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Our case was DQ'd October 14, 2025 and is still at the NVC. The IV Scheduling Status tool states that the " NVC is currently scheduling documentarily complete cases with visas available from October 2025". We have yet to hear anything, and we've been expecting something any day now, all month.

I'm curious what the timeline has been for others at this stage of the process. If we don't get a notice for an interview by the end of the month should I contact the NVC for status on our case? Should I wait into April, even though they might start working on cases DQ'd in November?

I've been marking time concerning a lot of decisions until I get the interview notice.

I wanted to add my fiancee as a user on a brokerage account (I don't have a bank account just a brokerage), she has always had a hard time understating numbers, the difference in cost of living, investing and so on. I figured giving her viewer access to the investments account and full access to the CMA I setup to put savings in for her to use when moving here would help her get a butter understanding were we will be once married and living in the USA together. That and you know to get the ball rolling on combining fiances when married. My brokerage needs her to have a TID or SSN to be added and I was wondering, would that cause any conflicts with a k1 visa?

I sent the initial DCF request over a week ago and no response other than the automated received your email. What is the normal response time?

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help answer my question about switching from the standard i130 consular abroad with USCIS to DCF? I've understood that you cannot technically "switch" over the application, but can I cancel my current i130 that is with USCIS and re-file with DCF? My embassy is France and I am a USC petitioning for my husband.

Long story short, I am an idiot who did not do their research before I did the regular filing, and I can now get a job transfer to the US with my company tomorrow if I wanted to. My PD is 02/27/2025 and I am feeling very anxious about the recent slow down with processing times. I have a very straightforward case (married for 10 years, husband has social security number, has lived in US and held green card before, 2 kids...), but I don't think that is making a difference and I see horror stories of people waiting 24 months now. I want to move back to the US with my 2 young children in July to be able to start the school year with them, but I am very nervous that my husband might not join us for quite some time.

Thanks for anyone that can give some advice.

I was filling out the paper work for our k1 visa and it was asking about my parents and now I'm kinda concerned, I"m not on the best terms with my family and in the past they went out of their way to make problems for any relationship I been in, they're also super xenophobic and racist to say the lest. I know if they get asked anything they will lie and try there best to ruin things ugh. I'm also estranged from a large bulk of them as one can imagine. So they know nothing of our relationship and I plan to keep it that way.

Would they be contacted at any point in the k1 process? And if my family is contacted is there a way I can give imagination a heads up not just for the sake of our visa but for their own safety as I have some family is rather mentally unstable to say the least.