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Congratulations!

I think you will find that NVC will go quickly too - after our expedite request at NVC we got case closed in ONE DAY!

So happy that our spouses receive some benefit for the sacrifice they make for their country, especially when it is really needed (like with our PCS situations!)

My brother got a green card (through the diversity visa lottery) and he has type 1 diabetes.

He passed his medical and got approved no problems.

They said that NVC was done with the case - case closed or whatever they call it.

I assume now I will either have to send them to Auckland embassy, or send them directly there. Pretty happy now since I'm waiting on the police certificate anyway.

Just a question - how did you get your husband's name on your SSN and green card?

I have been wondering this, as we have our marriage certificate from Virginia, but all of my proof of identity (i.e. passport, bank cards, drivers licence etc.) are in my maiden name and obviously are foreign.

I don't want to end up with two identities - i.e. being known in the USA as my married name but in NZ as my maiden name!

Also ETA - can your green card have a different name from your passport then?

FYI - not every doctor gets you to strip. my doctor in Sydney just got me to take off my shoes and sweatshirt, and he sent me to a female doctor for the breast exam.

I was about to ask you where in NZ, I'm in Auckland at the moment and met one of the Auckland doctors that do the visa medicals, and she was lovely.

Where are you PCS'ing to? I'm in a similar situation to you, except we are going K1, I've been living in Australia and have just popped over to NZ for work for 4 months, NZ born and raised though, however i chose to do my interview in Sydney, at the time of filing, I didn't know I'd be in NZ, it would have been easier though!

my fiance is Army and we are PCSing to Sth Korea in May, provided I get command sponsorship of course, so we need to expedite AOS after we get married.

Good to know - I'll be in Christchurch and the two doctors are male. I know it's a bit silly, but after reading this I'm a bit concerned about the evasiveness of the medical! I'm still in Perth for now, but will be back in NZ 1 December. I have quite a few airpoints due to all the long distance travel I've been doing - and I see all 4 Auckland approved doctors are female - so maybe I'll fly up there for my medical. Seems a bit extreme I know, but I won't be working and Auckland is a great place!

We are PCSing to Ramstein, Germany in April. FYI- you will also be able to expedite citizenship! My husband and I have done a whole lot of research on this and if your husband has PCS orders, you can apply under a special section of the naturalisation act - s 319b I believe, where if you are currently PCS'd or PCS'ing you can apply for citizenship with ZERO residency years!

We're definitely going to start the process as soon as I'm in the USA, as it will give many more job options on the base!

Keep in touch

Expedite approved!!!!!!!!!

I can tell you that even though our case is apparently expedited, I can still log into the CEAC website so I suspect it is wishful thinking. It took us 28 days after receiving our NOA2 before we could make a payment through the site. If you haven't yet, I would call and inquire.

We called- turns out it was due to our expedite being approved

Case is being sent to Auckland as we speak )

I can tell you that even though our case is apparently expedited, I can still log into the CEAC website so I suspect it is wishful thinking. It took us 28 days after receiving our NOA2 before we could make a payment through the site. If you haven't yet, I would call and inquire.

Ok great - we thought as much, but doesn't hurt to dream

Congrats!!

Typically 48hrs if not sooner!

Thanks for that! Looks like we should hopefully be able to pay early next week then!

Sorry, I'm dyslexic and sometimes only pick up on half the things posted.

In fact, the paragraph that I pasted you, I can't understand a single word in the whole thing, but I know some of the words you posted matched some of the words in there so I figured they were about the same thing lol

Oh wow - thanks for the help Just sometimes feel like people almost have a dig at you for not researching enough - when it's what I've become obsessed with and spend a good couple of hours a day looking into this stuff!

That happened to me and the next day I got an email from NBC stating I had to pay my $88 for aos

Great - thank you for that! We'll hopefully have a bill to pay tomorrow then

Appreciate your reply!

Well we sent our I-130 on 29 September, it's now 1 November and we're about 1/4 of the way through the NVC process.

We'll be hoping to be together by the end of December. We have requested an expedite at the NVC stage now, and are just waiting to hear back.

Definitely worth doing if you can!

Oh that's excellent - will be great to not have to feel so obsessed with this process haha.

We could sign onto the payment portal on Wednesday, then yesterday it had an error message about not being able to sign in, and now it's an error message in red about not being able to process payments right now.

Hoping that either we can pay the AOS bill, or that the expedite decision has been made! If it is just the AOS bill, would you suggest not actually paying it then until we hear of the expedite?

From another Thread:

Thanks - my second post alludes to the fact I had read that... my question is regarding the two different error messages, and hope long is 'normal' for the system to go down for processing.

Mimolicious - thanks, I understand that. But I don't want to waste the CSO's time at NVC if this is something very normal, with unnecessarily holding up the lines for people with less frivolous queries.

I posed this in a thread, but realised it's actually really relevant to this thread more. My issue is this:

Hi everyone,

I received my NVC numbers a couple of days ago.

My husband and I were both able to log in to the payment portal and it said that there was no payment available for processing.

Yesterday it started having a sign on error. It would load but say that there was an error with the log on or whatever on a new page.

Today it now says:

You cannot make online payments for your case at this time. Please contact the NVC if you have questions or need further information.

I've read about sign in failures prior to an invoice becoming available, but is it possible this is related to our expedite request? Wishful thinking I know!

Thanks anyone who can help - if it's normal then at least we all know what to expect.

