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34 minutes ago, MarkEmily said:

Thank you for replying to me.

my spouse just called to nvc and lady answered.

she just told him that we should submit inquiry on nvc website.

Did you already fix about this problem? 

If yes, how long does it took?

 

I called and submitted inquiry at the same time. ask your spouse to take screenshot of his bank to show that the money was cleared and attach to inquiry. I demanded NVC on the phone to forward it to supervisor to review. It took 3-4 business days then my aos payment changed to paid. I think supervisor did it. I still did not receive the response from Inquiry since December 31 lol. 

2 hours ago, MarkEmily said:

Hi.

I'm in same situation now too.

I got welcome letter on January 31 and then my husband tried to pay AOS fee that time.

But he got something error. He tried to pay again but status changed to "in process" and can't push bottun.

I successed to pay IV fee. IV fee status changed to paid only one day.

Why only AOS fee doesn't change to paid??? We've been waiting for almost 2 weeks.

So My husband called to NVC many many many times. but they didn't answer.

Please help me or advice to me anything...(:_;)

We can't move on next step about AOS process...

Tell you spouse to call NVC at 7 am EST. 

ask them to forward the issue to supervisor and at the same time submitting inquiry on nvc website

22 hours ago, Poseidon1212 said:

On the passport itself it indicates which authority issued the passport. That’s the authority that has to certify the copy. 
 

The authorised agent will have to see the actual passport and the person that wants the ITIN, their role is essentially to tell the IRS ‘I’ve seen the passport, it’s the real deal’. But keep in mind their services can be pricey and not worth it. 
 

So the first step is to check your spouse’s passport and figure out who issued the passport. If it’s an agency they can easily access like a local agency (e.g. 

police, municipality, other local authority) then go there to get a certified copy certified by them (typically indicated by a stamp bearing the same name of the name of the issuing agency mentioned on the passport itself). 
 

Then they can either send the hard copy to you and you attach it together with the W-7 to the tax refund, or if you can’t wait for whatever reason you can file a form 2848 via fax and give your spouse signing rights, then they can file the taxes from wherever they are in one go, but it shouldn’t be that much of a difference time wise and you guys are well before the deadline. 

Her passport was issued from department of state and they dont do certification. We did at Department of Justice. I will send it and see what happens lol. That is federal tax, how do we deal with state tax when there is no W7 to send with? 

Is there possible to use HR block or Turbo Tax software to fill in everything and print out to send it to prevent all calculations that I might mess up? Software might not allow me to by pass no ssn for my spouse from HR block or Turbo tax. Thanks

3 minutes ago, Poseidon1212 said:

A certified copy by the issuing authority is fine too. For example; if the municipality is listed on the passport as issuing authority then a copy certified by them is fine. You can do it by yourself. Authorised agent is only necessary if you can’t send in a certified copy or the passport itself. 

Thank you. My spouse cant send the passport to me due to our interview will be soon. I have her certified passport but it might not be from issuing passport. You mentioned that authorized agent can do paperwork without certified passport or actual passport by itself? I really dont want to go married separate as I can save couple thousand dollars on joint marriage.

Thanks again.

20 hours ago, Poseidon1212 said:

I think it took about 14 days, but it's irrelevant really since they will fill in his ITIN on the tax return the W-7 is attached to and will inform him with a letter what his ITIN is afterwards. So the next time you'll need it (next year) you'll most definitely have it. The ITIN doesn't have much other use than that. Only thing that I can think of is for a W-9 once you try to add him as an account holder to your bank account. 

Do you have to include the passport of foreign’s spouse or certified passport is ok along wit W-7 and tax return?

Also, can we do it by ourselves or we have to go to specific agent that got authorized to do tax by IRS? 

You have to call early morning 7am EST time and will likely be on hold for 30min. You have to keep calling even they hang off the call. 

It happened to me and it was in process for more than a week. I then called NVC to forward it to supervisor to review it and it changed 2 days later after the call.

Just now, Alexus_f said:

Might not be the case for you. I am thinking the person who reviewed the documents made a mistake.  Now, NVC does not want to admit the mistake and insisting on the translation. 

I did not translate any document that is in my official language. I would prefer to talk to supervisor on this. This makes nonsense if their instruction says one thing and they review them in different ways. This is BS to delay process.

10 minutes ago, Alexus_f said:

That was my exact argument and I even quoted this sentence from the website word to word. They are still insisting on translation. I can provide them the translation I just hate the fact I will have to wait for another up to two month for them to review it. 

Now I am worried now because i did not translate by following their instruction.

Why do we even need to translate if document has either English or official language of the country where spouse will interview on?

Did I miss anything on this quote from travel gov website “All documents not written in English, or in the official language of the country in which you are applying for a visa, must be accompanied by certified translations“

Is there a possible typo on the original post? The OP responded to other poster above stated that “The problem is we did filed I-751 in May 2017 and get denied in Jan 2019. Due to lack of evidence (bank statements, lease agreement, phone bill, pictures since he came to US until present). So my husband hired an immigration legal assistance to file another I-751 in Feb 2019 and has interview on the 7th of Jan,2020”.

Based on this quote, it does sound like they got denied on first I-751 so they hired the immigration office to file second I-751 where her husband got wrong on most of the simple questions. 

