anhakeem

For me I can't even access to the portal

What do they tell you is it shows paid in there system if so I think you should ask them to put you in the spreadsheet

Till now no access to portal I got IV invoice by email I mailed both invoices (AOS & IV) with the money order on 6/15 to NVC

I call yesterday the rep. Said I paid only AOS I told her I paid both invoices in on money order she told me email the copy of money order to ask nvc and wait!!!

I just called the NVC and i asked them that i have been waiting 3 weeks to log in to choose the agent , and i told them that i need to review my ds 261 which she did , by the way i submitted the form 261 on last Friday and i had it review today (Monday ) so just to give you a heads up , if you keep insisting to have it review they ll do it for you

good luck

Thank You dandanos,

I did what you say I told them my case assigned on 4/30 and I send a lot of email to asknvc to review my ds 261 and I didnt get any respond , she told me I have to wait I tell her I want to talk to superviser because I waited too long .. she hold me on the phone and then she assigned me as an agent and they will send me invoice shortly

Hi Everyone, I just got off the phone with NVC (again) and the rep told me fixing the portal has been a nightmare because not all approved applicants are seeing the same thing. I let him know that it seems, for us, issues are with case numbers assigned within the same time frame, so the fact that they are having trouble identifying patterns with the problem is holding up a solution for the site.

For those (like me) who are waiting to be able to Select an Agent, I did ask if we could mail in paper form DS 3032 to select an agent. He did confirm that even though the form itself says valid through 2016 it is considered obsolete by NVC and will not be accepted.

He did tell me to go ahead and collect the info and submit my Affidavit of Support and Immigrant Visa Application by mail without formally selecting an agent or being invoiced for the fees. He said this would not hold back processing at this time. I assume nothing will go to the interview stage before the website catches up and the select and agent form and fees are paid, but at least we can keep the ball rolling in the meantime. My husband's application is being processed by the Embassy in Paris, which only accepts hard copies of the forms, so I would have to mail them anyway. Your embassy may allow you to submit the forms to NVC via email, so just make sure you check how you should submit (mail or email) based on your case number prefix.

Thanks acnobile

I submitted my docs as soon as my AOS fees was PAID... So it's like 2 weeks before...

And I submitted my ds261 together with paying AOS fees... It was reviewed 8 days after submitting ds261...

Then I received email from NVC for paying IV fees but since then my bad luck the website is down... So I m now waiting to get system fixed so that I can pay IV fees n submit ds260....

how you paid AOS? is it by mail?

thanks

Agreed....but they have to fix this anyhow....coz all applicants from all categories r waiting...and if an applicant has submitted all documents but just IV fees and ds260 is pending....he/she can't be scheduled for an interview....

This will impact visa bulletin movement for preference based categories ...as well as Immediate relatives..

Dew_Drops

I see you send the docs to NVC is this would speed up kind of process ! do you advise us to do that.

Hi anhakeem,

If you couldn't log in initially, I'm assuming you haven't been able to select an agent yet. When I asked a rep they told me your payments won't be accepted (even if you mail them in) if you haven't officially selected an agent as your first step, which can only be done in the portal. So I would wait for the site.

Thnx acnobile hope they would fix it soon.

Guys,

which is better to pay the fees by mail or wait for online

If I go for mail should I send the fees together (DS-260 and I-864) or separately how it will works please advise

The three numbers after the 2015 is the julian date it was assigned plus 500. So if yours is 621, then 621-500=121, and the julian date 121 is April 30. So your case was assigned April 30. Your friends was assigned April 22.

The last three digits are the number that was assigned that day. So if yours is 2015621150 (for example), then it was assigned on April 30 and it was the 150th case to be assigned that day.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26228_01/doc.93/e21961/img/image121.gif

Interesting ..

Thnx AmyAndres :-)

Same here,
letter arrived 05/05, I couldn't search or login neither. I call nvc the Representative said you can pay by mail so my question is should we send the fee by mail or it will take longer any advise ..

and my case number XXX2015621XXX is this can do anything with the process (6/21/2015)

I have friend his case XXX2015613XXX and he can login and starting the process

good luck guys