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26 minutes ago, ds2 said:

Hey Congratulations!! Did you also apply for Advance Parole or just EAD?

Thanks! I just applied for EAD.

1 hour ago, Fjsiodn said:

 

12 minutes ago, Biffa said:

Any expedite? Thank god things are picking up !!!! Congrats

No expedite,just waited it out!.

Just got a message " New card being processed".Can't wait to make some money for my honey.

2 hours ago, vjscorp said:

Can the e-mail from NVC be sufficient enough to get Police Clearance Certificate? Because she went to Ahmedabad Police station close to her house and they told her we need a letter for Consulate! 

Alright, we're a bit confused about what part of the process she's in. First off, did she already apply to the Passport India Office and get an appointment? 

See here:

https://portal1.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/online/pccOnlineApp

How this went for us is that you schedule, you pay the fee, pick a location and then you get a confirmation receipt. That confirmation receipt should have had all the documents that they would need to see on her scheduled date. She has to appear at the Passport Office with all the documents.  Make two sets of copies of these documents. They will look at what she brought. When the process is done there, your police certificate will be initiated. PCC status changes online.

My fiancé got a call in a day or two from his local police station. They came to the house to verify his identity and see he was physically present. A lower-ranking Police Officer (Hawaldar) met his parents and, in our case, asked for a copy of the electricity bill and the maintenance of the building. The police will also ask for a second set of copies of what you submitted to the passport office. The Hawaldar told my fiancé he had to come meet his boss/the inspector at the Police Station and gave him a list of additional things needed.

If this was the stage she was in, did she give a copy of her approved I-797C notice?  She should have had it.

One thing you should understand is that NOTHING in India ever gets done on time. We started our Police Clearence process on February 12th when we still didn't even have a case number. It was suppose to be ready within in a week but it took him a month to get it between the Passport Office and Police Station. Each one kept blaming the other.

Our advice: MAKE SURE SHE GOES PHYSICALLY TO THE PASSPORT OFFICE IF SHE ENCOUNTERS ISSUES. Do not call, nothing will get sorted out. 

She does not need a case number or a specific email saying it finally was sent to the Consulate, she just needed some proof that the case got approved and her NAO2 should have been adequate.

8 hours ago, vjscorp said:

Mine is in transit as well! Let me know when you set the interview date. I'm getting my Fiancee in India to Submit the DS-160 tomorrow (3.20) and make the payment and hopefully by 3.20 evening here i can try to schedule the appointment for her!

We got our DS-160 finally paid (it took about 24 hours for the payment to process since he went to the bank in person). We saw an interview date of 4/05 and took it. Biometrics have been scheduled for 4/03. A little close for us but the way we've seen in go with other timelines is:

-Ships out on Tuesday to Mumbai, Mumbai has received it historically on Monday. This next Monday, March 25th is when it should arrive.

-Packet 4 is sent and can be received anywhere from 7 days (including the weekend) to 18 days depending on where it's being shipped to. Since he's in Mumbai, we expect it to be the minimum of 7 days so April 1st.

We're still a bit confused on what we need to bring for medical. Some people have said just the email notification that it shipped. We don't have an appointment for that but will let you know how it goes.

According to the Embassy, we can reschedule multiple times. Will you also let us know if you saw different dates and what was most avaliable? If we need to reschedule, it might be nice to know what was the earliest from your end too.

38 minutes ago, pushok said:

Is turn around quick for NVC to assign a case number, review and send it to the embassy? If they got 2/28 and cutoff 3/5... is it enough time? 

 

It's taking around 30+ days just to receive a case number. The NVC send date to the consulate really just depends on when you received your case number.

Since they ship out cases to the consulate  every two weeks on Tuesdays and 3/05 was the next Tuesday scheduled, if we had maybe received our case number on Monday, 02/25 or Tuesday, 02/26...we probably would have made the 3/05 shipment and only had to wait a week. But instead, since they approved on Thursday, 2/28, we unluckily missed whatever cutoff they had established making our wait almost 3 weeks. It just comes down to luck and good timing.

So ours was 30 days to receive a case number, then additional 19 days just to get it sent to the consulate.

Our case finally left the NVC for the Mumbai Consulate. Originally was received by NVC on 02-28 (the wait has been excruciating since we somehow missed the cutoff for the 03-05 send date). We did not receive any kind of email today which we thought was odd, but go figure. Our case has updated on the ceac website as In Transit as of 9 a.m. this morning. Last week someone posted in the India NAO2-> NVC forum that they saw theirs go in the early morning too.

