packages and documents sent from the US to me or my fiance in China and they always arrived within 7 days. One would think a large package sent from some random American would take longer to clear in customs than one sent from the government.

Yeah, but one package from some guy in the US is easier to check. Remember NVC isn't sending the applications one at a time. They bulk ship out thousands of applications with accompanying documents several times a month. That's tens of thousands of papers and hundreds of boxes constantly coming from the US office. I guaranty you when China sends huge boxes of stuff from there government offices American customs officials check through all of them as well. China and America aren't allies, and this is the normal treatment between "unfriendly" nations. Kind of like a bureaucratic pissing match.