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Yay! We just got our interview date for June 26th!  I had sent the marriage cert in and the website still was saying Action required: send documents so I called this morning and the lady at the NVC said yes, they have them and then said our interview date was set already!  
I have called the NVC a total of 3 times during this process and have had very positive and helpful people every time.
 

Called on Friday and our case is officially complete (as of May 10th).  I submitted everything electronically on the 30th of April, they came back to me with checklist a few days later and then for whatever reason couldn't open one document so I resubmitted last Monday.  I called on Friday as there was no update in the system and they told me it had been completed on the 10th.  Now just waiting to hear about interview dates!!

Currently talking to person at NVC who had NO IDEA about this change.  Literally, I'm on hold now b/c she went to go talk to supervisors.  She's very nice, just totally surprised about this as apparently they weren't given any guidance.  Stay tuned!

27 minutes later - the new upload method ONLY applies if it's a new application.  If you are already set up in the system and have paid fees, etc - then you will continue the old method of electronic processing (i.e., email)
 
 

No tool available to me.  I emailed the docs last night and am on hold now with the NVC to confirm if that's okay.  Will update when I talk to someone.
 

with your bank statements, one thing to make sure of (assuming you're doing i-864 based on assets rather than income) is that the funds need to have been in your possession (or steadily being accumulated in your possession) over the space of at least a year.  For example, they want proof the money didnt just show up in your account last week just in time for your visa application.  For ours we provided 2 years of statements for our savings account, and for our day to day spending account which still has about $9K in it, we showed the last 6 months.

NB: when filing with assets instead of income, NVC will give you case complete with a checklist. The checklist will just be saying that the embassy will assess assets rather than them doing so, and to make sure you have up to date records at the interview.  

We did bank statements etc up until our filing date in January. And then I just dropped off the updated records to the embassy yesterday, with a new i-864, in preparation for next weeks interview.  If you like I can let you know if I get any comments/requests back from them.

We emailed ours on Monday over two emails. The total attachments were too large to send in one. We just put in the subject, email 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. 

Looking at other timelines, electronic processing takes 2-3 weeks for case complete. We submitted our documents through email two weeks ago and are still waiting for case complete.

Just got approved by Nebraska - 6 months. So relieved- on to the next stage!

Approved today!!

Congrats!!
 

Congrats!!!! 

Here's hoping the next few weeks start bringing us approvals!

Hi there,
we did the same, sponsor me on assets only, except I was the one working and my USC husband stayed home
1. You don't need to add your name, but it might be "tidier"; if you have little other financial co-mingling, the CO may wonder why not (depends a lot on the embassy you are going through- some won't care).
2. Yes, definitely list that. When using assets only, embassies often prefer you to be comfortably over, and this sounds like steady income.