NVC Filers - April 2014

[Deep35472 130]

Should I call Mumbai ( India) consult office to find out if they might have my missing case their ?

Edited April 1, 2014 by Deep35472

[mimistar44 5]

The IV fee is invoiced when your DS-261 is accepted, generally a couple of weeks after you submit it. It's a separate track and not dependant on the AOS

oh OK! thank you for info. now i know when to check in NVC site for The IV fee.

[Changnoi 410]

lol Nice try!!

It's early yet...transition to April thread...

[mattandinga 5]

Hi mattandinga,

I've applied to Enroll on March 21 and then one more time on March 26. So far I have not received the Enroll confirmation email from NVC.

I am ready to email AOS documents but still waiting to receive the confirmation first.

Please read my signature timeline and let me know if I should send AOS despite have not received enroll confirmation.

Thanks for your advice,

Lukiduki

Hi Lukiduki,

Saylin’s Wiki for Canadian Spouses for NVC (electronic processing and online forms) provides the following:

Keep in mind, you should only email the two packages (AOS and IV) after you've gotten the acceptance email saying your case can now be processed electronically. You can find an example of what it says below in the section labelled Correspondence (it may have changed slightly since 2011).

However the NVC guide http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/submit/how-to-submit-documents-to-the-nvc.html simply provides the following:

Once you have sent your opt-in e-mail to the NVC, you may follow the Group A: Electronic Processing guidelines above to submit documents to the NVC.

I haven't located mention of an acceptance email in the information provided by the NVC, perhaps Saylin can shed some light? Not sure that this really helps, though is the best I have right now.

We’ve sent our enrollment email on March 27^th and thus far haven’t received an acceptance email yet either.

[waiting_______ 92]

No updates on our case tonight, as predicted... just had to check to put our minds at ease! 33 tries to get through and as many minutes spent on hold, so, a pretty standard Monday at NVC Planning my next call for Friday in case there's some kind of miracle, and still hoping for some actual movement next week.

Five days of processing pending for us since 28th, so maybe a shot... I plan to cross all my fingers and call on Thursday and until then

[Jag & Ripu 23]

Greetings All,

An update for those using Electronic Processing (EP). We have paid our AOS fee and the following information available on the receipts page would suggest that the Bar Coded Cover Sheet is not required for those using EP:

Next Steps

Payment Receipts for IV Case MTL2014xxxxxx

Status of All Fee Payments

Unless this case has joined the Electronic Processing Program you will need a Document Cover Sheet. You may use the Print Document Cover Sheet button below to print one now. If you cannot print a copy now use the Email Document Cover Sheet button to send an electronic copy to an e-mail address where it can be printed later.

Hi mattandinga,

You will need the cover sheet to send your AOS & IV DS 260 documents via email in EP. Sometimes you can't print the cover page but if you email the receipt to an email (Not NVC) then you get a PDF cover sheet attached to that email.

[waiting_______ 92]

Should I call Mumbai ( India) consult office to find out if they might have my missing case their ?

For sure, this might have happened to you if they expedited you at NVC based on your USCIS expedite. In that case they ship the case directly to the consulate.

[Deep35472 130]

For sure, this might have happened to you if they expedited you at NVC based on your USCIS expedite. In that case they ship the case directly to the consulate.

Might be that happened.

And I didn't expedited at NVC. But who knows what they did with my case..

I need Mumbai consulate phone number or email to contact them.

[Jamie & Izzy 98]

Today we got our NOA2 Hard Copy yay ! Cannot wait for i case number

Izzy

[Lakehouse 293]

Saylin..

I have access to your NVC spreadsheet now.

please don't ask me how I did it.

While you are busy with job, I will help you to add updates into it.

Also,I am trying to make nice background in the sheet with different colors.

Thanks

guess what..

...

it's April fools Saylin.

---------I was totally thinking, wow, how did you do that AND I sure hope you ask Saylin before you make any changes!... lol.

Great April Fools joke deep!!!

I've been lurking silently here on visa journey since about the same time last year when I was still getting ready to file my husband's I-130.. Now I'm so close to being done ( at least I hope so, anyway) I just wanted to say hi and say that I'm so thankful for all the answers/guides members have posted here on the forums.. Not even just the answers, but the questions as well.. There are so many questions that other members asked that I didn't even think to ask..

Anyway, I think this whole process draws out the crazy and neurotic side to most, if not all of us.. Just today, I must've refreshed/logged in the ceac.state.gov site at least twice every hour to check if the IV fee was invoiced yet.

Sending out good vibes to everyone and praying for all of us to be together with our loved ones soon enough.

Hopefully April is our month

Good luck to you:)

[xprecious32 50]

Hi mattandinga,

I've applied to Enroll on March 21 and then one more time on March 26. So far I have not received the Enroll confirmation email from NVC.

I am ready to email AOS documents but still waiting to receive the confirmation first.

Please read my signature timeline and let me know if I should send AOS despite have not received enroll confirmation.

Thanks for your advice,

Lukiduki

Ok so, I just got off phone with NVC, and was told that they have no confirmation of either one of my ENROLL emails that I sent to NVC and they have no record of my AOS that I sent either. Emails are read in the order they are received, no timeframe given for reading emails. She told me since I have not received confirmation for EP yet to mail in the AOS. Which I thought was weird because if I've already sent in ENROLL email then I'm opting for EP and cannot mail them anything. I was told that NOTHING can be emailed to them UNTIL you receive confirmation email for EP.

Seems to me that this EP will take longer than mailing in the AOS and IV. May call again tomorrow and withdraw from EP. I've compared peoples timeframes EP versus SNAIL MAIL, and to me SNAIL MAIL is quicker. My AOS showed paid on the 26th of March, If I had mailed it out on the 26th it would be at NVC already but because I opted for EP, I have to wait.

[nightingalejules 678]

I can't begin to tell you what a relief it is to be past the uscis stage! (Because you already know) Mostly, right now, it's the fact that I am now, as the beneficiary, allowed to talk to the people that answer the phone at NVC! They didn't have any actual information for me yet; NVC has not received our file. But still, the guy talked to me! And was very nice!

[Dreamers 0]

I am so praying that we are on the interview schedule for April @ the Tunis Embassy.

My birthday is on the 15th (((((hugs to all the Aries!))))) and it sure would be the SWEETEST gift EVER!!!

[THETIMEISNOW 37]

I want give a big thank you to lovemytico, senegal0123, and lagoslove! Thank you for having such compassion and patience as you have supported and encouraged myself and others throughout this journey! You are AWESOME!!! (L)

Edited April 1, 2014 by THETIMEISNOW

[solangetriana 2]

Finally got my NVC case number today. 31/03/2014