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I know that many of you were known to this question or this is already exists , I am posting this straight FAQ, so that people just check these things and find easy to pay the bills,
Thanks
National Visa Center (NVC) Fee Payment - Frequently Asked Questions
General
Can the AOS or IV Application Processing Fee be paid at the U.S. Embassy/Consulate instead of submitting fees to the NVC?
No, fees must be paid to the NVC using the online Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center. If you are unable to pay online, you must submit a cashier's check or money order to the NVC's St. Louis address.
Can fees be paid through a bank abroad?
No, all payments must be made in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank.
Can fees be paid over the phone?
No, the NVC cannot accept fee payments over the phone.
Can fees be paid with personal check or credit card?
No, the National Visa Center cannot accept personal checks or credit card payments.















Affidavit of Support (AOS) FeeIs there only one AOS fee per case or does every applicant on the case need to pay one?
There is only one AOS fee charged per case.
Can the AOS fee bill be paid by the applicant?
Yes, the petitioner can forward the Affidavit of Support Fee Bill Invoice to the applicant for payment.
Can the AOS and IV fee be paid together (on one bill)?
Yes, the AOS and IV fees can all be paid online. Payers who are unable to pay online line must submit cashier's checks or money order to the NVC's St. Louis address. The payer may submit multiple checks or a single check for the total amount of all fees due. The check(s) MUST be accompanied by all associated Fee Bill Invoices.
I paid the AOS fee for one case; do I have to pay the same fee for my other cases?
You must pay the Affidavit of Support fee for each case unless you are a U.S. citizen with petitions for your spouse and/or child(ren) concurrently in process at the NVC. Note: payment by cashier's check or money order must include all fee bills in one return envelope with one check on top.
Who has to pay the AOS fee?
The following categories of immigrants are required to pay the AOS fee:
Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens (spouses, unmarried children under age 21, and parents of U.S. citizens age 21and older) Family-based preference immigrants (unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, spouses and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens, married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens age 21 and older) For additional information about the Affidavit of Support, see our website.
Immigrant Visa (IV) Fee
Who has to pay the Immigrant Visa (IV) Application Processing Fee?
Each applicant intending to immigrate to the United States must pay the IV fee.
Online Payment
Will I need a user account and password?
You will need the following information from the fee letter that you received from the NVC:
Case Number Invoice Identification Number You will also need your bank's routing number and your checking (or savings) account number. For checking accounts this information is available at the bottom of one of your checks. Additional guidance on locating this information will be available when you pay online as well as below.
What is an "ACH" payment?
ACH stands for "Automated Clearing House" and refers to an electronic debit from a checking or savings account, commonly known as a direct debit.
How quickly is my ACH (online check) payment processed?
ACH payments are generally processed within two or three business days from the initiation of the payment.
How do I find the routing number and check number for my checking account?
The routing number always is nine digits and begins with a 0, 1, 2, or 3. On a check, this number always is bracketed by this special symbol:
On a check, the checking account number generally is accompanied by this special symbol:
The image below shows the routing number, account number, and check number on a check. The order of these numbers may differ on your check and may include some special symbols different from those shown.

Ignore special symbols within a number when entering the number.
If you cannot determine the routing or account numbers, review a bank statement or contact your financial institution.
How do I find my Invoice Identification Number?
Your Invoice Identification Number is located at the top of the Fee Bill Invoice sent to you by the NVC.
How will the transaction appear on my bank statement?
Affidavit of Support Fee payments will appear as NVC AOS FEE. Immigrant Visa Fee payments will appear as NVC IV FEE. If you are not sure what a particular payment is, contact your financial institution. They can help identify the payment history.

What payment systems are used?
All online AOS and IV payments are processed by the Department of Treasury through the Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center.
Is making an online payment secure?
Yes, the Department of State uses 128-bit SSL encryption to protect your transaction information while you are logged into the Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center. No routing or account number information is stored on the Department of State’s servers.
I'm not comfortable with making payments online; can I mail my payment?
If you wish to make a payment by mail, please refer the Alternative Payment Method Instructions.
My Internet connection failed in the middle of my transaction, what do I do?
If the problem occurred before you entered your payment information, you can close your browser, log back in, and try again.
If you submitted your payment information and then experienced a problem, contact the National Visa Center before trying again.
Will I get an online receipt or confirmation e-mail when I make my payment online, so that I know the payment was successfully completed?
The Department of State will not automatically send you notification that your payment was successfully completed; however, you can print or e-mail a receipt when you make a payment online.
Can I save forms and submit them later?
No, the Immigrant Visa Invoice Payment Center does not allow you to save forms and submit them later.

Source: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/fees/nvc-fee-payment-faqs.html

hm. call NVC today, so says I,
and see what's what.
you've time, right?
if you study the NVC Howto in the Wiki,
you can kickstart stuff. Must to study, though.

Yes I agree, praying everything goes smooth and nice! Its too much waiting, if there was no waiting I would think you could get thru NVC in a month or less....but waiting for case number, then waiting for invoices, (hopefully no waiting for checklists) then waiting for case complete, then waiting for interview!

I'm sorry, but to peg in/out duration at NVC based on consulate is a misappropriation of queues and calendar math. Don't do that, don't rely on Consulate location, don't make ANY assumptions based on Consulate location.
Instead, YOU TWO (plus the lawyer) control the pace. There's two final queues that you have no control over,
case complete waiting queue and interview scheduling queue. However, if the attorney (or you) gets in all of the stuff within the same week that the fee bills are paid, then you have some hope of speed (as you three controlled the pace).
If this date is right, from yer timeline,
NVC Received : 2014-03-20
Then yer right at the cusp of the switch being turned on.

