AndiB

you don't need to reply to every person 😂 yes, I did mine through website, you're supposed to

google nvc inquiry and it'll show you the page where you submit one

it's different for every embassy, I booked online with mine once case was ready but some have to wait for embassy to contact them and/or assign one

Case ready and interview booked for 14 Dec! Could do earlier but complicated with work as I'm no where near my embassy

i submitted public inquiry and number is based on date it was made so you can work it out. I could then track it on CEAC casestatus. They also email the petitioner when it goes into transit with a k1-FTP attached which will have a casenumber included. I just inquired to a. get an idea of if we'd ship this week as we're about to be a lil off grid in Nov and b. my petitoner likes to sleep in so I didn't want to rely on him to see if we'd gone into transit. You only get an email from nvc if you inquire or when it goes in transit. To calc case number creation date:

in transit!

Something seems up with 21st NOA2s that were put online on 23rd as a few seem to be getting theirs later than other 21st Sept. Anyway, only inquired twice but 13th Oct: Received 17th Oct: case number made and received Hoping for transit next week case number or received? There is a delay between NVC receiving your case and processing it.

You don't get an invoice number, you want case status on CEAC and choose immigration, it will only ask for case number. You can't request transfer without proof of residence in another country, I know someone who did for Serbia but submitted residence documents. I believe Russians are getting schegnan visa by essentially lying about which country they intent to use it for sadly. I would look for a russian group to chat with on how they're doing things.

I believe you have your answer which is don't risk it on a k1. If you have a k1 processing, def not faster to do spousal so only benefit is if you prioritise gc/ being in status continuously over time. I just got my approval and theoretically could have visa in hand within 14months of filling. Yes the uscis website says 16.5 months but vast majority are getting approved at 11-13months right now with it speeding up a bit every month. Good luck!

Both here and the fb group for UK. After some digging it seems most likely they had nationality + passport to their home country as well as lacked a passport for the country the interviewed in. Think one was Thailand but UK one I remember clearly it was a gal who hadn't lived in Spain since she was 11 so didn't think she needed a pcc but was told to and sent into AP until it was produced. So as long as I don't have nationality/passport for birth country i should be fine.

Looking for experience from anyone who inmigrated as a child and has citizenship in a new country. Did you need your police cert from your home country for k1 interview? Please dont quote 'you dont need police certs if you were under 16'. Ive seen numerous cases of people needing it despite leaving as a child but they didn't have citizenship for their interview country.

sure it'll be fine, I don't think slow down really happened much last yr but difficult to judge. I just got mine just short of 11months even with the summer number chaos

Howdy, just snuck in at end of month NOA1: 24th Oct 2022 NOA2: 23rd Sept 2023

Approved today! We're still in shock as we expected late oct NOA1: 24th Oct 2022 NOA2: 23 Sept 2023 Just under 11months ❤️ If I had my together I could be in US by xmas/new years so k1 can be done in 14months now ❤️

Numbers are good this week. Oct is weird in that they're approving cases from 3-20th Oct (range 07500) which is a wide range to have in week 1. Lots happening last week or so of Sept too. Hopefully decent next week, wouldn't expect an ave over 250/day but glad we seem to be out of the slump. My VJ estimate jumped all the way into Oct now too 😍

numbers seem to be catching up a bit after last weeks. I assume late entries as we never really see a day over 200-250 that isn't paired with a bad day or from weekend. Also yh they started Oct 🎉

There was a tool outage + holiday this week. Hopefully see backfill tomorrow 🤞 def been discouraging though

You won't be able to expedite. It would only be if it was a USCIS error, it was your (or rather your lawyers) error so USCIS won't care. I don't know if being in the system here helps and I imagine if it did, it would for I-130 too as still USCIS. If you think spousal has benefits over k1 that appeal to you and you have a trip coming up anyway, go for that. If you couldn't meet for a long time maybe K1 would be better time wise but otherwise go for spousal.

no, it was covid backlog + hiring freeze. Times are slowly decreasing as they catch up. It's not a fast process

Oh my VJ estimate starts in Oct now. We're so close to them starting Oct, I can't believe it 😍

They have!! 🎉

We have a trip booked 3-13nov, hoping at we see an approval by end of trip. Never thought I'd see it in 2023 so exciting (and scary)

NVC is taking at least 2months I believe and then embassy is prob at best another month.

As others have said only an issue if you were found to be a danger to yourself/others. Agree that you should take a letter from doctor/therapist stating that you are not.

Hi sorry, I kinda made this and then life + work got crazy and I didn't have enough time to properly reply. I may be addressing some things that are now 'closed' so feel free to ignore but - For a lot of us we don't want to just leave because we know VJ is a great resource and many people benefit a tonne from this website and it would be a shame to just leave without at least trying to discuss things. Sure if it's a deadend, no one is forced to stay here. - I get the 'I'm out' now, I never took part on forums where people felt they had to announce they were disengaging. I think generally it's assumed people come and go, only person I feel that really needs to announce they're done is OP but each to their own. The 'I'm out' def feels a bit abrupt and when it's used by many and usually coupled with a lot of questions then 'Im out!' it feels more like storming out than disengaging politely. - I'm glad to see some mod changes. One thing I think gives a bad vibe, confusion and maybe stirs drama is posts being removed, esp constantly without any notice it's happened. We had a lot of confusion and bad vibes when a bunch of messages were being removed on the processing thread and no mod contacted anyone or even put a message saying x topic/thread was not allowed and posts would be removed until they realised people wouldn't stop unil told. So we were just confused. I think mod action should be transparent. Especially if possible to put more clearly what context caused a message to be removed. - I agree maybe if it's possible to separate immigration and off topic searches maybe the issue that was discussed can be avoided and can also in general help people find relevant posts more easily. There are def numerous trans members, I know a few myself. Maybe they're just lurking, maybe they don't feel comfortable posting or maybe they just haven't had a question related to their gender. - I haven't had time to find examples, if I get a longer period to sit with this I will! I find 'rudeness' tends to mostly be picked up when someone says something 'wrong' and everyone jumps on it. Most people asking a question are completely new to the process. They're going to say things wrong, there's going to be english translation issues etc etc. You are in no way required to correct them or engage but if you do it'd just be nice if it was with more grace and patience. I had zero idea how strict CBP was on using 'wife' etc so jumping on people like they're idiots for the mistake is a bit much. I think that's generally the issue...the vibe is 'you're an idiot' instead of welcoming. Not always, maybe not even mostly but there's def occurrences of make a mistake and you get a pile on for it. To end a long post, in the brief moments I've had to glance into threads, things seem to have chilled out and I am not seeing a lot of what caused me to start this thread to begin with so I'm thankful that this was taken seriously ❤️