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[kaycome 7]

Please guys who can i do? We got notice mail from uscis on the 1st of July that our petition has been approved and they have forwarded it to nvc. Till date we haven't receive welcome letter from nvc. I have send several inquiries to nvc and they kept saying they haven't receive anything. We try to call Emma but it couldn't speak to anyone just machine response. Please what can we do? How long does it take after approval to receive welcome letter NVC? Thanks

[BLC 112]

You need to contact NVC via the public inquiry form. I think that’s all you can do - it’s what it says on their timeframe page. You definitely should’ve gotten it by now - their timeframe page shows on Aug 14 they were working on cases from July 11. 
 

edit: I just checked and it says  public inquiries from Aug 8 were being reviewed as of Aug 14. So if you just reached out, it will probably take a week for a response. 

Edited August 20, 2023 by BLC
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[kaycome 7]

1 hour ago, BLC said:

You need to contact NVC via the public inquiry form. I think that’s all you can do - it’s what it says on their timeframe page. You definitely should’ve gotten it by now - their timeframe page shows on Aug 14 they were working on cases from July 11. 
 

edit: I just checked and it says  public inquiries from Aug 8 were being reviewed as of Aug 14. So if you just reached out, it will probably take a week for a response. 

Thank you for your response 

[kaycome 7]

From my previous post i stated that my wife who is an America citizen petitioned I-130 for me. I live in Nigeria. We got our notice of  approval from uscis on 1st of July and since thrn we have been waiting for uscis to send our application to nvc since then. Someone told me to check i797 well to see what was writtem there. Unfortunately when i checked i saw something i didn't understand.  Please help me out on what to do . 

[Mike E 11,739]

You need to file I-824 to fix this.

[manyfudge 285]

Whoever filed this messed up. 
 

They checked both adjustment of status and consular processing on the i130.

 

Your wife now needs to file i824 which will take a year to process.

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[kaycome 7]

10 hours ago, manyfudge said:

Whoever filed this messed up. 
 

They checked both adjustment of status and consular processing on the i130.

 

Your wife now needs to file i824 which will take a year to process.

Thank you for your response. I have the I-130 electronic form here with me and i have checked through the form that we submitted. I didn't say any part where we checked both. Can you please tell me the number it is on the I-130 form. Please help

[kaycome 7]

This is the only part i saw on the I130 form and we didn't indicate that we want to adjust our status. Am i missing something?

[milimelo 4,475]

If you've got that in the pdf of your filed petition, I'd reach out to your congressional representative to make USCIS forward the approved petition to NVC WITHOUT having to complete I-824. Make sure to include the approval notice - I-797 C, and the waiver completed off your congressional rep's website. 

Edited August 21, 2023 by milimelo
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[kaycome 7]

42 minutes ago, milimelo said:

If you've got that in the pdf of your filed petition, I'd reach out to your congressional representative to make USCIS forward the approved petition to NVC WITHOUT having to complete I-824. Make sure to include the approval notice - I-797 C, and the waiver completed off your congressional rep's website. 

Please what do you mean by waiver completed off your congressional rep's website?

[milimelo 4,475]

3 minutes ago, kaycome said:

Please what do you mean by waiver completed off your congressional rep's website?

It's a form giving permission to the congressional rep's staff to contact a federal agency (USCIS in your case) on your behalf.

[kaycome 7]

23 minutes ago, milimelo said:

It's a form giving permission to the congressional rep's staff to contact a federal agency (USCIS in your case) on your behalf.

Have this ever happened before?

[Redro 4,611]

2 hours ago, kaycome said:

Thank you for your response. I have the I-130 electronic form here with me and i have checked through the form that we submitted. I didn't say any part where we checked both. Can you please tell me the number it is on the I-130 form. Please help

Reach out to USCIS and NVC and tell them they made an error, you did not indicate adjustment and consular processing,  and they should forward the case to NVC.