HELP! Interview scheduled this week but case still at NVC. K-1 fiance visa

[Suss&Camm 2,213]

12 minutes ago, Knel112011 said:

Before they send your appliation to the embassy, U must have the Case # Invoice # and the benificiary# . NVC will send you an email & Instructions fo the nxt steps. Once you have that your status in ceac will automatically changed to 'transit' to 'ready' Good luck!

No, she doesn't have to have those numbers. You can call and ask for your case number (the other numbers are of NO importance to a K1) since in some countries you might need the case number to book for example the medical  but if you don't call and get it from the NVC she will still get that number from the embassy when they contact them once they have received the case. A K1 doesn't have to do any of those things and have nothing to do with the NVC except that the case number is given to the file which is sent on to the embassy. This is done wether or not they contact the NVC. NVC doesn't send them an email with instructions, the embassy does.

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OP here.Thanks for all the responses. I posted here as the NVC is closed on weekends and our appointment is this week. I am flying to attend the visa interview with my fiance. I got the case number, invoice number etc. last month when I called NVC. 

 

What I am confused about is us being listed in the immigrant visa side and saying we have six steps to take before an interview. According to other posts I read it seems that NVC just forwards the application to the embassy in days. NVC received our application 6 weeks ago. I called and got our case number a month ago. Why is it taking so long to send to the embassy? We went and scheduled the appointment for 7 weeks after NVC received our application thinking by our appointment time everything would be ready to go at the embassy.

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Also our wedding is next month and we are having spent a lot of money of the venue etc. We started this process in February and I really thought my fiance would be here by August.  

 

I am calling the NVC Monday. Do you think they will be able to send out our stuff to the embassy Monday? Is there any expedited options? Or will we have to do those 6 steps?

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8 minutes ago, Pinterestending said:

OP here.Thanks for all the responses. I posted here as the NVC is closed on weekends and our appointment is this week. I am flying to attend the visa interview with my fiance. I got the case number, invoice number etc. last month when I called NVC. 

 

What I am confused about is us being listed in the immigrant visa side and saying we have six steps to take before an interview. According to other posts I read it seems that NVC just forwards the application to the embassy in days. NVC received our application 6 weeks ago. I called and got our case number a month ago. Why is it taking so long to send to the embassy? We went and scheduled the appointment for 7 weeks after NVC received our application thinking by our appointment time everything would be ready to go at the embassy.

 

2 minutes ago, Pinterestending said:

Also our wedding is next month and we are having spent a lot of money of the venue etc. We started this process in February and I really thought my fiance would be here by August.  

 

I am calling the NVC Monday. Do you think they will be able to send out our stuff to the embassy Monday? Is there any expedited options? Or will we have to do those 6 steps?

As said, ALL K1's ARE LISTED AS IMMIGRANT VISAS AT THE NVC. Again, no you don't need to do those 6 steps. That is for immigrant visas that are processed at the NVC.

It's also very possible that your status has passed the other statuses and gone back to "at NVC" if it's been a whole 6 weeks. It does that after the ready status sometimes. 

Again, K1 is a dual intent visa. Immigrant and non-immigrant. It is listed at the NVC as immigrant. It is processed at the embassy at the immigrant unit and after approval it is changed to a non-immigrant  (this will show up as a title in ceac - but you will still search for it under immigrant).

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3 minutes ago, Suss&Camm said:

It's also very possible that your status has passed the other statuses and gone back to "at NVC" if it's been a whole 6 weeks. It does that after the ready status sometimes

Is there anyway to verify if this happened in our case?

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Just now, Pinterestending said:

Is there anyway to verify if this happened in our case?

Did the fiancé get any info at all from the embassy? You shouldn't have been able to schedule if they didn't have the case.

At NVC is what mine said too for a while. It depends on how quickly after it's "ready" you have your interview. If it sits and waits for a while (not sure how long exactly)  it'll go to "at NVC" while awaiting the embassy response.

