How long will NVC take?

[monany 0]

I am a US citizen and applying for my wife to join me here in the USA. She is out of the country. USCIS approved my I-130 petition on the 24^th July 2015 stating that documents were being sent to the National Visa Center (NVC) for their processing. I am waiting on the NVC to send me documents for the next step of the process. How long a wait is this from the NVC and what are their next steps? Meanwhile, my wife is pregnant (7th week of pregnancy) with our first child and I have the following questions mainly in this regard.

I am concerned of the timing because my wife is pregnant and wondering whether we have any chance to give the birth to our baby in the US?

Thanks for any help if anyone can help us out.

Kind regards,

Moh

[Kastrs 723]

First you should read http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/National_Visa_Center It is very detailed and will give you a good idea of what you need

also, check the NVC august filers forum, a new thread is started on the first of every month, if you read it you will be able to get a good sense of what is happening in terms of current processing times

I would say, if you do not have any hiccups and you have all of your documents ready to mail in, then there is a good chance your wife will be in the US for the birth

[marina1294 28]

It depends from case to case. We have been at NVC since January, and I only had my interview in London last week, still waiting for my passport.

You have to make sure that when you are sending docs to NVC, there are no mistakes! Everything should be perfect from the first try

[j&ana 363]

Do not wait for the NVC to send anything. You should call them ( best time to call is as soon as they open in the morning)

Ask them for your case and invoice numbers. After you get the case and invoice number, you can fill out the DS-261 form and pay the Aos fee. Next step you should send in the AOS and IV packets together using the barcode cover sheet from the nvc welcome letter or the one you can print out after you pay the Aos fee. When the NVC receives the packets that will be your scan date for reviewing of packets. I think the NVC is stating that it is taking average of 30 days now to review packets, but I am not sure on that. When my wife case was there it was 42 days they stated

While you are waiting on the NVC to review the AOS and IV packets. You will need to call them again and ask them to review your DS-261 form over the phone if they had not done that yet. You can not pay the IV fee or fill out the Ds-260 immigration form. Once the NVC reviews your ds-261 form you can pay the IV fee and fill out the Ds-260 form. The NVC should also be done or close to being done reviewing of your packets and you will have case complete unless they issue you a checklist for something they need

These are the steps I and other members on here have done to help speed up the process at the NVC. If you do it this way and you do not have any checklist from the NVC, Then your wife should be in the USA way before the birth of your child

good luck

[monany 0]

Dear Folks,

Thank you all who emailed and gave us valuable feedback in response to our questions. Good luck in your individual cases as well.

Sincerely,

Moh

[Adil & Jeanne 296]

Get your wife to do the 2 criminal investigation reports requied for Morocco and send them ASAP

they are waiting on them

not to worry about the baby as she is born of US citizen and will have dual citizenship / wife will just need to take birth and marriage certificates and apply for her passport after the birth / no visa needed for the child

Good luck