For those looking to this forum for if anyone had their case leave the NVC for the Mumbai Consulate, we finally did. Our case was received by NVC on 02-28 (the wait has been excruciating). We did not receive any kind of email which we thought was odd. Our case has updated on the ceac website as In Transit as of 9 a.m. this morning.

Does anyone here that has gone through the medical, biometrics and interview know if you actually need to bring anything from packet 4?

37 minutes ago, Akipog said:

You sure you didn't make it? I just checked the shipment and there are 3 going to India. One to New Delhi (which I think is @Pachuau , unless it is not forwarding to New Delhi and just to Mumbai) and 2 to Mumbai (one of which is mine and either Pachuau or not). On VJ at least others are a little before or after us. Wondering who that 3rd person is... Have you checked this tracker and put in your case number?  https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=NIV

Yes, we didn't make it. Checked the tracker religiously. We missed it. Ours would have been Mumbai.

2 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

If you have NOT received your case number by Wednesday/Thursday of the week prior to shipment week then you more then likely will be on the next shipment after the present one you are inquiring about.

 

So if you didn't have your case number assigned by 2/27 or 28 you'll probably will not make this shipment. Next shipment is 3/19 and the same is true for that shipment. Approvals by 3/14 will be on 3/19.

We received our case number on Thursday, 2/28 hence our surprise and our comments to let others who may have got it on the same date thay we didn't make this shipment.

5 hours ago, Akipog said:

I would keep checking today and tomorrow, or just at the end of each day. Hope it goes through for you. 

Thanks for the wishes but just called for the NVC rep to tell us that we did not get our case shipped. Still in Admin Processing apparently. Looks like if you didn't get it in the morning, you won't be getting it shipped out at all.

I can't wait to get to the point where I never have to contact the NVC for anything again. Waited on hold for over an hour and then the representative put me on hold twice during the call (she wasn't looking anything up with my case, talking to someone else in the background). I swear it feels like I keep getting the same woman who has like a semi-jamaican accent. I had questions about whether or not our case was shipped and what a case number truly means. She literally kept cutting me off before I could even get a question out. Am I correct to assume then a case number means IT HAS NOT been processed? According to the call center rep, it's just another way of recording receiving of the case and then it goes into more "admin" processing which *SHOCKER* has absolutely no estimated timeframe. No 90 days, 6 week, 8 weeks whatever. They can keep it for as long as they want. No confirmation either that they ship on Tuesdays. I wonder why there's so much secrecy around shipping schedules?

So no 3/05 shipment date with our NAO2 of 1/29 and Case # received on 2/28. If you didn't get a notification or update on CEAC in the morning, you missed it.

6 minutes ago, Akipog said:

On the CEAC site mine says in transit as of a few hours ago.  My received date at NVC was 2/21. For ones that make the 3/5 shipment, it takes 24 hours to update on to DHL. I was reading that receipt dates from the previous week, including yours, there's a chance you'll make this shipment and if not you'll wait until the next one. They can update your status throughout today and also by end of day tomorrow. Hopefully you'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Good luck.

Thanks for the update! Congrats on moving on to the next step! I hope you're right that they'll update statuses throughout the day. We would hate to wait all the way for the 3/19 shipment especially since we already went over the average time for the NVC just to give us a csse number but it is what it is at this point.

Replying just to let others know that may be in the same boat: We have a NVC case receive date of 02/28. We have not received an email or had our CEAC status updated. Since ours would be going to Mumbai, India, A DHL shippers reference of EXP 05 MAR 2019A has not brought up anything yet. 

Replying just to let others know that may be in the same boat: We have a NVC case receive date of 02/28. We have not received an email or had our CEAC status updated. Since ours would be going to Mumbai, India, A DHL shippers reference of EXP 05 MAR 2019A has not brought up anything yet. 

Did anyone see a shipment or get an email that their case shipped out today? We have a NVC case receive date of 02/28 and not seeing DHL have a shippers reference of EXP 05 MAR 2019A for India and haven't received an email yet. No case update on CEAC of in transit. Posting so others may compare.

Can someone confirm the following based off of what's listed here in the old pages of this forum: 

Is it true that after you get a case # from the NVC, you can fill out your ds-160, pay all fees, AND you can book all of your appointments (e.g. medical, biometrics/ofc, in-person interview)? And you should atleast book both medical and biometrics atleast 1 week prior to whatever interview date you're able to catch? Is this correct? 

