sysysy

At this point, will interviewees need to bring the tax documents for 2017 instead of 2016? Because the April tax deadline is approaching.

Make sure she makes enough money to the be a co-sponsor. she would need to make enough for herself, plus you and your spouse and any kids you might have. otherwise, having her be a joint sponsor won't be helpful. her taxes will show her income. 

10 minutes ago, Harmeet Kaur said:

Whats your scan date?

2nd scan date was 25-28 Feb...different workers told me different dates

3 minutes ago, NikC said:

Why did it take long for you ? What was your sd ?

It took longer because we had two scan dates. I had a scan date toward the end of December, a request for a document in early Feb, and the second scan date was about the 25th-28th of Feb. They wanted another version of the birth certificate, one which was not available at the municipality of my spouse's birth, so I had to explain how it was not available and send another copy of the birth certificate in order to appease them. 

22 March 2018- Case Complete- "At NVC". Waiting for an interview. 

Maybe the wife needs a co-sponsor. His income is not relevant if he earned it overseas. What is in his wife's name and what she makes is relevant. If she doesn't have enough in her name, then he won't pass. 

On 3/16/2018 at 8:35 AM, seewolves said:

Indeed, figure I'll send both just to be sure. Thanks! 

Hopefully I am as insanely lucky the second time around: only took from Marc 1 - 15 to get the checklist.

We had the problem with sending in another birth certificate. We sent in another version, but it couldn't meet their strict requirements. I sent letter with it stating that there was no birth certificate available that could meet their requirements and that was the best we could do. If you can't get EXACTLY what they are asking for, you might think of including a letter like that. I don't know what the result will be for us yet though...about 3 weeks now since out 2nd scan.

Feb 26 -2nd SD

the waiting continues

On 2/5/2018 at 8:57 AM, dpk said:

Oh! I'm sorry to hear that... It doesn't hurt to try to explain NVC 🙏🙏

I called the NVC weeks ago, and they said they couldn't forward our case for interview without the document.  So, we brought the municipality birth certificate to the RENIEC (since the district doesn't have one), paid for that to go to Lima and waited until getting it back...all they did was put a sticker on the back in Lima and then somebody who works for RENIEC but isn't the Chief signed it. I called the NVC again today, and asked them if this new document would work. They said NO! Because it's still not issued by the district. I said I can't get the document and they said I could send what I had to get an interview, and then it would be up to the embassy if they wanted to deny my spouse. Should we be worried? The district simply doesn't have the birth certificate....the requirement is impossible. 

11 hours ago, sysysy said:

Thank you! He is working on getting the birth certificate as they want it. I plan to let you know how it turns out.

From our local and distant RENIEC office, it will take 15 days for the certification process required. It would take 6 days in Lima. This is going to add a lot of time to our case. I will call NVC. Maybe this could be something brought to the interview instead of required to schedule it? 

11 hours ago, dpk said:

Hi there!

 

I have a relative that works and knows the procedures with RENIEC. He recommends to first make sure that your relative's place of birth is part of RENIECs data system. If that's the case then you can simply go to RENIEC and have it printed in Lima. If your relative's place of birth is not included, then you'll just go to the Municipalidad as you did and then have it stamped for "USO en el exterior" by the Ministry of Foreigns Affairs. I guess at this point you could ask RENIEC if they do stamp it to give it some extra validation and/or attach a letter of explanation indicating what was the difficulty in getting the certificate from RENIEC. (I remember that is the way to excuse when a document can't be obtained).

 

Good luck!

Thank you! He is working on getting the birth certificate as they want it. I plan to let you know how it turns out.

1st SD Dec. 26, 2017

Checklist: Feb. 2, 2018

Country: Peru

So, I received a checklist today. They can't accept my husband's Peruvian birth certificate as is. That's about all the checklist says and to send them one they can accept.

The birth certificate was issued by a "Municipalidad Distrital" and we did not get it certified by RENIEC. He was not born in Lima, so our birth certificate needs to come from a "Consejo Distrital" or "Provincial Distrital"; a "Municipalidad distrital" is the only district that issues birth certificates where he was born. I am hoping that RENIEC, the national authority, can certify a birth certificate signed by the "Municipalidad distrital" and NVC will accept that. Any other Peruvians or latin americans with something like this issue? 

13 minutes ago, TX&BC said:

Thanks for your reply! I don’t have any doubts on the attorneys. I received both NOAs from USCIS directly and the attorney also got a copy. Everything that was sent was also sent to me. 

