NVC slow as molasses

[desotoman 0]

i got my NOA2 about my K1 Fiance(e) visa from the USCIS over 6 weeks ago and everyday i call the NVC, they still have no record of my case. Everytime they say they must wait 90 days before they can take action. If they really have no record of my case, i can tell them the receipt date was 90 days ago, then they will actually start to look for it. I asked the last operator i talked to about this. I said, "so, if i call back next week and say it has been 90 days, what will happen?" she replied that as long as the receipt date is over 90 days ago, they will start to look for the case. but, the only thing i am worried about is after they track it down, they put a hold on it when they realized i lied about the date.

i'll actually be in china when the 90 days are up, and won't be able to make a long-distance call to america or come back to america until another 60 days. maybe they will and maybe they won't screw me over if i trick them. what does everybody think about this? according to everyone else's timeline, my file should already be in china, and maybe at my fiance(e)'s place 6 weeks after the NOA2. let's hear some opinions.

[aussiewench 9]

Have you called the 1800 # for USCIS....not that you will likely get any better of a response. But keep on them.

[Nessa 23]

It's work days.

[Ladylethal 12]

You have to keep calling and saying how long it's been and if please they'd look into it.

[Larry and Maria 0]

I'm curious and wonder if you'd share some info.

Your I-129F went first to the TSC.

Did they transfer it to the CSC?

How does your I-767C read at the bottom? From California or Texas?

And your I-767, the NOA2?

Above your Fiancee's name is there an "A" number [the Alien Number] assigned?

I assume you press number 2 for K visas when calling the NVC 603-334-0700 and wait for a live operator.

They ask you for your Receipt number, right? Not the automated system; that doesn't work for K visas; you must speak to a live person.

Six weeks should be about right for China to have it.

You'd not be the first who posted here about no info and then it shows up at the fiance(e)'s mail with Packet 3.

I hope that's your case!

[goldie 0]

I'm curious and wonder if you'd share some info.

Your I-129F went first to the TSC.

Did they transfer it to the CSC?

How does your I-767C read at the bottom? From California or Texas?

And your I-767, the NOA2?

Above your Fiancee's name is there an "A" number [the Alien Number] assigned?

I assume you press number 2 for K visas when calling the NVC 603-334-0700 and wait for a live operator.

They ask you for your Receipt number, right? Not the automated system; that doesn't work for K visas; you must speak to a live person.

Six weeks should be about right for China to have it.

You'd not be the first who posted here about no info and then it shows up at the fiance(e)'s mail with Packet 3.

I hope that's your case!

First, did the NVC received it?? if not, then it might be the same problem we got with out petition, we are waiting since 5 weeks that the petition is at the NVC!! what u can do, i e mailed to the CSC, it will be as well the CSC with u, and sent them a e mail to ask where is our petition, and told them the NVC was asking the exact date when it was sent to them.... finally, after sending 3 emails to them, and after alot of usless replies, i got the answer, that the petitons are sent in big bulks, so it can take long sometimes until they send them away... he promised me to look for our petition, and check what date it was sent to NVC. so i guess its best to start from the service center, to find out, when it has left there.. then, step by step. Good luck!

[JEDI 0]

• I'm in the same situation, and it's becoming very frustrating.
  Out of the 72 K-1's with NOA2s after April 1st, 2006 here at VisaJourney, here is a table of all the ones who have yet to hear anything after the NOA2 stage (provided everyone has updated their timelines).
  
  (It is sorted in order of NOA2 date.)
  My fiance and I take turns calling the NVC every day. (603-334-0700)
  I have had them search using my CIS number (starts with WAC...)
  I have had them search using the applicant and beneficiary names.
  I've asked them what their procedures are when receiving mail. (And was told that the barcode gets scanned as soon as it arrives, but that doesn't sound right, according to what some others here at VisaJourney have said.)
  Today is Day 47 since our NOA2, so we are half-way to that magical number of 90 days.
  (I still hold out hope that packet 3 will arrive at my door miraculously, without prior notice.)
  What makes no sense is that even if they are sent in batches, these lost Visas above are spread out pretty well.
  Goldie, please PM me and let us know when you hear anything back from that person.
  Anyone on that list who has advanced in the process but forgotten to fill in their timeline, please do so.
  

Edited June 2, 2006 by JEDI

[goldie 0]

• I'm in the same situation, and it's becoming very frustrating.
  Out of the 72 K-1's with NOA2s after April 1st, 2006 here at VisaJourney, here is a table of all the ones who have yet to hear anything after the NOA2 stage (provided everyone has updated their timelines).
  