Do people really have to wait for the CEAC to show 'READY' to do any of the background work? Are people just nervous that it won't get to the Embassy in time for the interview date they've selected or are they waiting for it to say ready to be able to actually schedule an interview?

6 minutes ago, JMEngland said:

you need to extend the days out. for some reason when you search, if you set the dates from Monday to Friday it only shows Tuesday through Thursday. Set it to Sunday through Saturday and you'll see everybody. I think with you, there's 11 from your week now. 

I wasn't originally trying to get an entire week because I didn't want to include the 2/01 and 2/02 group but it's good to know. Is that 11 out of 73 something (so roughly 15%) for cases received from January 27th through February 2nd or what's the total you're getting on your end?

NAO2 date of 01/29/2019. Called NVC today and got through in a record time of 7 minutes. They stated that they not only received my case today but also had the case number. Was kind of shocked. Yesterday, when I checked...looked like out of 33 cases or so from dates from 1/28 to 1/31, only 6 had been received (so around 18%).

Going to start to go through the Mumbai Embassy's example packet and fill out and do as much as we can.

@Greenbaum Would you consider (only as a suggestion) something like a paragraph/section on the first page of each of these monthly NAO2-->NVC forms on what you can do as soon as you get your case #? 

NVC still hasn't received our case. Called this evening. NAO2 of 1/29/2019 for those trying to compare.

39 minutes ago, UAtoUS said:

 

Thank you all for replying and based on your answers I can see how this is different for many people and the fact that they can look at that makes me worry. I would not care if I didn't have the FB page but since we do that might be a problem. We might have to revisit that idea of staying single on FB and not having any pictures of us together. We don't want to make that change but we might have to if there is a chance that they might ask and then decline the visa. 

I think your best bet is to just be honest. Just because a question is asked doesn't mean that you have to give an unhonest answer because you think that's what the officer wants to hear. It could also lead to more uncomfortable questions that may lead to feeling pressure to lie or questions you weren't originally prepared for. Again, best bet is to gather real, irrefutable evidence of your relationship and be genuine. 

I mean, I could easily ask the question, "So did you change your status on FaceBook?" then follow with "Oh, when was that?" And then "Why did you do it so late when you applied on (insert date)?" 

I would look to see if people have posts or dialogue transcribed of their previous interviews so you can just see how questioning might go.

15 minutes ago, UAtoUS said:

Question. 

 

Do you guys know if they ever look at social media to prove a relationship? The reason why I ask is because me and her we don't have any pictures of us together on the FB. I visited her 3 times and we took many pics that we will bring them to the interview. But for personal reasons we don't have any pics of us together on her or my FB. She has her status as single and I have my as single as well. I wonder if they ever look at that and if that can be a problem when proving our relationship is real. 

I wouldn't worry about social media. Could they check it? Sure. But it's the most unreal thing out there. I'm pretty sure if FaceBook content was the sole reason for approval alone, 90% of approved couples would be eliminated. Both my fiancée and I have no social media accounts. What I would say is more important (to make yourself feel more at ease) is preparing to answer any type of questions regarding why you would both leave your statuses as single. Religious reasons, cultural traditions, mutual decision...etc. There are other routes you could go as far as ample evidence. We have call records for cellular and skype, evidence of personal emails (just the approved non-offensive subject lines), and personal greeting cards for birthdays/holidays/random gifts. Re-print Airline Tickets and hotel rooms. I would focus less on what doesn't tie you together and start coming up with paths that do. The forums can have some great advice but some of it can be misguided or people can be misinformed. Society has been able to confirm marriages or relationships far before FaceBook. 

Well, 28 days so far that the NVC hasn't received our case. NAO2 date of 1/29/2019. Go figure. At this point, as an American Citizen, I know I'm not the only one who would love to throw more money at this process so different agencies can either have proper staffing or buy more stamps. K-1's could easily be a three to four month process total with all parties willing. In the digital age, most of that time would probably be getting medical reports, in-person interviews, or physical in-house police checks. It's easy to get frustrated with the current procedures in place. I don't know how many more times I'm going to have to hear the "USCIS TECHNICALLY HAS 90 DAYS TO SHIP YOUR FILE OUT" or "IT CAN ACTUALLY TAKE UP TO 6 WEEKS FOR THE NVC." Well, too bad...everyone is going to keep calling. You want to know why? Because with these timelines there's zero accountability, transparency, and trust in the process so people continue to use up call agents and various other resources. It's a vicious cycle.