NVC Filers - April 2018

[Diana f 42]

Anyone with a CC, after March 28 SD?  

[Meb 23]

I wrongly chose consulate that doesn’t conduct interview for Immigrant visa when I petition for I 130. NVC gave me case number and Invoice number with the wrong consulate code and when I tried to put in the website to choose Agent and pay fees, the below message pops up.

 Please be advised that the case that you have attempted to access is not eligible for further processing by the National Visa Center at this time. Please contact the National Visa Center if you believe that you have received this message in error.

When I called NVC, the representative told me to send an e-mail (ASKNvc) to change to another consulate which hold immigrant visa interview and I did accordingly. I don’t know how long this might take.

Anyone who had the same experience, Please Share!

[SashaFiERCE24 23]

I have sd 3/23 no case complete yet

Edited April 6, 2018 by SashaFiERCE24

[HariMS 93]

22 minutes ago, Meb said:

I wrongly chose consulate that doesn’t conduct interview for Immigrant visa when I petition for I 130. NVC gave me case number and Invoice number with the wrong consulate code and when I tried to put in the website to choose Agent and pay fees, the below message pops up.

 Please be advised that the case that you have attempted to access is not eligible for further processing by the National Visa Center at this time. Please contact the National Visa Center if you believe that you have received this message in error.

When I called NVC, the representative told me to send an e-mail (ASKNvc) to change to another consulate which hold immigrant visa interview and I did accordingly. I don’t know how long this might take.

Anyone who had the same experience, Please Share!

I also was getting this message initially. You need to wait for the welcome letter. Or atleast a few days (4 days for me) for the portal to accept your case number. Till then you will get this message even though your consulate is right. If you just received your case number and IIN I think you should wait for a couple of days more.  

[Chalanero21 28]

6 hours ago, Bluretto said:

Sorry about that,please did you certify the documents before sending it to NVC?

Just a quick question what do you mean by certifying? Do you mean notarising? I thought that that is not required. O means just to double check it? A lot a people get checklists for not putting n/a on empty spots. Maybe i am missing something

[Bluretto 40]

1 minute ago, Chalanero21 said:

Just a quick question what do you mean by certifying? Do you mean notarising? I thought that that is not required. O means just to double check it? A lot a people get checklists for not putting n/a on empty spots. Maybe i am missing something

Yes ,buh spoke with NVC and the said there is no need to certify the documents,just send in the photocopies that’s all

[Chalanero21 28]

Just now, Bluretto said:

Yes ,buh spoke with NVC and the said there is no need to certify the documents,just send in the photocopies that’s all

Ok thanks 

[ms_bobdog 501]

16 minutes ago, Chalanero21 said:

Just a quick question what do you mean by certifying? Do you mean notarising? I thought that that is not required. O means just to double check it? A lot a people get checklists for not putting n/a on empty spots. Maybe i am missing something

What's sent to NVC need not be certified. Just photocopies of the originals. And yes, I agree with that part about people getting checklists for not putting N/A so I got my husband to look through every single one and N/A everything. Lol. 

[Henry&Olga 60]

12 hours ago, H&H. said:

i wish i had known this before  i will still try to amend to jointly hopefully no issue

You have to file Married filing separately.

[Meb 23]

2 hours ago, HariMS said:

I also was getting this message initially. You need to wait for the welcome letter. Or atleast a few days (4 days for me) for the portal to accept your case number. Till then you will get this message even though your consulate is right. If you just received your case number and IIN I think you should wait for a couple of days more.  

Thank you very much!

[H&H. 189]

22 minutes ago, Henry&Olga said:

You have to file Married filing separately.

yes i filed married separate and will change to joint but i wouldve preferred to just file extension and use w-2 as proof and this way no issue. right now i might have issue to change status to joint lets see..

[Meb 23]

How long in average that the ASK NVC take to reply?

How frequently do they check the e-mail we send to them?

[Henry&Olga 60]

2 minutes ago, H&H. said:

yes i filed married separate and will change to joint but i wouldve preferred to just file extension and use w-2 as proof and this way no issue. right now i might have issue to change status to joint lets see..

Wait you can't do MFJ your spouse doesn't have a SSN. Right? If you filed MFS you are fine you just can't file single. So if you did file married filing separately just leave it until your spouse arrives in the US and get a SSN then you amend to MFJ. The thing is in my case for example MFJ would have gotten me a $2000 refund. If I filed MFS I owe $1400. So here's what I've done. I filed MFS paper filed wrote NRA where ever it asked for SSN. Will pay the $1400 sucks but theres nothing I can do. You used to be able to amend to MFJ and then they would send you the refund. But that no longer works since 2015. I rather pay the $1400 file correctly and not risk putting in danger our case. So if you filed married separately leave it. 

[Bluretto 40]

1 hour ago, ms_bobdog said:

What's sent to NVC need not be certified. Just photocopies of the originals. And yes, I agree with that part about people getting checklists for not putting N/A so I got my husband to look through every single one and N/A everything. Lol. 

Please what’s the meaning of N/A?

[H&H. 189]

1 minute ago, Henry&Olga said:

Wait you can't do MFJ your spouse doesn't have a SSN. Right? If you filed MFS you are fine you just can't file single. So if you did file married filing separately just leave it until your spouse arrives in the US and get a SSN then you amend to MFJ. The thing is in my case for example MFJ would have gotten me a $2000 refund. If I filed MFS I owe $1400. So here's what I've done. I filed MFS paper filed wrote NRA where ever it asked for SSN. Will pay the $1400 sucks but theres nothing I can do. You used to be able to amend to MFJ and then they would send you the refund. But that no longer works since 2015. I rather pay the $1400 file correctly and not risk putting in danger our case. So if you filed married separately leave it. 

i will still try to change to joint and see if i can get refund because i will loose 3k if i keep it as mfs. so to fix this i wouldve preferred to file extension and use 2017 w2 to show income and this way i dont pay anything now, dont lose any money and still get job done but i didnt know this path before