First and foremost, I am very sorry for those who haven't received an approval. I can understand the pain they are going through.
Best is I can pray for you all of my friends.
Also I would like to thanks for cheering me up. Yeah I am trying to stay happy, whenever I feel down, I open up VJ.com and when I see some approval and interview news of my VJ friends, it makes happy,positive and bring my spirit up.
Good luck to all.

attorney, you say?
if he filed a G-28 with the I-130,
then
you will actually get some speed at NVC, none of this mucking about with a DS-261 and the IV and AOS fee bills are generated the same day, usually within a week after the consular casefile # is assigned,
so
IF'N that lawyer is prepped, you two can be done at NVC within 30 days of the consular casefile # being assigned.
This pre-supposes that the lawyer knows what the @#ck he's doing and doesn't wait for any postal correspondence from NVC (A sure kiss of kiss, add 4 months to this cycle) .
So, if'n you or the petitioner wanted to be proactive, simply call into NVC every other day, circa 20:00 EST, and inquire the status of the casefile.
Whilst yer waiting, read a NVC Monthly Forum in the IR-1 Progress Reports SubForum, as there is stuff to do to jumpstart all at NVC (prolly scare the lawyer, but hey) .

Darnell, all I gotta say is... you're one of my favorite posters here on VJ I always look forward to your comments

Thanks a lot , yeah documents are already submitted to our attorney, I hope this time he take seriously and don't waste time anymore to submitted everything to NVC correctly. Well I just need Police Clearance Certificates from two countries. I really wish everything works well for everyone.
Good luck to you.

First and foremost, I am very sorry for those who haven't received an approval. I can understand the pain they are going through.
Best is I can pray for you all of my friends.
Also I would like to thanks for cheering me up. Yeah I am trying to stay happy, whenever I feel down, I open up VJ.com and when I see some approval and interview news of my VJ friends, it makes happy,positive and bring my spirit up.
Good luck to all.

is possible an RFE was issued and you never received it, then the RFE deadline was past,
then USCIS auto-denied it for you failing to comply.
I suggest you call in again, ask for an ISO, a Tier 2 Human,
and :
1. ask if an RFE was issued and
2. ask if any returned mail pieces on you.
then report back here, when yer able.
Dealing with a CSR, the first human that answers, is a waste of time. You must ask to be transferred to an ISO, a Tier 2.

Did you get your case # assigned yet? I know you can't send in any of those documents to NVC until you have a case # and pay the fees first.
If you have an attorney, I believe on the DS-261 (Choice of Agent form), the attorney's name will be listed as such and NVC will contact them with the informaiton. That wiki page has all the documents listed that will need to be submitted to NVC.

Approved
Approved at singapore time 12:55 pm( 11 march)

Congrats

Thanks for updating my info. in the spread sheet. I appreciate your hard for all of us. Like a angel for September filers.
Well one question. I am Indian citizen but staying in Singapore. When my wife filed the application for me I was in Singapore ( currently also). So in my case, country of beneficiary will be???

Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes
Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes
Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes

Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes
Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes
Transfered to CSC. lets see how long does it takes

The people at the call centers have pretty much no access to any up-to-date information. They will tell you that the information they have is current, and that everyone on VisaJourney is lying, or mistaken.
Here are a few facts.
The information they are quoting is out-of-date, even by their own data. If you go to the USCIS website, you will see exactly the information they just quoted you. Look at the small print. The dates they are quoting were current as of December 31, 2013. It's now almost the end of February. So they are telling you they are currently processing April filers? They were doing that 2 months ago. Yes, there are still some filers stuck, still waiting, from April. And March, and February. But they are also processing May filers, June filers, July filers and August filers. And transferring some from September.
The average wait time may be 9 months. Or rather, may have been 9 months as of December 31, 2013. They made a promise to try to get the timelines close to their goal of 5 months by May 2014. So presumably, they are trying to catch up. There are also fewer DACA petitions going through now, which is what slowed down the process to begin with. The likelihood is that the average is actually closer to 7 months now, and making up ground.
It is to the USCIS' benefit to estimate processing times extremely conservatively. Once they go on record as saying "we are processing files from X date" or "the average wait time is Y," then anyone with a priority date before "X" or who has been waiting more than "Y" can legitimately complain and demand to know what's going on with their file right now. Which would take a lot of time and resources away from actually processing and approving our petitions. So it stands to reason that they would not release the actual, current information.
Finally, VJ is a community of people going through this process, who have nothing to gain by lying about the status of their petitions/applications. Our data is collected in real time, continually updated and reported.
Our data suggests that USCIS is playing with the numbers, jumping ahead and processsing the majority of cases from July and August before they completed April, May and June (possibly in order to be able to claim a dramatic drop in "average" processing times at some point in the future). We also have observed that September petitions are now being transferred to other service centers, and if the patterns we've observed hold, those petitions will start to be approved soon. It stands to reason, then, that October filers will be next. Transferred within about a month, and approved within another month or so after that.
You're right. We don't know, and it flies in the face of what USCIS is telling us. But our anecdotal data is showing a different pattern from the official line of USCIS.
I personally tend to believe us. USCIS has a reason to lie (or not lie, exactly, but not give us all the truth). We don't.

Congrats. Hoping for the best soon. Our case was accepted on my wife's birthday and We got transferred on my birthday. lol. I think some link is there birthday to birthday hahah....But I would like to see my wife before her or my next birthday. lol

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anyways I have called to USCIS last tuesday and they told me they are still on the March applications.

we have been married on 15th october 2012, and after that my wife visited me in November 2013 just only for 10 days ( because both of haven't had enough leaves). Now we both feel its too much and we are planning to stay together in singapore till this process goes through. Seriously, it's a torture.

I filed back on April 12th.... Still nothing even though we were transferred to TSC on Nov 27th...