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Yes a similar situation happened to me. I was actually invoiced twice. It is the weekend so your bank probably won't process it till Monday. So wait till it has cleared your bank and then give it a day or two to update within ceac. It should be fine. 

1 hour ago, Chris2870 said:

cancelling the return leg isn't a requirement, it's just a courtesy to prevent airlines from over-booking plus if you schedule the return 3 months later, it gives you a safety net just in case. But if you survived this ordeal..I see nothing but happiness in your future...Good Luck, God Bless.....and welcome home!

In thin case it is not just a curtosey to the airline. Not cancelling can cause some serious headaches when you try to go through adjustment of status and they think that you actually took that return flight and left the country. It shouldn't happen, but it has on several occasions.

2 minutes ago, John & Rose said:

They have dogs that have great senses.  I would not chance any foods at all.  I saw one busted for a sealed bag of fish chips.  The dogs found the factory sealed bag.  

Correct, if it is not allowed then don't try to sneak it in by wrapping it up and not declaring it. He must answer the questions honestly regardig ALL of his belongings (including checked bags).

1 hour ago, LauraC87 said:

Hi

 

My husband is moving on the 1st so I need to change the address on the application.

 

The people in his current place aren't the most trust worthy so I'm a bit concerned that we won't get any further mail forwarded. We've gotten our I-130 approval letter already.

 

Do I have to wait for another letter or will they email me and my husband from now on?

 

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question. This whole process is making me anxious.

 

Thanks very much

 

In my experience nvc did everything by email. However, do be sure to update the address with uscis. Even though your petition was approved, you still need to keep them updated with any address changes. You are a long way from being done with them.

4 minutes ago, Jhonny said:

Well,when you say paynebt , you mean the money order (that's waht my wife did) exactly like she did for her citizenship and my father in law.

A money order for $535 USD (INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE).

Well so, probabily I receive my NOA 1 but in NOA 2 stage there is when we are going to receive the RFE (if needed).

Well this clarifyes me a little bit!!! 

 

Thank you!!!!

No problem, they may accept the one that you sent. There is no way to know till you either get the noa2 or an rfe. Either way you just have to be patient and wait. It is also possible that they will lose a different document that you did submit and they may issue an rfe for that. They are notorious for losing documents.

6 minutes ago, Jhonny said:

 

And I don't understand this part " Have they cashed the paynebt check? "

 

What is this???

*Payment check

if they have cashed the payment then they have accepted the petition and you will be getting an noa1

1 minute ago, Jhonny said:

Spanish Photocopy of Marriage, we sent the translate! All the other things are in the file, only tha one thing missed! All the other things are in there, photos, Affidavits, i-130 and i-130a ,Certificate of Naturalization, everything, just that missed!

 

So what I still asking is...

This is my scenario:

 

As you well say, is not like we missed two or three required papers, (only one) , they've accept it and i receive  NOA1, but if they consider to ask me that copy before NOA 2 they are going to send me a RFE!? I'm I correct? 

Please any help would be appreciated!

It is not about how many documents are missing. It is only things like missing paynebt, missing I-130, etc. that would cause them to not accept the petition.

They will likely accept it and issue you an noa1 within the next month. Then all you can do is wait. They will likely issue an noa2 in about 5-6 months when they get to the case (unless you are unlucky and your case gets assigned to Nebraska).

Once they get to your case and notice the issue then they will send you an rfe. This won't happen for about 5-6 months from now (or longer). At this point there really isn't anything you can do but wait. You can't submit it till they send the rfe. Besides they may ask for more stuff than what you expect.

Always carefully review the packets. Store sending to make sure they are complete and make copies of what you send to keep for your records.

1 minute ago, Jhonny said:

But I'm just in the very beginning, not even in NOA 1 phase...

