Time Between Stages (USCIS-NVC)

[irwinwill 2]

Good morning Everyone,

I have a quick question:

Is there a certain amount of time once you have been approved at the USCIS stage that you must start the next stage with the NVC? If we were to not start anything with the NVC after a month or so, would that cause our case number to expire?

Appreciate anyone’s help.

Thanks,

Will

[rich&debz 14]

Good evening,

I copied the following statement from an email I received from the NVC today:

IMPORTANT:

If your visa petition is currently processing at the National Visa Center, do not let more than one year pass without contacting NVC. If a period of one year passes from the last date of contact (by telephone, mail, or e-mail) with NVC, all submitted fees and documents expire. If this occurs, the fees must be paid again and documents must be resubmitted in order to continue the immigration process.

Hope this helps

[irwinwill 2]

Good evening,

I copied the following statement from an email I received from the NVC today:

IMPORTANT:

If your visa petition is currently processing at the National Visa Center, do not let more than one year pass without contacting NVC. If a period of one year passes from the last date of contact (by telephone, mail, or e-mail) with NVC, all submitted fees and documents expire. If this occurs, the fees must be paid again and documents must be resubmitted in order to continue the immigration process.

Hope this helps

Ahh that's great, I thought it may be around a year until it expires.

Thanks for your help!

[JFH 12,189]

That's the good thing about the NVC part. You can pretty much set your own pace. You can go very quickly by calling constantly to get your case moved along and by sending off the packets before the fees are paid so that in the time it takes the packets to arrive you can get the fees paid. Or you can delay it up to a year if you need to.

[irwinwill 2]

That's the good thing about the NVC part. You can pretty much set your own pace. You can go very quickly by calling constantly to get your case moved along and by sending off the packets before the fees are paid so that in the time it takes the packets to arrive you can get the fees paid. Or you can delay it up to a year if you need to.

That's really good to know, appreciate your response. I know some people might wonder why we'd want to delay it haha, but we have to be in the UAE until a certain month until our lease is up.