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  1. Hi All - First, thank you to everyone on this site for your support and encouragement. Yesterday, after more than 10 months of waiting, we received our NOA2. A few questions: 1. How long are visas taking with NVC right now? 2. What tips, if any, do you have for this step in the process? 3. Once in the US, can my fiancé travel around the US with me? I’d like to introduce him to my parents before we get married. Thanks!
  2. Could you please clarify what you mean by your NOA1 date? Was this the date that your case was physically received by USCIS or the date that they printed as your notification date on the NOA1? My case was physically received by USCIS on 12/29/2020; the date that USCIS issued my NOA was in March 2021. The NOA has both the receipt date from March as well as the received date of 12/29. I’m trying to determine how close my process is to your timeline of “10.5 months”. Thank you!
  3. Thank your for this. You’ve given me some hope. I went down the enervating path of contacting USCIS, contacting my senator, and contacting the ombudsman. USCIS responded with a boiler plate answer that they cannot provide an estimate and that they’ll process my case when they can. Nothing from anyone else yet. I had to submit various rounds of authorizations to initiate the claims. I honestly don’t know that any of these entities have any legal authority to pressure USCIS. Based on USCIS’s response, it seems they just process cases as they want to, when they want to, with little to no oversight of their process - despite the CFR’s stipulating that cases will be processed in order received (how does it take my case 10.5 months and other people get theirs through in less than 6 months? Seriously?). My case is apparently being adjudicated at the California service center. I submitted my case to the lockbox in Texas. Where did you submit? Where was it adjudicated?
  4. An interesting point to note is that per federal regulations, USCIS is obligated to go off of the date packages were received to process cases. Doesn’t matter how long they take to send an NOA. Rather, the date the package arrived to the lock box is the legal date from which they need to work. Obviously this is NOT the case. Hence the delays and totally illogical timelines.
  5. Thanks. I appreciate the encouragement. The whole process has been a disaster - I’m not sure what date they have for the NOA1, honestly. They sent a text in March acknowledging receipt. We never received the paper receipt. Then we did a change of address and they appeared to change the receipt date to April, based on the case status online. That’s the date I’m currently going off of (note to others - DON’T CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS UNLESS YOU HAVE TO). We submitted an inquiry about the change of address delay and the never-received original paper copy of the NOA1. Nothing other than an acknowledgement of the change of address. Again, it’s been a mess. Our package arrived in Texas to the FedEx lock box, which was a huge disaster given the storms. No one went for like a month to get lock box packages, as USCIS published in a statement on their website. I wish I would have waited until March to submit the package via USPS. We’d probably have a visa appointment by now.
  6. Thx. Sos that Thanks. Did that. Finally the system let me. For months it wouldn’t. Not much confidence that I’ll get a useful reply or that it’ll move things along. But fingers crossed regardless.
  7. We submitted our paperwork on 12/29/2020. We received our NOA 1 in April. Nothing since. I’m starting to think that those of us who submitted paperwork during the COVID winter and then the Texas storms are just screwed. I’ve seen various people who submitted their paperwork months after us already get their NOA2 and beyond. Anyone else in our situation? Anyone able to shed some light on this? Wondering what to do. Very frustrated with no movement on this and feeling helpless. Thanks.
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