CEAC country NVC Expedite

[mary&felipe 25]

Hi everyone, I was granted a full NVC Expedite since the email said it was forwarded and the Embassy in Buenos Aires will now contact us soon. my question is, since it is a ceac portal country I'm still seeing some things that opened up for uploading documents, should I go ahead and do that or do nothing and wait for them to contact us? thank you!

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[John & Rose 7,239]

47 minutes ago, mary&felipe said:

Hi everyone, I was granted a full NVC Expedite since the email said it was forwarded and the Embassy in Buenos Aires will now contact us soon. my question is, since it is a ceac portal country I'm still seeing some things that opened up for uploading documents, should I go ahead and do that or do nothing and wait for them to contact us? thank you!

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How did you get the NVC expedite?  I am thinking of trying that so the kids can start school at the beginning of the year here.  

 

I believe that once you have your NVC number you can start uploading and prepare the DS-260.  

 

[mary&felipe 25]

Thank you John&rose. I understand with that number I can start the form, I'm asking if I should because supposedly the email stated to wait for the embassy to contact us, and maybe we do not need to use the portal anymore. I'm hoping someone else who has already gotten an expedite from a CEAC using country can help guide me.

 

Our expedite was based on Financial/Emotional reasons or our 2 children. Each individual embassy decides whether or not to grant it, it is not up to the NVC. So the reasons/probability of getting one granted depends on your countries embassy. My embassy handles very low amounts of cases per year, so i'm sure that worked in our favor as well as our already existing USCIS expedite. good luck

[Jessica_Gato 1]

Which embassy handles very low amounts of cases? How long did it take you to have NOA2? I am also in Miami and married to an Argentine. I am just looking to see what is the average time frame I am looking forward to.

 

Edited January 8, 2019 by Jessica_Gato

[Jessica_Gato 1]

Which embassy handles very low amounts of cases? How long did it take you to have NOA2? I am also in Miami and married to an Argentine. I am just looking to see what is the average time frame I am looking forward to.

[mary&felipe 25]

21 minutes ago, Jessica_Gato said:

Which embassy handles very low amounts of cases? How long did it take you to have NOA2? I am also in Miami and married to an Argentine. I am just looking to see what is the average time frame I am looking forward to.

Hi Jessica Gato. The average time frame for applying cr1/ir1 is a year. The Embassy in Buenos Aires handles very low amounts of Spousal visas in comparison to countries like the Phillipines or Mexico etc. The problem is getting it there. They don't do direct consular filing so between USCIS and NVC it's still minimum of 10 months. Good luck

[Jessica_Gato 1]

OK. Yeah, I am waiting for NOA2 and extremely early in the process. We have kids as well.  At least it's a bit quicker after that. Was it a long time for your husband to get a interview? 

[mary&felipe 25]

Jessica, if you want to send me a PM I can help you out a whole lot more!

[mary&felipe 25]

I wanted to Update this thread now for posterity. In case anyone were to find themselves in this situation in the future. Once you get the expedite granted you will log into your CEAC and it will say “your petition is now at the embassy...” and the CEAC portal admin will hand it over to the embassy. Which means everything you see on that page after your expedite is the EMBASSY who is generating the content. Do whatever the page asks you to do, read the instructions, upload whatever it asks for etc. Contact the embassy by email too, to let them know you’ve done so and thats it. Good luck to everyone. My husband has his interview tomorrow and with any luck he should be with me and our kids next week. Have a lovely year!

[Jessica_Gato 1]

Thats awesome! Thanks for the heads up!! Good luck to your husband tomorrow!! let me know how it goes!!!