NOA2 ISSUED!! NOW WHAT???? (K1 Visa) (Russia)

DaveLovesDasha · December 3, 2011

Hello, need some help. What happens now that our NOA2 was issued on 11/30/2011? Can some one take me step by step? My fiance is from Russia

Misha & Ira · December 3, 2011

From here your petition will travel to the NVC where it will take up to 3 weeks to process before being sent on to Moscow. There it will be given a case number starting with MOS. You will need this number in order to schedule your interview.

What I did was to call the NVC daily...at this point they will tell you (if you speak to a live person) that it takes up to 15 business days to get into the system. But...it varies. I also wrote them at NVCinquiry@state.gov . What you are interested in is getting your case number. When you do this, use as the subject the NOA case number - starts with EAC if you went through Vermont. In the body of the letter include your name and DOB and her name and DOB. I simply asked for the status of the case and the number. I also attached a scan of our NOA2. This got the best response.

You will need to go to http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ru/ and create an account. A word of caution, I had thought to go set up a trila account so I could guide Ira through the process...but this site is not conducive to making trial runs. Two pieces of information become unchangeable once you enter them...her passport number and her name. Once locked in, this information can only be changed by the site admin. I mistakenly used her internal passport number and they made me send a scan of her international passport in order to change it. They told me that creating multiple accounts would cause problems. Fortunately the support staff is helpful and seemingly available 24/7. (I work nights and was calling at 7-9pm EST) The phone menu is in english, but they will answer the phone in Russian..I just asked for English as my Russian is not quite enough for this.

One piece of information on the Embassy site is outdated. The visa is no longer paid for the day of the interview but prior to be able to schedule. It then takes two full business days for the bank to input the payment information into the system. After the bank enters the information into the system you can schedule your interview. The good news is that when I was talking to the people back in late October, the ustraveldocs people told me that the first available date was Nov 1! It seems that there is no real backlog or difficulty in getting an interview date. We chose our date because her son will be out of school that week, but she could have chosen earlier. Not many dates were not available.

Packet 3 is all online now....the following links will have all the information you will need

http://moscow.usemba...ov/fiancee.html

http://moscow.usemba...packet4-eng.pdf

Here is the number for Embassy visa services that you can call locally (718) 425-8337. Another thing to do is have her call them and they too can walk her through in Russian if she needs.

http://moscow.usemba...contact-us.html

She should have already requested her police report as this will take the most time to get. Also in the meantime, getting all of her vital docs (birth certificate, divorce decrees...anything of this nature) translated into english. As long as her docs are in Russian, they do not need to be certified translations.

Tracking your package from the NVC to the embassy is found in this thread. You will need the date they tell you it shipped and enter it in the DHL tracking site as shown in this example. In the screenshot, they had told me my petition shipped on the 20th.

http://www.visajourn..._1#entry4970692

I hope that helps