Zan1

Hey, sorry you’re stuck in NVC purgatory! There’s nothing more frustrating and demoralising, especially with the phone lines closed. I hope that things are sorted quickly for you. The missing piece in my timeline is that I contacted my wife’s congressperson on Sept 7th and his office began a congressional inquiry on our behalf. I’m not sure if that’s what got things moving or if it was coincidence, but we got DQ a few weeks later. So the final timeline was: Submit FE W2 doc May 18 -> no reply after timeframe page update, sent NVC inquiry Aug 8th -> NVC response Aug 10th -> contacted congressperson Sept 7th -> DQ finally on Sept 30th -> notification of interview Nov 25th -> interview date Jan 11th. I can’t speak to the mystery CEAC notification, but I’d definitely recommend getting in touch with a congressperson or other representative if you can’t get information any other way. That seems to have been what did the trick for us.

That's good news, thanks for that! Hopefully there's not some silly 1 year cut off or anything. It doesn't say anywhere that they expire so it would seem unfair to suddenly spring that upon me at the interview. I'll probably end up emailing them to confirm, but I'd hate to remind them to check the date or something hahaha Thanks for the congratulations! Sooo close to the end now.

I got my DQ notice on 30th September and interview notice on 25th November.

Hi all, resurrecting a bit of an old thread here but I wanted to get some advice. I've been scheduled for my IR-1 interview in the second week of January. Prior to this I was stuck at the NVC for pretty much bang on a year, so the I-864 and tax transcript I originally submitted (and for a joint sponsor too) are over a year old at this point. Same deal with the police certificate that I submitted. I see on this page that I'll need to submit an new police certificate so I'm in the process of organising that. Does anyone know if I'll need to update the two I-864 and tax transcripts? This page here says that I don't need to provide them at all because I originally submitted them to the NVC, but I was intending on printing them out and including them in my documents packet just in case. It's going to be a right pain if I have to provide updated ones at this stage so I'm hoping that the ones I've already submitted will suffice. Thanks for the help!

This is really helpful - thanks so much!

Hi all, I received an email from the NVC last week confirming that my IR-1 interview has been scheduled at the Auckland, New Zealand Consulate (phew! 🎉). I have a date and a time, and I've booked in for my medical exam a few weeks in advance. At the moment I'm trying to piece together exactly what I need for my interview based on the link that was included in my NVC email https://nvc.state.gov/prep (specifically https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/ACK-Auckland.html). Some of it isn't very clear and I'm a little confused as to what to do. One page in the link above says "You do not need to bring your Affidavit of Support or financial evidence you submitted to NVC." whereas another page says "The appropriate Form I-846 Affidavit of Support for each financial sponsor along with a photocopy of the sponsor's IRS transcript or most recent U.S. federal income tax return, and any relevant W-2s.". If I've already submitted an I-846 and tax transcript to the NVC, do I need to also bring the original to the interview as well? The Auckland Consulate instructions page requests that I deliver a packet of documents to the Consulate by hand a week in advance of the interview, but there's no mention of being able to courier these documents. I presume that I'm able to courier them? I was reading interview reviews for the Auckland Consulate and I see a few mentions of bringing a 'self addressed courier bag' to the interview. This isn't mentioned anywhere in my NVC email or in the link above. Is this something I need? Should I expect to receive an email directly from the Auckland Consulate which will clear a lot of this up? I'll email the Consulate directly if I need to in order to get some answers, but I figured I'd ask here first. Thanks very much for your help!

Hi there, I posted here a couple of days ago about still waiting for NVC to review a document I submitted on 18th May, which based on the current timeframes on the NVC website should be well and truly finished by now. The advice I was given was that this isn't normal and that I should get in contact with the NVC to find out what's happening. With the phone service currently offline (an unbelievable pain), I sent a message through the Ask NVC webform where I explained the situation, requested that my case the escalated to a supervisor to investigate, and prepared to wait a month to hear anything back. This morning, 2 days later, I shockingly got a response, however I have no idea what it means and I was hoping someone here would be able to help me decipher it: I'm trying to figure out if this means that my Ask NVC 'correspondence' has been received and action will be taken, the document that I sent on 18th May is now actively being reviewed and I just have to wait, or if this is just a generic response that my case is flagged for review without looking any deeper into why the review hasn't been done yet. I'm afraid that it's the latter and that my case is flagged as 'under review', but has been forgotten about or lost somewhere in the system. Should I send another message and hope that this time the agent on the other end understands that my case appears to have fallen through the cracks? Thanks very much for your help!