F2B visa - priority date November 2003

[Colbert Report 5]

Hey everyone, I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm a Canadian citizen living in Canada, my father is a Canadian citizen who married an American in the summer of 2002. He's a permanent resident and applied to get me into the USA back in November of 2003. I'm still waiting even though my priority date came up in the spring of 2010.

Right now, here's the situation. We submitted all four documents they needed in order to schedule me for an interview in Montreal (I am using electronic communication, so I must submit everything via email.)

My father and his wife submitted a scanned copy of my birth certificate and the required AOS forms in early July of 2014, and although the NVC has received them, they have yet to review them.

I submitted a scanned copy of my passport and a police clearance on July 9. I have the email in my "sent" folder so I know that I definitely did so. I phoned today to see if there was any update in my case, hoping that I had been schedule for an interview in Montreal, but the young man on the phone told me that they have no record of the email I sent on July 9. They do, however, have the email from my father which was also sent in early July of this year, but they have yet to review it, which is understandable. The guy advised me just to re-submit the two documents, which I did immediately, just an hour or so ago in fact.

Here's my question. I'm looking through my email history with the NVC and I see that they sent me and "auto response" via email a couple of times back in 2010, acknowledging receipt. I did not receive one of these emails on July 9 nor today. I'm worried that they may not be receiving emails from me. Is there any way to check this?

Any other advice would be great. What should I expect in the interview? What types of questions do they ask? Many thanks.

[brits1998 3]

I doubt there's another way to check apart from them telling you that they received. But double check the email address. It should be NVCINQUIRY@state.gov

[Ian H. 207]

Did you put the your father's full name and DOB as well as your full name and DOB and the case number in the email? If so that may be a reason why they didn't receive it. When I sent them an email one time, I forgot to include that info except for the case number, and they never replied. So that may be a possibility. Usually in those auto response emails that they send they say something like if you didn't include that info, we cannot reply or something. Things can go wrong with emails sometimes, I would use a reliable email provider like gmail to send my emails though. Make sure that it's in your "sent" folder and that you didn't receive a "failed to deliver" message. If it's all fine on your end, then it could just be a problem on their end. For all we know they could have it and not have gotten to it yet. Also just remember to stay on top of it, sometimes it can take them more than a week to process one email since they receive so many so just keep checking in with them. Good luck!

[Colbert Report 5]

Thanks, I managed to get in touch with a helpful young man at the NVC. Even though it was in the sent email folder of my gmail account, they didn't receive it, so I sent it again, and they have no received it. Interview is schedule in Montreal next month.

Anyone have any idea what kind of questions they might ask me in the interview?