The NVC accepted my payment online today. It s in processing now. Good luck.

good luck to you

hi congrats!
did u find it out by calling the operator?

Hi xichdu, congratulations! Did you pay Both fees (AOS Fee and IV Fee) online? NVC got my AOS payment on the 2nd, as of today, is not processed. So this is great news, I can pay my IV Bill online now. Were you aBle to generate the coversheet after you paid the Bill online?

That's great ! I saw that since mid April 2008, NVC started accepting the online payments which will speed up things little bit...

It's good to hear they are accepting payments online now. I wish we would have had that option. It would have made things a little faster at least.

I think you can pay both online. NO problems at all. After they accept your payment in couple days, you can print cover sheet with your required documents to NVC. I'll Post it for guys.

Thanks, xichdu!!

I believe now we don't have to wait for IV Fee Bill to come in mail if we choose to pay via online.

I guess we can just check NVC Automated Message and when message reflects that "IV Fee Bill Generated" we can reuse IIN from AOS Fee bill or request from the NVC Telephone Operator and pay via online.

Let me know of your thoughts. We can update James's Shortcut on VJWiki.

When I clicked on the link just now to pay on-line, the option is no longer there? Am I missing something?

I think after your payment is accepted you can print the cover sheet and send your documents to NVC without using Jame's shortcut to creat cover sheet. You dont need jame's shortcut for those steps but choice of agent. You dont need to call NVC again because you pay by via online.

yes it does. I got my trasaction ID this morning. I try to call and get the link in order to check it.

So are you saying that, when you pay I-864 (AOS) Fee Bill online, then upon payment you can print cover sheet for I-864 with barcode included and immediately send I-864 Form and Supporting Documents?

IV Fee bill don't need to send any documents with it so when you pay IV Fee Bill online then you can print DS-230 Coversheet online and Send DS-230 with Supporting Documents.

Let's hope that this is true. I this this would be ideal way but I think that since Online Payment is handled via Department of Treasury (NOT NVC) through the Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center they would not have integrated both systems. Not only that but NVC doesn't even have online case tracking system yet .

That's cool! Thanks for the info.

I know IV bill sent out itself but you can print the cover sheet after your payment within few days. I-864 or ds230 with cover sheet to NVC. Good luck.

This is great news!!!

How do i get my invoce number?

call the NVC operator.

Would you mind to post the details on the DS-230 cover sheet since you're one of the first case for HCMC as it changed to appointment post? Of course, I'll be doing the same thing when I receive it to help future VN members. Thanks in advance.

For those who think the page disappeared, try going into it directly HERE.

I tried to pay just now 3:30pm EDT 15-Apr-2008 and the transaction isn't going through due to it being offline.....

EDIT!!

You can't pay online with FIREFOX. I had to use Internet Explorer and now my payment has been entered!!

Spoke too soon again. Tried to continue to the receipt page and a database error occurred. It kicked me out, I had to log back in and the screen shows a payment status of not paid. Now since it said that they already requested the money from my bank, I hope that they don't get the money and not record it as being paid!

Hi badspellor, it probably did not go through. Payment status for both my bills show: IN PROCESS.

I will but my payment is still in processing. I ll post when it done

Finally they are making things a little easier for us.

Yeah, unfortunately mine says NOT PAID. The AOS fee bill is there and listed as paid as I paid that via James's Shortcuts so the box is grayed out. I ticked the box for just the IV bill, put in all my info and got the confirmation screen, but when I clicked 'Continue to Receipt' is when I got the database error. Luckily I saved the one in a screen shot so I still have the pay.gov tracking ID. I'm going to register over there and see what the deal is with the payments. Clicking through this in vain 10x or so can add up to a lot of money being taken out of my account if that's what it's really doing!! Maybe this is only an issue for those who have already paid their AOS fee bill by mail?

Please somebody verufy this

I can pay both fees together?

I can pay the IV fee even if they haven't requested or generated it yet?

Where does it say that you can print your barcoded page after the payment is approved?

Thanks

It just sounds to good to be true!!

Warning to those of you considering this. I just called Pay.gov with the tracking ID I captured from the confirmation page. Even though the system crapped out on me, the payment did go through on their end, so now the NVC's system shows me as NOT paid, even though the money is now coming out of my account. Subsequently, the system makes you think that it never went through so it will let you pay AGAIN, which I did erroneously just to have the system crap out again after the confirmation screen. So now I've paid the Department of State $800 and I cannot stop it. I'll have to check with my bank to see if they can order a stop payment which will likely cost me $30 on their end and probably another $30 on the NVC's end for a bounced electronic debit due to the stop payment. Or I can attempt to get the NVC to refund me $400 and then wait for them to send me a cheque in the mail! All this with the IV bill still not showing up as paid! Consider yourself warned!

