February 2023 NVC Submissions

[Emily Ann 23]

53 minutes ago, Edtab said:

Anyone got DQ'ed today?

We submitted last doc on Feb 8th!!

Hope get DQ this weeK !!

Nope. Today is President’s Day Holiday. NVC officials aren’t working today

[Emily Ann 23]

On 2/13/2023 at 2:31 PM, ABertozzi said:

Hey,

You can add me, I submitted on February 2nd.

 

I have since uploaded stuff under additional docs and will have to add more this week (including the corrected affidavit of support of my joint sponsor - under additional docs), so it will be interesting to see if that changes my timeline and also if I'll get an RFE because of that.

 

By the way, they updated the processing time: Current case review time: As of 13-Feb-23, we are reviewing documents submitted to us on 24-Jan-23.

Hope you are DQ’d today!

[Squash 13]

Submitted on 2/2/23

REF 2/21/23

Resubmitted on 2/21/23

[ElGrandeDoodel 37]

50 minutes ago, Squash said:

REF 2/21/23

What was your RFI if you don't mind saying @Squash?

 

VJ User	Submitted	DQ Estimate	RFI	Days to RFI	Resubmit	DQ Actual	Days to DQ
@navd-0	-	-	-	-	2023-01-31	2023-02-16	16
@Omarb313	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	-	-	-	2023-02-17	15
@ABertozzi	2023-02-02	2023-02-22
@Squash	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	2023-02-21	19	2023-02-21
@ElGrandeDoodel	2023-02-07	2023-02-27
@ZK8	2023-02-07	2023-02-27
@Edtab	2023-02-08	2023-02-28
@Blaga-Tina	2023-02-09	2023-03-01
@Jeshua	2023-02-09	2023-03-01
@top_secret	2023-02-10	2023-03-02
@Emily Ann	2023-02-11	2023-03-03
@sky88	2023-02-15	2023-03-07
@sophie22	2023-02-17	2023-03-09

[Squash 13]

Just now, ElGrandeDoodel said:

What was your RFI if you don't mind saying @Squash?

 

 

VJ User	Submitted	DQ Estimate	RFI	Days to RFI	Resubmit	DQ Actual	Days to DQ
@navd-0	-	-	-	-	2023-01-31	2023-02-16	16
@Omarb313	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	-	-	-	2023-02-17	15
@ABertozzi	2023-02-02	2023-02-22
@Squash	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	2023-02-21	19	2023-02-21
@ElGrandeDoodel	2023-02-07	2023-02-27
@ZK8	2023-02-07	2023-02-27
@Edtab	2023-02-08	2023-02-28
@Blaga-Tina	2023-02-09	2023-03-01
@Jeshua	2023-02-09	2023-03-01
@top_secret	2023-02-10	2023-03-02
@Emily Ann	2023-02-11	2023-03-03
@sky88	2023-02-15	2023-03-07
@sophie22	2023-02-17	2023-03-09

It was a country specific document that is additional to the marriage certificate. I added the English version to the extra document section. The REF came back saying they need it replaced with the native and English version. They never instructed that before in the country specific section. It sucks but it could have been worse. I'm back of the line now 😞 

[ElGrandeDoodel 37]

12 minutes ago, Squash said:

It was a country specific document that is additional to the marriage certificate. I added the English version to the extra document section. The REF came back saying they need it replaced with the native and English version. They never instructed that before in the country specific section. It sucks but it could have been worse. I'm back of the line now 😞 

Bad luck @Squash 🙁 - at least things seem to be moving quite quickly at the NVC right now, you should hear back by mid-March.

 

[sleplessinvisland 14]

Who knows @Squash ! Could be coming up to shorter than 15 days (or I'm trying to convince myself of it....haha)

[Squash 13]

4 minutes ago, sleplessinvisland said:

Who knows @Squash ! Could be coming up to shorter than 15 days (or I'm trying to convince myself of it....haha)

Took me 13 Business days to get REF so by that measures I am hoping to hear back by March 9. 

