Who receives the NVC receipt letter?

[Bjh 39]

Hey everyone,

 

My (petitioner) i-129f was approved by USCIS and sent to the NVC.

When it's received by the NVC, who receives the receipt from NVC, the petitioner or beneficiary?

 

Thank you!

[Sarge2155 4,589]

11 minutes ago, Bjh said:

Hey everyone,

 

My (petitioner) i-129f was approved by USCIS and sent to the NVC.

When it's received by the NVC, who receives the receipt from NVC, the petitioner or beneficiary?

 

Thank you!

The petitioner, if you even get notified at all. Go to the thread listed below and update your email address with NVC. I would seek out and join this thread for further information.

 

 

Edited June 30, 2019 by Sarge2155

[midwinterrose 275]

We never received a receipt letter from NVC, despite my having filled out the "Ask NVC" thing that everyone recommends doing.  I called one week after approval, but they hadn't received the case yet. I called again a week later and still nothing, and I called again like 3 days after that and they said they had received it and gave me the case number as well.  When it left NVC for the embassy, I got an email to my email address (petitioner) but nothing went to the beneficiary email.  We also never got any physical letter of any kind from NVC.

[SalishSea 17,927]

56 minutes ago, radharose said:

We never received a receipt letter from NVC, despite my having filled out the "Ask NVC" thing that everyone recommends doing.  I called one week after approval, but they hadn't received the case yet. I called again a week later and still nothing, and I called again like 3 days after that and they said they had received it and gave me the case number as well.  When it left NVC for the embassy, I got an email to my email address (petitioner) but nothing went to the beneficiary email.  We also never got any physical letter of any kind from NVC.

Same here.  Got the case # over the phone with NVC, and then I believe the next communication was packet 3 (via email to the petitioner) from the Auckland Consulate.

[midwinterrose 275]

3 hours ago, radharose said:

We also never got any physical letter of any kind from NVC.

Actually, I take that back.  A letter arrived from NVC to my fiance's home address (the beneficiary), stating that they were forwarding our case to the embassy.  However, it arrived like 3 months after his visa was approved, he'd already arrived in the U.S., and we'd been married for like a month.  I think we may even have already submitted his AOS.  Scared the bejeezus out of us when his sister called to say there was a letter addressed to him in English, and all kinds of "We made an error, your visa should not have been issued" scenarios ran through my head until she opened it and sent us pictures and it turned out to be from the NVC.  Haha, I'd totally forgotten about that!

[Pitaya 2,577]

I (the petitioner) got a letter from the NVC, indicating that they were getting ready to send the paperwork to the interviewing consulate. Additionally, the sheet was a bit of a "Rosetta stone." On it were printed the USCIS Receipt number and the corresponding DOS Casefile number. That was much more than I was anticipating.

 

YMMV.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

11 hours ago, radharose said:

We never received a receipt letter from NVC, despite my having filled out the "Ask NVC" thing that everyone recommends doing.  I called one week after approval, but they hadn't received the case yet. I called again a week later and still nothing, and I called again like 3 days after that and they said they had received it and gave me the case number as well.  When it left NVC for the embassy, I got an email to my email address (petitioner) but nothing went to the beneficiary email.  We also never got any physical letter of any kind from NVC.

The last sentence in the instructions state the following  "We have found in some cases that emails are never sent and in other cases this works well. So, your mileage may vary." 

[midwinterrose 275]

2 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

The last sentence in the instructions state the following  "We have found in some cases that emails are never sent and in other cases this works well. So, your mileage may vary." 

I'm not knocking the "Ask NVC" method, just stating that I tried it and it didn't work for me.  It may work for others.  All the notifications we've received throughout the process have been hit and miss, so I'm definitely all for trying every method available.

[Pitaya 2,577]

3 hours ago, radharose said:

I'm not knocking the "Ask NVC" method, just stating that I tried it and it didn't work for me.  It may work for others.  All the notifications we've received throughout the process have been hit and miss, so I'm definitely all for trying every method available.

We did both. Not only did I receive written confirmation from NVC that the visa package was being sent. I had initially called them to get the DOS case file number. Indeed, try every method available to you to cajole them to get your visa petition forwarded onto the interviewing embassy/consulate.

 

During our paper chase, the two governments, USA and PRC, were "playing" a little cat and mouth game with each countries diplomatic pouches, which could include approved K1 visa petitions. Once a pouch arrived in country, either country would often "quarantine" the other country's pouches in a bonded warehouse, to be released at some undetermined date in the future. The GUZ consulate in Guangzhou would routinely prefer to have the complete actual paper file for their purposes, but would accept an electronic copy from the NVC if necessary. So, us visa chasers would have to get the DHL shipping number from the NVC and find out the disposition of the package from the tracking record. If the file was quarantined, the petitioner would have to contact the GUZ IV unit and "persuade" them to use the electronic file for processing. Who knows how long it would take to get the actual paper file? I am not sure if the same game is being played today. It sounds like the two countries are playing games on a much larger scale now. 

 

HTH, YMMV,

 

Good luck on your immigration journey.