Hold, reading your post I wonder:

I'm going to receive a NOA1 (in the mean time 2-3 weeks) but, when they start to check all my papers if there is something wrong between NOA1 and NOA2 if something is wrong they've send the RFE? Is correct, or I'm wrong again!

If I'm wrong please correct me !

And thanks for your advises!

If they accept it and issue the noa1 then it will go into a pile. No one will look at it for about 5-6 months. Then once it gets to the top of the pile someone will loook at it and either approve it (issue noa2) or they will send an rfe requesting the missing information. Once you submit the reply to the rfe it will take about 30 days for them to review it and either approve it (noa2) or again ask for more evidence.

However, as I said before, if it is a big enough issue they may just not accept the petition to begin with and just return it. What do you think you forgot? Have they cashed the paynebt check?

What do you think you forgot? You only sent it Monday, so they probably haven't even accepted it yet for processing.

If it is a big enough issue they simply won't accept it and will send it back. If they accept it but eventually issue an rfe that won't happen for around 5-6 months, and it will likely delay the issuance of the noa2 by about 30 days (can be up to about 60 days).

1 minute ago, KULtoATL said:

Good luck to you and your husband!! My interview is next Thursday. I die  So, so nervous.

Good luck to you too. Just take deep breaths and stay calm, you will make it through just fine.

1 minute ago, KULtoATL said:

In this immigration process, they likely know you better than your family does! They know or want to know (almost) EVERYTHING  Being a really private person, I cringe each time I think of the stuff that we need to send in every step of the way. But hey, at least I'll get to be with my fiance 

Yep, can't wait for my husband to be here in about 2 months, as long as all goes well with his interview next month.

13 minutes ago, KULtoATL said:

This is right too, for people filing jointly with their spouse to indicate their individual income

Yeah, I thought my W-2 would be sufficient, since it clearly is enough and covers the majority of the income. However, now I need to pull up all of my other documents to hand over to them, it is like getting my taxes done all over again. 

30 minutes ago, Bunny&Ninja said:

u dont have to show any finance of immigrating alien (earning or what money he/she has etc etc). 

yes, they don't care about the finances of the immigrating alien. However, the tax transcript does not break out the various sources of income and who earned each. Therefore, if you file as married filing jointly it seems that they want an accounting of who earned what money. If the petitioner is the only one who earned income, and it was simply income reported on an W-2, then providing that W-2 makes it clear. However, if the W-2 does not cover all of the income then they ask for more information As stated by the OP, the NVC won't hold things up, but they will ask that more information be provided at the interview.

18 minutes ago, KULtoATL said:

You have the tax transcript then use the tax transcript. If you submit the tax transcript, you are not required to send the W-2 and 1099.

Actually, if you filed as single (weren't married that year) or opted for married filing separately, then this should be true.

However, it seems that if you filed as married filing jointly it can be a little more tricky. Here is my case:

We were married last year and so we filed as married filing jointly. ~90% of the reported income was on my W-2, but the remaining reported income was a mixture of 1099's for me (interest and dividends) and my spouse's income (no W-2 or 1099's since this was all earned in China). When I submitted documents to NVC I sent my W-2 which covered the majority of the reported income and was well over the threshold. However, we did get a checklist with a request to bring "all" W-2's to the interview. The NVC did not request that I submit the additional documents to them, only that they be taken to the interview.

So from my experience I think that if you file as single, or there is no chance that your spouse had income on the return (married filing separately) then just send the tax transcript and be done with it. However, it you filed taxes as married filing jointly it seems that they want a full break-down of the income sources even if you individual W-2 shows that your income was over the threshold.

16 minutes ago, knightofdight said:

Called NVC and they told me it doesn't matter because she is not a LPR or U.S. citizen, so her income is completely irrelevant even though it is reported on the joint tax return transcript. What matters is my W2 and 1040/transcript, which I did provide. So I am good. :-)

I was in a similar situation. I only sent my documents (petitioner) and the sent a checklist asking for my spouse to bring "all" w-2's to the interview. They didn't require me to submit additional documents to the nvc. I'm not sure why they sent the checklist since I did send all of my w-2's, but just in case I am preparing a letter to explain all of the income on my tax return along with my 1099's, etc. But my w-2 that was sent covers like 90% of the reported income and is well above the thresholds.

