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Curious about NVC Receiving!

We got our letter from the NVC saying they had received our packet on Dec. 18th... but we had no invoice number. We had our case number and everything.

I am using an attorney and she said we should be receiving an e-mail from the NVC.

Is this what happened for any of you?

Unless your case is ultra complicated I would dump the lawyer!

Tip top advice and help available on here, or the official websites

Even a dullard like me managed to do it lol

I spent a year of taking 2 suitcases, bring pack a pair of socks

I also shipped stuff through the mail, books and CD's, I used parcel2go, they get cheap rates and were very reliable

Thank you!

No problems, always happy to help

Hello,

Does anybody have an answer for my last question?

Thank you

Both and both

In the Tunisian culture, we have something called 'respect' for women. Muslims don't talk about 'jumping' at the sight of one, like she is an object. This is why our women choose not to marry foreigners. All disrespect and no class or honor.

This statement shows total disrespect for ALL other cultures and religions

Your intial question was disrespectful to the Phillipino culture

Have a happy life

I will ask the mods to close this

I can only emphasis what a lot of people are saying on here

As Brits we get it easy, we are a low fraud country and the Embassy just needs the correct paperwork to be in order

Most of the refusals, RFE's, denials are from the higher risk countries

You can over think and worry yourself to death if you read the Philippines (as an example) forum and use it as a basis for your paranoia lol

The medical/interview are the easy part

You'll be here soon

We went thru 6 years and i made 5 trips to Morocco spending over a month each time with 2 3 month visits

yes, it is hard

my husband is here now

seems immigration needs to make some changes

i read one post saying the agents are not trained properly

but as i see it the forms are often confusing like this:

how many people are you applying for? 1

put 1 for yourself +1

if married put 1 +1

now add them

which is 3 but my husband and i are only 2

in icome put last 3 years

now what is current income?

which to me is this year

NO it (acording to instructions) is also last year

Good luck

it is all worth it when finally you are here together

Why blame the agents?

They have thousands of applications to deal with.

It is the liars, the idiots and the frauds who are cluttering up the system for us

The forms are very easy

I haven't seen my husband in a year.I get so mad and frustrated

at the same time. as well as he, he's America born, I'm Jamaican.

with the long visa process. we just have to keep the faith an just know it's going to happen,someday.

lol! at the same time. I wish,they would have a shorter procees

If this is a test to our relationship. Bring it on,1year. Smh! By god will we are stronger.

Keep the faith Nicky

Its is a long slow journey, but you know in the end you will be with the man you love

x

Cool!

TBH anyone with a UK licence who failed the US driving test should be shot anyway

Its so easy!

ATB

You sure you got a temporary licence and not a learners permit?

If so you got lucky

Most UK Forida residents had to take the sight, written and driving test

Lol

How did you get a DL without taking a test?

UK licences are not transferable

I sent mine out on the 15th, two days before the OP and received my NOA1 hardcopy January 4th. The mail ran slower, but it didn't come to a halt. I tracked my package every day from the time I shipped it out to the time it was delivered. That tracking number is critical and should have been treated like a piece of gold.

I would start making phone calls to the shipper and uscis to see if the package can be located, but the OP might just be SOL. All they can do is wait and hope, if the shipper can't track without the number. Good luck to them.

This is what I'm talking about, spend money on the delivery, track it, become OCD, be obsessive

Action from you

You have to drive this, the USCIS has thousands of applications daily, make sure you know yours is there

Good luck with your application and welcome to VJ

I have way more than is needed for the financial stuff, letter from employer, pay slips, tax returns for the last 3 years, bank statements and the I34 - we figured wei would rather have too much than find they want something we didn't do on the day (OCD kicking in again:))

The other thing i have is all the passport photos needed for AOS as they are cheaper here - £7 for 4 and they are $13 for 2 there - yup i need to chill and concentrate on clearing the house and stop obsessing that i've forgotten something thats going to cause a delay...

Getting a Visa makes you obsessive lol

My wife has always said I'm a hot mess, totally disorganised, blah blah usual girl stuff

She nearly died when she saw how organised I was for my Visa prep

My ring folder, with plastic sleeves, and tabbed sections she was gob smacked, haha kept her quiet for at least a nano second lol

But at the end of the day this is what you want!! Worth spending a lot of time and energy on

Never ceases to amaze me how little people do, then come on VJ whinging at how USCIS are biased because they were refused!!

Good luck to you all, see you here soon

Goodness me you are in a pickle

Check what Visa you're applying for, and under what circumstances, we will try to help

I know they don't care. I was just expressing some emotion and frustration to my VJ family. And I meant that some embassies let you book the within a few days of each other .. meaning you don't have to have had your medical before getting an interview scheduled.

Either way...

Came home to a letter from London. My interview is 25th January!!!

I can sense more coming our way...!

Great news!!!

There are a lot of things I wished the USCIS/NVC and all did better, speed the eff up was always my beef!!

Your nearly there, paaaaaarty time soon lol

Ahhh thank you!! I feel assured now I was manically stressing yesterday looking at AOS stuff.. wahh!

I think some embassies schedule medical and interview at the same time so there is no delay in between! WHY CAN'T LONDON DO THAT!

Assuming they took bloods, they need to be screened

And anyway why should they schedule same day, they really don't care what you want

Just saying

In Texas (and several other states, but Texas for sure) the marriage licence, once received and recorded by the local county clerk's office after the marriage has taken place, automagically becomes the marriage certificate. There is no separate document called a marriage certificate in Texas.

Good to know, I got married in Chicago, where a certificate is separate

Well obviously all states have to be different lol!

The licence is the paperwork for permission to marry...................the certificate is what you require

Who needs a will

Whats hers is hers

Whats mine is hers as well

Lol ain't that right guys?

