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just making sure...... DS-3032 email was sent from beneficiary's registered email address in NVC database. beneficiary and petitioner also received AOS invoice email, correct?

Yes, That's correct. Again, that's why it's so baffling.

Yep used the exact template from the site. That's what's so baffling and frustrating to me. And of course I was given no help whatsoever from the NVC. I'm hoping the next email ds3032 will be accepted. Thanks for the response.

We emailed our DS-3032 last week using the template - Yesterday we got an email reading:

"Dear Sir/Madam:

The Department of State's National Visa Center (NVC) is committed to the protection of personal information of visa applicants and their petitioners. To ensure the confidentiality of visa files and to prevent the unauthorized release of personal information, the NVC requires that the following information be provided with each inquiry:

Name of the person submitting the inquiry

NVC case number or USCIS receipt number

Petitioner's name and date of birth

Principal Applicant's name and date of birth

Unfortunately, your inquiry did not contain ALL of the above information. Please resubmit your inquiry with the above information so we may update our records accordingly and provide you with a specific response."

What drives me crazy is that it DID have all of that information! The only thing i didn't do was attach the ds-3032 form that was emailed to us, was that necessary? Now I called the NVC and they tell me I have to wait 20 days before they can look into it.

We've resent it. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Our AOS package is already at the NVC but we still haven't been invoiced for IV.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Got NOA2 today! Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Just got the email and text. Somehow we got through the VSC jungle. Good luck to all of you who are still waiting. Our thoughts are with you.

Another Feb filer here.. Sitting, waiting, wishing this process would hurry up.. just finishing a 3 week trip to see my wife but the next few months are going to be hard.. Here's to hopin' for a quick NOA2

Only the service centers in California and Vermont adjudicate I-130 petitions. Your petition will not be transferred.

Thanks Ryan H

We sent in our I-130 and it was sent to Vermont. I live in Atlanta, Georgia and apparently the USCIS service center that services Georgia applicants is Texas. Am I right to be worried it might get transferred and take forever? Is there any rhyme or reason to which service center it's sent to? Is the fact that they already sent it to Vermont a good sign??...... OR am I just being overly paranoid and anxious - typical side effects of this F***ing visa process?

Thanks guys

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Thanks!

The evidence of a bona fide marriage is more or less assessed according to how long you've been married and whether you've been residing together. It sounds like you have the sort of evidence you'd need.

Some might tell you it would be a good idea to file once she's departed the US, so there's no confusion about whether she's trying to AOS (even though you would not have filed the I-485, but still).

Hopefully someone will come along to say whether she can interview in Austria. Have you asked at the consulate?

Good luck with it all!

I guess we will have to contact the embassy in Vienna. Does anyone else have any idea about this issue?

Re: filing before she leaves. We really want to get the paperwork started so we will probably just file while she's here. I will make sure to make it very clear in our evolution of the relationship letter that she will be leaving. Hopefully that will work.

Thanks harpa. I was hoping it wouldn't be.

Hello all! Want to start by thanking all of you for your great posts and extensive knowledge. It's made me and my wife feel much more confident about doing the visa journey on our own.

We're almost done with the I-130 and I have a couple of questions that won't stop bothering me. I hope someone can help.

A quick background. My wife and I met in Linz, Austria the summer of 2010 while I was doing a summer program for graduate studies. I am from the US and she is Peruvian. She had been in Austria and studying for 4 years (she currently has residence in Austria on a student visa). We fell in love fast and spent the next year (2010-11)traveling back and forth between continents. After that we decided for her to come to the States for 6 months (the amount she could stay on the B2) to be together and see how it went. Well, after month 4, I knew I couldn't live without her. We traveled to China over New Years and I proposed. We returned to the US at the beginning of January 2011 and planned on getting married in Summer 2013. Well, we decided we couldn't wait that long and got married at the end of January. She must return to Austria by March 1st to start her next semester of school. We have decided to file the I-130 now, before she leaves, and deal with the whole visa process while she's in her last semester of school over there.

So, that's our story. And here come the questions.

1. Being that we have only been married a week and a half, we don't have as much evidence of a bona fide marriage as we'd like. Fortunately, we traveled together A LOT over the past 18 months so we have plenty of pictures, plane tickets, train tickets, emails between us and her and my parents etc. We also have affidavits from my parents and some of our friends attesting to our relationship and marriage. I created a Will and bestowed everything to her if I die. That's pretty much all we have. Does anyone have experience with this amount of evidence and do you guys think it will be sufficient? ( I must say, any idiot can look at our pictures and see we're crazy in love, but then I remember we're dealing with the US gov)

2. I have read that our file may get flagged because we were married within 30 days of her entering the US (She had been in the US for 4 months prior to leaving for China though) Her I-94 is valid until July but she's leaving in 3 weeks. We obviously put this on the 130.

a. If we are not filing for an AOS while she's here, will our file still get flagged?

b. Will the fact that she has a valid I-94 valid until July hurt us in the visa process?

3. My wife is a Peruvian citizen but she has been living in Austria for 4 years. On question 22(b) I put Vienna, Austria. Is this correct? Since she's a resident of Austria I assume she would not have to go back to Peru just for the visa process. Am i right here?

I think that's it for now. Apologies for the extra long and detailed post but you guys know how it is; this process can make any sane person loosen a few screws