2 hours ago, Nissoue said:

 

It is best not to give out the actual dates, you should just write 09/26/19xx in posts. This is a public forum and you should never give out personal information like dates of birth in a public setting like this.

29 minutes ago, missileman said:

"Wrong birth date on receipt for Fiance"   " it shows 09/16/2017 but it is 09/26/2017" 

Huh????

I agree, I seriously hope the fiancé was not born in 2017.

15 minutes ago, Dream2017 said:

Congratulations. My pd is December 28. I looked at ur timeline   that time nvc reviewed was fast.   I called the nvc and they said it take like 8 to 11 weeks to complete.   Did u send ur iv and aos package mail or different way? 

We were eligible for email processing. Not all consulates allow that. If you have to do mail it can take up to 11 weeks, but some have been closer to 6-8 weeks.

Just now, green line2017 said:

Congratulations to you and Tones of Good Luck on interview .Now you know, happy dance for you don't stop to dance it is real .

thanks, my husband is really excited

Just got our interview date set today: Sept. 18th 

5 minutes ago, Jimenez1717 said:

Did it let you fill out the iv app

As we have said before, the DS-260 will not unlock until both fees show as paid. So you will have to wait till the paynebt goes through and it updates in ceac. They have to show as "paid".

4 hours ago, Jimenez1717 said:

Hell yeah..just need to pay my iv fee and summit my ds260 and am set i hope the process doesnt take long 

Hahaha, I told you yesterday that every step takes waaaaaaaaaaay longer than it should. 

4 hours ago, Leah09 said:

How come the IV fee and the AOS fee cant be paid at the same time? Seems like AOS comes first from what I've seen

From what I have seen/been able to figure out, the AOS fee gets invoiced right away as they set up your case because that is related to the petitioner, who has already been dealing with USCIS. However, the IV fee does not get invoiced until after the beneficiary selects their agent (DS-261). You can call to have the DS-261 reviewed over the phone to speed things up (otherwise they can take up to 3 weeks to review it), but it can still take up to a week from when it is reviewed until they invoice the IV fee.

However, I believe that I have seen somewhere that if you are using a lawyer/agent at the USCIS stage then they will automatically assign them as the agent for the beneficiary and then both fees are invoiced immediately. But that definitely does not justify the cost/frustration of hiring a lawyer for this process.

8 minutes ago, Jimenez1717 said:

They be driving me crazy but thanks 

Get used to it, in some ways the NVC is worse than USIC. With USCIS it is just a big black box and you know you will be waiting for quite a while. With NVC it is a series of little black boxes, and every one of them seems to take longer than it realistically should. We paid our AOS fee and after 3 days it still didn't update to "paid" I kept calling and they would just say "oh, give it a couple more days", "oh, give it a couple more days", ........ then it finally updated, turns out their system was having issues and lots of people were held up by it (many for much longer than me).

1 minute ago, JBMG said:

Do they have the correct email address? If you can't pay fees, then it does not sound like you received it yet.. 

Yeah, since the fee isn't available yet it seems that maybe the just "sent/issued" it (maybe it will actually go out with various system updates tonight). Perhaps it will show up tonight/tomorrow. Maybe give it until tomorrow and check to see if they fee is unlocked and if the email shows up.

57 minutes ago, Jimenez1717 said:

Nvc said they emailed my welcome letter already & i still havent received it ceac only let me do the ds261🤦🏽‍♀️

 

 

Check your email (junk mail, etc.) for an email from "asknvc@state.gov" the subject will start with your case number. Maybe it got filtered out of your inbox.

Also, is the AOS fee showing as available to be paid?