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Haha perfect! I've been discussing that in another channel and the whole thing really isn't well-thought at all. The petitioner's email on the I-129F is an optional thing, but if you don't include it, guess you miss all of that or maybe they will send you snail mail?! And all info I get from my embassy says they will email the beneficiary the packet 3 but how would they know my email? If it's from DS-160, they expect me to fill it beforehand with no information at all from them first. It's nuts. I'm sorry your embassy makes you wait. I'd say you can fill DS-160 for sure (you can so it with WAC number so doesn't even need to be shipped yet). Not going ahead and scheduling interviews is embassy-dependent, unfortunately. I'd see what other people from Tokyo are doing, my embassy tells we gotta wait for the P3 to schedule the interview and that is not true, or else we'd be waiting 2 more weeks too.

When did you get the received email? I am seeing a case number being given at around 3-4 weeks after it. I am pretty sure you will make the shipment next week with all of us! Fingers crossed. Hoping this is not a UK issue to be fair :((

It's the petitioner's email on the I-129F. Believe me, we are not deceiving you here when we say NVC will send an email to the petitioner when the case is shipped to the embassy... they will. Check your I-129F to see if you have the email there. Congratulations!

Congratulations!!

Ugh! I’m sorry, I know they’re taking longer to reply now but it does seem they decided not to reply this time to you. Did you send another one? Here’s me rooting you get an email next week with the K1-FTP about it being shipped to the embassy 🤞🏼You waited way too long. Weird, I’ve seen the same reply today about 5 times already. Seems someone took the day today to reply people with this same generic message. What a waste of inquiry, I’m sorry!

Congratulations! First June NOA2 I see that got it!

Wow, I couldn't find the July 2023 thread anywhere. Needed to go to the 2nd page of advanced search results! Posting here to see if it gets bumped a bit higher! Let us know when you get your received replies from NVC, everyone. Many of you should already start doing inquiries with the 30th day approaching.

Congratulations!!! You don't need an invoice ID. First things first, what's your status on CEAC? - Go here: https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=IV - Make sure "immigrant visa" is selected - Add your Case number from NVC - Fill the captcha code and click submit - See if it's "at NVC", "in transit" or "ready" If it's "at NVC" = wait until next week shipment If it's "in transit" = it's being shipped to the embassy and you should've received the K1-FTP email (the petitioner receives it) If it's "Ready" = it's at the embassy and then you gotta research what Tokyo requests. The embassy will send a packet 3 by email usually and it's the instructions on how to proceed. Some embassies let you go ahead with DS-160 and interview scheduling before the packet 3, others not. It depends. Email them if you aren't sure.

Congratulations!!! I am not sure why the August thread is so dead, but there were 175 approvals yesterday in August! So if anyone's waiting, this week is probably going to be your week!

Praying for you and that you get your NOA2 soon!

Hi, don't need to worry. NVC is taking a longer time now to receive petitions and to create the case and ship them to the embassy. You were approved in June so it's glad you already got an answer about it being received (my received confirmation only case on day 52, and people before me had to wait up to 70 days for it). NVC for K1 only works as a stage they review your petition, create a case and ship it to your embassy. No documents are submitted to NVC, no fees are paid to NVC. The wording on the NOA2, NVC inquiry replies and on CEAC can be super confusing because most of it is made for immigrant cases. So it does not apply to us K1s. I'd say keep inquiring until you get from them a case number. Use the public inquiry and attach your NOA2 and a screenshot of the email that says it was received. Shipping week is next week, Tuesday and Wednesday. And shipment occurs every 2 weeks. So if your case has been created already, there's a chance you might make it. However, I think you'll only be shipped on the week of the 29th now seeing your NOA2/Received date. I'd say the ones that will be shipped next week are only late May NOA2s and early June NOA2s. The DHL hack here is just a general idea of packages NVC is sending to embassies. You can't really know if it's your case or not. I recommend you following this thread below for more info/so you can see what June NOA2s are doing: There's also the May one so you can check what happened/is happening to May NOA2s:

Oh thank you! Hoping we all get good news next week so we can move forward! It's been a hell of a ride! haha ❤️

What's your embassy again? P3 is just the list of instructions the embassy sends out/first contact from the embassy for most embassies. The only one I know that require you to send something for it is Montreal. There's no welcome letter from NVC, what we get is an email called K1-FTP with information about our case being shipped to the embassy (they only send it to the petitioner when they do ship it). That's usually incorrectly called the NVC welcome letter for K1. If you have your case number from NVC, you can check the status on CEAC. No account needed. No Invoice ID needed. Just go to the tracker and select "immigrant" and add your case number (not the receipt number, the actual NVC case number).

Unfortunately it's a gamble with NVC and depends on who replies to your inquiry. But I did that and got I think 4 or 5 inquiries with the same "we received" message, but never one that they have not received after they told me they did. A lot of people experience what you do too, that's why I say to ignore it and keep trying and pushing them.

