What is the difference betwen csc, nvc and Dos

[firegirl1788 4]

What is the difference betwen csc, nvc and Dos

Edited November 19, 2013 by firegirl1788

[lost_at_sea 995]

CSC stands for California Service Center. It's a big processing center for petitions. There's other centers too, so you'll see their acronyms from time to time (like VSC).

NVC is the National Visa Center - they process petitions after the processing centers are done with them, get files sent out to various embassies etc. I believe they also do some petition processing themselves, notify folks of stuff etc.:

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/National_Visa_Center

DOS is the Department of State:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/Department_of_State

[firegirl1788 4]

Ok i got my noa2 saying my petition have been approved , the uscis has sent the petition to nvc . Here i read some people call to Dos instead nvc to ask about the case number.

[volkditty 23]

Ok i got my noa2 saying my petition have been approved , the uscis has sent the petition to nvc . Here i read some people call to Dos instead nvc to ask about the case number.

Yeah, it gets confusing sometimes with all the different acronyms being used. The NVC is part of the DoS, so sometimes people will say one when they mean the other.