Placed on 2nd Supervisor's Review by NVC, resets 42 days

[Deejunx 1]

Hi VJ Friends,

I'm really not a big fan of NVC right now as they keep screwing up our case - was wondering if anyone can shed some light or have had any experience similar to us.

Brief timeline:

Jun 2015: NVC received our entire IV package to process DS-260

Aug 2015: NVC put our case to Supervisor's review on Aug 12th because it has been over 30 days since the initial review. That means it will take them 42 days to review and complete the case, estimated to be completed on Oct 12th 2015.

Oct 3rd 2015: Received an RFE for Indonesian Police Certificate - stating that they are needing the original and they only have the English translation copy. But here's the twist, we never sent a police certificate because it isn't required by the US Embassy in Indonesia.

We immediately called NVC and spoke with the agent (never could get a hold of a supervisor) and they put a note in our case that indeed a poilce cert is not needed (they verified it on their end).

Called again several times in the subsequent days to ask for a status and on every call they asked about the RFE Police Certificate and no notes were updated in our case from our previous calls. In addition, now the case is in another Supervisor's review to finalize the check if a police cert is not needed.... and it would take ANOTHER 42 days for them to do that. So at most we'll have to wait for a total of 114 days to get our case completed by the NVC!

Why would NVC send a wrong RFE late in our (1st) Supervisor's review and then put us again in it which resets the 42 days. We feel like we're going through an infinite loop here as we feel like we're only needing that final "check" and get our case completed

Also, is it advisable to respond to the RFE by sending a proof of email that the US Embassy responded and confirmed that a Police Certificate is not required? How will that effect the timing the 2nd supervisor's review?

Thanks.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Deejunx

[blooms 63]

Indonesian police certificate is not needed indeed!

How odd that they are asking for it. If I were you, I would just get the police clearance and move on!!

Go to POLRI and ask for one, remember to tip the officer who helped you.

Get it translated if it's not already in English and be done with this RFE.

I personally went to Polri for finger printing in order for me to get clearance from Singapore

Long story. But yes you can get it for sure.

Blooms

[mallafri76 1,012]

Take it from someone who's been stuck on supervisor review for 112 days, just send in what NVC asks for. If they ask for an Indonesian police cert, just send it in. If we had just done what they asked for instead of questioning it, I would have probably been done with the interview and living in the US by now. Instead, we've spent like seven month at NVC, 112 days on supervisor review and now having involved our Senator in our process. Just send in what they want.

[usmsbow 802]

Maybe take a screen shot of the US Embassy's web page that says no police certificate is needed, and send it in as a reply to the RFE. That plus the e-mail you received from the embassy should be sufficient I think.