Choice of Agent was Complete and Now Says Incomplete After Clicking on it...

[Carre23d 2]

I had submitted the choice of agent and now it says incomplete after I clicked on it... (even though it was accepted and said complete). I even paid for the AOS fee. Should I resubmit it? Or should I just wait...?

[Carre23d 2]

Ok, I just resubmitted it and it says complete now.

[Ryan H 3,812]

You should've waited; resubmitting reset the clock.

Edited August 23, 2015 by Ryan H

[Carre23d 2]

But I already paid the AOS fee...and it says complete again. How will it reset the clock? and what will it reset?

[Ryan H 3,812]

But I already paid the AOS fee...and it says complete again. How will it reset the clock? and what will it reset?

When you first submitted the DS-261, the clock to the IV fee and DS-260 being made available started ticking. By unnecessarily resubmitting the DS-261, you reset the clock on those two items being made available.

[Carre23d 2]

Good thing I just chose it yesterday, so it's not a big deal...however, everyone should be aware of this.

I found this good explanation online:

"You log in to NVC website, and click on their link to file "DS-261" choice of agent. After you submit online, it will show "COMPLETE". You also pay your AOS fee by clicking the "Pay Now" link. A day or two later, you get an email saying AOS fee is now PAID. Ok, good. But you haven't received the IV fee bill yet, so the IV Application link is shown "N/A", can't pass Step 3, have to wait.

So you wait a couple weeks and you log in again to see the status of the case. To your surprise, the "Choice of Agent" is now showing "INCOMPLETE". So you do it again. Sending the DS-261 again.

WRONG MOVE. The thing is, your IV fee bill is somehow "linked" to Choice of Agent. NVC will send you the IV bill after they process yourDS-261. By sending the DS-261, again, you would somehow "reset" the clock. Do not do this.

So you ask, "why it is showing INCOMPLETE then?" There are many guesses. The most probable guess is that people click on the COMPLETE link, being curious or ancious about waiting, and the link takes them to the Choice of Agent form again. If they log out or simply close the browser there, the website thinks you are trying to sign a new Choice of Agent form and hence show it as INCOMPLETE next time you log in.

So the lesson is: be very very very careful when you do your Choice of Agent DS-261 online. Double, triple check it before clicking on the SUBMIT button. And after that, FORBID anyone in your family to click on that link again"

[NikLR 13,227]

I'm sure we have this covered in our NVC wiki.

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

[Helz Belz 3]

Well I wish I had looked at this this morning we are doing three I130s for myself and two of my children, my daughter's said incomplete earlier when I logged on to see if the IV fee was available yet so I recompleted it.

[Carre23d 2]

Well, I called the NVC shortly after this and the operator told me it was a myth and that nothing gets reset...

[Ryan H 3,812]

Well, I called the NVC shortly after this and the operator told me it was a myth and that nothing gets reset...

NVC operators lately are starting to become as bad as USCIS operators in regards to giving out bad or contradictory information.

[Carre23d 2]

I honestly think they just want to get rid of us and say whatever they want. Do they really have nothing to account for???