How much gap between aos fee and iv fee im confused please help

[Ayyeff123 0]

Please help me out. I am seriously confused. I chose my agent my husband who is also the petitioner. We got an email stating that we should proceed to step 2 which was paying the fees. So my husband in the USA who is the petitioner paid the AOS fee which was $120. But i am confused, should i wait for a few days or some confirmation before paying the IV fee or should i do it now. Btw its been 2 days since we paid the AOS fee and it says it is in process.

Please help me. 

And secondly once the fee has been paid how would i know which documents to send to the nvc? By checking the check list on the document cover sheet? 

[kausar 26]

It takes few day before it shows as 'paid'. once the status is changed to paid, you can send the documents according to the list they provided in welcome letter.

[Ayyeff123 0]

Yes i understand that. But what i am asking is should i wait for any notice or something before paying the iv fee? 

[USandMalaysia 6]

You can pay once it become available in the website.

[JOL 19]

Yeah, go ahead and pay the IV fee as soon as the CEAC lets you, because the CEAC will not unlock the DS-260 IV application until it shows BOTH the AoS and IV fees "PAID."  That status normally appears (at least) 2-3 days after payment, and some people (including me) experienced a significantly longer delay due to website issues on the NVCs end.  In other words, even after I submitted both payments it was still several weeks before my wife could fill in the IV application, and that situation has been fairly common lately:  Had we delayed payment longer, the IV application access would have been delayed longer.

Edited August 3, 2017 by JOL

[Ryan H 3,834]

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[uali4572 20]

On 8/3/2017 at 5:37 PM, JOL said:

Yeah, go ahead and pay the IV fee as soon as the CEAC lets you, because the CEAC will not unlock the DS-260 IV application until it shows BOTH the AoS and IV fees "PAID."  That status normally appears (at least) 2-3 days after payment, and some people (including me) experienced a significantly longer delay due to website issues on the NVCs end.  In other words, even after I submitted both payments it was still several weeks before my wife could fill in the IV application, and that situation has been fairly common lately:  Had we delayed payment longer, the IV application access would have been delayed longer.

When could you send in the documents to NVC? 

[Ayyeff123 0]

Thankyou very much everyone. So i made the payment on Saturday eve, and since it is Sunday night over there right now, i hope the payment will be accepted in 2 days. I will let you know what commences inshaaAllah

[Ayyeff123 0]

everyone on here is very supportive, i am very grateful, Thank you