NVC Filers - January 2017

[afortunada 182]

2 minutes ago, Yankee125xt said:

Long time lurker, first time poster.

After 9 weeks at the NVC, and countless calls to them, my wife's case finally shows the third N/A.

No email yet tho as I assume it just changed.  How long will the email take to arrive?

 

Congrats!! Yes, what was your scan date?

[Crazy Cat 41,886]

3 minutes ago, Yankee125xt said:

Long time lurker, first time poster.

After 9 weeks at the NVC, and countless calls to them, my wife's case finally shows the third N/A.

No email yet tho as I assume it just changed.  How long will the email take to arrive?

Congratulations!!! I'm almost at the 9 week mark, so maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.

[Duncan21 202]

12 minutes ago, Yankee125xt said:

Long time lurker, first time poster.

After 9 weeks at the NVC, and countless calls to them, my wife's case finally shows the third N/A.

No email yet tho as I assume it just changed.  How long will the email take to arrive?

I've seen it takes about a week to get the email.

[Yankee125xt 1]

So the scan date was Nov 9th and the supervisor review was Dec 19th.

I called yesterday and spoke with a supervisor directly and asked him to do something about my long delay. We have a lawyer and sent everything in at once so there was no reason to have our delay at this point. 

 

 

[afortunada 182]

1 minute ago, Yankee125xt said:

So the scan date was Nov 9th and the supervisor review was Dec 19th.

I called yesterday and spoke with a supervisor directly and asked him to do something about my long delay. We have a lawyer and sent everything in at once so there was no reason to have our delay at this point. 

 

 

 

What did the supervisor tell you? The usual info about waiting, I assume?

Edited January 10, 2017 by afortunada

[Yankee125xt 1]

1 minute ago, afortunada said:

 

What did the supervisor tell you? The usual info about waiting, I assume?

At the beginning he did. Same mumbo jumbo talk. I wasn't having it. So in a very polite way I asked him to do his job and tell the review group to do theirs. My case was in review for three weeks...

 

I also suggested they hire more people since the lot of us have been over waiting.  He took it kindly and agreed. So I know they are human and understaffed.

 

[bcking 3,157]

3 minutes ago, Yankee125xt said:

At the beginning he did. Same mumbo jumbo talk. I wasn't having it. So in a very polite way I asked him to do his job and tell the review group to do theirs. My case was in review for three weeks...

 

I also suggested they hire more people since the lot of us have been over waiting.  He took it kindly and agreed. So I know they are human and understaffed.

 

From what they've told me, being in "supervisor review" is realy meaningless. It just lets the supervisor know that the case is delayed. The problem is practically everyone is going beyond 6 weeks, so practically every case is going to "supervisor review". That doesn't mean the supervisor is reviewing each and every one. They can only do so much.

 

Everyone's case sits and languishes forever. They can only work as quickly as they are able. I've argued with them as well considering review our documents would take them literally 5 minutes (a single page, only added data on the page is 6 words from the document we originally sent them). I've laughed with them saying that in the time they have been sitting on our single piece of paper, I've read about 2,000 pages over 3 novels so far, not including reading for work. They laughed with me and said they agree it is crazy it can take this long, but they can't do anything.

[mrath5 40]

2 hours ago, Andy & Mike said:

Hey guys - so because of this delay, I was planning on having Mike take advantage of the Visa waiver program and visit for a while and then fly back to NZ for the interview when its all scheduled.  I'm reading a lot that "intending immigrants" are "high risk" of being deported and he can be stopped at the border and turned around.  Does any one have any input on that?  For those of you who have been waiting forever, have you had your spouse visit?

My husband just came on Christmas and they pulled him in to ask him some questions and the second Border guy looked and said that we were doing everything legal and looked good so he said he was good to go. That was at Minneapolis 

[Li&Kyle 7]

4 hours ago, bcking said:

My wife only visited once. She was in "secondary" for about 2 hours (we were travelling together so we both were). We were pretty much harassed so she hasn't done it again.

 

That being said, most people here have said they have had fine experiences. I think we got unlucky with the people. They didn't even ask us any questions, ask for any of our documentations. First guy at the window sent us straight to the secondary area, and then the officer who interviewed us (each separately, alone) introduced himself by saying that he had X years of experience and that he would see through our bullshit (his exact word) and that we weren't going to get anything by him. Maybe he was just trying to intimidate? No idea. Wasn't a great experience.

I think secondary is the nastiest place on Earth. I was pulled once (it was nothing to do with this visa, I was on an OPT visa at the time), the officer pretty much said exactly the same thing to me! He accused me of lying and quizzed me on how much money I had on me, then how much money my boyfriend had on him (this was before we were married). I'm pretty sure he was trying to get bribe money out of me. I've never felt like that in all my life, I was so terrified. Your wife was lucky she was allowed to have you with her, my husband had to wait for me for hours and I wasn't allowed to contact him. We ended up missing our connecting flight.

That said, I don't want to alarm anyone, they were very different circumstances where my student visa had expired but my OPT was in-date and apparently that's not okay when re-entering the country... No one told me... It sounds like secondary is always very cold and accusing though so my advice to anyone who gets pulled is take deep breaths and brace yourself. I won't be surprised if I end up there again when I finally return, I've heard if you've been pulled to secondary before it's likely you'll be pulled again.

