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Be prepared to wait over a year or more.  The Embassy has been closed for almost a year for Routine visa service which your IR1 visa falls into.   Only way people are progressing to interview  is if they have a "emergency" or "Humanitarian" Reason so there isn't a good timeline for you to follow.

Also You don't have to be there for the interview 

4 hours ago, Hlico said:

My husband got a call yesterday but unfortunately he missed it. We haven’t gotten an email yet. Hopefully they call again on Monday. 

I hope they announce the consulate can begin to accept appointments for everyone.  

I thought that they were still closed for routine visa interviews.  I'm still stuck at NVC

Dominican Republic still says that they still have no date to open. 

 hope i hear something soon. my last document was submited on 1/31.  My wife and I are currently a year into this immigration process.   .  Honestly kind of burn out of this whole process.  

5 hours ago, DominiMex1 said:

I received my approved NOA on June 25, 2019 for an IR5.  I received the NVC email 1/21/20.  It took seven months.  I also kept emailing UCIS and NVC for case status the entire time but always received the generic email response.

I also got to the NVC yesterday after my june approval :).  about time!

1 hour ago, saladboye said:

piolot electronic I130 approval were faster than paper, the "queue" that you speak of is just delayed entry to prevent issues with delays for Paper filers as a result.

 

Upto 90 days is accurate to reach NVC, note the keyword reach, NVC still has 6-8 weeks to get it into their system.

That would be normally true, but since the NVC and USCIS have been digitizing the petitions without being ready to process them there are many people stuck in limbo for months 

1 minute ago, Brandon1990 said:

That doesn’t make sense. They have sent others to the NVC who were Electronically transferred. I hope so. Honestly everytime I talk to them I get a new story from them. Did your NOA2 say they sent it to the NVC already? 

Yeah my NOA2 said all the usual stuff.  I have seen  maybe 2- 3  people recently make it to the NVC.  Take this with a grain of salt, but from all I've read I think they are sending small batches of petitions to test the system.  There is way too many people waiting around for it to be 100% up and running.  It's possible they are close, but they certainly haven't opened the flood gates yet.   

7 minutes ago, Brandon1990 said:

Hey man I meant to msg you earlier, I’m sure you know as much if not more as it seems you have dug deep into this ( who wouldn’t, not like you are being forced to live apart from your wife with them dangling a visa within reach) I called NVC and USCIS. The hang up doesn’t seem to be at the NVC. It seems USCIS is not sending approved petitions right away that benefited from faster processing. Some people did get through pretty however. Actually many did. Have you called a tier 2 USCIS agent and asked for confirmation that it was sent? 

I've reached a USCIS tier 2 rep a few weeks ago and had them submit a request.  I was told this below 

"We have received your service request and researched the status of your case.  The case was already annotated for consular processing. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a definite timeframe on when the case will be sent to the NVC"

I've also talked to the NVC yesterday.  The Rep a the NVC said that the system wasn't completed yet.  However I have seen some messages from people who talked to the USCIS that got response like this.  

According to USCIS records, this petition was approved at the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) on July 9, 2019.  An approval notice was sent to the petitioner at the address of record on July 10, 2019.  Please note that the estimated timeframe for the receipt of this approved case at the U.S. Department of State may extend beyond the timeframe mentioned in the approval notice.  From a recent update, we are informed that this and many other Form I-130 cases processed by the NSC through the USCIS Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) are being prepared for digital delivery to the State Department’s National Visa Center (NVC).  If you choose to follow-up with the NSC or NVC after approximately 60 days from the date of this email message, an additional case status update may be available. The Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) processing of your constituent’s Form I-130 application cannot be changed

Either way it seems that the transfer isn't completely set up.  It's really hard to tell how close they are.  

The thing I see going for you is that its approved to be expedited so maybe they have to send it now.  I'm not sure.  I'm hopeful we will both make progress soon. 

22 hours ago, Brandon1990 said:

Right, however my I130 was expedited. If what I’m hearing is true, then I could be sitting as not received by NVC for 7-8 months. So after getting my K3 expedited the NVC would not see my approved I130

Since you have been expedited the transfer to nvc might be faster for you.  Good luck man

56 minutes ago, S&S16 said:

I am soooo happy to inform you all that the NVC finally received my case from USCIS! 

