USCIS approved on Feb 18. No update from NVC. Help!

[Zhengkai 0]

2 hours ago, LittlePug said:

I have similar timeline with yours. My fiance is in China too. Our case is "at NVC" since March 8th. Still waiting.

 

You may join this thread. There we have couples of people all waiting together for the embassy re-opening  

 

 

Thank you. Looks like I am not alnoe

[OliverBa 61]

On 5/14/2020 at 3:32 PM, Greenbaum said:

Nothing is being shipped to the embassies as they are closed. You can try call both the non-immigrant and the immigrant phone lines and see if you can get through. You need the case number that NVC assigns so you can receive the most current update to your case from CEAC.state.gov.

 

Join us in the MAY 2020 K-1 NOA2 to NVC to EMBASSY thread and download the PDF file on the first post of the first page for tips, tricks and hacks to follow your case to the embassy. You'll find the phone numbers helpful. I'll post both links below:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/738166-may-2020-k-1-noa2-to-nvc-to-embassy/

PDF with tips, tricks, and hacks. BTW this PDF is updated from time to time so you might check back to ensure you have the latest information.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nfin98c33IEpB0T0FlURERriblYmlm5O/view?usp=sharing
 

I’ve noticed the tips and hacks don’t work with China NVC to Embassy. Even before covid-19 I could never find a shipment to China but I could to every other country I selected.

[OliverBa 61]

A couple of us have been monitoring and waiting this thing out since January. I’ll give you the short and sweet of what we know.

 

DHL hack isn’t going to work for China, even before COVID, no shipment was ever found going to China using the hack.

 

Petitions in China specifically were halted January 29th. Those whose petitions were received by the consulate two weeks prior, are still there collecting dust. Those whose were supposed to be sent out after January 29th are still at NVC and NVC will not release them, until the CONSULATE in Guangzhou tells them to send the petitions. It doesn’t matter what’s happening at any other consulate or embassy in any other country. If the consulate does not give NVC the ok, they will continue to hold them there.

 

The consulates do have limited staff there for emergency services. They don’t know when anything is going to reopen and if you email them they will either tell you “visa services are suspended and we don’t know specifically will they will resume,” or “you case is still at NVC, contact them direct for in inquiries.” 
 

NVC is still processing and produces case numbers and invoice numbers for received petitions. So once Guangzhou says ok, it will be shipped. They don’t know when it will happen and they can’t give you any other info except case numbers and invoice numbers. And they may or may not email you when it’s shipped out to Guangzhou, so we’ll have to rely on each other calling every week asking if it’s been shipped

 

*****CHINA TRAVEL BAN*******
Because of Trump’s proclamation banning travel to individuals who had traveled to China within 14 days before their proposed entry into America, this means that almost ALL visas will not be issued( IE: no interviews scheduled), until that ban is lifted, regardless of if the consulates in China open back up. The ban supposedly doesn’t affect spouses or children of US citizens and PRs so CR1’s should be ok in this regard. Students, K1’s, tourists visas, etc will not be ok. So in order for the majority of us to get our loved ones over here, the consulates need to open back up AND Trump has it rescind that proclamation. 
 

State department released a reopening three phased plan, that outlines that consulates would fully resume services when phase III is reached however that is contingent upon several factors happening over two 14 week periods, and again even if they do reopen, the ban has to be lifted before any interviews would be scheduled and potentially before Guangzhou even gives NVC the ok to send our petitions to them. 
 

Based on information from many sources, all student visa appointments that were scheduled in July on Wednesdays at the Shengyang consulate are cancelled yesterday by email. What does it mean? Not sure. So dates that you see posted saying this embassy and these consulates have appointments available for such and such date, are correct because you can schedule them, however they can be cancelled at any time, and as you know CR1 and K1 interviews have to be green lit before we can go in there and schedule it in the appointment system. Meaning someone at the embassy has to upload your case number into the appointment system in order for you to be able to schedule the appointment, if no one has done that, if you try to schedule it will say case number not found.

 

That’s the gist of it my friends. 
 

So what’s the plan now? Continue to wait, make contingency plans if necessary, and monitor/follow each other’s timelines so if one of us has movement, that’s the indication that things have resumed over there. Also if you can, monitor Weibo for chatter about student visas. My feeling is they will HAVE to do something by July for the students because America is not going to miss out on that $44 Billion that international students bring to our economy annually. So they will either be forced to open by July to get these students their visas, or start doing Zoom interviews at the consulate. Either way, their progression could be an indicator regarding our progression as well. So my prediction is by July or towards the end, the ban will be lifted and consulates reopened. 
 

We’re in this together! 加油！多心同目标一权力

[Greenbaum 12,259]

7 hours ago, OliverBa said:

I’ve noticed the tips and hacks don’t work with China NVC to Embassy. Even before covid-19 I could never find a shipment to China but I could to every other country I selected.

As stated in the PDF it doesn't work everyone or every embassy, but it is another tool in the toolbox to follow your case. Of course, CEAC is your go to for the current status of your case.