Lígia de Paula

That is incredibly helpful! Thank you very much! It was just what my anxious soul needed. I received my NOA2 on jan 7, currently waiting for my RDJ and I was so worried about the logistics. I will probably come back with questions in a few weeks lol. Thanks again and best of luck to you guys! 

Hi Mark, 

Thank you for the great informative post. I am going to schedule an interview soon in Rio and you answered a lot of my questions.

I have a couple more questions if you can help.

1. Did you choose to ship your visa and package to your fiance's address or pick it up at the consulate in Rio? Either way, how long did it take to receive it?

2. How did you schedule with the ASC, the lab, and the doctor? did you just call them and schedule or schedule online or walk in?

Once your NOA2 has been processed at the USCIS level, the NVC and DOS are the only way to really find out when/where your case was accepted until you (maybe) get a letter from the NVC or Packet 3 arrives. As one of my favorite vjer's likes to say "HumansTM" are hard to reach at the NVC and DOS helplines. ESPECIALLY at the DOS. I clocked half an hour of waiting through recorded messages and being disconnected for pressing the wrong option or trying to surf my way through it before I finally wrote down all of the RIGHT options and made myself a road map.

Someone just pm'ed me about calling for a case update at the NVC, so I thought I'd share my "road map" with the rest of you, in case you're tired of getting lost as well.

For the NVC:

K1's are not tracked through the AVR, EVER. They are processed like an immigrant visa, but they are NOT immigrant visas, so they fall into a completely different class of their own. Therefore you need an operator. To get there:

1-603-334-0700

Press 2 for Non-Haiti-Related issue (Please note that this will probably change after some time)
Press 1 for English
Press 5 for an operator

For DOS:

This is where you will be able to find out if your case was received at the Embassy/Consulate. They will not see your case in their system until the NVC has logged it in and applied a case number to it.

202-485-7600
Press 1 then 0 for a live operator.


I hope this helps everyone else who has to wade through the red tape to get to someone (hopefully) with answers. Please be aware that not all of them have the correct information, and you can call back and ask for someone else or request a supervisor if you feel you're being given misinformation (SOMETIMES this helps, sometimes not).

Scan and print locally,  we live in a digital world 

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As explained in my comment above?
Submit a coverletter on top of each form explaining in the body that you are filing concurrently.
I485 coverletter: "Please note i am submitting concurrently I485 AND I765 AND I131"
I765 coverletter: "Please note i am submitting concurrently I765 AND I485 AND I131"
I131 coverletter: "yada yada yada"
When your package is received and the separate forms get put on different officers desks they will see it?