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25 minutes ago, strwbrysky said:

 

i-134.pdf 463.53 kB · 3 downloads

Thank you!

Hello, all! Do any of you happen to have a blank copy of the previous version of the I-134 (edition 02/13/2019)? 

DHL did not pick mine up until the day after NVC said that it was shipped. Tracking apparently shows up 24 hours after pickup, so that might be the issue. 

1 hour ago, dalindeck said:

I was wondering if anyone here has had any luck finding their package on DHL using the previously mentioned methods? I'm not sure if there are other reference numbers that the NVC is using (seemed like a healthy amount went out).

Yes, @DeeJess was able to get the tracking number for me using the method described. The DHL website wasn’t showing properly for me to be able to input the information. I later found that it worked to locate the tracking number using my laptop, not my phone. 
 

Once I had the tracking number, I signed up for alerts and tracked it on the DHL site until it arrived at the embassy. I received an email from them with next steps the following day. The method definitely works! 

49 minutes ago, J&D1008 said:

Unfortunately, that press release has nothing to do with 1-129F processing time. This is the I-129 - Petition for non-immigrant workers. This is mostly work related petitions/ forms. Basically the US  knows they need more workers and getting people EAD cards in a timely manner. This only comes into play for K1's who are waiting for the AOS and filed the work permit. So basically you can now get your work authorization faster. 

 

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No, the I-129F is included and the goal is six months. The goal for the I-129, which is the one that you are referring to, is two months, or two weeks if premium. Regardless, this will have virtually no effect for March 2021 filers. 
 

While true that they are going to focus on speeding up employment-based processing, they are also looking

to reduce the backlog for other forms to six months, the I-129F included. 

8 hours ago, EatBulaga said:

3. The UStravelDocs login requires an email and password.

4. DS-160 does ask for an email, and social media (like Facebook, etc.), but not sure if the consulate/embassy will use the input email for notification. As mentioned previously, unless you called NVC to verbally update your email for notification, the default email on record is the petitioner's email listed in the I-129F. The NVC inquiry page to update the email has a delay, which makes it unreliable to update the email. The DS-160 confirmation page is emailed to the form input email address. So in other words, I don't know how reliable is the email notification, but see below for the UStravelDocs dashboard and CEAC notification.

Thanks for your post. So in this case, in your opinion, do you (or anyone else) think that it would be advisable to use my (petitioner’s) email address to create the account and complete the DS-160 for purposes of consistency, or just go ahead and do it with my beneficiary’s email address?

3 hours ago, EatBulaga said:

Keep in mind that at the embassy step, theoretically, the process is for the visa applicant (or the beneficiary). Technically, the CEAC/embassy is notifying so the applicant can complete the process.

 

With that said, my fiancee beneficiary would have a hard time completing the forms and process by herself since she only has her phone.

 

What I did is create an email in my fiancee's (beneficiary) name, and we share the password. And we are using the shared email for the CEAC account for DS-160 and USTRAVELDocs. Right now, the email on record with the NVC is still my email from the original I-129F (petitioner). So unless you add your fiancee's email per my previous post, that is the email CEAC/embassy use for notifications.

 

The only caveat with the shared email method is that some email services might lock your email if it gets logins from different countries' IP addresses in a short period of time because of security purposes. So make sure you set up a good password recovery, or use a VPN and keep track of where you login from, OR just have one person do all the steps and forward the outputs to the other. 

 

So far it is working out for us since I am doing all the work and forwarding her any notifications. 😊 Good luck!

Thanks for your response!
 

I am essentially going to do all of the work as well since he has a similar issue as your fiancée with only having his phone. I have access to his email address, so no need to create an account for both since I can check his anyway if necessary.
 

Since the beneficiary is technically supposed to complete the DS-160, I assume there won’t be an issue if I create the account with his email address even if NVC doesn’t have it on file? I submitted an inquiry to them to add his, but they have not responded due to the delays and I assume it wouldn’t make a difference now that it’s at the embassy. I am not sure how it would appear from their perspective if I also create the account with my email address. 
 

Also, I looked at the sample DS-160 form on the DOS website and they have a section where it asks if they were assisted in completing the form. I assume that it would be okay to indicate yes and include my (petitioner’s) information? Not sure what anyone else has done if they, as petitioners, have been the ones completing the form on the beneficiary’s behalf for one reason or another. 