[Suss&Camm 2,213]

I suppose it's the only status they have while "awaiting processing" for "immigrant" class visas. The K1 visa is an odd one out in that category - you are not the first or last to be confused by it

[Ketsuban 1,034]

Never ever book expensive venues when you're waiting for something like a visa. Anything could go wrong, even if you pass the interview you could get stuck in administrative processing for any reason. And as you're finding out, sometimes they get things mixed up and don't send things to where they're supposed to go. I had an idea of when I'd be in the US too but ended up there about 4 months later due to processing delays.

 

You may need to contact the venue and see what if anything can be done, depending on the outcome of your call with the NVC on Monday.

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21 minutes ago, Suss&Camm said:

Did the fiancé get any info at all from the embassy? You shouldn't have been able to schedule if they didn't have the case.

At NVC is what mine said too for a while. It depends on how quickly after it's "ready" you have your interview. If it sits and waits for a while (not sure how long exactly)  it'll go to "at NVC" while awaiting the embassy response.

Nope neither of us have received anything. When we did the ds-160 and paid the interview application fee I used the case number that NVC gave me over the phone. For the medical they wanted his appointment confirmation page. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Pinterestending said:

Nope neither of us have received anything. When we did the ds-160 and paid the interview application fee I used the case number that NVC gave me over the phone. For the medical they wanted his appointment confirmation page. 

 

 

When you do that booking it also says to not proceed if you didn't get checklist for the beneficiary. You didn't see that? 

How did you know what documents he needed to collect. I'm not sure of the exact procedure for your embassy, sometimes you are just given a link to their website and that info is there and sometimes you are sent an email and sometimes a letter. Since you got no info at all, I would contact the embassy and the nvc. If they don't have your case, then obviously you can't have your interview, but it's been 6 weeks, it would be strange if they didn't. Have you asked in the local forum the exact info you should have gotten from them embassy? If not I'd start there. 

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Oh yes what i mean NVC mail us the letter that our Case # and invoice are there. Then US EMBASSY sends us an email for the instructions of what will the benificiary will bring in the interview. 

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12 minutes ago, Ketsuban said:

Never ever book expensive venues when you're waiting for something like a visa. Anything could go wrong, even if you pass the interview you could get stuck in administrative processing for any reason. And as you're finding out, sometimes they get things mixed up and don't send things to where they're supposed to go. I had an idea of when I'd be in the US too but ended up there about 4 months later due to processing delays.

 

You may need to contact the venue and see what if anything can be done, depending on the outcome of your call with the NVC on Monday.

We are learning. We are getting married in a catholic church and we can't get married again if we are already married. So we couldn't get married in the courthouse and then plan a big wedding. So here we are with a big wedding next month and no fiance. I'm praying that when we call the NVC our stuff can be sent and we can still attend the scheduled interview or only have it delayed a week.

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3 minutes ago, Pinterestending said:

We are learning. We are getting married in a catholic church and we can't get married again if we are already married. So we couldn't get married in the courthouse and then plan a big wedding. So here we are with a big wedding next month and no fiance. I'm praying that when we call the NVC our stuff can be sent and we can still attend the scheduled interview or only have it delayed a week.

Keep us posted for future readers, and good luck! 

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We went on the state website and they have a put in embassy drop down menu and you get all the steps. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/iv-dv-supplemental/KNG - Kingston.pdf  Nothing on the USIC or State site says anything about sending forms to NVC and reading others post on the NVC it seemed the NVC would send the stuff quickly. So we thought  it was no harm in proceeding once I got the case number from NVC as we thought the case would be sent to the embassy in a few days.

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57 minutes ago, Pinterestending said:

We went on the state website and they have a put in embassy drop down menu and you get all the steps. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/iv-dv-supplemental/KNG - Kingston.pdf  Nothing on the USIC or State site says anything about sending forms to NVC and reading others post on the NVC it seemed the NVC would send the stuff quickly. So we thought  it was no harm in proceeding once I got the case number from NVC as we thought the case would be sent to the embassy in a few days.

Well that PDF is clearly directed also to K1's - although it doesn't specify the self-booking of interview and ds-160 specifics. I honestly think that your case is at the embassy, but you'll only find out after asking.