[ABertozzi 25]

4 hours ago, Emily Ann said:

Hope you are DQ’d today!

Thank you!

I really hope so too, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up. I'll keep you all posted!

[top_secret 2,402]

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Current case review time:

Current case review time: As of 21-Feb-23, we are reviewing documents submitted to us on 2-Feb-23.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html

 

19 days again this week.  Still further improvement over last week if you factor in the 3 day weekend.  

[ABertozzi 25]

3 hours ago, ABertozzi said:

Thank you!

I really hope so too, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up. I'll keep you all posted!

I GOT DQ'ED!!!!!!!!

 

I'm so happy!!!! And I was cutting it so close, I still uploaded the last missing documents (the corrected affidavit of support of all things!) yesterday night. I feel so lucky that they accepted everything! I really hope everyone else gets DQed too!

 

I will let you all know when I get my interview letter, I'm hoping it won't take too long since Austria is not supposed to be very busy, but who knows.

[ElGrandeDoodel 37]

NVC timeframes - 19 days (change of -1 since last week)

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As of 21-Feb-23, we are reviewing documents submitted to us on 2-Feb-23.

VJ User	Submitted	DQ Estimate	RFI	Days to RFI	Resubmit	DQ Actual	Days to DQ
@navd-0	-	-	-	-	2023-01-31	2023-02-16	16
@Omarb313	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	-	-	-	2023-02-17	15
@ABertozzi	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	-	-	-	2023-02-21	19
@Squash	2023-02-02	2023-02-22	2023-02-21	19	2023-02-21
@elgrandedoodel	2023-02-07	2023-02-26
@ZK8	2023-02-07	2023-02-26
@Edtab	2023-02-08	2023-02-27
@Blaga-Tina	2023-02-09	2023-02-28
@Jeshua	2023-02-09	2023-02-28
@top_secret	2023-02-10	2023-03-01
@Emily Ann	2023-02-11	2023-03-02
@sky88	2023-02-15	2023-03-06
@sophie22	2023-02-17	2023-03-08

Congrats @Blaga-Tina! Thanks for the update.
 

Thanks @top_secret. Agreed - good to see things continue getting faster at the NVC. And @Blaga-Tina's experience is exactly a 19-day review time, so NVC's stated timeframe appears anecdotally accurate.

[Jeshua 22]

9 hours ago, ABertozzi said:

I GOT DQ'ED!!!!!!!!

 

I'm so happy!!!! And I was cutting it so close, I still uploaded the last missing documents (the corrected affidavit of support of all things!) yesterday night. I feel so lucky that they accepted everything! I really hope everyone else gets DQed too!

 

I will let you all know when I get my interview letter, I'm hoping it won't take too long since Austria is not supposed to be very busy, but who knows.

hmmm Wait so I am wondering. Everyone said it goes off last submitted date so it didn’t count what you sent last night? I was going to attach an additional document but I don’t want to get sent to the back of the line. 

[Jeshua 22]

15 minutes ago, Jeshua said:

hmmm Wait so I am wondering. Everyone said it goes off last submitted date so it didn’t count what you sent last night? I was going to attach an additional document but I don’t want to get sent to the back of the line. 

sorry also congratulations!!

[ABertozzi 25]

2 hours ago, Jeshua said:

hmmm Wait so I am wondering. Everyone said it goes off last submitted date so it didn’t count what you sent last night? I was going to attach an additional document but I don’t want to get sent to the back of the line. 

Well I was a bit unsure too, but the consensus seems to be that if it is uploaded under the additional documents section (which for me was the only section allowing uploads anyway), it shouldn't reset the timer. And I've submitted additional stuff 3 different times since the "main" submission date (when I clicked submit on everything and nothing was outstanding under required docs). It seems that adding docs like that doesn't change your spot in the line - but of course that's just my experience!

Anyway I had no choice, otherwise it would have been an automatic RFE.

 

Thanks for the congratulations