Response from the NVC?

[AngelicaOlivia 0]

Hello Everyone! 

 

On March 12, 2017 my husband and I received a letter of acceptance for our I-130 Immigrant Visa Petition. It was stated that it would take 6 weeks to hear a response from the NVC about our case. 

 

I’ve learned that a lot of us seem to receive responses around the same time on this site - which is encouraging - and I’m hoping someone of you will have received a response! 

Anyway, thanks again! 

[Mike V 56]

2 hours ago, AngelicaOlivia said:

Hello Everyone! 

 

On March 12, 2017 my husband and I received a letter of acceptance for our I-130 Immigrant Visa Petition. It was stated that it would take 6 weeks to hear a response from the NVC about our case. 

 

I’ve learned that a lot of us seem to receive responses around the same time on this site - which is encouraging - and I’m hoping someone of you will have received a response! 

Anyway, thanks again! 

You need to start calling NVC, actually should have started calling mid/late April of last year.

If the person sponsored lives overseas, the normal process is to send the file to the American embassy in the spouse's country. There is a small window (a couple weeks, give or take) when the NVC won't yet know  about your file.  Once they are aware of the approval, they assign a case number.

You can also try  contact that embassy directly.  In our case the embassy in Manila located our file based on the WACxx-xxx-cxxxx number (receipt # on the NOA1, aka I-797).

The first step is to figure out where it is in the process:  NOA1 (acceptance), NOA2 (approval, which really means it's on its way to the embassy for visa application & consideration, received by the embassy (by which time you will normally have an NVC case #), etc.

Edited May 8, 2018 by Mike V

[AngelicaOlivia 0]

2 hours ago, Mike V said:

You need to start calling NVC, actually should have started calling mid/late April of last year.

If the person sponsored lives overseas, the normal process is to send the file to the American embassy in the spouse's country. There is a small window (a couple weeks, give or take) when the NVC won't yet know  about your file.  Once they are aware of the approval, they assign a case number.

You can also try  contact that embassy directly.  In our case the embassy in Manila located our file based on the WACxx-xxx-cxxxx number (receipt # on the NOA1, aka I-797).

The first step is to figure out where it is in the process:  NOA1 (acceptance), NOA2 (approval, which really means it's on its way to the embassy for visa application & consideration, received by the embassy (by which time you will normally have an NVC case #), etc.

Thank you for your response! This was very helpful. We are at the NOA2 stage. Thank you so much!