 

Since I know it can ben difficult keeping track of everyone on these forums, below is a synopsis of my seemingly never-ending time waiting on the government.

 

Priority date: 01/14/2019

RFE: 06/03/2019

USCIS Approval: 07/09/2019

 

Side note that's slightly embarrassing: I guess they actually received it in November and sent it to the wrong email address (but I had chosen to finally be patient and not call every week as it was emotionally draining). 

 

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I had contacted both a Congressman and Ombudsman, neither of which I felt were helpful except in giving me peace of mind that I was doing everything possible to move my case forward. The congressman only provided me with the same answers the NVC and USCIS gave, and the ombudsman only started reviewing my case last week (at least 2 months after I sent the original request). I also put in a service request to USCIS which I then got escalated to supervisor review after an unsatisfactory answer. I never heard a response from the supervisor (even after the allotted 60 days). 

 

I wish you all the best. I know it's so hard to do, especially around this holiday time, but just have faith it will all work out....but not as much patience as I did in that I went a month without knowing the good news.

How do I get a supervisor to look at my case?  I'm still waiting since i was approved 06/2019

3 hours ago, Brandon1990 said:

Have you called the NVC? That’s longer than anything I’ve read or seen. 

 Yeah,  I've done it several times.  I don't appear to be the outlier either.  I've been talking to several people who were approved around this time who still haven't reached the NVC.  So far I only know of one person who was approved 04/2019 and he was approved after 7 months of waiting 

I was told the same thing when I received my NOA2 in June.... I still haven't had my approved petition hit the NVC yet almost 7 months later.  I hate the be the bearer of bad news, but chances are you won't see any action for months from the NVC.  

I've contacted my congressman again.  I'm having them follow up with both the NVC and the USCIS.  I submitted another service ticket to the USCIS on 12/13/2019.  I received their response today which I have copied below

We have received your service request and researched the status of your case.  The case was already annotated for consular processing.  Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a definite time frame on when the case will be sent to the National Visa Center.  

Ive contacted my congressman again.  I'm having them follow up with both the NVC and the USCIS.  I submitted another service ticket to the USCIS on 12/13/2019.  I received their response today which I have copied below

We have received your service request and researched the status of your case.  The case was already annotated for consular processing.  Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a definite time frame on when the case will be sent to the National Visa Center.  

It just pisses me off to no end that my application is just sitting there for no reason other than the USCIS employees are just sitting on their butts and are too lazy to send it.  

On 12/1/2019 at 4:53 PM, aabd1987 said:

Anything new with anyone?  Updates if anyone's case finally reached NVC?  I'm having the same issue and was told I was also part of the piloting program.  

I'm still waiting myself.  I've been told the following from my pestering of the USCIS and the NVC

1) NVC is begining to process these petitions, but there is a backlog 

2) USCIS has my petition in line to be sent ( not sure where I'm at in this line)

It looks like the best place to escalate is with the USCIS.  I submited another request and asked my congressman to follow up with them as well.  Hoping it resolves the issue, but I'm sure I'll be told I'm still in line.  

I talked with a supervisor at the NVC.  I was told by her that the new electronic  system has been built, but that now they have a huge backlog of cases.  I was approved back in June so I hope to hear something within the next few months

Hey everyone,  

I had my NOA2 come back 6/20.  ITs been almost 3 months now and the NVC still doesn't have my case in their system.  The only response I get is that original email that says I'm part of the pilot program.  I've contacted my congressmen and NVC research and pretty much got the same response.  

Does anyone know how long this takes for NVC given this new pilot program?  

They never communicated the noa2 to me via email or text.  I Would check the status of my petition everyday and the same day I saw I was approved I also received the paper notification. It was surprising because I requested electronic communication in my petition.

I was approved,  I think I was apart of that efiling pilot.  Onto the NVC

I'm about two months in now with the Texas service center.  I'm really hoping that it gets approved within two months like yall say 

I got the official NOa1 in the mail.  I guess its at Texas since the response came from there.

Hello, 

I just submitted my I 130 last week.  I received this case number beginning with IOE.  I can't check the case number on the website.  I'm nervous something went wrong.  It was my belief that it would be forwarded to a service center, but from my research IOE is an e-filing.  It's strange because sent a paper application :(.