NVC Contact Number

[Khal_Drogo 50]

I don't really have any questions or anything, but I was just wondering something, does anyone else think the NVC needs an 800 number like the rest of the government agencies do?

When I was deployed, our DSN phones couldn't dial non-DSN or non-collect numbers, so I had to call back to my squadron stateside and have them hook flash me to the number in New Hampshire, which sucked because since I'm stationed in Ohio, it was an out of area call anyways. I annoyed a LOT of my coworkers back home, because usually it was only two or three of them working, and I'd be calling with questions a few times every week. I just think it seriously impedes people who are sort of forced to be overseas to have to dial a freakin' local New Hampsire number because they can't get an 800 number like everyone else.

I was just thinking back on it, and it makes me mad every time I do.

[stevie b 141]

naw I think they are getting away from it cuz everyone has cell phones now

[Khal_Drogo 50]

Hehehe. I remember once standing outside our barracks after finally getting my phone to work with WiFi calling them, they kept complaining about how my reception was so crappy, and I was just so flustered at that point, I was like, "I'm standing in a sand dune across the planet while my signal is being sucked into a router made in the '90s, bouncing off a tower built while Reagan was still President, bouncing off another tower probably built by Saddam Hussein and held together with duct tape and old AK parts, being routed through a fiber line being snooped on by every government from here to Holland, then piped under the ocean floor for thousands of miles and finally being split off at your government-bought switch into whatever Cisco headset you may or may not be wearing. Forgive me for not exactly being five-by-five, your grace."

[dwheels76 5,468]

I don't really have any questions or anything, but I was just wondering something, does anyone else think the NVC needs an 800 number like the rest of the government agencies do?

When I was deployed, our DSN phones couldn't dial non-DSN or non-collect numbers, so I had to call back to my squadron stateside and have them hook flash me to the number in New Hampshire, which sucked because since I'm stationed in Ohio, it was an out of area call anyways. I annoyed a LOT of my coworkers back home, because usually it was only two or three of them working, and I'd be calling with questions a few times every week. I just think it seriously impedes people who are sort of forced to be overseas to have to dial a freakin' local New Hampsire number because they can't get an 800 number like everyone else.

I was just thinking back on it, and it makes me mad every time I do.

Here's the gethuman and you can click on the call free via web or click on the button to have them call you. Works really well.

http://gethuman.com/phone-number/National-Visa-Center/

[Khal_Drogo 50]

Here's the gethuman and you can click on the call free via web or click on the button to have them call you. Works really well.

http://gethuman.com/phone-number/National-Visa-Center/

Luckily we're done with that part of the process, but I'll add that working off a 800 Kbps Internet connection (barracks Internet and only Internet on base outside the military network) and no number that's contactable without a DSN phone won't help with people in situations like what mine was (I deployed with another guy who was going through it along with me with his fiance from England, and we were probably the most stressed out guys out there lol).