USCIS sent my petition directly to the Moscow consulate

[AZSUN 2]

I receive our NOA2 for our I-129f and the first sentence says "The above petition has been approved, and forwarded to the listed consulate. Is this possible? Does anyone else have this on their NOA2?

Thanks in advance!!!!

[Hypnos 6,577]

All I-129F approval notices state this, but they will be dispatched to the NVC first. It's poor phrasing on USCIS' part.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Read these Dept. of State FAQs for the real story. All approved I-129f petitions are sent to the Department of State's NVC from the respective USCIS Service Center.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2994.html

Good luck.

[vbtwo 54]

That's the standard text of NOA2. It means nothing. It goes through NVC. I don't know why they can't change the text to reflect reality, but that's USCIS for you.

[P A U L 14]

i suppose it would be like saying, "We sent your petition to the U.S. Postal Service for transmission to Blah of Blahblah."

do they really need to specify that it was sent to NVC? i vote no.

[AZSUN 2]

The reason I asked is because the customer service representative at USCIS told me that was not sent to NVC and was sent directly to the consulate. So it was the reason for my questions. I completely understood that the previous process was to send it to NVC first. Maybe they have a new process. So it's really not Blah blah blah.

[Hypnos 6,577]

Unless you file through DCF, immigrant (or K nonimmigrant) petitions always go through NVC; there is no new process.

Edited August 30, 2013 by Hypnos

[P A U L 14]

so basically, the embassy is where you want the papers to be, and that's where they are. unless of course, your mail happened to be on this train:

http://youtu.be/wOe3eloICT4

[stevie b 141]

The reason I asked is because the customer service representative at USCIS told me that was not sent to NVC and was sent directly to the consulate. So it was the reason for my questions. I completely understood that the previous process was to send it to NVC first. Maybe they have a new process. So it's really not Blah blah blah.

this is why cr's are generally considered idiots