  (It is sorted in order of NOA2 date.)
  My fiance and I take turns calling the NVC every day. (603-334-0700)
  I have had them search using my CIS number (starts with WAC...)
  I have had them search using the applicant and beneficiary names.
  I've asked them what their procedures are when receiving mail. (And was told that the barcode gets scanned as soon as it arrives, but that doesn't sound right, according to what some others here at VisaJourney have said.)
  Today is Day 47 since our NOA2, so we are half-way to that magical number of 90 days.
  (I still hold out hope that packet 3 will arrive at my door miraculously, without prior notice.)
  What makes no sense is that even if they are sent in batches, these lost Visas above are spread out pretty well.
  Goldie, please PM me and let us know when you hear anything back from that person.
  Anyone on that list who has advanced in the process but forgotten to fill in their timeline, please do so.
  

Oh my God, that sucks... they say realy 90 days?? are they mad in their brains? after waiting so long time just ot get NOA2, now another 3 month wait??? no!

i dont know why i am not in the list there, tony and sibylle, beneficary switzerland, NOA2 on the 1. of may...

JEDI, as soon i will hear from this magical person at the service center, i will post it to u and all. i somehow have the feeling he just told me this to shut me up... then, i wonder.... how long does it take, just to check in a pc when a petition has left the center?????

well, maybee all those petitions are just forgotten at the service center.. it doesnt make any sense, why only some few ones remain there and are not sent away... no sense at all!!!!!

[desotoman 0]

well, on one of my routine calls to the damn NVC, of which i get new information each time, i was told that there is really not a chance that the NVC has my case yet, even though it has been 7 weeks since the NOA2 date. This operator told me that as soon as the cases come in, which is by bulk, they are entered into the computer and processed that same day. This is contrary to what I have been told before, but makes more sense than my case has been sitting on someone's desk for over a month now.

She also told me that after the mandatory 90 day waiting period for missing cases, the only action taken is a letter to the service station who originally processed my case notifying them that it has been 90 days and the NVC has not received my case yet. So, after the 90 day period, of which i will be out of the country for that and the two following months, i have to fax the NVC my NOA2 letter and then they will send that and a letter confirming it back to the original service center, whether it is California or Texas, since i think my case got transferred to california from texas.

Now i'm just really pissed off. and i just called the 1-800 USCIS customer service hotline, and because the wait is more than 30 minutes, they hung up on me and told me to call back. I would say that i could wait 30 minutes on the phone for the most important thing in my life if i have been waiting almost 5 months already. jerks.

does anybody else just have a hopeless feeling??? my NOA2 date was April 14, 2006 and my application is lost

[goldie 0]

well, on one of my routine calls to the damn NVC, of which i get new information each time, i was told that there is really not a chance that the NVC has my case yet, even though it has been 7 weeks since the NOA2 date. This operator told me that as soon as the cases come in, which is by bulk, they are entered into the computer and processed that same day. This is contrary to what I have been told before, but makes more sense than my case has been sitting on someone's desk for over a month now.

She also told me that after the mandatory 90 day waiting period for missing cases, the only action taken is a letter to the service station who originally processed my case notifying them that it has been 90 days and the NVC has not received my case yet. So, after the 90 day period, of which i will be out of the country for that and the two following months, i have to fax the NVC my NOA2 letter and then they will send that and a letter confirming it back to the original service center, whether it is California or Texas, since i think my case got transferred to california from texas.

Now i'm just really pissed off. and i just called the 1-800 USCIS customer service hotline, and because the wait is more than 30 minutes, they hung up on me and told me to call back. I would say that i could wait 30 minutes on the phone for the most important thing in my life if i have been waiting almost 5 months already. jerks.

does anybody else just have a hopeless feeling??? my NOA2 date was April 14, 2006 and my application is lost

well, we are totaly in the same f....ed up boat.... eveni am so damn pissed off.. sorry.. but even our petiton was over 6 weeks ago approved.. and then NVC has not got it up to now.. what a hell is this country! the world power USA! where people are not even able to make a damn call to a worker and ask whats going on! even in the deepest bush in africa, u can get information.. wow. yes, am pissed of like hell. am just not usedand will never be, to be treated like a peace of s.... if it wouldnt be love, i would leave this world power continent since long time by side, and would go on with my at least understanding life here in switzerland. sorry, this is just not how people should be treated! i ve wrote yesterday again another e mail to the CSC to this misterious mr mc clellan... i begged him, i asked him thousand times for help, just to find out for me, when the petition has been sent, or if it has never been sent.. only this.. a work of 1 minute to check in the computer. now, i got another answer, after he promised me last week, to make a so called system check.. WOW!! all he wrote me was, he hasnt got yet the answer from the system check, and then:PLEASE ALLOW 30 DAYS FOR THIS ACTION TO OCCUR!!!!!!!!!! oh my Godness! 30 days, for only check into the computer if or when this or that petiton has left the csc!!!!!! soon they can bring me to a mad house. very soon......... i cant beleive, i think am in a very very wrong movie, in a very horrible dream, a nightmare. i guess i will leave how things are, i will give up, whatever, when then NVC will get the petition, or never, pufff... no chance, no help. maybee in 1 month, 1 year, or never... all to hell in this service centers.. and no sorry this time.

only sorry if somebody is shocked with my writings..

