MattAndOana

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

We also just received our Interview letter/email from NVC:
 
PD: Nov 15, 2017
CC: Mar 15, 2019
Interview: May 16, 2019
Embassy: Bucharest, Romania

@MattAndOana - we had our interviews this morning, and the CO asked me why we had a cosponsor, so I explained simply that, "we were requested to add a cosponsor, since I claim FEIE, so my reported income appears low", she responded very quickly that she noticed only $3k reported on my 1040 line 22, but that the full return clearly showed that I earned more than 125% of poverty guidelines. She half-jokingly said that she was jealous after seeing my return, and wished she could claim the FEIE herself. It was clear she considered my return more comprehensively than NVC. 
 
She also asked us both about our employment, but hardly in detail (we both work for well-known international aid projects), and if I was planning to continue with my same company when we move, and I said I hadn't decided yet, and she smiled and said it's nice to have options. Oh, and I also offered copies of my past 3 years of 1099s and W2s, but she said it wasn't necessary. 
 
She kept the passports, and said she had everything else needed, just waiting on the clinic to provide the medical results, but that we should hear back soon. 

Time to see about a rolling file cabinet.  😂 . But seriously though, I am absolutely doing that.  I'll take everything that I can in original and copy.  Probably print-outs of all the NVC messages too for good measure.

@canadavisa22 @peteagus @pushbrk @NikLR  If any of you are interested in how this played out, here is the run down:
Amazingly, an NVC supervisor called me back.  Less amazingly, when the agent asked me what time I would like a call back, I said before 5pm (which is midnight here).  Obviously, he was just filling in a form, and I don't think "before xx:xx" was an option, so he chose "5:00pm".  The supervisor called me at exactly 5pm (midnight) last night. Supervisor review lasted 7 days.  They put our case there on Feb 27, and yesterday, March 6, they updated our case. Most agents I spoke to gave me an accurate representation of what was going to happen: they put me in supervisor review because they had to remove a joint sponsor.  This is exactly what happened: they removed my father as joint sponsor and my mother as his household member, and requested that they be added as my household members. The supervisor insisted that this was happening solely because we have the same address. All of my AOS documents were approved after supervisor review, except one: the refused my 2017 tax return and foreign earnings statement (I do not have W2s as I worked in a foreign country) and requested I replace that with a tax transcript.  I would have submitted transcripts in the first place, but the government shutdown meant I could not get into the IRS e-services portal. Two caveats to the other documents getting approved: They did approve my 2016 and 2015 tax return + foreign earnings statements.  Possibly since these are optional, and the most recent year is required, they are more strict about using transcripts when there is no W2.  Or they are only accepting transcripts despite what all their instructions say (would not surprise me at this moment). Since my I-864 was approved, with my current income and liquid assets, I told the supervisor that it was pointless to add my parents as my household members.  He agreed and instructed me to add a note when resubmitting documents that I would not add my parents financial documents and I-864As, and to proceed despite the requests to do so.  This last bit is the only thing that worries me, as it seems doing things that are not to the letter is getting me in trouble.  

@canadavisa22 @peteagus @pushbrk @NikLR  If any of you are interested in how this played out, here is the run down:
Amazingly, an NVC supervisor called me back.  Less amazingly, when the agent asked me what time I would like a call back, I said before 5pm (which is midnight here).  Obviously, he was just filling in a form, and I don't think "before xx:xx" was an option, so he chose "5:00pm".  The supervisor called me at exactly 5pm (midnight) last night. Supervisor review lasted 7 days.  They put our case there on Feb 27, and yesterday, March 6, they updated our case. Most agents I spoke to gave me an accurate representation of what was going to happen: they put me in supervisor review because they had to remove a joint sponsor.  This is exactly what happened: they removed my father as joint sponsor and my mother as his household member, and requested that they be added as my household members. The supervisor insisted that this was happening solely because we have the same address. All of my AOS documents were approved after supervisor review, except one: the refused my 2017 tax return and foreign earnings statement (I do not have W2s as I worked in a foreign country) and requested I replace that with a tax transcript.  I would have submitted transcripts in the first place, but the government shutdown meant I could not get into the IRS e-services portal. Two caveats to the other documents getting approved: They did approve my 2016 and 2015 tax return + foreign earnings statements.  Possibly since these are optional, and the most recent year is required, they are more strict about using transcripts when there is no W2.  Or they are only accepting transcripts despite what all their instructions say (would not surprise me at this moment). Since my I-864 was approved, with my current income and liquid assets, I told the supervisor that it was pointless to add my parents as my household members.  He agreed and instructed me to add a note when resubmitting documents that I would not add my parents financial documents and I-864As, and to proceed despite the requests to do so.  This last bit is the only thing that worries me, as it seems doing things that are not to the letter is getting me in trouble.