[Tremel2630 2]

15 hours ago, bcking said:

Spoke to a Supervisor today (6 weeks is up). Not sure if this info is just UK specific or more general:

 

She said there is nothing she can do, they look at documents in the order of the dates. She couldn't tell me what date they are on, but they are "somewhere in November" (Our date is November 28th). She said (and I assume this is embassy specific) they are "almost done" scheduling February interviews, so most likely at the earliest it would be in March but she can't tell me. She said that our file is under "supervisor" review now, but as the other person posted it really doesn't do anything because they still go in order.

 

Andy, (Or are you Mike?)

I would try talking to someone about that. That seems like it was out of your control? It is the consulate who didn't send the paperwork in? That doesn't seem fair at all. 

She told a big fat lie as usual. If that was the case you would have had a case complete by now. When you see people who are completed with scan dates ahead of you then you will know that its not being done in order.

[Tremel2630 2]

7 hours ago, missileman said:

Congratulations!!! I'm almost at the 9 week mark, so maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Congrats and Missileman your next...I hope you get a case complete soon.

Edited January 11, 2017 by Tremel2630

[Tremel2630 2]

14 hours ago, chel0524 said:

I'm so beyond frustrated with this stupid process.  NVC is an absolute joke.

Scan date 11/7

Supervisor review 12/21

Checklist 1/4

 

The checklist is for documents they already have.  Their document reciprocity in their system is outdated.  It's for my husband's divorce decree.  They want it form the registrar office.  The registrar office website even says they don't have them and to get them from the county court where it was done, which we had and sent with original documents. 

I have tried calling several times a day and demanding to speak with a supervisor.  I have explained the situation to various reps and they note it in the system.  Yesterday I let them go ahead and send it back to the supervisor for review even though I know that could take another 6 weeks.  I can't get a supervisor to even call me back as I requested that last week.

I feel like we're stuck and life is passing us by.

I'm filling out the paperwork to send to the senator and see if their office can help

I hope something can be done. Listening to your situation just makes me so mad and runs my pressure up. I wish I could call NVC for you and say mean things. I am so mad I hate that you are going through this. I hope it's overlooked and you can just bring it to the interview you don't need to wait any longer than what you have I AM very angry. I hope to see a ton of case completes for everyone very very soon.

Edited January 11, 2017 by Tremel2630

[bcking 3,157]

20 minutes ago, Tremel2630 said:

She told a big fat lie as usual. If that was the case you would have had a case complete by now. When you see people who are completed with scan dates ahead of you then you will know that its not being done in order.

I think there are different sections in the NVC so some people may get theirs pulled sooner because they are in a different section/department/whatever. She was talking very specifically about where her team was and when they were booking interview dates. THe interview dates must be specific to just one embassy, so I assume her team is just a UK specific group.

[bcking 3,157]

50 minutes ago, Li&Kyle said:

I think secondary is the nastiest place on Earth. I was pulled once (it was nothing to do with this visa, I was on an OPT visa at the time), the officer pretty much said exactly the same thing to me! He accused me of lying and quizzed me on how much money I had on me, then how much money my boyfriend had on him (this was before we were married). I'm pretty sure he was trying to get bribe money out of me. I've never felt like that in all my life, I was so terrified. Your wife was lucky she was allowed to have you with her, my husband had to wait for me for hours and I wasn't allowed to contact him. We ended up missing our connecting flight.

That said, I don't want to alarm anyone, they were very different circumstances where my student visa had expired but my OPT was in-date and apparently that's not okay when re-entering the country... No one told me... It sounds like secondary is always very cold and accusing though so my advice to anyone who gets pulled is take deep breaths and brace yourself. I won't be surprised if I end up there again when I finally return, I've heard if you've been pulled to secondary before it's likely you'll be pulled again.

To this day I've never really figured out why we were flagged or what the issue was. I'm pretty sure our problem was they just didn't ask us any questions to begin with and just "assumed" we were trying to sneak her into the country on a tourist visa. It was a good 20 minutes into my "private interview" with the officer before I could even tell him we had already applied for a CR-1 and I had a copy of our approval letter from USCIS saying it was being sent to the NVC. When I finally handed it over he was like "Oh um, you should have mentioned this earlier". He never asked for her flight, any account statements, or anything linking her to the UK. He never even asked when her return flight was booked. He mentioned it but said "I don't care if she has a return flight, how can you prove to me she will get on that flight? She could just skip it? What evidence can you give me to prove she will go back? You can't give me anything".

 

It was a very strange series of events. Not even sure how she got through. Once he was a little embarrassed about not knowing about our application, he ended up talking to a supervisor for a bit and we were eventually sent through like 30 minutes later. 

 

I should add this experience was in Dublin where they do "preflight" immigration. We flew through there because she was afraid of flying all the way back from Houston alone after getting off a plane. The only thing I can imagine is that they are more heightened there maybe? No idea.

Edited January 11, 2017 by bcking

[Freedom4evr 6]

Scan date November 29.

supervisor review January 10