September 2013 I-130 Filers

[Aussie123 12]

hello everyone i got finally got approved on april 14 2014 and got notified last night. Today in the afternoon i have received hard copy of the notification. Can some body help me know how to proceed next step and to check the status of the applications.

Congrats!!! I have been watching yours - you were the only one left before me i think!!

[Aussie123 12]

I just wanted to let anyone still waiting know (I guess this is directed at anyone at the VSC mostly) that I was approved 4/11. My PD is 10/1 (so I thought this might be relevant since I'm so close to September. Anyway, my case status online has never changed from initial review and I received no emails. However yesterday I received the hard copy of the approval saying I was approved on 4/11. So maybe some people are really approved and just don't know it yet. I received the letter 5 days after I was approved and I live only about 3 hours from the VSC center.

Hey AmberG - congrats to you both!!!

[Bisola 2011 16]

So after calling USCIS today b4 going to my info pass appt 2mrw I decided to call them first and the tier 2 sup advised they sent us an RFE notice yesterday. Of course case status hasn't been updated online but that was a relief at least our case has been acknowledged. Even funnier I think I may know exactly what the RFE is about. When we sent the initial packet they returned more than half of our evidence with a letter stating "the attached document(s) are a format we cannot place in your file folder for review by an officer during the adjudication process" mind you this was returned within a week of receiving the NOA1. So..... At this point, I'm willing to bet that's what the RFE is all about requesting the same dang evidence we initially sent :/

Miss Drew: you may do the honors of updating the sheet <RFE 04/16>

[AmberG 23]

Oh that makes me feel a little bit better! I am out of the country and the mail sometimes takes forever to arrive here in Mexico. Maybe I will call on Monday and see what the automated system says about my case status. Thanks for the heads up!

No problem! Exactly- they might have sent you something. It's been one whole week exactly since my approval date on the hard copy, but until right now my case says initial review online, no emails, texts or anything...and even the reps can't see that it was approved because they filed a service request for my case on Monday. So weird. I'm hoping that's the case for you and a lot of other people!

[urbangirluk 73]

Just called the NVC to see if they had a case number for me. Spent about 30 minutes on hold. They just entered my case into the system. Got my case number and was told to wait for an email with instructions in the next few weeks!

Yay, did they give you an IIN too?

I just wanted to let anyone still waiting know (I guess this is directed at anyone at the VSC mostly) that I was approved 4/11. My PD is 10/1 (so I thought this might be relevant since I'm so close to September. Anyway, my case status online has never changed from initial review and I received no emails. However yesterday I received the hard copy of the approval saying I was approved on 4/11. So maybe some people are really approved and just don't know it yet. I received the letter 5 days after I was approved and I live only about 3 hours from the VSC center.

Congrats

So after calling USCIS today b4 going to my info pass appt 2mrw I decided to call them first and the tier 2 sup advised they sent us an RFE notice yesterday. Of course case status hasn't been updated online but that was a relief at least our case has been acknowledged. Even funnier I think I may know exactly what the RFE is about. When we sent the initial packet they returned more than half of our evidence with a letter stating "the attached document(s) are a format we cannot place in your file folder for review by an officer during the adjudication process" mind you this was returned within a week of receiving the NOA1. So..... At this point, I'm willing to bet that's what the RFE is all about requesting the same dang evidence we initially sent :/

Miss Drew: you may do the honors of updating the sheet <RFE 04/16>

Hope the RFE is something simple

[goodwinandkate 28]

Yay, did they give you an IIN too?

Congrats

Hope the RFE is something simple

They didn't give me the IIN also So, I've got to try my luck again tomorrow to try to get it in. I feel gutted that I didn't remember all the things I was supposed to ask for during the call.

That said, it's great to have some indication that things are happening at the NVC.

[adricas 1]

Have you filed a service request yet?

I'm not following your question....

My question is if I can contact the US embassy and since the I-30 has been approved I can file AOS, IV packets and make the payments to them directly or nothing else to do but wait for the snail mail from NVC, Thank you.

[bdrew612 1,071]

My question is if I can contact the US embassy and since the I-30 has been approved I can file AOS, IV packets and make the payments to them directly or nothing else to do but wait for the snail mail from NVC, Thank you.

You have to send everything to NVC. Please go to the NVC thread or go to Saylin's profile and read the links in her signature. You don't have to wait for snail mail.

So after calling USCIS today b4 going to my info pass appt 2mrw I decided to call them first and the tier 2 sup advised they sent us an RFE notice yesterday. Of course case status hasn't been updated online but that was a relief at least our case has been acknowledged. Even funnier I think I may know exactly what the RFE is about. When we sent the initial packet they returned more than half of our evidence with a letter stating "the attached document(s) are a format we cannot place in your file folder for review by an officer during the adjudication process" mind you this was returned within a week of receiving the NOA1. So..... At this point, I'm willing to bet that's what the RFE is all about requesting the same dang evidence we initially sent :/

Miss Drew: you may do the honors of updating the sheet <RFE 04/16>

I've been waiting for movement on yours and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what your RFE is for :/

[Monalisa22 84]

NVC received my case on 4/16. They said it will take about 30 days before I'm assigned a case number.

PS I am routing for those who are still waiting for approval. The approvals will come.

[goodwinandkate 28]

So, I just called the NVC again to see if I could get my Invoice ID, and I was told that it wouldn't do me any good to have it until they emailed it to me. The woman I spoke with said that if I tried to use the Invoice ID now, the system would say that my application was being terminated, which would cause unnecessary panic because it wouldn't actually be in a termination state.

I tried to gently have her reflect that perhaps there might be some good for me to have it "just in case", but she stuck to her line that there was nothing I could do with it until the official instructions were sent out.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

So, I just called the NVC again to see if I could get my Invoice ID, and I was told that it wouldn't do me any good to have it until they emailed it to me. The woman I spoke with said that if I tried to use the Invoice ID now, the system would say that my application was being terminated, which would cause unnecessary panic because it wouldn't actually be in a termination state.

I tried to gently have her reflect that perhaps there might be some good for me to have it "just in case", but she stuck to her line that there was nothing I could do with it until the official instructions were sent out.

Some agents are like that. Maybe if you call and speak to someone else, they will give it to you

[sairam8451 8]

My case got updated again today saying application has been shipped to NVC for further processing. Does anyone know how many days should i wait before i contact NVC and get notified and updated through email.

[JeffInMX 157]

Well, we woke up this morning to an email from USCIS, saying we are.....APPROVED!!!! FINALLY! bdrew, our NOA2 date is 4/17. Good luck to everyone else here waiting, especially those who were waiting there with us at the Nebraska Service Center. I know all of you have an approval coming soon!!!

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Well, we woke up this morning to an email from USCIS, saying we are.....APPROVED!!!! FINALLY! bdrew, our NOA2 date is 4/17. Good luck to everyone else here waiting, especially those who were waiting there with us at the Nebraska Service Center. I know all of you have an approval coming soon!!!

Yay! congrats

NVC finally received my case on 4/14!

[JeffInMX 157]

Yay! congrats

NVC finally received my case on 4/14!

Thank you