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Thank you. But the biggest concern now is that she will be 21 in April and I have had similar experience where when I applied for AOJ, it was denied. They had told me that once I turned 21, I could no longer be in the same visa category. As of now, their interview window is around 7-9 months.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it very much.

my apologies.. Visa category is F3 and priority date is April 01 2010.

Hello, I am hopeful someone will have some response to this topic. My brother's NVC case has been approved and all documentations have been accepted. As of now, he is waiting for the interview appointment letter. He is in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Does anyone know estimated Interview appointment time? I have looked on the Embassy website but they are referring to student visa or tourist visa. I did not see anything about immigrant visa. Thank you so much in advance.

Hello, Thank you in advance for answering. The question I have is that my niece is here in USA under student visa and currently enrolled at a university. However, my mom petitioned for her dad and she is also an applicant/dependent. NVC has reviewed and accepted all the documentations and now they are at Step 10 and waiting for interview appointment (Step 10 details are here: Interview Preparation. ) My question is regarding the medical exam, since she is in the USA legally at this moment, can she schedule the medical exam here or does she have to fly back to her home country for the medical exam part? They have yet to receive the interview appointment letter but we are being proactive on this. Since it takes time to schedule medical exam (I personally have done it as part of my green card years ago so I know that it could take days to get an appointment) so we want to be prepared. Thank you again to everyone who can help with this matter.

Sorry, I forgot to specify. I tried some of their options but this one i think worked for me: I solved the issue for someone else and saw that it had something to do with the file's property. Here is how you can solve it. Open the pdf in Word doc. Microsoft Word and save it under a different name since it will be read-only. After saving the file, save it as pdf. What is the file size for you? Mine was at 776KB but yet it was not working. So I did open it in WORD then saved it as a PDF. Then uploaded it. You can also try this option: We were having the same issue when even we reduced the file size to 365kb. I sent the original document to my email. Instead of downloading, open print option and "save as pdf" instead of "Microsoft print to pdf." That reduced the file size to 236kb, which i was able to attach and submit without any issue. For reference, the original file size was 443kb. Be sure to keep the original copy saved somewhere and create copies to follow these options..

My apologies for not sharing this sooner. This is how I got my submission issue addressed: https://www.reddit.com/r/NationalVisaCenter/comments/1fwevuv/error_affidavit_of_support_document_i864_invalid/?rdt=38184 Please review this thread and hopefully you can use this.

My apologies for not sharing this sooner. This is how I got my submission issue addressed: https://www.reddit.com/r/NationalVisaCenter/comments/1fwevuv/error_affidavit_of_support_document_i864_invalid/?rdt=38184 Please review this thread and hopefully others can use this.

yes. i have submitted the application but they rejected 2 forms. One is the i-864 form in PDF and is sized at 776kb. The other is the birth certificate. I am getting "invalid image detected" for the i-864 form. For the birth cert, they are saying the format is wrong. The issue is that I asked the issuing office and they told me that they are not using the old format that is indicated by NVC. So not sure what to do next...

Thank you. I did reach out to NVC but their response is the same. Hopefully someone else will have a response.

Hello, I am working on DS260 form. When I try to upload the i-864 form as PDF (File size is 776kb), I am getting an error "Invalid Image Detected". I have tried using different browser but it still says the same thing. The other issue is that I have to upload 3 birth certificates but they are rejecting the file saying it's invalid format. The issue is that the issuing authority has updated all of their birth certificate forms. The US embassy/NVC (whoever is reviewing the files) keeps telling me to upload the correct format. I am not sure what to do now. The issuing office told me that they have no way to issue the old format. Thanks

Thank you Appleblossom. I am helping out my friend, whose mom petitioned for him years ago. They have received notification to complete DS260 forms and upload civil documents. Some questions are not as straight forward. I am a naturalized citizen myself but that was a while back. So some of these are very much new to me. The case shows Priority date as 26 OCT 2010. I believe it is current since they have received updates regarding interview.

Thank you. The confusion I have is that if someone arrived here in Jan 2024 and has a 5 year student visa, how do I enter that information on the DS260 form? Do I start adding the current year visit then work backwards to 5 visits? If I do that then I have to select length of Stay, which is confusing. I was going to mark it as "arrived Jan 2024 and length of stay 5 years" since that is what the visa validity is. Is that accurate or should I exclude the current year visit? The form has no help page (at least I did not find it). Also, why isn't the submitted document button working after uploading the civil documents?

Hello, I am working on completing the DS260 form. First question: i have uploaded all the civil documents but when i click SUBMIT documents, nothing happens. I don't see any error on the page. There is no flag. There is a Field for OPTIONAL documents but none of those are applicable. I am unsure why the submit documents button is not working. 2nd question: The question where it says "provide your last 5 visits to USA, how do I answer it for someone who just came to USA in January of 2024 on a student visa? The applicant is here currently. Does that count as part of last 5 visits? I would think that is not what they are asking. I thought Previous 5 visits excludes current stay? Please help. I don't want to submit it then have issues.

Thanks again.. really appreciate it.