Trust the received one and, on your next inquires, be specific about it being received on July 13 and attach also a screenshot of that email saying it was received.

Hi! Yes, I think this is a good option too to not having to go through 0 star reviews with no feedback (or even ones with rating and no feedback to explain the rating).

I am so so sorry about your wait. From filing to embassy, this process is definitely unfair. Unfortunately, you will see here on this thread that March and April NOA2s took a longer time to get a case number, while May and June NOA2s are getting the received email that you got + case number faster. They aren't following a chronological order on those. I think you did all you can – you kept inquiring and tried to involve a congress representative. Don't ignore the email you got on July 20th. That is your "NVC received" email. Right now, all you can do is keep pushing them for a case number. The case number is given by online public inquiry (you can't use the NVCResearch email if that was what you were doing). I would keep bothering them and always referencing that your petition was received on July 20th and that you have been waiting for 137 days. Something like the below should suffice. Attach your NOA2 and a screenshot of the July 20th email to the inquiry. Hope you get it soon and get shipped on the 15th with the next batch! "Hello, I have received information from NVC that my petition was received and was waiting for data entry on [insert your NVC received date here]. I am checking to see if a case was created for my petition and, if so, can you provide me my NVC case number? Please see attached the reply from NVC confirming my petition has been received and a copy of my approved NOA2, which was approved [insert number of days post-NOA2 here]days ago. Thank you."

It's been received by NVC. Keep trying now for a case number through public inquiry.

Seeing your embassy is unresponsive, I'd send the doctor office the interview confirmation page so they know you have an interview scheduled at your embassy. See if they take that as a confirmation. I am not sure how Mumbai embassy works when it comes to packet 3. I'd try researching with people that already been through Mumbai to see what they did.

With the DS-160 filled and submitted, you usually need to go to an official interview scheduling website. You'll also pay the DS-160 fee there. I see for UAE it's this one: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-AE/iv See more info here: https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Arab Emirates&cty=Abu Dhabi

Hi! I was looking at my consulate feedback and reviews here on VJ while I prepare myself for my interview. I noticed that when I filter the reviews to only see "poor" reviews, many of them have no stars given and no feedback given. Wouldn't this pull the embassy/consulate rating down? When in fact the user really didn't give any rating or feedback at all, even though he took time to submit a review? I understand the user had to select the 0 star when he submitted it, so it was a conscious choice, but it's honestly not helpful for other users. Maybe as a solution, whenever a user selects zero, then a written feedback of at least 100 characters is required? That way it will help people to actually think/pay attention to their review before submitting it, and not just submitting anything that is not helpful at all. Or maybe would including a requirement of minimum of one star for the review to be submitted be an option? Maybe this would be a big change on the whole rating and it may and not be possible. You know better than me. Just throwing ideas here and wondering if this is possible seeing the website is going through so many changes too. I just feel frustrated many users gave the embassy 0 stars with no explanation whatsoever about what was so bad about it. Also, if I may add, Rio de Janeiro has a terrible typo on this page: https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Brazil&cty=Rio De Janereiro It's not Janereiro. It's Janeiro.

Congratulations you two! Hopefully we will all make the shipment the week after the next! 🥳

Hi! Congrats! You have 6 months from the medical exam. The expiring date printed on the visa will be based on the medical date, that is why most people choose to do the medical about 1 week before the interview (depending on the embassy and doctor requirements). If you choose to do it way earlier, then you gotta count the 6 months from there. Also good to note that in order to be excused from the medical exam during AOS in US, the medical date needs to be done in the year prior to AOS filing. Example: if your medical was today, August 2nd, you have 6 months to enter to US, so you have to enter before February 2nd. And you need to file for AOS before August 2nd, 2024 to not have go through another medical in US.

Oh no! I was hoping you'd give us good news that you got the K1-FTP. I am so sorry. I got the reply from my inquiry made on Friday morning today, it's absurd they haven't replied yours from Wednesday. I hope this means they are assigning your case number and didn't want to reply without it, so hoping they're just waiting to get it to reply to you. It's infuriating how the same problem with USCIS also happens with NVC. I know a perfect chronological order isn't exactly feasible, but I saw a May 22nd NOA2 being shipped yesterday, while there's April NOA2s still waiting for a case number too. There's no order and we're again left in the dark. At least we get to make inquiries, but it's also exhausting. You waited too much and I was hoping they prioritized early NOA1s, not the case. I'm rooting for you, though. Hope you give us good news here soon and get shipped on August 15th as well! No more waiting after that!

Hope you get it soon. Use the AskNVC public inquiry only to get the case number, and make sure to tell them how long you've been waiting and mention all the inquiry replies saying it was received and was waiting for entry in the system. It sucks to keep waiting in the dark seeing NOA2s after yours get shipped. Rooting for you.