Bogota Rocks

Hey everyone,
My wife's interview is coming up at the Bogota embassy next week, and we want to make sure we are covering all our bases.
We are bringing copies, and where possible originals, of all documents we sent to USCIS and the NVC. This includes all AOS docs, all IV docs, everything related to our joint sponsor, our child's birth cert and citizenship papers, all docs related to reestablishing domicile, my tax returns, you name it. We are bringing all the pictures we sent to USCIS of our relationship as well as other evidence that we are bona fide, and bringing some more pics along and our wedding album too just in case they ask. We are also bringing Facebook chats. Her medical exam is coming up and we will have those papers too, along with all receipts from the CEAC website for the visa fees and forms we filled out, the full prinout of our DS260, the interview letter, and all the papers they requested in the interview letter. I am checking and rechecking everything twice and thrice.
Nevertheless, I saw a fellow Colombia-based petitioner on the forum say that they got asked for a copy of the joint sponsor's birth certificate. I sent a copy of the joint sponsor's passport to the NVC, but I am going to bring the birth certificate copy too in case they ask for it. And that got me thinking. What other documents have people been asked for at the interview that they didn't think to bring with them? I mean docs that are not to be found anywhere in the instructions for which docs to send or bring at any point in the process. I am just trying to see what they might ask for, anything at all, and make sure I have it just in case. I have everything they asked for, but I want to see if there are any other docs I should bring that they may ask for. Anything to avoid a 221g.
Let me know your stories, and thanks in advance. You guys at Visa Journey have been invaluable in this arduous process!

Hey Mallafri
No, the supervisor didn't call me back. I saw the 3 N/As the next day after asked for a supervisor to call me back, and then I called and confirmed the case complete.
Your case is ridiculous. There's no earthly reason why you should still be waiting for the case complete. Just confirms to me that all of this is totally random.

Case Complete: August 20th
Scan Date (Checklist): July 27th
Add me to the scan date to CC spreadsheet, if anyone is still taking care of it. And the CC to Interview spreadsheet.
Some other info about my case that might be of interest to anyone still waiting on a case complete. I had asked for supervisor review on August 18th because it had been more than 30 days and my DS260 hadn't been reviewed, and then called and asked to speak to a supervisor on August 20th. One wasn't available, and they took down my information to call me back. Later that day, two days after being put on supervisor review, my case was completed. So in my case, supervisor review didn't lead to being put in a separate queue that took a longer time, it actually made things go that much faster, or maybe it didn't change anything and they finally just got around to reviewing my case anyway. Checklist was reviewed in under thirty days.
I feel a great sense of relief. If anything, I probably stressed out more than I should have about the NVC, but we were there since April and with all the website delays things got really nerve-wracking. Even though it seems like it might be forever til I get an interview, I am going to try to be more patient. Easier said than done though. My wife and I went out to celebrate the CC this weekend, and her family acted like we were nuts. They didn't understand how draining this all has been, but I know all of you at VJ do!
Good luck to everyone waiting on the next step. We need all the luck we can get!

Filled out DS-260 on July 9th.
Paperwork scanned in response to last checklist July 27th.
Called NVC today, no movement on either one. Apparently my DS260 has been flagged for a supervisor to revise, not sure if that is the official Supervisor Review that takes up to 42 days. Seeing people with similar scan dates get case complete, which only heightens my despair.
Sick to death of this process. I had no idea what immigrants to the US go through when they follow all the rules.
Is there any way to get this process moving any faster? This is ridiculous. Should I start asking to talk to a supervisor when I call the NVC?

Called the NVC this morning and got two checklists for the household size portion of the I864, both on mine and mother's (she's joint sponsoring).
My mother's mistake is clear: she put down a household size of two (her and my dad) and didn't include my wife, the immigrant she's joint-sponsoring. Of course, referring to it in terms of a "household" confused her, since we don't live with her and won't be when we get to the US either.
In my own case, I stupidly forgot to make a copy of my filled-out form. So I don't even know if I really made a mistake. If I did, I can't imagine how. There's me, my wife and our child, who I already got US citizenship for. I specifically remember not putting my wife in the table twice, I was very careful not to do that. So I don't know how I would have arrived at any other number than three. Would the NVC itself get confused if our child wasn't mentioned anywhere else in the form? I did send her CRBA and a copy of her passport to show that we are intending to move to the US. But I don't know, this has really got me down.
Anyway, we are going to fill in the I864 all over again this weekend. My mother will fill out her I864, send it overnight to Colombia by Fedex on Monday, and then I will mail the two forms with an AOS cover sheet to the NVC again. Another 30 days to wait.
There has to be a better way to do this spousal immigration process without opening it up to fraud. The way it's set up now is so costly, inefficient, stressful and bureaucratic. And we still are probably going to spend most of the rest of this year waiting for it to finish.

The lack of transparency throughout this total breakdown of the NVC's website has been demoralizing. At least the people who had trouble receiving their printed visas these past few weeks have gotten daily updates on the system fixes and worldwide media coverage of the problem. Everyone here looking to fill in their DS-260 or pay their immigrant visa fee on the other hand has been kept in the dark for weeks if not months. When is anybody from the NVC going to level with us about what's going on? Why is there no coverage of this? If it weren't for the fellow commenters here helping to crowdsource info together I'd be going even crazier with doubt and worry.

Hey Morgan,
How long did it take from when you received the IV fee invoice until you saw in the portal that it would be possible to pay the IV fee online?

Hi everyone,
I received an IV fee invoice on June 10th to pay the fee for my wife's visa. I have already filled out the DS-261, paid the AOS fee and sent in the AOS and IV documents (which were scanned June 11th). It has been a week, and I am still not able to pay the IV fee in the CEAC portal.
So I called the NVC this morning, and they told me that due to the website issues the NVC has been experiencing recently, the NVC cannot guarantee that I will ever be able to pay the fee online. Ever? Forever ever? That's right, they cannot guarantee that I will ever be able to pay the IV fee online. He said to pay by physical mail, that's it's the only way the process will ever be able to move forward, guaranteed.
I thought this was a pretty drastic response. I have my doubts at this point that mailing my fee to that PO box in St. Louis will be smooth process. So many stars have to align until the cashier's check or money order becomes a PAID status in the CEAC portal. It feels almost as risky as waiting however many days it takes for the website to work again. I also am not sure that I will get the same answer from a different agent if I call back a different day. I am a little torn on what to do next.
Should I wait a little more time to see if the website lets me pay the IV fees, or send the fee by post ASAP? I have heard that even in the best of times, it might take the website up to 2 weeks after the invoice is received to let me pay the IV fee. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.