Brandon1990

8 minutes ago, David Utomi said:

Hi, 

Im a little bit confuse with this pilot program, i don't know if we part of the pilot program or not. 

 

We filed our application via paper based form and mailed all documents to Chicago lock box,  and the NOA1 came from Potomac.

 

But our receipt number start with "IOE"  and the status says " It is being processed at our E-Filed Case Processing Section location." We were also given steps to create an online account.

 

So when our application finally gets approved, will USCIS send it to NVC digitally or via the paper forms? 

 

Im really hoping USCIS send the paper forms to NVC since the digital platform is having technical difficulties.

So far I have found 1 way to get the form to the NVC without having to wait and that’s to get the Embassy to accept an expedite. If the NVC request the file from USCIS they will send it immediately. This isn’t easy and honestly it has been an uphill fight. I’m coming to the end of the NVC phase which is smooth once you get a case number. It has taken me hours of hold times and calls to get the right person to help me. It seems to be the luck of who answers the phone. Good news is that expedited are a bit easier to obtain at the NVC phase then the USCIS phase. What’s hard is that most of the workers in the expedite section of the NVC will say that they need your approved petition before they can request expedite from the embassy. Eventually someone will just say to send your NOA 2. Once they request the expedite then comes the phone call to inquire about the embassy’s answer. That requires a supervisor who is hard to get on the phone and just hope it’s one that’s feeling helpful. If the embassy accepts then they will request a scanned copy of your file from the USCIS. You get a case number shortly after. 

NVC received today. It took a lot of phone calls but I was able to get my I130 scanned to NVC instead of the electronic filing way which from what they told me is back logged. 

On 1/2/2020 at 8:22 PM, james7370 said:

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.   

Dear BRANDON XXXX 

Thank you for your inquiry dated January 02, 2020.

Regarding the status of your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative.

Our system shows that your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, was approved on December 05, 2019 . Your approval notice was mailed to the address on file. You may also view and print your approval notice within your USCIS online filing system account.

USCIS has sent the approved petition to the National Visa Center (NVC). The NVC will contact the beneficiary of this petition with further information about immigrant visa processing steps. 
 

but I don’t believe them as nothing in the tier 2’s system says it’s been sent. I think they just reworded my NOA2. 

19 hours ago, james7370 said:

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.   

Hey man, so I talked with a tier 2 today. Seems like everyone that can answer any questions or even look at the case after it’s been put into que to send to NVC is outside of reach. The guy told me today that after it’s approved they put them in a batch to be sent. Once the batch has enough petitions they send it. Still doesn’t answer any question as to why some people’s goes quicker than others. I told him I know of a guy that has been waiting 7 months and he denied that saying no it should only take 4-6 weeks. The tier 1 told me up to 90 days. 

3 minutes ago, james7370 said:

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. 

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? 

4 minutes ago, james7370 said:

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

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? 

Just now, geowrian said:

K-3 is effectively dead. NVC policy is to close an I-129F for a K-3 case if the corresponding I-130 arrives at the same time or prior to the I-129F. Effectively, even if you filed now and it somehow got through USCIS (policy there is to deny an I-129F is the benefit is obtained via another means, such as an approved I-130), NVC will close it.

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

Has anyone’s I29f receiving an IOE case number? I ask because I am getting ready to file for a K3. I got my I130 expedited but since it was electronically filed it is stuck at NVC and could be for a while as it seems like there is a digital que and I may be waiting for a while. If the I129f are going by mail then I could potentially expedite my K3 petition. The way it’s going now is that my expedite for an emergency is irrelevant so this may be my other option. 

2 hours ago, Voilet said:

Hi everyone   , it’s been a month our petition ,starts with case number IOE...., was approved 0n 28 November and got approval notice on 5 December it’s been already a month we didn’t hear anything from NVC, we sent them email a week ago which they answered yesterday that they didn’t receive our case yet ...is that reason we didn’t heard anything from NVC bcz it is electronic petition ? Does electronic based petition takes more time than others ?? 

Our service center is Texas Service Center!

thanks in advance 🙏 

Same problem, I’m hearing of people waiting 6-7 months to get a NVC case number....

On 10/22/2019 at 8:30 AM, Visa lee said:

Uscis sent to NVC on 08/19/2019(Mail)

Waited 30 days but haven’t heard anything back then checked on USCIS website by recipt number it says sent to NVC on 09/13/2019.

got my nvc case number on 10/21/2019

hope this will help

Did you have an IOE receipt number 

4 minutes ago, Mina S said:

How? What did you do to expedite it? Can anyone expedite his case? What are the requirements to expedite? 

I did so for a military deployment. The requirements are very vague and it’s case by case basis. 

32 minutes ago, Mina S said:

At what Center Your Application was processed? Is your PD November 27, 2019 or 2018? Because I submitted my application the same day as yours and I have not received anything. My application starts with IOE. Received by Taxes Service Center 

I had it expedited 

1 minute ago, Knightgame185 said:

When did you apply and from which center service?

