IV bill payment

[Jigi 0]

Hi friends,

My wife i gonna call them most probably bug them every day because I am also in same boat as my freind stabu-geist and others.. its really an agony on your heart... My wife also second IV visa bill few days ago.. that also hasnt showed in mail.....

Jigi

[Ness and Keith 0]

I Hope all u guys who got problem with the delay of the processing of ur IV Bill fee will have ur DS230 generated soon..

[Jigi 0]

hi

I called the NVC again today, because of the 2nd letter they sent dated Aug 30, A girl named Jackie said that its been 8 working days since you sent the proof to us and we require 15 business days to process and locate ur payment. And for the second visa fee bill so that i send it again.. they say its been dispatched on Sept 1.

Jigi

[Stabu 0]

I called the NVC again today, because of the 2nd letter they sent dated Aug 30, A girl named Jackie said that its been 8 working days since you sent the proof to us and we require 15 business days to process and locate ur payment. And for the second visa fee bill so that i send it again.. they say its been dispatched on Sept 1.

I guess this is good news eh? I hope they do find your first visa bill, since I suspect that the rest of the uncashed missing bills can be found in the same box as yours...

[zakura02 0]

I called the NVC again today, because of the 2nd letter they sent dated Aug 30, A girl named Jackie said that its been 8 working days since you sent the proof to us and we require 15 business days to process and locate ur payment. And for the second visa fee bill so that i send it again.. they say its been dispatched on Sept 1.

I guess this is good news eh? I hope they do find your first visa bill, since I suspect that the rest of the uncashed missing bills can be found in the same box as yours...

I hope that NVC will find a way to fix this problem, I was worried too reading the posts here because i mailed my payment for both IV and AOS bill on August 27 and when i call early this morning i found out that it was received and processed,, september 3rd, it was a holiday this monday so i guess that is why it was updated wednesday morning like in our case.. goodluck to all and may we all have more patience..

[evahamilton 0]

Our IV bill has just been accepted today.. Hope the one of you guys gets accepted soon too!

Funny thing, my stubborn husband told the NVC operator when she said he can send the DS230 in once the coversheet will be sent, he said, dont worry ill create one myself

She got up upset, NO, YOU CANT DO THAT.

I told him he wasnt supposed to day that

[Stabu 0]

Funny thing, my stubborn husband told the NVC operator when she said he can send the DS230 in once the coversheet will be sent, he said, dont worry ill create one myself

She got up upset, NO, YOU CANT DO THAT.

I told him he wasnt supposed to day that

Hah, this has to be the best one today ! I've always wondered what they would say if you would tell them on the phone that you would create your own cover letter (or other documents), now we know the answer .

[Chris Parker 11]

Our IV bill has just been accepted today.. Hope the one of you guys gets accepted soon too!

Funny thing, my stubborn husband told the NVC operator when she said he can send the DS230 in once the coversheet will be sent, he said, dont worry ill create one myself

She got up upset, NO, YOU CANT DO THAT.

I told him he wasnt supposed to day that

Same kind of response they gave us when we called them once our case number was generated and said we had a signed DS3032 already to send in (no mention of barcodes).

They insisted that we can't use the DS3032 posted on the DOS website, that we must wait for their copy of the form to arrive in the mail, and then get that version signed and returned. What is the purpose in having the form on the DOS website then if it can't be used?

Edited September 6, 2007 by Chris Parker

[Geist 0]

Careful, guys. I think it's a bad idea to let them know we do this...or else there might not be any online anylonger

[Chris Parker 11]

Careful, guys. I think it's a bad idea to let them know we do this...or else there might not be any online anylonger

There is nothing wrong with downloading forms posted on the official DOS by DOS website. And I'm sure there are many more people with no connection to visajourney whatsoever who have done that and told NVC they did it and want to send it in. It must be a very common thing for NVC operators to hear and their have a poorly-crafted canned responses to deal with it.

For that matter, I'm sure the folks at NVC know people are sending the online forms in, and really they can't refuse to accept their own official form if it is received at the right time in the process. For example, it is blatantly obvious that the barcode on my DS2032 was pasted and taped there according to James' instructions; the online form is very distinguishable next to the printed version that I later received from NVC. What the folks at NVC don't know is where the barcode came from; presumably they could only think that I cut the barcode out from their form and pasted it onto the online form. Except for... how did I receive their form before they actually sent it to me?

At any rate, I agree this is a good time to remind everyone to be very discreet with NVC operators and play it dumb with them in response to mailing delays they say we must endure. As it is, I'm very sure that they are playing it dumb with us too!

Edited September 7, 2007 by Chris Parker

[Mononoke28 135]

I think she was referring to the fact her husband told the NVC rep that he can generate the DS-230 himself without having to wait for it to arrive in the mail. All other documents we can get from the DOS web site, but the coversheets themselves, we're supposed to wait for them to arrive via snail mail.

Diana

Edited September 7, 2007 by Mononoke28

[trailmix 77]

So no updates from any of you on the original list - no payments received yet!?

[Stabu 0]

So no updates from any of you on the original list - no payments received yet!?

Nope, as far as I know all six of us are still stuck (I know Jigi is and I've looked sjmartins', mikeanlani's and micky-sabry's timelines). NVC said they generated us a new IV bill on 08/22 but it still hasn't arrived. Currently NVC has had problems sending IV bills generated after the 08/20. As far as I know, no-one has yet received their IV bill who has had theirs generated on or after the 08/20. Our original payment hasn't been processed either and they've had it for 36 days now (26 business days). According to their own latest estimates they should process these bills within 30 business days so even this timelimit is running out.

I've personally taken a more relaxed attitude towards this wait now, since I already made up my mind (because of this wait) that I won't leave Finland before 12/19 (earlier my plan was to leave around mind October - early November). Furthermore my wife is coming for a ten day visit in one and a half months and thus we can see each other again, so this wait isn't turning out to be too impossible after all . My wife has also stated that if NVC screw things royally up, it will only mean that in the end I'll remain in Finland 'till next summer and we'll get an IR-1 visa instead and thus avoid the extra hassle with these incompetent people.

In case someone wonders, here's the original "list":

Stabu and Geist (08/02)

KaElle (08/03)

Jigi (08/03)

sjmartins (08/03)

micky-sabry (08/03)

mikeandlani (08/04)

DEECEE (08/06 - accepted 08/21 in 15 days)

nanay (08/10 - accepted 08/30 in 20 days)

[RandyandRina 2]

Nope, as far as I know all six of us are still stuck (I know Jigi is and I've looked sjmartins', mikeanlani's and micky-sabry's timelines). NVC said they generated us a new IV bill on 08/22 but it still hasn't arrived. Currently NVC has had problems sending IV bills generated after the 08/20. As far as I know, no-one has yet received their IV bill who has had theirs generated on or after the 08/20.

In case someone wonders, here's the original "list":

Stabu and Geist (08/02)

KaElle (08/03)

Jigi (08/03)

sjmartins (08/03)

micky-sabry (08/03)

mikeandlani (08/04)

DEECEE (08/06 - accepted 08/21 in 15 days)

nanay (08/10 - accepted 08/30 in 20 days)

Here are the people that I know that theirs were generated on 8/20

michael_nc

endless

Still no IV Fee Bill.

[LadyJane 1]

My IV fee bill was generated on 8/13/2007

and received on.... 9/6/2007

Hopefully all those IV bills generated on 8/20 will find their home this week.

Of all the spots for the NVC to get stuck...the part where we give them alot of dough!

I'm not even going to check on my IV bill for another two weeks!