NVC Filers - April 2013

[LucidSofia 59]

How are you guys assembling your packets.. with staples or paper clibs or acco fasteners??

I read somwhere on the instructions on the NVC website that it said to "make sure all pages are stapled together".. IT surprised me that they wanted things stapled. What have you guys done?

edit: oops, quoted speedwells last post by mistake

Edited April 25, 2013 by LucidSofia

[speedwell 224]

How are you guys assembling your packets.. with staples or paper clibs or acco fasteners??

I read somwhere on the instructions on the NVC website that it said to "make sure all pages are stapled together".. IT surprised me that they wanted things stapled. What have you guys done?

edit: oops, quoted speedwells last post by mistake

lol yeah I didn't staple my Singaporean fish soup

It took me less time to do than to describe. I stapled things together if they went together (for example, two pages of the same flight itinerary). Then I used a small binder clip to hold each section together, added separator sheets, topped it with a cover letter, topped everything with the bar code sheet, then used a medium binder clip to hold the whole packet together. It looked more or less like this when it was done:

bar code sheet

overall cover letter

colored paper separator

required documentation including originals

colored paper separator

copies of required documentation

colored paper separator

cover letter explaining front loaded stuff

front loaded stuff

3M makes this excellent removable Post-It tape, so I got some in a nice bright green and made labels to mark everything with the NVC case number (if it didn't say it already), so if it got separated from the file, they would still know who it belonged to. And I can peel the label off our marriage certificate without damaging it, later. If you can't get removable tape, you should mark your NVC case number on your pages somewhere anyway.

Was this the "right" way to assemble my packet? I don't know, but 25 years of working in offices, much of that as a secretary, tells me it is at least organized, efficient, and unlikely to be separated easily, but still easy to examine and to place in a case file. I just hope they don't two-hole-punch our wedding certificate

Edited April 25, 2013 by speedwell

[YA 1127 6]

lol yeah I didn't staple my Singaporean fish soup

It took me less time to do than to describe. I stapled things together if they went together (for example, two pages of the same flight itinerary). Then I used a small binder clip to hold each section together, added separator sheets, topped it with a cover letter, topped everything with the bar code sheet, then used a medium binder clip to hold the whole packet together. It looked more or less like this when it was done:

bar code sheet

overall cover letter

colored paper separator

required documentation including originals

colored paper separator

copies of required documentation

colored paper separator

cover letter explaining front loaded stuff

front loaded stuff

3M makes this excellent removable Post-It tape, so I got some in a nice bright green and made labels to mark everything with the NVC case number (if it didn't say it already), so if it got separated from the file, they would still know who it belonged to. And I can peel the label off our marriage certificate without damaging it, later. If you can't get removable tape, you should mark your NVC case number on your pages somewhere anyway.

Was this the "right" way to assemble my packet? I don't know, but 25 years of working in offices, much of that as a secretary, tells me it is at least organized, efficient, and unlikely to be separated easily, but still easy to examine and to place in a case file. I just hope they don't two-hole-punch our wedding certificate

I didnt use none of that , well i just placed labels on top right corner of every pages with beneficiary name DOB and case number . Then i just put a big binder clip on it with the bar code sheet and sent it off . It went smoothly through NVC . Dont freak out just send in your documents and you will b fine

[speedwell 224]

I didnt use none of that , well i just placed labels on top right corner of every pages with beneficiary name DOB and case number . Then i just put a big binder clip on it with the bar code sheet and sent it off . It went smoothly through NVC . Dont freak out just send in your documents and you will b fine

Oh I agree, I was very fussy about the whole packet. I certainly do not expect everyone to do what I did. For one thing it was a lot of work. For another thing it's not required!

[E-A 2]

Case Completed yesterday!!! :dance:

Thank you Saylin!! (F) I wish I can send real rose to you!

Hope others VJ's will get completed soon!!!

Edited April 25, 2013 by E-A

[Clemjam 8]

Good morning all,

Got IINs 3 days ago and invoices are still not generated on payment portal...

[speedwell 224]

Good morning all,

Got IINs 3 days ago and invoices are still not generated on payment portal...

I'm advising you to call the NVC and tell them. I work in IT, and there's a IT help desk principle that if people don't call and tell tech support there's a problem, tech support neither knows there's a problem, nor knows the extent of the problem.

My paid invoice for the IV bill is also showing as IN PROCESS even though it cleared my bank days ago. There is definitely something wrong with the status check site. I am going to call and find out if it is also wrong at NVC, or if they can see the true status.