 

I applied for my wife on September 2018 of last year and we didn't get ours until October of this year from nvc and now almost end of the stages to finish. I did it from Nebraska 

 

if you are applying from Nebraska it will be at least 12 months to hear from them and move to the next stage. 

What was your first three letters of your receipt number? Mine was approved on Dec 5

Can those who submitted an I130 online or have a receipt number with IOE please share how long it took the NVC to receive your case? Thank you 

38 minutes ago, james7370 said:

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.  

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

10 minutes ago, LilyJ said:

When did you file your I130? The IOE “pilot program” has been over for around half a year by now, every petition since around July- August is an IOE. But those who were part of the IOE pilot program back in May-July did experience delay in getting to NVC after approval

I filed online Nov 27 2019 and got NOA2 December 6. I called NVC and she read from a computer screen. She said it was part of the Pilot program and the 30 days that the NOA2 suggested would probably not happen. They said 6 weeks or longer. 

Anybody file an I130 with and got the IOE receipt number that has been given a NVC case number? They told me it will likely take longer than 30 days as the NOA2 suggests. Trying to get some insight from someone that had the same scenario. Thank you

1 hour ago, Greenbaum said:

NVC doe requires certain things to be completed on the approved application from USCIS. 

 

When NVC receives the approved 129f from USCIS, They check to ensure that it’s been stamped. Occasionally NVC will receive a petition from USCIS and it does not have the appropriate approval stamp in the upper left-hand corner. NVC is also checking to make sure that the three criminal questions have been answered. NVC noted that there are times when the petitioner will forget to complete those questions and those questions are subsequently missed by the adjudicator.  In both of these instances, the case will then be sent back to USCIS. If one of these things occur NVC would know within the first week of receiving the case.

 

I hope my information helps with the questions that the OP presented.

Just like I meant, NVC does not require anything from the beneficiary like the I130 does. You’re talking about mistakes made at USCIS. So I stand correct with my comment. We can what if all day. 

Just now, B&O0302 said:

Does k1 same-sex cases get expedited if the beneficiary country doesnt accept gay marriage?

I’m not any kind of attorney but I would say yes. I say this because USCIS has nothing to do with the Embassy or the countries laws. And K1 is a non-immigrant Visa but just handles like it is an immigrant visa. So I guess short answer is yes, as long as you qualify for it. Also, the NVC doesn’t require anything for the K1 so it gets a case number and gets sent to the embassy where your partner lives. 

On 12/21/2019 at 11:48 AM, john9207 said:

Brandon, 

 

How did you request it over the phone I have tried multiple times, but I have been unsuccessful. Which of the 3 options did you choose when speaking to the agent over the phone? 

 

• Severe financial loss to a company or person, provided that the need for urgent action is not the result of the petitioner’s or applicant’s failure to:
  1. File the benefit request or the expedite request in a reasonable time frame, or
  2. Respond to any requests for additional evidence in a reasonably timely manner;
• Urgent humanitarian reasons;
• Compelling U.S. government interests (such as urgent cases for the Department of Defense or DHS, or other public safety or national security interests); or
• Clear USCIS error.

I have chosen compelling U.S. government interest in the past, yet it has not worked they send me an email and the closest to a good response has been that they needed a deployment date. I already have one, but I cant seem to get over this hump. 

 

Hey man email me, your right there to get it approved. It’s the exact thing they told me. I can explain exactly what I did and it was approved the next day 

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On 12/13/2019 at 11:36 PM, justinedr said:

Hi! Received physical NOA1 in the mail 12/13! Case was received 12/3, notice date in NOA1 is 12/6.

Question- how do we know if our request for expedite has been acknowledged or approved/refused? We have included a letter of request for it including supporting docs like military and deployment orders. Just wondering if the USCIS actually gives a separate notice about that or adds a statement about that in the NOA1. 

Hey brother, no they won’t tell you. I just expedited mine and it was approved. I called the MIL number and requested an expedite. They emailed me a few days later with what I thought was a denial but then it requested more info ( orders or letter from someone verifying my deployment). I sent that in on DEC 4. I called to check the status and they couldn’t help me or tell me anything. DEC 6 my case status changed to approved and I got my NOA2. I just spoke with the NVC and you can do the exact same thing once it reaches there. NVCexpedite@state.gov include your name and DOB with your case number. 
 

so no they won’t tell you yes or no they just do it or don’t do it. 

9 hours ago, trevia said:

I would like to request an expedite for a similar reason. What was the process? What documents did you have to provide?

You can email me and I will be happy to help you. 

1 minute ago, darth vader said:

May I ask the reason for expedite?

I have a deployment next year that I cannot push. It was unexpected but my team is next in line 

10 minutes ago, Quarknase said:

Are you saying your petition got approved within 9 days? Holy moly. May I ask how you requested to expedite?

This is something I have never seen before - and you might very well be the first online filer to be approved. Ever

Congrats!

Yes I filed late afternoon the day before thanksgiving. I am military and asked to be expedited because of my job. The customer service is hit or miss with being helpful, I think I talked to everyone in the office lol. But they act on expedite request very fast. 

I requested an expedite. They never replied just approved my expedite.