NOA2 I-129f approval expiration posteponement Dominican Republic

[BelzMark 14]

Hi everyone. We started all this process with such excitement, and now it is all complicated. I am the beneficiary.UK citizen residing in Dominican Republic. We got a letter telling us that the NOA2 was approved and it would be sent to DR US embassy. So we waited but no package appeared in the mail from them with the forms and instructions.We also got no email.We left it on the backburner not chasing it as there were other things that came up in our lives (Illness). As it still hadn't arrived after a few months I got him to go through his email again, and there was an email in his junk mail that was sent in Sept that gave the SD0 number and told to make the interview. I had read on the letter the expiration date was in March so thought it was ok as still had plenty of time. Which was also better for us as we were dealing with cancer in the family so had wanted to wait longer. But then recently I was looking over our letters and forms and I suddenly realized that the expiration date on the NOA2 approval, 1/03/2017 was not actually 1st March 2017, but January 3rd 2017.I was reading it the English way but it was written the American way. 

I have not filled out the ds-160 yet. We are not ready for doing the interview (there is cancer on my side of the family and on his too, both his parents and my nephew).

I have read on here you can ask to have the expiration of the NOA2 extended. So I called the US embassy in the DR and although I don't think he fully understood my requests, he said i would receive and email from the embassy after he queried it. This is the response I got.- 

Thank you for your message. Please be advised that K-1 petitions are not extended. if you do not complete the process of your case, it will be automatically closed. Sincerely, MC
Consular Communications Unit, U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo.

Can anyone advise of what I should do? I know people have said you can get it extended.

Thank you.

[TNJ17 1,329]

I was also under the impression the approved petition could be extended but maybe that is only if you’re stuck in processing at NVC or the embassy. It sounds like you’re gonna have to start the process again. Don’t ever let these things expire. I don’t understand why so many people on this forum do. I get you had illness in your family, but this should be priority when you start. The consequences of missing something can be huge. You’ve probably added a year or more to your process now. NVC probably thinks that you’ve abandoned your petition and sent it back to USCIS. Call USCIS and see if they received anything back. I’m pretty sure you have to start over. Consult with a lawyer. 

[BelzMark 14]

Well sometimes unforeseen circumstances, such as illnesses come up in life and throw other important things to the side. I don't think they sent it back to USCIS as my case status still says ready and waiting for interview. Apart from the email to say that it was ready to go to next step of scheduling interview I have not heard anything else from them until I wrote to the embassy. I still have the rest of this month to schedule the interview. But from what a lot of other people have commented on other posts I was under the impression that it could be extended. 

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

Schedule the interview and go

they will probably ask for further documents especially if you did not get the crimianl investigation from England

you have a little over 3 weeks so get offline and try to schedule the interview and do the medical exam

you may be able to stop the K1 from expiring

good luck

[BelzMark 14]

Thanks. I have got the police certificate already from England. I just need to go for my medical exam which Ill do this week.

[mytruelove18 608]

23 minutes ago, BelzMark said:

Hi everyone. We started all this process with such excitement, and now it is all complicated. I am the beneficiary.UK citizen residing in Dominican Republic. We got a letter telling us that the NOA2 was approved and it would be sent to DR US embassy. So we waited but no package appeared in the mail from them with the forms and instructions.We also got no email.We left it on the backburner not chasing it as there were other things that came up in our lives (Illness). As it still hadn't arrived after a few months I got him to go through his email again, and there was an email in his junk mail that was sent in Sept that gave the SD0 number and told to make the interview. I had read on the letter the expiration date was in March so thought it was ok as still had plenty of time. Which was also better for us as we were dealing with cancer in the family so had wanted to wait longer. But then recently I was looking over our letters and forms and I suddenly realized that the expiration date on the NOA2 approval, 1/03/2017 was not actually 1st March 2017, but January 3rd 2017.I was reading it the English way but it was written the American way. 

I have not filled out the ds-160 yet. We are not ready for doing the interview (there is cancer on my side of the family and on his too, both his parents and my nephew).

I have read on here you can ask to have the expiration of the NOA2 extended. So I called the US embassy in the DR and although I don't think he fully understood my requests, he said i would receive and email from the embassy after he queried it. This is the response I got.- 

Thank you for your message. Please be advised that K-1 petitions are not extended. if you do not complete the process of your case, it will be automatically closed. Sincerely, MC
Consular Communications Unit, U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo.

Can anyone advise of what I should do? I know people have said you can get it extended.

Thank you.

sorry for your situation, but after interview you have six month to go usa.

you can schedule your interview go and enter to usa on 5 months.

 

[TNJ17 1,329]

Her K1 petition is well over expired. Once approved a k1 petition is only valid for 4 months from the approval date. If her approval was January 3rd, the petition expired May 3rd. The k1 visa is valid for 6 months, but they weren’t at that stage yet as she stated in the original post they were waiting for interview. Even if she had been issued a k1 on January 3rd that would also be expired. Contacting USCIS to ask for an extension is the way to go because you can’t go to a k1 interview with an expired petition. 

[BelzMark 14]

I am not sure if you are understanding this. My petition is not expired yet. It will expire Jan 2018. 

Does anyone know what number to contact in the USCIS? There are many different numbers mentioned.

[Naes 12,205]

3 hours ago, BelzMark said:

I am not sure if you are understanding this. My petition is not expired yet. It will expire Jan 2018. 

Does anyone know what number to contact in the USCIS? There are many different numbers mentioned.

You wrote 2017 in your post.....so some people thinks you're already expired according to your post..

 

numbers are in my signature. I don't know why you're contacting uscis though if the case in embassy uscis won't help you with anything.