Good morning, all! While on the topic of emails, would it be recommended to create the CEAC account using the email address previously provided (mine), or do so using my fiancé’s email address? Our case is now with the embassy and we received the next steps instructions to my email address. I am just not sure if it would confuse anything to now use his email address. I am the petitioner and he is the beneficiary, by the way. 

On 3/16/2022 at 7:04 PM, DeeJess said:

Yeah, honestly I'm just hoping to god these are the actual tracking numbers for both of us but I can't see why they wouldn't be but as you say, who knows anymore haha :')

 

And that's weird that not everyone can see this information, but yeah it's all good, no problem at all 

Sooo, thanks to your help, I was able to verify that the shipment containing my packet arrived at the embassy this afternoon. Thank you for pulling up the information! I now know to expect for them to reach out with the next step sometime this week! 😄

45 minutes ago, Pranav469 said:

I’m seeing various cases with Expedite request approved in June. Anybody know how this is possible? I thought there was no way to expedite the process? I would’ve gladly paid more to expedite my paperwork.

You have to submit an expedite request to USCIS and they will determine if it meets their criteria. It is not a paid service that they provide. 
 

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/filing-guidance/how-to-make-an-expedite-request

15 minutes ago, Polly3 said:

Hey everyone! 
I got a case number over the phone. Can I track it now? The rep over the phone said I cant. When you are tracking the case number on nvc are you choosing immigrant or non immigrant? I tried nonimmigrant nothing came up. As for te immigrant option, it said its at NVC and that I should go to CAEC to track it. 

Yes, you can track it using the immigrant visa application status tool. When NVC sends to your embassy, the status will change from “at NVC” to “in transit”. 

9 minutes ago, DeeJess said:

https://mydhl.express.dhl/us/en/tracking.html#/track-by-reference

 

Is this the site you're entering your details in by any chance?, click on 'full site' and then track and to the right click on reference- that should work as thats the way I'm doing it

Yes, I was using that and selected track by reference on both my phone and laptop but neither work for me. I guess it truly does not work for everyone. I appreciate you sharing your findings, though! 

7 minutes ago, DeeJess said:

https://mydhl.express.dhl/us/en/tracking.html#/track-by-reference

 

Is this the site you're entering your details in by any chance?, click on 'full site' and then track and to the right click on reference- that should work as thats the way I'm doing it

17 minutes ago, DeeJess said:

Hey, I just had a look and I think this is you, try this number on the DHL tracker 6543841242

 

Hopefully it is

Yeah mine says Boston too, all of the tracking says Boston. I think maybe they ship it to Boston? All of the ones I've checked today are being shipped out of Boston

Okay, thank you! I figured it would say Portsmouth but who knows anymore, lol. 

24 minutes ago, DeeJess said:

It's all good

 

You gotta select track and then select by reference and then type in EXP 15 MAR 2022A then find your country and hit search, try it that way, that's how I just found it

 

I did but it shows no results, which is odd. I noticed that for the tracking number that you found, it says it was picked up in Boston, MA. Shouldn’t it be Portsmouth, NH where NVC is located? Did yours say Boston as well?

23 minutes ago, DeeJess said:

Hey, I just did a quick search I think I found your file on the DHL website

 

Search DHL.com, click on track and enter this in 6543841603 

 

Let me know

Oh wow, I think this might be it. Nothing comes up for me when I search the other way, so thank you for providing this! 
 

Edit: I just noticed that it says picked up from Boston, MA. Shouldn’t it be Portsmouth, NH where NVC is located? 🤔

5 hours ago, DeeJess said:

Hey!

 

I have no idea how to tag users but I just wanted to let everyone know that our case is finally traceable online!! (Or at least I hope that's my case traveling to London)!

 

So I used the hack and typed it in as follows: EXP 15 MAR 2022A  - I set the from date to 14th March and end date would be current date, then I selected United Kingdom and voila finally haha

 

I'll keep you all updated. Oh god this is moving pretty quick now haha

 

Also it took roughly 26hours for this information to appear online 

What information were you able to access? It’s been over 24 hours since I received the email noting that my file is in transit but no result found when I try. Womp womp. 

