NVC Filers - June 2014

[bomzy4ever 11]

Hello everyone..after exactly a month sending my AOS packet, I received an email from NVC with an attachment of IV fee bill invoice today. I tried to login and see if I can make a payment online..but it is still not available online...my alternate option to mail the payment.. but I'd rather pay it online and get done..because it is less hassle....anyone went through the same situation? or anyone know..how long will it take for them to let me pay online?

Thanks in advance!!!

[bomzy4ever 11]

Just got our IV email! Woohoo! Not available on the website yet, but hopefully by the end of the day! So relieved!

Same here...I was so excited to get an email, but then I couldn't pay the bill right away...it's not available yet...hope they'll unlock it very soon!!! what a relief! Glad at least I know that the process is moving along..good luck!!

[VNBCI130 94]

Hello everyone..after exactly a month sending my AOS packet, I received an email from NVC with an attachment of IV fee bill invoice today. I tried to login and see if I can make a payment online..but it is still not available online...my alternate option to mail the payment.. but I'd rather pay it online and get done..because it is less hassle....anyone went through the same situation? or anyone know..how long will it take for them to let me pay online?

Thanks in advance!!!

Congrats! It should be available either tonight or by noon tomorrow. Did you ever end up resubmitting ds261?

[dawning 212]

Same here...I was so excited to get an email, but then I couldn't pay the bill right away...it's not available yet...hope they'll unlock it very soon!!! what a relief! Glad at least I know that the process is moving along..good luck!!

I am in the same situation--got the e-mail today but when I sign in it's still not available. Everyone saying it should be soon is reassuring. I don't mind as long as it's in the next few days. My husband is supposed to be sending me documents that we didn't know we needed for the IV packet, so I can't send it till next week.

Good luck!

[A & Y 15]

Hey guys submitted DS261 on may 21st and still no good news... why they are taking it so long?

[Zyryab 12]

Hello.

I'm also joining the joy of those who got invoiced the IV fee today, even if it's not able to pay yet, but never mind.

I have a concern about the IV package, I already have my civil documents in spanish, but do I have to translate them to English? Because in the travel.state.gov page says that translation is required only if the document is in a different language that differs from the country official one, and if that is the case, I know they will require an apostille.

Also do the civil documents in spanish will require one apostille too? That means apostilles for both, spanish and translation documents. What should I do?

Thanks in advance for any answer.

PD: Random thought buzzing in my head; I'm the beneficiary of an IR2 visa, my father (US Citizen) petitioned me in august of the last year, I'm turning 21 this July and I know I won't be able to have an interview before my birthday, I hope one by august, do I have to be worried?

[elvenshadow 19]

It has been about 24 hours since I last posted and I still cannot fill out the DS-261. Is there a typical time of day that it would usually become available or can it suddenly become available at any time? I probably tried about 8 times yesterday throughout the day but no luck. Should I just keep trying once every few hours?

[VNBCI130 94]

Hey guys submitted DS261 on may 21st and still no good news... why they are taking it so long?

Did u ever resubmit ds261? If not call and speak with supervisor.

You should have been invoiced IV by now.

[BOS_LHR 829]

I learned something today! You guys know that Latin text beginning "lorem ipsum" used as filler when laying out graphic designs? Apparently it's scrambled text from a work written by Cicero about delayed gratification. That concept is one we LDR types are intimately familiar with, so here you go, a little inspiration to keep fighting the good fight -

"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."

[bomzy4ever 11]

Congrats! It should be available either tonight or by noon tomorrow. Did you ever end up resubmitting ds261?

No, i didn't resubmit..because it shows up as "complete" in the status online

[dawning 212]

Hey guys submitted DS261 on may 21st and still no good news... why they are taking it so long?

Don't know... but it might be coming soon. I filled out mine on the 20th, but they said it was the 21st (I live on the west coast, I think it was probably after their business hours when I did it) and I just got the e-mail today and it's still not available to pay. You might be just behind me in the line.

Good luck!

[savagechair 38]

Not that the chorus needs yet another voice, but I'm grousing because I have a case assigned date of June 10, but *still* no AOS fee available, nor no ds-261

It seems like right around early June, NVC got cloggy. Who else is now waiting 14 days after a case # with still nothing available for them to pay/submit?

Happy Monday night/Tuesday!

[Lyndon 22]

Yes! Praying for the best for our cases.. The waiting game just keeps on going on and on and on! Thank God we're done with USCIS, one down! ?

Hey! My case reached NVC on the 20th thank God!? wishing you luck too?

[Soloenta 2,218]

Just got our IV email! Woohoo! Not available on the website yet, but hopefully by the end of the day! So relieved!

So happy for you, mine should be coming due around the 28 Th if as they say it's taking 30 days, ok so I'm counting weekends hahaaa if not I would go ballistic so bare wiff me. :dance:

[tbellkzoo 23]

Ok....so I am seeing a lot of timelines that has a "shipped to nvc" and a "nvc received" column. So my question is....how do u know when the petition shipped from USCIS. Ive called them and was told that they wouldn't know what date it was shipped. Ive even asked to speak to a supervisor and she wouldn't transfer me. All my NOA 2 says is that it was approved June 10th and in fine print that it is being shipped. ..30 days...blah blah...how do I find out when it shipped?