It’s my fault for expecting the attorneys to keep doing a good job...I should have called two weeks after the NOA2. 

I still haven’t heard anything yet. The lawyers did send an inquiry email and cc’d me on it. 

I read on other threads that this has happened before but they all seem to have to wait awhile to hear back....it’s just not fair. But his entire process hasn’t been, so I shouldn’t be so surprised. 😭

Oh ok, now I get what happened better. My NOA2 was for end of October, it didn't change to being sent to the NVC until the end of November, and then the NVC said they got it on Dec 6th but didn't give us the fee invoices (for AOS and the online IV form) by email until  about Dec. 12. So I understand how that can be annoying. It therefore effectively was 1.5 months from NOA2 to the next time I could push the case along. when i called them before dec. 6th, the NVC said they didn't have a record of our case. by dec. 6th the nvc did have a record because it was finally to them.

On 1/19/2018 at 12:42 PM, TX&BC said:

Hope everyone is doing well.

New to this forum...but not new to VJ. 

I'm wondering if anyone has come across an issue w/ NVC? We are using an attorney, and they told me not to call NVC because they were going to do that for us. Our NOA2 was dated 12/08/2017. My patience ran out yesterday and I called NVC only to find out that they don't have any record of our case. I immediately contacted our attorney and they have now sent an email to nvcresearch@state.gov. 

My concern now is if my case is...lost...(God forbid that!). Has anyone had this issue? What should we expect? I'm a wreck here. Our case took FOREVER to get approved and now NVC doesn't have it.   

Thanks again for your input on this.

This sounds scary. I hope your lawyer didn't scam you. Did you use the lawyer for case processing at the USCIS stage, like before it got to the NVC stage? Are your NOA1 and 2 directly from the US gov or did the lawyer pass those documents to you? You could call the USCIS and see if they have a record of your case too. Once I put the wrong code in, maybe you just said the wrong case code and they thought it didn't exist. Good luck!

i think they want it to take long. the longer it takes, the fewer immigrants will be reported as entering.......the whole process takes on a whole 100 days longer than it did a year ago based on the charts here...from 300 to now 400 days...by the time we're done it will be 500 or who knows?!

 you can't get a call back overseas. you have to wait on the line or call back another time if the wait is really long. very inconvenient to work on anything while overseas.

uscis approved our i-130 in late oct

case transferred to NVC nov 23

NVC received the case on december 4 and says they are putting it into their system which could take until dec. 14.... that is a long time to just get it from one office to another.... so slow

my case status for uscis finally changed. our noa 2 was oct. 23rd or so and only on november 23 did they send the file to the nvc. i called nvc and they dont register it yet. so it's more than the 30 days it says it may take on the noa 2...up to six weeks they say at nvc.

i know that's a pretty negative post and people are still waiting. i can say that NOA2 did finally get sent so be hopeful but be very very patient. now i'm told that it may be anywhere from 4-8 months before we get an interview, depends on the consulate, and i will have to file taxes right away in januray, bleh

the online case status is still not updated even though we got the mailing at the end of october. they have until nov 6 (pretty soon) to respond to the service request but luckily we got something in the mail already to give us some reassurance that the process is actually going somewhere. NOA1 i had to call/email about again and again to get a copy of because the post office returned it in error to USCIS....and the case status has been stuck saying the post office returned NOA1 since April...finally got them to resend the NOA1 in July. kicking myself because i filed at the lockbox when i could have filed overseas in Peru...very ridiculously slow and disorganized system. when i called in october to ask about the case, they could only see the online case status themselves, so i'm not impressed at all with the customer service of USCIS

people appeared to be getting approved with PDs after mine, so I made a service request in mid october saying i was worried that i didn't get the mailing...since i know the online status was wrong for us. i don't know if that's why the approval finally came or not, since they haven't responded to the service request.

Texas Service Center

priority date 3-27-2017

NOA2- Approval notice dated 10-23-017 and received in the mail by us on 10-31-2017

The online case status was not updated and there was no email...just the paper in the mail.

My spouse is in Peru. I filed to the Chicago lockbox because I was in Peru when I the i-130. Now my case is in the Texas Service Center.

I was working in Peru and I want to keep my job there, so I need to go back.  Can I file the i-864 affidavit of support directly with the consular officer or embassy in Peru?  Or does it need to go through the NVC first?

Will the US be reasonable in terms of domicile requirements? Like if I have property here in the US, isn't that enough? or does it need to be a house? or do you really just have to sit here in the US and physically be here?