AmberG

Soloenta, your case was approved within days of mine- we will have to compare notes on how long it takes to get through NVC and when the interview dates are.
I was hoping that my husband's interview would be in July or August so I could go with him. The one thing I know from getting his previous green card there is that the wait can be long and boring!

Still following the thread! Hope everyone will report once they have interviews. Will send in my IV pack tomorrow and then it's waiting for the CC and the interview!
I will be in Egypt this summer....looking forward to it!

Let's try to think positively! Maybe they will get through the backlog. I just wonder how bad it could possibly be? I mean the embassy was closed for awhile during the revolution, but I moved to Egypt right after that and left in July '13...and I get the embassy updates. It wasn't closed for that many days that you'd think it'd cause a big delay. But I guess this is Egypt we're talking about and nothing ever moves fast anyway. Who knows. Let's hope for the best!
I think the best thing is when any of us have a case complete at NVC to report back when we find out the interview date. Is anyone done at NVC now and waiting for the interview? I'm waiting to pay IV fees and send in the IV docs, so I'm hoping not more than a month or so before I wait for that part.

Thanks for posting this!!! This gives me some hope! Those numbers are not bad whatsoever. Let that please happen for all of our interview scheduling

Thanks! That's what we were saying- that we've used the embassy in Cairo before and you always need things translated...however the NVC site says the documents don't need to be translated if in the language of the country the interview is in. I think better safe than sorry! I'd rather have my husband take them and get them translated before he sends them Fedex to me and be a few days behind schedule then get checklisted.

I just wanted to update about the NVC...I just can't follow the May NVC thread so I thought I'd post on here. Once you get your case # and IIN # things move really fast so be ready. I was able to obtain the IIN on Monday and since then have been able to submit the DS 261 and the AOS fee already. I have to finish the AOS packet tonight so I can send it tomorrow. So all that's left for me after that will be the IV/DS 260 part.

Yes! I think I am going to call on Monday just to double check that the case number I have is for the CR1/IR1 visa. I feel like it's gotta be, because why would they give me a case number for the K3 when the only receipt number I read them was for them was from the I-130 petition. But stranger things have happened!

Great to see some more approvals!!!! Congrats everyone!

For people that are waiting still for an approval I hope you get it soon!! But don't get too down- my PD was 10/1 and it took 6 months and 10 days to get the approval. There were people at the end of September who were even just getting approvals recently. So I know everyone will get approved really soon!

I'm not comparing our green card case from the past to the processing times now- that was a very long time ago. What I AM saying is they obviously have time slots at the embassy or they wouldn't have offered my husband a next-day interview for the Returning Resident visa in September. It seems that different visas take different amounts of time to get interviews for of course. I am saying 6 months is a very long wait time for the interview and I have a hard time believing everyone waits 6 months just to get an interview date for a residency visa . This is a very small data sampling here. All I can say is I certainly hope for me and everyone's sake that is waiting that it will not take that long!

Great news! Good that your wait is finally over!

No problem! Exactly- they might have sent you something. It's been one whole week exactly since my approval date on the hard copy, but until right now my case says initial review online, no emails, texts or anything...and even the reps can't see that it was approved because they filed a service request for my case on Monday. So weird. I'm hoping that's the case for you and a lot of other people!

Congratulations! Same thing with me- no changes online at all, but got the hard copy in the mail.

Thanks! Yes, I actually think that maybe I'm not the only one who was approved and had no clue! Tomorrow it will be a week since I was approved an no case update online at all. Especially I was thinking if someone is not in the US it might take the mail a long time and the system wouldn't reflect the approval. I think someone else on October had something like this happen to them too.

I just wanted to let anyone still waiting know (I guess this is directed at anyone at the VSC mostly) that I was approved 4/11. My PD is 10/1 (so I thought this might be relevant since I'm so close to September. Anyway, my case status online has never changed from initial review and I received no emails. However yesterday I received the hard copy of the approval saying I was approved on 4/11. So maybe some people are really approved and just don't know it yet. I received the letter 5 days after I was approved and I live only about 3 hours from the VSC center.

Thanks!!!!
NO! Can you believe that the agent didn't tell me? She even filed a service request for me- I have the reference number! Like how is that possible? Doesn't that just tell you how disorganized they are? It must be because the system hasn't been updated for like a week or more at the VSC. She actually at first told me, oh, it looks that you case is at the NBC so I'll check the processing times for there. I was so surprised! I said, no, it got transferred to VSC so then she checked those time. She didn't even know where my app was at, never mind that I was approved days ago But I'm holding the hard copy approvals for both the I-130 and the !-129F right now, so I guess that's all that count. Makes no sense, right?

Thanks!!!!
NO! Can you believe that the agent didn't tell me? She even filed a service request for me- I have the reference number! Like how is that possible? Doesn't that just tell you how disorganized they are? It must be because the system hasn't been updated for like a week or more at the VSC. She actually at first told me, oh, it looks that you case is at the NBC so I'll check the processing times for there. I was so surprised! I said, no, it got transferred to VSC so then she checked those time. She didn't even know where my app was at, never mind that I was approved days ago But I'm holding the hard copy approvals for both the I-130 and the !-129F right now, so I guess that's all that count. Makes no sense, right?

I know I had asked before on this forum about filing a service request- my PD is 10/1 so it is pretty close to some people on here (nearly September). Just wanted to share what happened when I called USCIS today.
I talked to the first person on the phone (tier 1) and the representative did it for me. She just asked me the normal info/ questions and confirmed that I was in fact out of processing time. There was no mention of waiting 60 days after the transfer or anything.
I have no idea if it will help, but at least I tried and they did let me. I know some people from September and October said that they weren't allowed to file a request...but maybe it has to do with the representative so try again? Because I had no problem at all doing it.

So I called USCIS today and I did file a service request. I talked to the first person on the phone (tier 1) and the representative did it for me. She just asked me the normal info/ questions and confirmed that I was in fact out of processing time (my priority date is 10/1). There was no mention of waiting 60 days after the transfer or anything. She did it and gave me a reference number
I have no idea if the service request will make any difference, but hey, I tried. Can't hurt. Seems it did work for some people in the September group.

Wow really- that is annoying! I am still going to try if I don't hear this week. I have basically lost a lot of patience after passing the 6 month mark of waiting! If I'm not mistaken, there have been other people from September who filed a service request- is it just your luck of who you talk to?

The same thing happened to me with the receipt number error online. Good to know I'm not the only one. My PD is 10/1, so I am going to try to call in a service request this week too, for what it's worth.

Right I believe it did say 60 days. I'm almost at the 30 day mark since the transfer and that means that it shouldn't be more than a few weeks until I hear (I hope)! I was thinking that if I haven't heard in 2 weeks, I might take an Infopass appointment at the VSC since I can easily drive there. But hopefully I'll hear before then!

Yes! I agree- the situation with the VSC is very mysterious. Like I said, I got the first two emails- then no third, so maye VSC doesn't send them. I wonder about others who were transferred there.
I live in Vermont and I have this urge to show up there and talk to someone to see what's going on
If I don't hear anything in a few weeks, I might contact one of the senator's office reps who is in charge of the immigration issues for constituents. I was in touch the woman late last year when I tried to expedite and didn't get accepted (they were willing to try again from their office, but I decided against it because I didn't think there'd be a different outcome from USCIS). But the rep there was really helpful (I don't think their office has too much action...Vermont is not highly populated!) and I wonder if they would know anything about what's going in that particular service center because they are also in Vermont and deal with immigration.