It looks like the NVC is processing petitions faster!

[arynmichael 3]

I have some good news for petitioners whose petition is currently going through the NVC! Our petition was approved on September 6th and was accepted by the NVC on September 15th! They then mailed the petition to Amsterdam on September 16th!!! YAY!!! It looks like things are speeding up!

From looking at the recent timelines on visajourney it looked like the NVC was taking at least a month to process applications, but it sounds like they have sped up again! I hope this gives all of you in that inbetween stage hope!

Edited September 19, 2011 by arynmichael

[Britt♥Marco 9]

i wish the VSC would speed up by hmm, i don't know, a few months?

but yay! good luck to you guys

[arynmichael 3]

Our petition went through the VSC and it took 125 days, which sadly is right on schedule!

[yonglin 1]

I'm happy for you.

Unfortunately, I don't think your experience can be generalized. Some petitions just fly through (judging by the timelines), and some just take *forever* (or people just don't update).

We received NOA2 on August 29 from VSC and the NVC still hasn't entered it into their system. (That is, it's not even the processing that's taking time!) I figured today would be the 15th business day, but apparently that's tomorrow because of labor day...

Given that they always say "please allow 15 business days for the petition to be entered into our system", is it possible to put some kind of request once 15 business days have passed? Or will they just tell me to wait for another 15 business days?

Edited September 20, 2011 by yonglin

[Sirdaniel42 86]

Our NOA-2 took 77 days and to get through the NVC to the Consulate it took 8 or 9 days

I strongly believe it depends on the Case.

[yonglin 1]

For anyone who is interested:

The 15 business days (24 "actual" days) now passed (FYI, the day of approval "does not count"), and our case is not yet in the NVC computer system. I was told that I can now scan the NOA2 and e-mail it to nvcresearch@state.gov to have them look for our file.

By now, several different people on the NVC phone line have told me that "if the approval notice says it was forwarded to the consulate rather than the NVC, it probably was". When I ask them how I can contact the consulate without a case number, they get confused.

Edited September 22, 2011 by yonglin