It takes a day for the automated system to update. You'll probably hear that the I-864 has been generated on there tomorrow. If you talk to an operator they have the most up to date information.

Thanks!

Lucy

Hi Tyrobe,

Can you give us a sample of your email that you send NVC to request the Invoice ID Number because I been trying to get that number from NVC for the last 3 days and it's not working for me, they won't give it to me. So I wanted to try to send them an email and request it that way. I am so bothered that I can't get it that number and you guys did

Please help

Nita

When, I called this morning to get IIN, the not-so friendly operator said that they are testing it with few attorney's for their clients and so it is not generally available. I did not get IIN!!!!

I plan to call again this evening.

WAIT, that's not very fair that attorney's can have it for their clients but we can't get it!?!?!??! That just isn't right!!!!! Everyone should be treat Equally right!?!????



Nita

Here is the sample email that I sent to NVC to obtain my IIN:

Subject: NVC Case Number XXXXXXXXXXXXX (Invoice Identification Number)
To: NVCINQUIRY@state.gov

Case Number = XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Beneficiary's Name and DOB =
Petitioner's Name and DOB =

Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is NAME. I am the agent and the husband of WIFE'S NAME. The Immigration Visa Bill for our case has been generated on XX/XX/2008. I would like to know the Invoice Identification Number for our case so I can pay the Immigration Visa Bill online.

Regards,
NAME

After I send the email, I received the standard automatic reply as usual. After 6 days, NVC emailed me back with the IIN.

GREAT!! THANK YOU!!! I will try this after we get a response from the email we sent today. or maybe I should send it in a couple of days

Thank you so much for getting back to me!!!

Nita

I just called NVC for my IIN and they gave it to me right away.

YES, YES YES YES
I got the IIN last night as well (very nice man- I got lucky) and I just paid my AOS fees I am so excited!!! But I wasn't able to pay for my IV Fee yet... Hope in a couple of days I can.... WHEEEE WHOOOO

Nita

Congrats...I'm glad to hear you finally did... ... the night crew rocks... .... usually as soon as your DS3032 is accepted you should be able to pay your IV bill...even before the automated machine tells you its generated....

That's nice to hear. Good luck with the rest of your journey!

Tyrobe,

I see your DS-230 was generated on 4/17 but you did not send you DS-230 in till the 29th. any speicific reason form NVC perspective why you waited this long?

Just want to share my recent online experience with everyone.

I made a payment online for the IV bill on 4/27, by 4/29 I had my IV bill paid. Called the operator and found out that my DS-230 generated on 4/28.

I printed my coversheet, however, before sending out the DS-230 I checked my bank account and the fee was not withdrawn for my account. I waited another day and even called my bank, there was no trace of the IV bill fee submitted to my bank account. I checked the payment account at NVC and my status was still paid.

this morning I checked the NVC payment site and the payment status was rejected, so obviously there was a problem somewhere with the payment site. I am 200% sure that I didn't make any mistake with my bank information etc. I resubmitted the payment today and will wait till the money is withdrawn from my account. I am not trusting NVC payment "status." I recommend everyone to make sure that the money is withdrawn from their banks before sending out documents and not to completly trust the Online site for status.

thx
F -

I had the opposite problem. The online site lied and said I wasn't paid. It errored out when I made a payment but since it said not paid and not in process with the box grayed out I figured it didn't take. Well, it did take and my payment went through twice. Over 2 weeks later, I still don't have my money back. People don't realise that the online system is not officially launched yet and that it still has bugs. They need to be aware that using this system is at their own risk and isn't necessarily without fault and if one encounters a problem, they will have limited recourse through the NVC since it isn't supported yet. Of course, you stand to save a lot of time but don't come into it with expectations that all will definitely go smoothly.

Perhaps that is why they were doing the Maintenance thing on 4/30 to 5/1. I paid on 5/1 for my AOS and I checked my bank today and they funds have been taken out already. Therefore I am hoping that the bugs been taken care of! I will let you know what happens once I am able to paid for my IV bill. Good Luck to all!!

Nita

hi!

i have a question. i was finally able to get the iin, but when i get to the site, i couldnt click on the application processing fee. my hubby paid the aos by sending a check, and unfortunately, it has yet to be reflected on their system. could this be the reason why i couldnt pay the iv fee?

plus, for the application processing fee, it says not invoiced!

help!

- sue

I was planning to send both I-864EZ and DS-230 packages together but we ran into a little delay with my wife's documents. Instead of letting my wife to send the documents by mail to me, I asked her to give the documents to a person that we know to bring them to US and then send them to me for safety reason. That person arrived in US and didn't send the documents to me until 2 weeks later. That's why I've to wait until 4/29 to send my DS-230.

