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But how do we even know that pay.gov will refund us?! Is it automatic, like if you get a rejection message in CEAC, they signal pay.gov to refund it?! Also, how can they reject a payment which got successfully deducted from the account, this means their bank received it, they even confirm it after 3 days. This is total nonsense. In my case, as i mentioned above, i used the same bank account for my wife's DS-160 in January and it did not get rejected, they provide no reason for the rejection...I mean if they reject Chase, then who else has a chance?! This is one of the biggest 3 banks in America. Why can't they admit it's a system issue. 😠

VJ User Submitted DQ Estimate RFI Days to RFI Resubmit DQ Actual Days to DQ @ZRomper IR1 5/3 5/17 @ZRomper IR2 5/3 5/17 @Smarta 5/5 5/19

Happened to me on Wednesday. The funny part is that I paid for my wife's IR-1 in January using the exact same bank account and everything and it got accepted and I never got a rejection for it. However when I paid for my daughter's IR-2 on April 25th, it got rejected this past Wednesday, so more than 2 weeks later. I got charged the full $325 amount, btw my bank is Chase, not a small town local bank. Sent in statement PDF to NVC, waiting. Oh and btw, NVC decided to go and drop their official 603-334-0700 number. They no longer offer assistance through it to "...focus their entire team on approving cases..." as the recorded message said... Looks like an issue with their system 🙄

Ouch. Yes, definitely looks like a glitch. If you submitted all documents and paid, which obviously you did or it wouldn't let you continue, something is wrong on their end. I'd give them a call on Monday.

Sent my IR1/IR2 docs to NVC on the 3rd of May, so figured I'd start a thread. VJ User Submitted DQ Estimate RFI Days to RFI Resubmit DQ Actual Days to DQ @ZRomper IR1 5/3 5/17 @ZRomper IR2 5/3 5/17

Thanks! I also found a non-profit for adopted kids which had a sample 864w and they completely skipped this part without even an explanation and they've been in this business for years.

Hi everyone! So finally got an NVC welcome letter for my 15 year old adopted daughter who's coming with my wife. We all live outside the US right now. I have domicile in the US. I filed an I-864 for my wife, but since my daughter is adopted I'm trying to file I-864W for her. Everything is ok except for question 11. U.S. Social Security Number (Required).... What do I put down here? I don't think it's my SS they're looking for and my daughter does not have an SS # yet, since she's never been to the US before. This is very confusing. Can I put zeroes and add a comment in the additional section that she'll file for one once she enters the US? Need help, thanks!

So my I-130 for my adopted daughter finally got a reply from the National Benefits Center. I got an RFE asking for additional evidence for my child. I came to Belarus from United States in 2013 to live while helping my parents there. I married and adopted my wife’s daughter. I’ve been her dad for the past 8.5 years. She’s 15 now. I sent in all the required information to USCIS that was asked of me. We left Belarus for Poland when Russia began the conflict with Ukraine. We cannot come back for the documents because of possible political prosecution of me and my wife. My father has the power of attorney in my name to get documents for me in Belarus. In the RFE, I’m requested to send in her original birth certificate which was issued upon her birth before she got her new birth certificate after her adoption by me in 2015. So basically the birth certificate with her original birth parents’ names. Unfortunately, in Belarus, they take away the original birth certificate upon adoption and replace it with a secondary birth certificate in my name and my wife’s. We do have a photocopy of the original birth certificate, but we're afraid to send it as evidence because it might be requested at the interview at NVC. So we'd rather go with getting an official letter from BY govt. Or would NVC accept such a copy?! In this case, the RFE states I can submit: I can get an official document for the 1st request. However for the 2nd one asking for secondary evidence, we might have issues finding a church record or schools records with both of her birth parents’ names. It would usually just be my wife’s name and daughter’s. She divorced 1.5 years after marriage and the father signed away his parental rights. We have a medical record book with both her birth parents names, but the whole book is handwritten with a bunch of ink stamps (this was typical in Soviet countries and still is). Does this count? Same goes for her baptismal records. It has a signature, name and stamp of the priest. Another item the RFE requests which has us worried is the they commonly ask for all sorts of affidavits. Could someone with experience or knowledge clarify what these can look like? From what I understand, I don’t need to have the notary public notarize these. Here’s an example of such a request from the letter: An affidavit detailing the exact dates and locations where you physically resided under the same roof with the adopted child outside the U.S. before or after the adoption, together with corresponding evidence. Can this be hand written or types? Do I just sign my name, address, etc.? -------------- Another interesting item in the RFE is that it mentions a bedsheet-long list of requests for evidence in case of the I-130 application going through as “Evidence that the child meets the definition of an Adopted Child under 101(b)(1)(E)”. However at the end of the letter they say the following: So it seems like if we don’t satisfy their request for the child going through as adopter, they can “easily” qualify her as a stepchild with just her original birth certificate or letter required?!?! Any useful information greatly appreciated!