I-129F November 2016 Filers - Part 2

[AkesAngel 585]

Grats to all who got approved ... hope they keep going to start finally working December cases ?

[forena99 74]

4 hours ago, Chelleyandaaron said:

Completely confused!

 

so yesterday I told you that my case changed to 'In Transit' yesterday from 'at NVC' for the previous five days.

 

I thought I'd check it - and now it shows as 'Ready' !

 

So - did the ceac not update the case number and it was actually sent to London last week?

 

Also - it shows three case numbers now - I am assuming that as my children's details are on the i-129f they have each been assigned a case number? It is the same case number but with (1), (2) and (3) after it. (Although they won't be coming with me - they will be 18 and 20 when I leave)

 

 

Hi Chellyandaaron,

I got my NOA2 approval same day as you (1/30/17).

I got my NVC notice yesterday in the mail (2/21/17).

How do you know when the NVC case was received and when the case was sent out to the Consulate?

The letter I got did not have any dates like that on it.

 

I'm trying to finish my DS-160 in order to get my interview date.  Whenever I called the NVC I was basically hung up on.  Got no info by calling.  Just hoping to get my interview date ASAP.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Curious to see how fast things go in UK vs Cuba, lol.

Forena99

[Yasser&Neveen 37]

CONGRATULATIONS. 

[NAT2016 18]

3 minutes ago, forena99 said:

Hi Chellyandaaron,

I got my NOA2 approval same day as you (1/30/17).

I got my NVC notice yesterday in the mail (2/21/17).

How do you know when the NVC case was received and when the case was sent out to the Consulate?

The letter I got did not have any dates like that on it.

 

I'm trying to finish my DS-160 in order to get my interview date.  Whenever I called the NVC I was basically hung up on.  Got no info by calling.  Just hoping to get my interview date ASAP.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Curious to see how fast things go in UK vs Cuba, lol.

Forena99

Try check on this site: https://ceac.state.gov/ceacstattracker/status.aspx

[Yasser&Neveen 37]

96 days

[Chrix 2]

98 days ? ..... Why it is going so slow?

[Chelleyandaaron 528]

36 minutes ago, forena99 said:

Hi Chellyandaaron,

I got my NOA2 approval same day as you (1/30/17).

I got my NVC notice yesterday in the mail (2/21/17).

How do you know when the NVC case was received and when the case was sent out to the Consulate?

The letter I got did not have any dates like that on it.

 

I'm trying to finish my DS-160 in order to get my interview date.  Whenever I called the NVC I was basically hung up on.  Got no info by calling.  Just hoping to get my interview date ASAP.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Curious to see how fast things go in UK vs Cuba, lol.

Forena99

Hey Forena,

 

We called NVC last week on Tuesday morning and our case had not been received - we called again on Thursday and they were able to give us our case number.  From there I tracked the case number on ceac case tracker.  It showed as 'at NVC' until yesterday when it changed to 'in transit' and then today it changed to 'ready'.  I guess that NVC must have received our case on Tuesday or Wednesday of last week (probably Tuesday after we called) and assigned the number on Wednesday as they were able to give us the case number on Thursday morning.  No cases were sent on Friday (I checked the DHL tracker) or on Monday (Presidents Day) but my case has been updated in London today and the last packages to leave the NVC for London were assigned tracking on Thursday for despatch.  So this must be when my case left NVC.  Although our case must have been despatched on Thursday it didn't get updated at NVC with the 'in transit' status until yesterday which is when our case arrived according to the dhl tracker.

 

As I had my case number and knew that the case was now in London, I 'signed' my DS-160 and filed that today (although it doesn't need your NVC case number it asks for your receipt # -WAC -  for your petition).  I then tried to arrange my visa interview but after getting into the site to book an interview it said 'case not yet ready for interview' and highlighted my case number - so I guess I have to wait for my letter from the Consulate.

 

[geowrian 22,338]

1 hour ago, MissCurious said:

Feb 21

Awesome! Did you get an RFE? If not, then that's not included in my earlier scan, which means my suspicion was right that that the data still wasn't fully updated for yesterday.

 

Oh, and congrats!!!

[geowrian 22,338]

46 minutes ago, Chrix said:

98 days ? ..... Why it is going so slow?

A huge surge of applications + holidays + January had 2 slow weeks (training?).

[Michael & Madelle 75]

5 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Awesome! Did you get an RFE? If not, then that's not included in my earlier scan, which means my suspicion was right that that the data still wasn't fully updated for yesterday.

 

Oh, and congrats!!!

We didn't get RFE. It said we got approved 2/21. I just got notified this morning (2/23 in the Philippines). Yep you may be right it wasn't fully updated.  thanks for the daily updates Geo!

[N and C 30]

Hello everyone!

 

We got an update today and it said we got an rfe ? it may take us longer but we are still happy knowing our petition is being worked on and is not sitting on someone else's desk.. Thank you everyone especially to Geo! Will keep you posted about our rfe. ?

[forena99 74]

1 hour ago, NAT2016 said:

Try check on this site: https://ceac.state.gov/ceacstattracker/status.aspx

Thanks @NAT2016,

the link only shows the date the case was created and updated.

But the VJ timeline asks for date for case received and date for case sent to consulate.  Neither of which are on that link you gave me.  

I'm just not sure how we are supposed to know unless we call.

Forena99

[Chrix 2]

14 minutes ago, geowrian said:

A huge surge of applications + holidays + January had 2 slow weeks (training?).

Yes.... Maybe, but it is just frustating to see many NOA's1 that arrived after you, getting the NOA2.... But ok..... I'm Keeping waiting

[NAT2016 18]

1 minute ago, forena99 said:

Thanks @NAT2016,

the link only shows the date the case was created and updated.

But the VJ timeline asks for date for case received and date for case sent to consulate.  Neither of which are on that link you gave me.  

I'm just not sure how we are supposed to know unless we call.

Forena99

You need to go back and check frequently like I did for my first K-1.  It will say something like "Received", "In transit to ...", "Administrative Processing", and finally "Ready" for the interview. 

[forena99 74]

3 minutes ago, NAT2016 said:

You need to go back and check frequently like I did for my first K-1.  It will say something like "Received", "In transit to ...", "Administrative Processing", and finally "Ready" for the interview. 

Ah!  I see.  I didn't know about that link until yesterday.  And all it said was "Ready".  When I went home yesterday, my letter had arrived.  Too bad.  

But thank you for your info.  =)  

The whole process is not very intuitive to me. lol.

Good luck!

Forena99