After all, it's still ahead of my expectation. I wouldn't think that I would send all requirements to NVC by the end of April. Now I'm just waiting for the case to be completed at NVC and the call-up to the medical/interview. Online payment helps me in this regard.

Online payment rocks!

I was able to pay both AOS and IV Fees within a week! Here is my timeline at NVC...

April 10 - I130 & I129F approved by USCIS
April 23 - NVC recevies I130.
April 24- My spouse emailed choice of agent to NVC.
April 28 - DS2032 and AOS mailed by NVC.
May 1 - Received confirmation email for choice of Agent.
May 1 - Got my IIN number (after 3 unsuccessul calls!)
May 1 - AOS Invoice available on-line and paid before 5:00 PM Eastern time. Payment cleared same day!
May 2- Bar-coded cover sheet was available on-line at about 4:00 PM Eastern time.
May 4 - IV Fees Invoice available on-line and paid.

wow FIRE ur timeline is pretty fast.. can you help me ..

APRIL 19 -i130- approved by USCIS
APRIL 24- NVC receives i130 and case number assigned
UP TILL NOW nothing.. i keep gettin the message "ur nvc case number is xx and please allow 6-8 weeks for beneficiary to receive information"

am i doing somehin wrong? can i still go ahead and email ds3032 choice of agent even though the mesage says nothin about ds3032 being sent out?

Yes... I am on FIRE!!!

I suggest you email the choice of agent because it may take about a week for them to respond. In the meantime you should call NVC and get the IIN. Things will move fast from now on.

I believe you have to wait until it's generated to pay, and for them to accepted your prior documents first.
We are still waiting for our DS-3032 to be accepted and our IV Bill to be generated. We paid our AOS fee and I have send in the I-864 (waiting for it to be accepted)

Good Luck!!!

Badspellor, did you get through and to the point of below step which was post#1 did by Tyrobe on 4/17 ( Page one of this topice )?
Step 4: Payment successfully Submitted
Step 5: Payment details with transaction ID?
We are tring to pay AOS fee today, but we never have the chance to see Step 4 & 5, and instead, we see the red box to say the payment is not successful as the system is not available.
We try a second time, still the same red box.
Will we be charged twice, or we fail to pay? Crazy.
Anyone with the same experience? Pls comment. Thanks a lot!

Lucy

Hi Nita,

So, you're not paying your IV Bill Fee yet. My husband was trying to pay the IV Bill Fee but was'nt able to go through the online payment because it says NOT INVOICE, though he was successful on paying AOS.
I was wandering if we can pay the bill without waiting for NVC's automated system saying that IV Bill was generated. My husband also did'nt send the I-864 Affidavit of Support documents yet unless NVC's system says it's being generated.
Do you know anybody here who sent any document to NVC before such document is being generated? Were they successful?

Thanks Nita and Goodluck!

Regards,
Sarudoshi

Hi Sarudoshi...
Actually once you pay online and it switches to PAID, you can print the cover sheet from the online and send it with your I-864. That is what I did, but the IV Bill won't get generated until DS-3032 is accepted from NVC. This is when they generate it and then it will be Available online to pay. I can't pay it yet because it's not available to pay yet

Nita

Hi Nita&Assaad,
I noticed you already have confirmation for your DS-3032. Did you get email confirmation? I sent DS-3032 on the same day (April 30) as you did but nothing yet.
Thanks.

Hi Nita,

Thank you again for that information. I'm aware that my husband had printed the Barcode coversheet after the AOS status PAID and already wrote a coverletter for I-864 but he was still waiting for something like I-864 form will be sent to the petitioner on.....the usual NVC automated system does. Now, I can tell him that he can send the I-864 package right away but unfortunately he won't be home until friday from a business conference so probably by Monday.

Thanks again Nita, I appreciate.

Sarudoshi

Hi Vj_nvc... yes we got an email confirmation like 9:45pm my husband time, he forward it to me.. But I also sent in a hard copy per James Short cuts just in case... YOu probably will get it tomorrow, or call them to check, I also did that this morning but they still hadn't input into their system but now they had...

Nita

Thanks Nita & Congrats.

The number for NVC (1-603-334-0700) that was posted on here is just coming up as busy for me.
Is this happening to anyone else or am I just the lucky one?
I'm trying to get our NVC case number and IIN so that we can get this process moving.

Thanks!

Just paid the AOS fee online. It's IN PROCESS... so can't wait to see how long that takes before I can print out the AOS coversheet. We already emailed the NVC for the DS-3032 on Friday, so hopefully that will get approved and we can pay the IV fee. Hope everything continues to run as smoothly as it is.

Keep hitting Redail!! You will get through!!!

