documents for IV package

[StephanieM 60]

I am trying to take advantage that a family member is visiting from DR to Boston this month. I want this family member to bring paperwork I will need for IV package for my in laws. Both cases were approved 7/14 and i have been calling every week for invoice number but NVC has not received them from uscis yet.

Would it be ok if MC, both BC's and police certificates are retrieved in DR this month? How recent do these documents need to be for IV package? 30 days, 60 days? I just want to take advantage that I can have someone trustworthy bring the documents to the USA but I am not sure exactly when I will be sending IV package since I don't know when I will receive invoices and clearance after fees are paid.

Thoughts?

The family member is visiting on 8/19 so the documents will be prepared sometime before then.

[Nynn 1]

You do not need to have the original documents, only copies of them. Applicant brings the originals to the interview. The police certificate has a six month expiration date on it. I think it is fine to have all civil documents made right now.

Look at my timeline, it is about a month after receiving the approval (NOA2) that you get to start paying fees and then send documents to NVC. So yes, do them asap but do not have those people bring the originals to you, have them bring copies. You will need translations of everything too. Another way of doing it is have your in laws scan the originals and make PDFs of them and email them to you so you can print them out and prepare the package.

DO NOT wait till you have paid the IV fee to send the AOS and IV package. It will only make you wait more. I sent my package right after the AOS fee showed PAID in the portal. After NVC received my docs they unlocked the IV fee and a little later the DS-260. I got a case complete exactly 29 days after my package was received by NVC!!!

It took more than two weeks from USCIS approval for NVC to receive our case and about two more weeks for NVC to assign a case number, so don`t be in a huge hurry yet haha! Until you have the number there is nothing you can do to speed it up. Just prepare the documents for your package and wait. I believe you will have a case number some time in the middle or end of August.

Advice if you insist to know exactly when the case gets mailed to NC, go to

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do

and sign up for an account. Give them your phone number so that they can text you when the case was mailed (provided it was not already mailed). This is not really necessary, since this is the only reason this USCIS account is really needed. I find it was much better once you could fill out the DS261 about choice of agent, since you get emails from NVC when important things happen.

Godspeed!