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Hi everyone,

 

My fiancee is Iranian and, as there is no (active) U.S. Embassy/Consulate in Iran, we have to be processed through either:

 

On our I-129F, we wrote that we wanted to apply to Yerevan, Armenia.

 

We received our NOA2 December 1.

I sent an inquiry to NVC this past week and got our case number on Friday.

However, our case number starts with ABD and we are concerned this seems to indicate Abu Dhabi and not Yerevan. (?)

 

Are we interpreting the case number correctly? Does anyone have any experience with a situation like this, or any advice?

I sent another inquiry to NVC and am awaiting their response!

 

Thank you so much.

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To my understanding, in cases like these, NVC assigns the case to the consulate they choose. You can try to ask to change to Yerevan but not sure if they’ll accept your request, let us know what they say 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, animax said:

Hi everyone,

 

My fiancee is Iranian and, as there is no (active) U.S. Embassy/Consulate in Iran, we have to be processed through either:

 

On our I-129F, we wrote that we wanted to apply to Yerevan, Armenia.

 

We received our NOA2 December 1.

I sent an inquiry to NVC this past week and got our case number on Friday.

However, our case number starts with ABD and we are concerned this seems to indicate Abu Dhabi and not Yerevan. (?)

 

Are we interpreting the case number correctly? Does anyone have any experience with a situation like this, or any advice?

I sent another inquiry to NVC and am awaiting their response!

 

Thank you so much.

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Thank you guys for the help!

It seems like we did the right thing by sending another inquiry to NVC and asking if it could be changed/transferred. Hopefully we stand a chance of fixing it because of how early we discovered this!

I don't 100% understand how it ended up like this: whether they ignored our answer on the I-129F, or if they simply don't pay attention to it when assigning the embassy/consulate for Iranian applicants. It doesn't seem fair to ignore it, because traveling to a foreign country is already a big burden for Iranians, and even more so if the country is chosen arbitrarily.

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35 minutes ago, animax said:

Thank you guys for the help!

It seems like we did the right thing by sending another inquiry to NVC and asking if it could be changed/transferred. Hopefully we stand a chance of fixing it because of how early we discovered this!

I don't 100% understand how it ended up like this: whether they ignored our answer on the I-129F, or if they simply don't pay attention to it when assigning the embassy/consulate for Iranian applicants. It doesn't seem fair to ignore it, because traveling to a foreign country is already a big burden for Iranians, and even more so if the country is chosen arbitrarily.

That field is always ignored, for everyone. I put a different consulate there but they automatically assigned it to the one where I was living at the time (based off “current address of beneficiary field”). Once my case got to NVC I sent an inquiry asking them to change the consulate and attached evidence of residency for that country.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

That field is always ignored, for everyone. I put a different consulate there but they automatically assigned it to the one where I was living at the time (based off “current address of beneficiary field”). Once my case got to NVC I sent an inquiry asking them to change the consulate and attached evidence of residency for that country.

Wow! I didn't realize that! I'm glad it worked out for you and it really gives me even more hope we have a good chance of transferring.

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1 minute ago, animax said:

Wow! I didn't realize that! I'm glad it worked out for you and it really gives me even more hope we have a good chance of transferring.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

 

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3 hours ago, iwannaplay54 said:

Abu Dhabi is nice.  Enjoy the trip 👍

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On 2/5/2023 at 6:01 PM, animax said:

Wow! I didn't realize that! I'm glad it worked out for you and it really gives me even more hope we have a good chance of transferring.

Please let us know if you were successful to change the embassy. I would like to also change it from ABD to Yerevan once our I-130 petition is approved

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37 minutes ago, Mishekebeshe said:

Please let us know if you were successful to change the embassy. I would like to also change it from ABD to Yerevan once our I-130 petition is approved

I promise I will update this thread as soon as we get a reply! Good luck!

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9 minutes ago, animax said:

I sent them the inquiry on Sunday and today they just replied!

They switched our case to Yerevan, Armenia and provided a new case number starting with YRV with no issue.

Thanks for the update, that’s great to hear 

 

 

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