8 minutes ago, gw-lh said:

when they are overwhelmed, you're going to get that standard response that their agents are not available at this time. you can only keep trying at a later time. I called 57 times yesterday before I got through to an agent and there was no wait at all (the one that got through was at 11:56PM EST)

This totally makes sense! I just stopped trying after 10:00pm because I figured that their hours changed. 

13 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

Question: when are NVC's real call center hours? They claim to be open 7 to midnight but I'm calling them now (10:30PM EST) and they say they're closed... right before saying they work until midnight. Is there something I'm missing here? Are the only two phone numbers 603-334-0888 and 603-334-0700?

In my experience, calling at or after 10:00pm EST would say that they were closed. I think that their times changed with covid and they never updated the recording or any publications.
 

As for phone number, I always got the fastest response calling the nonimmigrant visa line, which is the 0888 number. I do believe that those are their only two numbers. 

48 minutes ago, KSVJ said:

Hi, all. I know that seeing this can be very disheartening and you may feel very upset, but please try to not feel this way! I felt very upset when this happened at the end of January, but then I realized that this is likely done so that they can catch up and avoid having so many people calling and submitting inquiries, which uses up more of their already limited resources. Please remember that through that time, they continued working on March cases even though their website said February - just that they were likely not getting as clogged by inquiries. After the retrogression at the end of January, my petition was approved within a week. Try to remain positive even though I know how difficult it is. 

1 hour ago, 4thntr said:

a theory on RFEs…

the proof of meeting within last 2 years that we all submitted might be aging out because of extended processing times and maybe they are asking additional proof.

anyone here received RFE, please let us know the reasons.

It is within two years of filing, so they cannot RFE for that unless they consider that the submitted evidence was insufficient. 

47 minutes ago, GoingEastish said:

I called today and was told that they don’t have a case number yet. Have you heard anything?

Yes, I called again on Friday and they provided my case and invoice numbers. I usually called to check every Monday and Friday night, close to their closing time. Yours should be assigned soon!

10 minutes ago, Re Mo said:

As I drag myself through Day 362 I received this today from USCIS and it's the same reply that I have received on my previous 3 inquiries since late November.  They just frustrate the heck out of me with their lack of organization and understanding. 🤬

I really urge you to call again and request to have your call escalated. There is no way that they can deny that request, not sure what happened the first time that you asked. It can take about 30 days for you to receive a callback from a T2 agent, but they will be able to provide more information than the T1 agent. 

On 2/28/2022 at 2:26 PM, GoingEastish said:

I called the NVC today and was told our case arrived on Friday (2/26). She said to call in a week to get our case number. 

NOA2 was 2/1. 

Would you mind posting when you get your case number?

My noa2 was also 02/01 and I was told on 02/22 that they received my case. Called again on Monday and they said that my case was received on 02/23. 😐 Regardless, I was told to wait as they were processing cases received 02/11. 

We might get ours at around the same time! 

34 minutes ago, Re Mo said:

I received the same response from my congressional inquiry the 4th of January. And as a March 8th filer all I could do today  is submit an online inquiry that could take up to 30 days for a reply. I also asked to speak to a T2 representative and they refused.

It’s absurd that they would refuse to put you in the queue to speak with a T2 agent. I would call back and ask again, or just request to have your call escalated; it’s the same thing. They cannot deny that request and even if they do, insist on it. I once had an agent try to deter me from doing that and they had no choice but to oblige when I insisted. Make sure that you ask for the verification/service request number. Just be aware that it can take 30 days for you to receive a callback. 

19 minutes ago, Re Mo said:

The numbers look good for the fortunate few but not that great as I move onto Day 353 in continued silence and no notice . Let's see what tomorrow brings as we near another weekend. 😐

If you haven’t done so already, I would send an inquiry to USCIS and also a request to your congressman/woman and/or senator. Each time that I submitted and inquiry to USCIS, about a week later I would call and the rep submitted an inquiry on their end as well. I also recommend requesting that a T2 officer calls you.  
 

This all has a wait time of 30 days, so you might get a decision before then, but sometimes persistence is key. I feel that the constant persistence on my end might have helped, and I have the same NOA1 date as you.