Oh dear. Such a long process. You could have done Direct Consular Filing to USCIS in London and skipped the NVC entirely. Could have had a visa in maybe 4 months.

We actually planned it this way

My wife would return, get a job, establish our new home, get a car etc which went okish (shipping container got delayed)

I would continue working, then move over once she had done all the work lol

Just the timescale was more than we expected, it had been running at about 6 months when we first discussed it

We got a little unlucky with NVC (the polite answer)

The whole process was an absolute breeze otherwise

This is a great thread!

There are a couple of delightful Russian ladies in my complex, they seem to have the same sense of humour as a Brit!

And they always have a twinkle in thier eyes

Love them, and this thread

That's very true! We went over the pros and cons of both visa's and decided the K1 suited us better, we want to start our married life together. I know it's going to be strange for me having to wait for my EAD & AP then Greencard, its going to take time for me to adjust and the time I won't be working I want to get out and explore my new home and area, I may join some social groups and look into volunteering if I can to keep me occupied but gives me chance to settle in

We were already married, and living in the UK, my wife (USC) had right to remain in the UK

We were looking after my father who had dementia, but the plan was always to move Stateside

I must admit we really didn't think it would take 15 months, but we didn't factor in the NVC 'misplacing' part of our file!!

We certainly learnt patience!!

I had a really tough first year in the US. And even now (2.5 years here) I am not fully integrated, I know I could do more but it is a slow process for me. I have no job, few friends and rarely leave the house unless I absolutely have to. But I would not move back to the UK without my husband. He is the reason I am here and the reason that being here is absolutely the right choice for me. If I can give you one piece of advice it is to focus on your fiance, talk to him, let him know how you are feeling and work on your relationship with him. That should be your top priority in my opinion.

I am here to tell you that even if you do not make many friends, do not get a job and do not find lots of hobbies to keep you occupied, it is ok. You will not have failed. You will be just fine, because you will be with the love of your life. All of the advice on how to do that stuff is great, and definitely worth pursuing. But if it does not work out, do not beat yourself up. Take the small victories, the small steps in progress and give yourself permission to take things at your own pace.

The first year is going to be tough, you and your fiance need to be prepared for downs as well as the ups. I know for me the paperwork, the uncertainty of dates, leaving family and friends and a way of life behind all took its toll before I even moved. Plus on top of that you are getting married...that is a huge life event. Throw into that the fact that your wedding will probably not be how you always imagined it would be (I wanted a big family wedding, which is not possible when get married thousands of miles away from home) and you will have less than 90 days to organize it (most stressful thing ever- make sure to book a honeymoon, you will need it). Then you are about to move in with your partner probably for the first time and have to try to adjust to each other as a cohabiting couple. On top of that I also found that my husbands family were very different to mine and I found that alienating and it emphasized my homesickness even more. I also had my husbands crazy ex wife to deal with who was harassing me and trying to sabotage our marriage, oh and getting used to being a step mom to a young girl. Then of course there is the cultural shock. Oh, and my husband and I also found that we had very little in common that we could do together. Plus all the firsts being abroad were tough to deal with...first birthday away from family, first chirstmas away, first thanksgiving (surprisingly this was really tough, it made me feel really homesick to be away from my family and surrounded by a different family who seemed indifferent to me even if it is a holiday that I do not care about in any form).

You need to talk all of this through with your fiance. Make sure that the two of you know that life is going to be rocky. Just because you have a visa in your passport, does not mean that the road ahead is paved with gold. He needs to be there to support you and try his hardest to make you feel like you have a new home. (I loved the fact that my husband chose Philip Philips Home for our first dance at our wedding, it still speaks a lot to me

). His life is going to change too, and he has to be prepared to put time and effort into your relationship and into helping you to settle in and adjust how he lives to make it work for the two of you. You are both still on a roller coaster and need to hold onto each other in order to make it though the next few loops and twists together.

The way we coped was not perfect but it got us through. At first we did a lot of going out, getting drunk bonding through that. I let my emotions come out when I was drunk. It was not the best way, but it was cathartic on occasions. Sometimes I was a b**ch to live with, my emotions were all over the place. But we always made up and always worked out a solution afterwards, together. Later on we started to discover (sober) actives that we could do together (we were spending too much money drinking, plus it was not very healthy). We got into making art together, playing board games, he introduced me to some video games and we took long walks. We planned nice trips away to different cities to keep an event in the future that we could look forward to. We also talked constantly and openly about what was going on and each made an effort to adjust. After about a year or so my emotions leveled out and things got better as time went on. Relationships are about trying to find the happy middle ground you are both going to have to work hard to make it work and have the commitment to see it though all of the changes that are happening to you both.

It is not that I wish any of this bad stuff on you, just giving you a realistic look at what my first year was like so that you are prepared. You can make it through this. I just wanted you to be aware that there will be times that things do not go as planned and life seems tough and you will question your move but that is ok and if you work together with your fiance life will get better.

Great post

I would personally not advise buying your ticket until you have your passport, the interview went well you were approved on the day, things may change!

There are far too many topics on VJ about people who have done this and other things and suddenly are in AP

I waited till I had my passport then went google crazy, there are always deals, yeah you won't fly tomorrow but you'll pick up a deal somewhere

I flew 9 days after my passport came through and I bought a return ticket, they are cheaper, just didn't use the return part

Ouch that's a long time! I'm just going to scan my documents needed and message a friend to see if she will be the endorser for me and just leave it till we hear about our NOA2 then I can just do it straight away as I have the documents ready to upload to the ACRO Criminal Records Office application.

Fingers crossed its not too long

I went the IR-1 route which is longer, but saves the faff once in the USA lol