case was sent to department of state

[bok05 10]

hello guys!!our case was approved may 23, 2018 and it was updated case was sent to department of state 6/6..what is the best time to call nvc to get my case # and invoice #?thanks in advance fir the answers

[jesserz 73]

Once the NVC receives your petition (I believe the official answer is "up to 4 weeks"), then you need to wait "up to 8 weeks" to receive a case#. So you have "up to 12 weeks" until you will get a case#. However, it took our petition less than a week to be "received" and 8 weeks almost exactly after that to get a case#. So there's a timeline for it based on what I've seen and when I've called. 

[Abies 1,713]

55 minutes ago, bok05 said:

hello guys!!our case was approved may 23, 2018 and it was updated case was sent to department of state 6/6..what is the best time to call nvc to get my case # and invoice #?thanks in advance fir the answers

Time from approval date to case/invoice number is 3 to 4months 

[shumway1756 304]

Reading through VJ you'll find all sorts of timeframes for how long it's taking NVC to generate case numbers. My case number was generated about 6 weeks after approval. Others have reported waiting 10 to 12 weeks before a case number. If you're really anxious and you have patience (and I mean A LOT of patience because NVC is hard to reach), you can call NVC after maybe the first month has passed.

 

If you included your e-mail addresses on your petition form, you'll both get an e-mail as soon as the case number is created. I did not contact NVC to give them our e-mails (like a lot of people suggest doing, and even the State department website suggests), but we still got the e-mail because they've started taking the e-mails from the petitions directly which is nice.