USCIS and NVC Approach? Police Record Question.

[Keenen and Nidia 1]

Hi All:)

 

I am happy to say my fiancee and I have been approved on our second notice of action back on December 4th, 2017(according to USCIS's website case tracker). Our notice of action is dated December 1st and we received it by mail December 7th. We are still waiting to hear something whether are petition has arrived at the NVC. I have called USCIS a couple of times and they tell me, "your case has been approved on the 4th of December and now is out of our jurisdiction, call The National Visa Center for all other inquiries." or "We can not look up that information of where your petition is." I call The National Visa Center and they really sound impatient with me and say, "Our records show your petition has not arrived. Your best bet is to contact USCIS."

 

I called USCIS again today and my call was transferred to an immigration officer who finally answered some questions. I found out our petition was sent/transferred out January 9th about 2:47 p.m. from the California Service Center. FINALLY! I guess my thought is now should our petition have arrived at the NVC? I've had a hard time approaching the NVC representatives. They always almost seem like they are in a rush to get off the phone with you. They ask just for your receipt number and where immigrating from then give me estimates to call back next week. Are there better ways to approach these guys? i guess maybe many customers calling telling them the same thing over and over again get them irritated. There has got to be a better way to make them happier ha ha.

 

As i write this I just called The NVC and told me our petition arrived TODAY!!! We are SO HAPPY!!! So Thankful:)

 

My Fiancee is in Buenos Aires so she will eventually have her appointment at the embassy/consulate there in Argentina. in the meanwhile we want to know something about documents required for the k-1 visa interview, specifically the police certificate and how to go about the Ds-160 form.

 

My fiancee lived in Paraguay for about half her life and the rest she has lived in Argentina, so I think we need to obtain police certificates from both countries. From what I read it seems for this part the police record is it, but when I read on the NVC's travel.state.gov website on step 5, it mention court and prison records. Maybe we just wait from instructions from the embassy to know what is what.   The question we have now, are  criminal records also required If there is no criminal history? Is the police certificates sufficient for the fiancee interview? Are police/criminal records required to fill out for the  form ds-160? Any others in this process now or have been, any thoughts ?

 

Albeit it says gather documents that apply we want to make sure we have the necessary documents we need.

 

Thanks and hope this helps for others out there.

Edited January 17, 2018 by Kcrummit

[TNJ17 1,329]

I don’t mean to be rude but it literally says that everyone needs a police certificate from EVERY country the person has lived for six months or more after the age of 16. 

 

And think about your other question for a second, if you have no criminal history how will you have criminal records? 🤔

 

You don’t need any documents to fill out ds-160. It’s an online form for the embassy. All the documentation you need is for the interview. Check the embassy site. It tells you step by step what you need. Every country is different. 

Edited January 17, 2018 by TNJ17

[Keenen and Nidia 1]

Thanks:) I thought that was so with the police certificate. I had supposed it was not necessary for the criminal, it was just we got confused with hearing things from different people, hence why it was asked. Will check it out on the embassy site. Thanks for taking your time to reply.