Leaving Honduras for the US and timing on submitting documents to NVC

[motoperpetuo 3]

My Honduran wife came to the US in April of 2016 on a tourist visa and had our baby a few months later. In Septemeber of 2016, I paid the fees and sent in our documentation to the NVC, however I got notice from the NVC a few weeks later that the birth certificate and marriage certificates we submitted were not of the correct type. Shortly thereafter, my wife decided that she wanted to return to Honduras, so I returned with her and got a job with the US military as a civilian DOD contractor. We were planning on staying here for a few years, but now due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be returning to the US in January (my wife on her tourist visa again). 

I have the correct documents for the NVC now. I wanted to ask the forum's opinion on whether I should mail them from Honduras now, or if it would probably be better to wait and mail them from the US in a few months. The nightmare scenario if I mail them now would be the that embassy contacts my wife and schedules her interview for a few days or weeks after we fly back to the US in January. It seems to me that maybe it would be best to submit the documents to the NVC in January or Feburary, then send my wife back to Honduras when the embassy schedules her interview. She was hoping to come back sometime in 2018 to visit family anyway.

Please let me know your opinions.

[Longingfor 195]

You said in September 2016 you got a RFE from NVC. Did you maintain contact with them. I ask this because your case if active for one year if no contact from you after the year has passed your case gets terminated.  If your case is still active then go ahead and submit me. NVC seems to be taking around 8 weeks to close a case and then schedule interview. So it is likely that you wife could have interview sometime in January and have visa issued if approved.

 

I am just going off from memory what I read on a forum. A more seasoned member can guide you. You can also do a search on herw and see what results you get.

[motoperpetuo 3]

Thank you. Sorry should have mentioned that our case is still open. Last contact a month or two ago.