Hi

Will they give me the invoce # over the phone?

If not, is the invoice # on the AOS fee the same for the IV fee?

After paying the fees and the payment is processed , what do i do? will they send me the barcoded sheets or am I going to be able to print them from their website?
Can i send in the AOS packect and DS-230 and documents right sfter payment is processed or do i have to wait until they are generated?

Thanks

That was really a good news. At least now we know where are all payments and taxes going through right?! Clap clap for them!

This has happened to me multiple times during online purchases and payments. I call the bank and tell them that there was a error and they don't stop payment they just credit me the amount back pending I have a request come from vendor to reverse the money back into my account. I have WAMU, their really cool about that stuff. So what you'd have to do is get incontact with either NVC or whoever is taking the money and have them reverse the charge. May take a bit of work when dealing with NVC but you'll get your money back.

Until then, this online payment system sounds freakishly crazy and I just advise people to wait til NVC says its working correctly. They keep telling everyone that its not up yet for a reason, sounds like its in BETA mode and they are testing out the kinks...which is why some get thru some dont and some get multiple payments taken without their knowledge.

I called the bank pretty much right away (within the hour) and they stated that if it's ACH that there's not really much they could do. They could issue a stop payment charging me $32 but that I'd have a 99% chance of it not doing anything and I'd still get charged the $32. They told me after it posts that I could dispute the charge.

The payments are processed by a third party, http://www.pay.gov whom I contacted first. On the confirmation screen for the NVC payment system a pay.gov tracking number appears. Calling them they could track the payment. Apparently the payment goes through quite quickly and even though I had them on the phone within 20 minutes, it wasn't soon enough for them to stop it. They told me to contact my bank or the NVC. The number they had for the NVC is the same number that we use to check the automated system. I suppose I'll have to call them once it actually posts to my bank account. I'll check the online system at that time to see if they register it as being paid. Hopefully it will and this won't delay my case. I'm worried that this will not be taken care of by the time the paper IV bill arrives in the mail, in which case attempting this online payment has at least effectively delayed the processing of my case.

I called the NVC the operator told me she couldn't give me the invoice number

Where can i find this number? is it going to be on the AOS fee bill?

It will eventually be on the AOS fee bill they mail you, but mine which was sent on the 3rd didn't have my IIN on it. I had to call on 4 different days to get it. I basically told them that I know the system wasn't up yet but I'd like to have it anyway so I could keep trying until they launch the system. Now of course I wish I would have just sat tight having been charged $400 2x and having the online system tell me that I never paid (not in process or paid). You may have better luck since you haven't already paid your AOS fee bill by mail, but just so you know that there are potential risks to using it!

ohhh that's good!

I also talked to two different operators but both of them wouldn't give me my IIN even though my IV Bill was already generated. They stated that the number is not showing in the system yet for some reason. Well, I'll just keep on trying later with different operator.

That is really good news .....but I just mailed our IV bill out on Monday!!!
I wasn't sure when the online payment would have been up and going........so I went ahead and mailed it out.

This is good news for the ones in waiting!!!!!


Aisha

In case anyone is curious, the transactions posted to my bank account today as pending so this confirms that they took $400 out of my account twice. The NVC online payment system still shows "NOT PAID" and not in process or paid. I called the NVC about having them refund the one payment and entering the other. The person really didn't know how to answer as they were only trained to tell everyone that the online payment system isn't up yet and may be available in the future but for now the only accepted form of payment is by cashiers cheque or money order via the mail. I told him the system must be at least somewhat up because it took money from my account .. twice, but the payment isn't being reflected. I was put on hold for a bit and they spoke with a supervisor. I have to wait for the payment to clear completely, get my bank to print out something showing that two payments were made electronically (via ACH) to them, mail it to them (or email as an attachment) to a supervisor's address. Hopefully they'll be able to credit the one payment and they'll either add that to the online payment screen or generate my DS-230 package and I can just use the shortcuts again for that part, and of course hopefully they'll refund my extra $400 soon! What a mess this online payment thing is turning out to be for me!