Received I-130 notice receipt, but no Online Access Code

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We filed a consular processing I-130 via paper on 2020-10-23 and we got a notice of receipt on 2020-11-16. The USCIS website implies this letter should've included an "Online Access Code" we can use to link the case to our account on https://my.uscis.gov/

 

However, this letter doesn't have any code like that on it, it only has our IOE case number. Some people online say they got the Online Access Code in a separate letter, but we didn't get anything else in the mail.

 

We got approved on 2021-01-20 (65 days total, it's crazy, we know!) but now we can't access the NVC received letter digitally, since we never managed to link the case on the website. Is it possible to access the NVC letter in any other way digitally? Is there anything we can do to link the I-130 case to our USCIS account?

Edited January 21, 2021 by bence

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

You are confused, after i-130 is approved, your case will be forwarded to NVC and NVC will send you a letter with NVC case number and access code (invoice ID) so you can access CEAC website for civil and financial documents. my.uscis.gov is irrelevant.

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4 minutes ago, NancyNguyen said:

You are confused, after i-130 is approved, your case will be forwarded to NVC and NVC will send you a letter with NVC case number and access code (invoice ID) so you can access CEAC website for civil and financial documents. my.uscis.gov is irrelevant.

We filed via Boundless and they claim that NVC would send us a copy of that letter via email, if we linked the case to an email address on my.uscis.gov. We'd prefer the email since it would arrive faster and more reliably than the physical letter. Are we wrong about any part of this?

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

3 minutes ago, bence said:

We filed via Boundless and they claim that NVC would send us a copy of that letter via email, if we linked the case to an email address on my.uscis.gov. We'd prefer the email since it would arrive faster and more reliably than the physical letter. Are we wrong about any part of this?

NVC will email and send a welcome snail-mail. But their access code (Invoice ID) has nothing to do with my.uscis.gov. it is for ceac.state.gov. 

 

Once your petition is at NVC, uscis is not involved unless the petition is returned to them by embassy/consulate.

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3 minutes ago, NancyNguyen said:

NVC will email and send a welcome snail-mail. But their access code (Invoice ID) has nothing to do with my.uscis.gov. it is for ceac.state.gov. 

 

Once your petition is at NVC, uscis is not involved unless the petition is returned to them by embassy/consulate.

Right! But will the NVC know our email address? Boundless told us that NVC would only know where to send an email if we linked to a my.uscis.gov account. They also didn't let us write in our own email address on the G-1145.

 

I just noticed that the I-130 contains our email addresses though. Will NVC know to use this email address we wrote as our email as "Petitioner's Contact Information" on the I-130? Since USCIS never contacted us there, I thought they don't record it as a notification email at all.

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

2 minutes ago, bence said:

Right! But will the NVC know our email address? Boundless told us that NVC would only know where to send an email if we linked to a my.uscis.gov account. They also didn't let us write in our own email address on the G-1145.

 

I just noticed that the I-130 contains our email addresses though. Will NVC know to use this email address we wrote as our email as "Petitioner's Contact Information" on the I-130? Since USCIS never contacted us there, I thought they don't record it as a notification email at all.

Yes that's how NVC contact you.

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Just now, NancyNguyen said:

Yes that's how NVC contact you.

Oh wow, thanks so much! Hope we'll get the receive letter via email in the coming days; and I'll let the Boundless agent know their info was wrong then. Thank you!

[payxibka 10,045]

3 minutes ago, bence said:

Right! But will the NVC know our email address? Boundless told us that NVC would only know where to send an email if we linked to a my.uscis.gov account. They also didn't let us write in our own email address on the G-1145.

 

I just noticed that the I-130 contains our email addresses though. Will NVC know to use this email address we wrote as our email as "Petitioner's Contact Information" on the I-130? Since USCIS never contacted us there, I thought they don't record it as a notification email at all.

Google "ask nvc".   On the inquiry form, confirm your email address with them.  Issue resolved.

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

Just now, bence said:

Oh wow, thanks so much! Hope we'll get the receive letter via email in the coming days; and I'll let the Boundless agent know their info was wrong then. Thank you!

Or you can wait for at least 30 days and use "Ask NVC" for case number and access ID, don't have to wait for their email / mail.

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/ask-nvc.html