NVC Filers - August 2014

[EOC 440]

Visa on hand ( done)

Ticket purchased for August 11th (done)

End of this journey (priceless)

Thanks to everyone for being part of my journey, I love you all and I wish you the best, I will be praying for all of you to get your wishes and have your love ones in your arms!

Congratulations Am so happy for you I wish you a safe trip

[ArthurandMarcela 249]

Woohoo, one step closer to being done! Did you pay the ELIS fee? If not, do it ASAP.

And where are you gonna do POE? All packed up? Bet you're excited!

Thanks for reminding me, I will do pay Elis now My POE will be Montreal airport, I have they don't cause me any problems. Thanks, you are an angel!

[Saylin 1,605]

I understand there are thousands of applications being received at the NVC but it makes it sound like there are just a handful of people working there. There may be thousands of one page forms that need to be accepted, but how long does that honestly take? 60 days? I don't think so.

No, it doesn't take 60 days to review. But as I said, it does take time to just get to the form itself. The current average, based on the data on my new spreadsheet, is 29 calendar days. And although it may be just one page, I'm sure that after they review it, they have to press a few buttons to get the IV bill invoiced. It's not like it takes two seconds.

And I think some people are failing to realize just how many applications NVC is currently handling. It's not just 1000 or 2000. It's hundreds of thousands of cases. And with the influx of adjudicated cases from USCIS, the number just keeps on growing each week. Obviously, they're not all at the same spot at NVC, so not every single case currently at NVC is submitting the DS-261, but there's still a big chunk doing that. And I don't know if NVC has people specifically that just review DS-261s all day, or if each person works on different tasks throughout the day. So, you need to keep all this in mind.

Now, by no means am I justifying the "rightness" of it all. Obviously, there's better ways to implement all of this and have shorter review times. But, I'm just trying to explain the current process and how it all works.

[AustinCanada 681]

I can't justify the reason why some DS-261s are processed faster than others, but as to the first bit about it taking them that long to accept a one page form online. Remember, it's not the length of the form or the complexity to review it, it's because there's THOUSANDS of DS-261s in line to be reviewed and only so many people to review them, so it's naturally going to take them awhile to get to each one.

Thank you. It just KILLS me that there is no rhyme or reason at the NVC. How can they justify taking this long to "accept" an ONLINE form that was maybe 1 page long? Above that, how can they justify putting some cases through faster than others? So tired of this...

If I could do it all over again, I'd definitely hire a lawyer (a good one, not an incompetent one with a dumb paralegal) just to skip the stupid DS-261 form.

[Saylin 1,605]

Thanks for reminding me, I will do pay Elis now My POE will be Montreal airport, I have they don't cause me any problems. Thanks, you are an angel!

Go, go, go

Have fun with the Montreal airport That's where I was first denied But I was a noob back then, so they had every reason to deny me. Funny enough, last summer when I went to Canada and was returning to the US, I got the same officer that had denied me back in 2010. He recognized me too I had an expired green card at the time (was in the process of ROC, of course!), so there was some extra steps he needed to do. But otherwise, a much nicer experience than the first time with him!

[stackeria 280]

If I could do it all over again, I'd definitely hire a lawyer (a good one, not an incompetent one with a dumb paralegal) just to skip the stupid DS-261 form.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd definitely NOT hire a lawyer.

[dilmera 124]

Thank you so much. Its a good thing I have this website and visa journey on FB because without you guys I don't know what I would do. I got a checklist for leaving the 2012 and 2011 PART BLANKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.

I will just resend this again. I sent it VIA USPS it gets there in two days. I just checked it only says accepted, I don't think it has left NYC yet. Its there a way I can contact them to send back the package?

I saw this message late, we just sent our AOS and IV packages two days back. Ever since we got the case number, I was after the lawyer to show me the I-864 because many people were getting checklists because of it AND THE LAWYER HAD LEFT THE PREVIOUS YEARS' INCOME FIELDS BLANK. I convinced my husband to fill them in and we submitted the corrected form. VJ just saved me an imminent checklist.

[bdrew612 1,071]

If I could do it all over again, I'd definitely hire a lawyer (a good one, not an incompetent one with a dumb paralegal) just to skip the stupid DS-261 form.

If I could do it all over again, he would have stayed and we would have adjusted status and risked it.

[samreen23 461]

Hi,

I want to share about my checklist. It was for my marriage certificate in native language(Urdu). Although it was mentioned under country reciprocal documents that English marriage certificate is also good but they didn't accept it. So all from Pakistan must include this. Same is for police certificate because there is a set pattern for them which they follow and send you a checklist if it is different in any manner.

Another point to mention for all is that when my spouse talked to supervisor he said although you sent the document mentioned on our website but still I cannot do anything for you as any action can be taken against your request when your case will be pulled out by system. Which obviously will take 60 days:'( .

Hope this will answer your question samreen that crying will not help you at all because they are not ready to take any action unless your file is pulled out by their system.

I have no idea what are the systems in other countries but I feel it is similar to the passport data entry in Pakistan where token numbers appear randomly at different stations and operators can't do anything their own.

I don't understand. U sent it Nikah Nama both Urdu and English and u send nadra marriage certificate as well? Then what did they give u a checklist for?

[dilmera 124]

Note to Saylin: Your spreadsheet can have an entry for what the checklist was for. It will be immensely helpful and reduce potential checklists, please consider my request.

[Saylin 1,605]

Note to Saylin: Your spreadsheet can have an entry for what the checklist was for. It will be immensely helpful and reduce potential checklists, please consider my request.

That would be waaaay too complicated, and make the spreadsheet a mile long trying to explain each checklist. I suppose I could always add a note in each box (so when you hover over the checklist box, it'll pop up), but then I'd have to rely on people actually giving me a proper answer as to why they got a checklist. And if dates are any indication, it's just going to give me more of a headache than I already have.

[Paavy 14]

Thank you. It just KILLS me that there is no rhyme or reason at the NVC. How can they justify taking this long to "accept" an ONLINE form that was maybe 1 page long? Above that, how can they justify putting some cases through faster than others? So tired of this...

I saw someone's timeline, that person submitted DS-261 on July 7th and got their IV bill invoiced on July 14th, 2014. Its all about luck I guess. Just hang in there. Prayers work...!!!

[JeffInMX 157]

I saw someone's timeline, that person submitted DS-261 on July 7th and got their IV bill invoiced on July 14th, 2014. Its all about luck I guess. Just hang in there. Prayers work...!!!

Thank you

[Husband Wife 12]

I don't understand. U sent it Nikah Nama both Urdu and English and u send nadra marriage certificate as well? Then what did they give u a checklist for?

Samreen, I think the person was saying that they didn't sent their Urdu Nikkah nama to NVC that's what they got checklisted for, not totally sure though.

Also, when you got PCC, what's the validity period for it? Is it 3 months or 6 months? Because I am thinking to get one for my wife since NVC is not too clear about it.

[Saylin 1,605]

A thought about really fast DS-261 approvals (like the example just mentioned above): I heard a long time ago that for USCIS, when they're training someone new, they'll take a file out (typically a recent one) and go over that one with the new person (and thus reviewing that case much faster than the usual wait times). So, the same thing might be happening with those really fast DS-261 approvals.