I read on the NVC page that this error message is normal, but I'm more confused as to why we got 2 DIFFERENT error messages over a period of 2 days after initially being able to access it.

How long will the system usually go down before you can pay it?

Hi everyone,

I received my NVC numbers a couple of days ago.

My husband and I were both able to log in to the payment portal and it said that there was no payment available for processing.

Yesterday it started having a sign on error. It would load but say that there was an error with the log on or whatever on a new page.

Today it now says:

You cannot make online payments for your case at this time. Please contact the NVC if you have questions or need further information.

I've read about sign in failures prior to an invoice becoming available, but is it possible this is related to our expedite request? Wishful thinking I know!

Thanks anyone who can help - if it's normal then at least we all know what to expect.

I read on the NVC page that this error message is normal, but I'm more confused as to why we got 2 DIFFERENT error messages over a period of 2 days after initially being able to access it.

How long will the system usually go down before you can pay it?

Hi everyone,

I received my NVC numbers a couple of days ago.

My husband and I were both able to log in to the payment portal and it said that there was no payment available for processing.

Yesterday it started having a sign on error. It would load but say that there was an error with the log on or whatever on a new page.

Today it now says:

You cannot make online payments for your case at this time. Please contact the NVC if you have questions or need further information.

I've read about sign in failures prior to an invoice becoming available, but is it possible this is related to our expedite request? Wishful thinking I know!

Thanks anyone who can help - if it's normal then at least we all know what to expect.

Hey Lovely,

I'm glad it was of some help to some people. I myself wondered as to what they do that costs so dang much!

I made small chat with the doctor, as you do when you're doing awkward medical things, and the requirements they had to meet in order to be able to do the medical was pretty stringent hence, why he could charge so much ($456)

Well, now, I'm just waiting for some documents from the fiance and the results of the medical. Once I receive these final documents, I'm able to send off my packet 3 and be advised of my interview dates (fingers crossed start of December).

How is your journey coming along?

Definitely going to diet if I have to stand in front of a guy naked! I'm in Perth now but since I have an Auckland NVC number, I'm quitting my job at Ernst & Young and heading back to NZ the end of this month. I looked up the approved doctors in Christchurch and there's only men.

I'm still waiting on my police certificate, and my husband sent me back my birth certificate that I'd left over there by mistake. We've requested an expedite at NVC since we're PCSing next year and if that happens, then things are going to happen incredibly fast. I'm pretty nervous about not having everything, but I think that the only thing that will take awhile now will be the AFP certificate. Always feels as though I'm waiting on something!

Where is your fiance based?

Congratulations We just started the NVC process.

Make sure you have your police certificate - I'm waiting on mine from the AFP (I live in WA) and they said they are process on a first-in, first-served basis, so there's no way of hurrying up the process.

Apparently it can take up to 5 weeks.

Thanks for this info- I had wondered what was involved and am glad I have a heads up on some of the more personal parts!

Congratulations on the worst parts being over! Do you have an interview date yet?

Oh excellent - that would work out really well with having to wait for the police certificate anyway. I'm not back in NZ (so can't have my interview) in Auckland until 1 December anyway which gives that all time to process.

Thanks once again for all the information. My husband received notification that they have received our expedite request so hopefully within a couple of weeks we will know!

The first piece of correspondence NVC sends out contains the case number, IIN, among other things. But by the time you get it, your AOS may already be invoiced. So, instead of wasting time, I suggest you call NVC up asap and get it from a competent operator. If they don't know what you're talking about or refuse to give it to you, just hang up and call again.

Thanks for the advice- my husband ended up calling back, and of course, they gave him the IIN!

I swear it's harder for the beneficiary calling sometimes!

I actually got my IIN only a couple of days after my case number and then it took a few more days until the first invoice showed on the online payment site. don't stress over the IIN too much. It doesn't help you anything until your first invoice gets issued anyway.

Did you have to call to get the IIN? Or just wait for an email/something to be issued? What am I waiting for exactly that would have the IIN on it?

We sent:

• Skype log showing our video/phone chat durations
  
• Photos from 2 of my trips to the USA
  
• My passport stamps from those trips
  
• Joint bank account print off
  
• No wedding photos (we didn't have a ceremony) so we only had our marriage certificate to 'prove' our wedding
  
• My spouse military ID card
  

That was sufficient, no explanation of how we met etc. We thought the amount of time we spent chatting to each other (something equivalent to a whole month of chatting 24/7) was enough to prove we were legitimate in itself!

Congrats!

Ok - got the number! Haha.

Question though, I asked for the IIN (and said it was the invoice identification number). She was like 'uhhh... a what?' Maybe it was my kiwi accent that confused her, but anyway, she said that they don't issue you with an IIN until you receive your first invoice.

So my question is, was I just unlucky with the CSO I got? Or did I read all these instructions wrong? Either way, I gave over both of our email addresses.

I feel incredibly sorry for you - what a horrible feeling it must be to be without your son Do you think you possibly signed something giving him sole custody and the right to remove your son from Japan? Does your husband not need to return to Japan to fulfil his duties? Or has he abandoned his military job also? That's two very serious crimes he may have just committed!

If you're just waiting for an interview with the embassy, and since you're abroad meaning you probably did a direct consulate filing, then you are probably unable to do anything more. Call and explain your situation perhaps? Is your son a citizen of another country besides the USA?