NVC Filers - May 2018

[mr&mrshinds 77]

10 minutes ago, alloy-K said:

Oh, man! Hopes are high now!  We'll be looking out for a CC sometime next week!

 

That's awesome!

Yup! You'll get a CC soon!  

[skyzee 182]

56 minutes ago, jt96 said:

It finally opened up today about noon, submitted the both packets, so we will see how long it takes. did you gets get it complete?

Nope, Pivot cases are getting hosed again. As if that were supposed to be a surprise. Haven't heard of a pivot cc since beginning of May. 

[Ed and Lyn 97]

50 minutes ago, mr&mrshinds said:

Our documents were received by NVC on May 14, and I just checked a few minutes ago the status is now "At NVC"

Ours was received May 17.....Hoping for the best..

[mr&mrshinds 77]

2 minutes ago, Ed and Lyn said:

Ours was received May 17.....Hoping for the best..

A few days more and you'll have a CC too!  

[hl and bl 59]

2 hours ago, Ed and Lyn said:

Ours was received May 17.....Hoping for the best..

Mine was received on 17 too. 😊

[ABK 327]

Can I fill out DS-260 while I'm still waiting for tax transcript for I-864? Do they ask to upload the documents at the end of DS-260 form or do we have to email the documents to NVC separately?

[emillanger 2]

what is the check list from NVC?

[skyzee 182]

1 hour ago, ABK said:

Can I fill out DS-260 while I'm still waiting for tax transcript for I-864? Do they ask to upload the documents at the end of DS-260 form or do we have to email the documents to NVC separately?

I mean technically, it says somewhere that they won't review until everything is submitted, but personally, I wouldn't risk submitting the DS-260 until you have everything ready to submit. Give these guys a bone and they'll delay you at whatever ludicrous excuse they want to give. You can always go through the form and save your work, but just not submit until you get tax transcript.

[ABK 327]

11 minutes ago, skyzee said:

I mean technically, it says somewhere that they won't review until everything is submitted, but personally, I wouldn't risk submitting the DS-260 until you have everything ready to submit. Give these guys a bone and they'll delay you at whatever ludicrous excuse they want to give. You can always go through the form and save your work, but just not submit until you get tax transcript.

Yeah, you are right. Thank you so much. This means, I can fill out the form and save it but I should not submit it. 

Edited May 22, 2018 by ABK

[HariMS 93]

16 hours ago, reem said:

Hi All , 

i was little out of the topic.

But Am so worried for the fact that we got our NOA2 approved on april 15th and still no reply from NVC yet .

No notifications about whther the case is recieved or not neither any case number allocated.

can someone pls expalin what is exactly happening.

Am so worried about the same ...

Also any tentative timelines for process completion ?

Hope someone can help me on same 

If your service center was Texas, it would take 3 weeks atleast for your docs to reach NVC. So your NVC receive date should be somewhere in the first week of May. Then it takes around 5-6 weeks to generate NVC case number and invoice number. So, you can expect your case number to be generated around second week of June But don't hesitate to call NVC. Most people, if not all here on VJ, called to NVC from time to time. Just call NVC and make sure that they have received your case from USCIS. Hope it helps!  

[reem 8]

1 hour ago, HariMS said:

If your service center was Texas, it would take 3 weeks atleast for your docs to reach NVC. So your NVC receive date should be somewhere in the first week of May. Then it takes around 5-6 weeks to generate NVC case number and invoice number. So, you can expect your case number to be generated around second week of June But don't hesitate to call NVC. Most people, if not all here on VJ, called to NVC from time to time. Just call NVC and make sure that they have received your case from USCIS. Hope it helps!  

THANKS HARI for the update ...

ours was nebraska ,any idea whn it will reach NVC?

but the status seems like noa2 yet to be approved in the USCIS portal..eventough we got an email telling our case is approved..

is there anything to worry about with that?

Edited May 22, 2018 by reem
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[Caterpillar8 62]

I-130 approved February 28, received by NVC on March 14 as non-pivot then sent to pivot department April 27 still waiting for NVC case number.  Getting a case number is like I-130 approval...

Edited May 22, 2018 by Caterpillar8

[HariMS 93]

1 minute ago, reem said:

THANKS HARI for the update ...

ours was nebraska ,any idea whn it will reach NVC?

but the status seems like noa2 yet to be approved in the USCIS portal..eventough we got an email telling our case is approved..

is there anything to worry about with that?

That's absolutely fine. Nothing to worry. I think Nebraska is a tad faster in sending the documents to NVC (need others' opinion in this). But, regarding the status, in my case too, it got updated on the portal after 2 weeks or so. You can call USCIS once just to confirm that it's completed from their side and also can check with them if they had sent your documents to NVC. They will say that it will take 4 weeks or so for them to send it to NVC and blah and more blah.. but don't worry, it will reach in 3 weeks or in the worst case, 4 weeks. The status on the USCIS portal will change to "Approved" first and then to "Sent to Department of State". All the best!

[HariMS 93]

4 minutes ago, Caterpillar8 said:

I-130 approved February 28, received by NVC on March 14 as non-pivot then sent to pivot department April 27 still waiting for NVC case number.  Getting a case number is like I-130 approval...

I'm sorry to hear this. But it is totally unpredictable to forecast the timeline for cases that start as non-pivot and then get sent to the pivot category. Expect your case number in Early June at the latest. Keep calling NVC as it has already passed 9 weeks. Hope for the best! In the end everything will be alright  

[jesserz 73]

I had to update my embassy, which I could finally do since I got a case number. So I went from PRG###... to FRN###... Thankfully, both are PIVOT. But now I can't log in to the system with my new case number and my fees are all still "IN PROCESS" even though it's been the fabled "2-3 business days." For being a government website (maybe because it's a government website), they really have some terrible tech.

 

Has anyone else changed their embassy? I've called them 3 times since then and have received 3 different answers: "Make sure the Invoice Number is correct;" "Use internet explorer, it won't work with anything else;" and "wait for our computers to turn back on tomorrow and reset the system."

 

It's like talking to any tech support I guess. I'll be calling again today.  Such an adventure.