Edited April 25, 2013 by speedwell

[The Mean Lady 604]

Good morning all,

Got IINs 3 days ago and invoices are still not generated on payment portal...

Should hopefully be soon.

I believe mine were generated late friday as I got them first thing on Monday and my AoS invoice was not available until yesterday afternoon.

[Clemjam 8]

Should hopefully be soon.

I believe mine were generated late friday as I got them first thing on Monday and my AoS invoice was not available until yesterday afternoon.

When did you get your case and IIN number?

I'm advising you to call the NVC and tell them. I work in IT, and there's a IT help desk principle that if people don't call and tell tech support there's a problem, tech support neither knows there's a problem, nor knows the extent of the problem.

My paid invoice for the IV bill is also showing as IN PROCESS even though it cleared my bank days ago. There is definitely something wrong with the status check site. I am going to call and find out if it is also wrong at NVC, or if they can see the true status.

Thanks Speedwell, I think I ll call them tonight if it still isn't generated through today

Hope your 'in process' will change soon!

[LucidSofia 59]

lol yeah I didn't staple my Singaporean fish soup

It took me less time to do than to describe. I stapled things together if they went together (for example, two pages of the same flight itinerary). Then I used a small binder clip to hold each section together, added separator sheets, topped it with a cover letter, topped everything with the bar code sheet, then used a medium binder clip to hold the whole packet together. It looked more or less like this when it was done:

bar code sheet

overall cover letter

colored paper separator

required documentation including originals

colored paper separator

copies of required documentation

colored paper separator

cover letter explaining front loaded stuff

front loaded stuff

3M makes this excellent removable Post-It tape, so I got some in a nice bright green and made labels to mark everything with the NVC case number (if it didn't say it already), so if it got separated from the file, they would still know who it belonged to. And I can peel the label off our marriage certificate without damaging it, later. If you can't get removable tape, you should mark your NVC case number on your pages somewhere anyway.

Was this the "right" way to assemble my packet? I don't know, but 25 years of working in offices, much of that as a secretary, tells me it is at least organized, efficient, and unlikely to be separated easily, but still easy to examine and to place in a case file. I just hope they don't two-hole-punch our wedding certificate

Ok wow, thank you for the very detailed answer!!

Good morning all,

Got IINs 3 days ago and invoices are still not generated on payment portal...

I got invoiced a full WEEK after I got my IIN..

I didnt use none of that , well i just placed labels on top right corner of every pages with beneficiary name DOB and case number . Then i just put a big binder clip on it with the bar code sheet and sent it off . It went smoothly through NVC . Dont freak out just send in your documents and you will b fine

Ok cool, nice to know I dont need to put THAT much work into it hehe, thanks.

[The Mean Lady 604]

When did you get your case and IIN number?

I just said I got them Monday.

I got my case number last week sometime, but the BIN and IIN were not avail until I called monday morning.

[Clemjam 8]

I just said I got them Monday.

I got my case number last week sometime, but the BIN and IIN were not avail until I called monday morning.

Sorry! It's early in the morning, well kind of

Thanks for replying!

[speedwell 224]

The rep at the NVC says that the issue is with the Department of State website, and to keep checking the payment portal to see when my IN PROCESS changes to PAID. There is nothing that the NVC can do about the State Department website problem. They did not seem to be able to tell that my payment cleared my bank several days ago. They did send our case file for review, but the rep today noticed that the rep I spoke to yesterday marked it as a DS-260 (that London does not handle) instead of the DS-230 that we sent in. A typo, but I was grateful to the rep this morning for noticing that and correcting it.

[Clemjam 8]

I got invoiced a full WEEK after I got my IIN..

Lucid, did you call tyhe NVC to find out why it was taking so long?

I've been looking at different threads and it seems to me that their payment portal may have some difficulties at processing things as of recent...

[Clemjam 8]

The rep at the NVC says that the issue is with the Department of State website, and to keep checking the payment portal to see when my IN PROCESS changes to PAID. There is nothing that the NVC can do about the State Department website problem. They did not seem to be able to tell that my payment cleared my bank several days ago. They did send our case file for review, but the rep today noticed that the rep I spoke to yesterday marked it as a DS-260 (that London does not handle) instead of the DS-230 that we sent in. A typo, but I was grateful to the rep this morning for noticing that and correcting it.

Nic eof them that they noticed and acknowledged a mistake from their part!

It is strange though that they can not do anything about it because if you try to contact their technical department, you need to email the NVCenquiry mailbox...