1 hour ago, ssa123 said:

the best way is to get a english translation and get it notarized or what ever the criteria is in your country to prove that its legit.and combine it in the same file and submit it..if they need it they will already have it if they dont .u r gud to go still.but it will save ur tym as in my case it took 2 months extra to review resubmitted document

The problem is I already submitted without translating or certified. It is clearly mentioned on their own website that we only translate if the document is not in our official language or english. 

1 minute ago, dattstar said:

they asked me to send original , translated , and official confirmation that translation is legit

This is scared me because I did not translate any documents to English by following the NVC guidelines as the quote below from travel gov website:

“All documents not written in English, or in the official language of the country in which you are applying for a visa, must be accompanied by certified translations. The translation must include a statement signed by the translator stating that:

• The translation is accurate, and
• The translator is competent to translate”.

I might be as well got rejected it. Dang it NVC.

Quick question: Why do you translate the document to English? Website said you dont need to translate to English if it is your official language that Consulate will use to interview. Did I miss anything on this?

9 hours ago, katkoota said:

No problem, hopefully everything clears up for you soon!

Not sure if it is magic but it changed to Paid now after i sent email early morning. Thanks again.

2 minutes ago, katkoota said:

Hello, I was having this issue after paying my fees on December 20th, after a couple of days the IV fee was showed as PAID and I could access the form but AOS was showing as IN PROCESS. I sent them the following email on December 31 with our information filled in:

 

To: NVCINQUIRY@state.gov

 

“Hello, here is our case information:

 

Case #: 

Invoice #: 

 

Beneficiary Name: 

Beneficiary Birthdate: 

 

Petitioner Name: 

Petitioner Birthdate: 

 

I paid both the IV fee and the AOS fee on December 20, however the AOS fee is still showing as “In Process” and we are unable to access the form.  Any assistance would be very much appreciated.  I am attaching an image of both fees coming out of my bank account.

 

Thank you very much for your time.”

 

I then attached a screen shot of both fees coming out of my bank account.

 

By January 2nd the AOS fee showed as PAID and the form was available.  Not sure if it was my email that moved things along or they rebooted their system but it worked.  Hope this helps.

Thank you so much. I will try it again today. 

Is there anything we can do? I have called and emailed them as well. It has not  fixed the issue yet.  They said they will forward my case to supervisor for review but I am not sure whether they did that or not. 

Please let me know if you guys figured it out how to fix this issue. Thanks.

24 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Quite recently, NVC and Consulates have required W2 forms with Tax Return Transcripts.  Seems strange but true.

Good to know. I have other questions on this subject about total income or adjusted gross income. I am filling I-864EZ form and the instruction said if I filed form 1040/1040A then use total income and 1040EZ uses gross income. My gross income and total income are slightly mismatched. I just need to know the correct number income to fill in I-864EZ. So my question is which income I need to fill in I-864EZ and I don’t recall I ever fill 1040EZ? 
 

Thanks.

Thank you all.

2 hours ago, wifidolly said:

I submitted each tax transcript year in separate PDF files and they were all accepted.

Thanks. Do you do the same for W2 as well?

Hi all,

I am planning to upload three years of tax transcripts instead of only 2018.

 I wonder if I need to combine all three years of tax transcript into one pdf or separate pdf per each year.If separate transcript pdf per each year then I would image W2 will be the same way as transcript? 

Also, do we combine transcript and W2 in one pdf or they need to be in different pdf files. I heard the combination of transcript and W2 in one pdf will lead to reject so I just want to confirm it. 

Thanks.

1 hour ago, idsid said:

MY IRS TAX RETURN TRANSCRIPT ONLY SHOWS FEW LETTERS OF MY FIRST NAME AND MY LAST NAME. AND ALSO SAME WITH MY HOME ADRESS.HOWEVER, LAST  4 DIGIT OF MY SOCIAL SECURITY IS CORRECT.DOES ANYONE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM? AND DO YOU GUYS THINK NVC REJECT SUCH DOCUMENTS?

No matter what i did (online printing or requested from mail), irs tax transcript always misses few  random letters in my name. The cover letter does have all characters of my name.  I was lucky enough to find my old requested tax transcript that I requested a year ago with all characters. I have not went to IRS office yet.  I was wondered how NVC handles this recently.

2 hours ago, Dolfishvisa said:

So, the case status online for my CR-1 visa says that it was sent to the State Department for visa processing on Dec. 4th. It's now Dec. 12th and my spouse still hasn't received an email that the NVC has received the petition. Our I-130 petition was approved on 11/21. What should we do? 

NVC wont email you for receiving petition from USCIS. You have to call them to ask whether they receive petition yet and  case number will assign about one month later after they received ( they are working on file that received 11/08/2019). 

1 hour ago, KkMens said:

Yes, I did submit evidence of my marriage and all other documents I could lay hands on when I filed the initial I-130 and at the NVC stage as well

Did you combine all additional evidences into one pdf file to upload at NVC? Thanks.

4 hours ago, flea89 said:

i was just looking for someway to confirm my entry to VN. I realize now my mistake

I did request FOIA few years ago and it only showed me left and entered US only. If you use loose leaf visa, they will only stamp on the leaf visa. That is the reason I use passport visa only. They stamped on my passport and sometime stamped my exit ticket as well.