[desotoman 0]

AH!!!

I got a hold after waiting half an hour with a USCIS operator, they said the I129F Fiance visas are supposed to go straight to the embassy and the letter i got from them was wrong. I told her she must be mistaken, but then she told me she had been working there for 3 years and that was standard procedure. Now I don't know what to think, but it does remind me of people saying they were surprised that their application was suddenly received at their embassy. I'll just call Guangzhou tomorrow, or later tonight and find out what the hell. Maybe all this worrying should have been directed in china's general direction and not at the incompetency of US government workers.

[goldie 0]

AH!!!

I got a hold after waiting half an hour with a USCIS operator, they said the I129F Fiance visas are supposed to go straight to the embassy and the letter i got from them was wrong. I told her she must be mistaken, but then she told me she had been working there for 3 years and that was standard procedure. Now I don't know what to think, but it does remind me of people saying they were surprised that their application was suddenly received at their embassy. I'll just call Guangzhou tomorrow, or later tonight and find out what the hell. Maybe all this worrying should have been directed in china's general direction and not at the incompetency of US government workers.

no, i beleive what this lady told u is not correct at all!! even if shes there for 3 or 20 years. ALL THE PETITIONS OF K1 have to go to theNVC first! there they get a case number. even the NVC centers know this and are aware about. this peoples on the service centers have acctually no clue about how things work. only if u e mail them, u will get a real worker. those on phone are only there for common questions. so, still a whole mess all this...... and no solution at all.

[happyimmigrant 0]

AH!!!

I got a hold after waiting half an hour with a USCIS operator, they said the I129F Fiance visas are supposed to go straight to the embassy and the letter i got from them was wrong. I told her she must be mistaken, but then she told me she had been working there for 3 years and that was standard procedure. Now I don't know what to think, but it does remind me of people saying they were surprised that their application was suddenly received at their embassy. I'll just call Guangzhou tomorrow, or later tonight and find out what the hell. Maybe all this worrying should have been directed in china's general direction and not at the incompetency of US government workers.

Many people have been told this by uninformed USCIS employees. But I can guarantee you, regardless of what the USCIS misinformation line person told you, I-129F's DO go through the NVC.

[dwar49 0]

AH!!!

I got a hold after waiting half an hour with a USCIS operator, they said the I129F Fiance visas are supposed to go straight to the embassy and the letter i got from them was wrong. I told her she must be mistaken, but then she told me she had been working there for 3 years and that was standard procedure. Now I don't know what to think, but it does remind me of people saying they were surprised that their application was suddenly received at their embassy. I'll just call Guangzhou tomorrow, or later tonight and find out what the hell. Maybe all this worrying should have been directed in china's general direction and not at the incompetency of US government workers.

no, i beleive what this lady told u is not correct at all!! even if shes there for 3 or 20 years. ALL THE PETITIONS OF K1 have to go to theNVC first! there they get a case number. even the NVC centers know this and are aware about. this peoples on the service centers have acctually no clue about how things work. only if u e mail them, u will get a real worker. those on phone are only there for common questions. so, still a whole mess all this...... and no solution at all.

Not sure if this works for all embassies but for London (I would assume is same for all) that once you get your NOA2 the hard copy of your packet goes to NCS and a electronic version goes to the embassy. The embassy will send out packet 3 based on that notification. Once they get the hard copy and your return required paperwork they then schedule interview and send out packet 4

[JEDI 0]

Right.

The K-1's HAVE to go through NVC.

NVC assigns the case number based on which consulate they will ship it to.

That is why some Canadaians end up with numbers starting with MON instead of VAN, because NVC sends them to MONtreal instead of VANcouver. But then Montreal transfers them to Vancouver, only they keep the same number.

By coincidence, I also called the NVC about my case earlier today, and was told, for the FIRST time, exactly what they told you. I asked them "What happens after 90 days, meaning that if I call on day 91, and say it has been 91 days already, what happens next?". The operator told me that I would be asked to fax them my approval notice, and that they would start to "look for it". Ridiculous.

I mean, we all KNOW that it is supposed to be around 2 to 4 weeks, and that it can SOMETIMES take 90 days, but there are so many of us now that I am starting to think that there is a box in the CSC mailroom that they are using as a footstool, that contains all our applications.

I am a very patient person, and even I am starting to become frustrated.

I think we might have spoken to the same lady, because she ALSO told me that I should be able to check my case status through the automated system BEFORE it gets processed, because they enter the CIS numbers as soon as the applications are received, before processing. (But I find it hard to believe her after what everyone else here has been through. Still, maybe it is a recent change?)

Alright, everybody, I know it will be hard, but STAY POSITIVE, ok?!