Hi Nita & Assaad,
I just paid my IV bill online too. I noticed in your time line that they have accepted your I-864. I sent mine almost two weeks ago. But never heard anything in the automated message. Did your automated message tells it or you called them to verify it? (Acceptence of I-864)
Thanks.

You have to call and speak to an operator and ask them if they received the I864...they will tell you when it was entered...

Thanks Jgay80.
I have been trying. But seems the line is always busy. But I will keep trying.
Thanks for the quick reply.

Hi VJ ... I only got the automatic message that states we received your package of Documents but found documents missing, this is the fake RFE people talk about, I called and finally got through and they confirmed that everything was fine and that they are waiting on the IV Bill Fee and then DS-230.
Did you get this message yet?

Nita

Thanks Nita.
Yes, that's the msg i am gettig. 'missing doc'..... so, i guess it may not be a bad thing. Have a smooth journey.

Nita you should be able to send in your DS230 now right? Your almost done!

YES.. I AM SO EXCITED!! But because of the CRAZY happenings in my hubby's country, it delay us getting his docs for a couple of weeks. So hopefully I will have them by 5/28 and I can send them in!!! We are getting closer

Nita

I just paid for my IV online too, right on the dot at 7:30 AM EST I called NVC... I was placed on a queue and the automated operator said 2 minute wait. So I waited and finally got tp speak to a live operator. I've tried to call for the last couple days without success. So I decided to call first thing @ opening bell and it worked. I tried calling back after without any success. That is after I got my IIN number. So I used the IIN number and my case number to log in with success. I paid for the BILL and after printing the receipt i noticed the status was paid and it was someone else's case number account with a different name other than mine. I logged off and then logged back in and My information was corrected. my status for the payment is "IN PROGRESS". Hope it will complete by the end of today. Thanks for all the info guys.

...

I wanted to pay my IV Bill, but the system is down until Monday morning. Nooooooooooo.

I went online to pay the AOS bill on thursday night, found out they need the checking account information (I had my credit card) since I hardly use checks, I had to go find my box of checks , found it 10 minutes later... and logged back in only to find the NOTICE the site is down for some work so I had to wait an additional 4 days

hey there, i can imagine your disappointment & frustration We' have been calling NVC non-stop for 2 days to get our IIN and when finally got it, my husband and I we're very excited to pay online only to find out the site is DOWN!!! At first, our face from our webcams was like this , then like this , then , afterwards like this: . Its funny as sh!t actually but i guess this is the part of our visa journey that we have to accept. Anyways, good thing to know is we are almost half way done w/our applications. Keep smilin' & happy Goodluck to both of us!

Has anyone paid their bill online? It seems not to be working?

Thanks, Tyrobe. The the online pay system worked great.

I paid online the $70 for AOS and it worked fine. Called NVC and it posted fine. However, i then paid $400 IV bill and it says in process for a week now , they took my money but NVC phone said "we did not get any money". What can I do?

That's too bad. I did end up getting my extra $400 back via a cheque in the mail from the treasury department although it took 30 some days. I called the NVC and they gave me the schtick about the online system not being up yet but eventually they had me email a supervisor with screenshots from my online bank statement. It then took about a week for them to get to my email and then another week and a half to two weeks for the supervisor to act on the email. I called after that and was told that my request for a refund was approved and it was in my mailbox about a month after my initial call.

First, I'd wait maybe another week. I know with paper cheques that it can take up to 10 business days to clear and this is virtually the same thing minus the paper. After that, I would suggest you try to get them to let you email a supervisor so they can help with your situation. If you have the Pay.gov ID and tracking number I'm sure that'd help. Also a bank statement showing the money was taken by them will help, too. Good luck!

I paid my IV bill online on JUly/2/2008. on July/4/2008 status changed to Paid. called NVC on July/08/2008 operator said payment has been received on July/4/2008 and DS-230 has generated.

badspellor, I'm sorry for your experience and am glad that you finally got your money back after a long waiting. I'm currently in a similar situation.

I paid $400 on 6/30/2008 and the online system showed status PAID on 7/1/08 and the money came out from my bank that morning. Therefore I printed off the cover sheet and mailed the document in. Now NVC received the document but claimed the IV fee wasn't paid yet and sending document early will delay my process. I called operator and was told that he could see $400 payment received but somehow the payment wasn't applied to the case. He said he would request to look at this issue and will have something in 10 to 15 business days. I am curious two things:

1. Will the money I paid in the end connect to my case? I can provide the online payment receipt with trans ID and PAID status. Also I have bank statement.
2. Will that significantly delay my case? The reason I asked is that online system accepted my father's payment just fine and had problem with my mother's payment. I hope that their cases don't run out of sync.

Thank you very much for any hints or lights anybody can shed on.
Good Luck to you all!