NVC Filers - July 2014

[Monica2013 30]

Saylin yes we did that yesterday omg I hate this iPod grrrrrrr

[JeffNJazz 55]

Well POOP! I just got the following email from nvc electronic...

We are unable to review your attached forms and documents because they

are password protected. Please resubmit the attached forms and documents

without password protection so we may review and process the documents.

I had read about this issue before submitting, so I checked the files on 2 macs and 1 PC before sending them in. Now I get this. Any ideas why this could be? There were a total of 33 attachments, 8.5 mb in size. How can I check which one they think is password protected? Any ideas?

[Saylin 1,605]

Saylin yes we did that yesterday omg I hate this iPod grrrrrrr

Haha, hope you get your laptop back soon! Anywho, thanks, updated to 7/22 for your DS-260 date

[Dfibus 16]

answered my own pregunta

Edited July 23, 2014 by Dfibus

[Saylin 1,605]

Well POOP! I just got the following email from nvc electronic...

We are unable to review your attached forms and documents because they

are password protected. Please resubmit the attached forms and documents

without password protection so we may review and process the documents.

I had read about this issue before submitting, so I checked the files on 2 macs and 1 PC before sending them in. Now I get this. Any ideas why this could be? There were a total of 33 attachments, 8.5 mb in size. How can I check which one they think is password protected? Any ideas?

I can't think of any way to pinpoint the specific file if you had tested it before sending it.

IIRC, when this happened previously, someone suggested to print everything out, then re-scan it in and that should fix the password-protect problem.

[Dwipal 50]

Any case completes today? Does anyone know what date they are working on? Are they still stuck on June 9th? They are terrible.

someone reported a case complete from June 11th last night. I think they are probably working on June 9 to 11 cases.

[100JH 129]

Well POOP! I just got the following email from nvc electronic...

We are unable to review your attached forms and documents because they

are password protected. Please resubmit the attached forms and documents

without password protection so we may review and process the documents.

I had read about this issue before submitting, so I checked the files on 2 macs and 1 PC before sending them in. Now I get this. Any ideas why this could be? There were a total of 33 attachments, 8.5 mb in size. How can I check which one they think is password protected? Any ideas?

were they PDF's? did you check the security properties (Advanced/Security/Show Security Properties) prior to sending? You can not protect a MS Word document, but you can lock the editing....they would need to "enable editing" which should pop up at the top of the page (but is often missed).

Not sure what type of docs were sent so it is hard to say.

[USCIS2013 22]

This 30 days words are like killing.It is almost end of july and they are still working on 11june...

[AustinCanada 681]

I just noticed that today is my 2-month immi-versary at NVC since getting my case number!

I'm already over the current average timeline of 59 days!

But I haven't delayed anything or haven't even received a checklist!

[Alan & Layo 3]

I have been very tempted to start issuing "checklists" of my own for not filling the form out properly. But, I'd have to create a separate account to PM folks as my inbox would get full extremely quickly! I'm already at like 80% full

Haha, I can have different certificates based on filling my form out correctly, having a filled out signature, an updated timeline, and making it through NVC without checklists (due to using all the information provided here)

And yeah, the only thing really holding me back from seriously looking into it is the legal aspect of being able to give consultation/advice.

This would be nice. I seriously need to avoid any checklist, when I get to NVC

[meg_654 84]

OMG! This pic TOTALLY made my day!!!! and I was feeling down because of a call I got from the congressman's office that had nothing remotely encouraging for me: my AOS checklist was received 7/21 and is not yet scanned, IV is not yet invoiced....30 business days are up tomorrow on the DS-261!!!!!

[EOC 440]

We were talking about this issue on one of my Facebook groups. If you can't pay it online, you could send a money order instead. However, I don't know how many days it'll take. http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/fees/alternate-method-of-payment.html

I wonder if anyone has sent a money order to pay for the AOS or IV fee here. If so, how many days did it take?

This process is really killing. I wonder if anyone has paid NVC bill by mail.

I'm going to guess 30 business days.

If its going to take 30 business days to process bill sent by mail that's like a death sentence.

Actually, based on how many biz days it's taking them to review one day's worth of scans, I'm pretty sure they're going to tell us "40 business days" in about one month.

You are right, with the way things are going, NVC will start telling us 40 business days because IV bill is taking about 33 to 35 business days. Honestly I guess they just issued the IV bill on Monday to us because it was already 30 business days and they don't want to give us another excuse so that was why they issued the IV bill and made it not to be available online for payment, just to avoid giving us another excuse since they always quote 30business for everything: newest strategy by NVC. And yet they can't even keep up with the 30business days quote: so annoying:

[bdrew612 1,071]

This would be nice. I seriously need to avoid any checklist, when I get to NVC

I cannot believe you're still waiting! :-(

Is your Congressperson involved? If not, they really should be at this point!!!!

[britishdakota 18]

Case complete at NVC today

Does anyone know when the interview for the London embassy may fall? I have a holiday booked in August but don't want to cause delays due to that.

[meehan 43]

hmmm i did my form at the station and they are sending it to me?? they said its best to send it to me so i know its been received is it meant to go to the consulate? i thought i put it in the IV package?? sorry for the questions im just confused so much conflicting info out there.

Understandable, everything you read says something different I think you are fine to send the PCC to NVC, but it's also acceptable if you don't. They have it noted on their end that in Australia the certificates go straight to the consulate. My IV package was accepted last week and when I called to confirm that they were just waiting on my AOS checklist response, Kevin confirmed that in Australia they know the PCC goes to the consulate. There's no clear answer! I think you'll be fine either way.

I called NVC twice about it before sending my IV package, and also emailed the consulate to be sure. Both said it could just go straight to the consulate and when I emailed the consulate to confirm receipt, they said they had put it in the 'Interviews Pending' file.

Just reread that and realised what a vague response it is... Up to you - don't stress!