Ahmadba

Ahh that makes it better for us small country people. There is also a thing I heard from my dad about some sort of priority for interview and us being employment visa means that we are in the least in priority, I think this might hit us in terms of getting an interview very fast but one can only hope for the best haha.
 
Maybe thats only in our embassy not sure but yeah it seems like other countries do first come, first serve. 
 
 So it shouldn't affect us, cool!
 
Again, thanks a lot for all the information and I hope you stay safe, happy and healthy!

Did you not receive another letter from NVC about Immigrant Visa Case Creation?  That notice would have your NVC case number and invoice ID number.
 
The notice we received includes this line -- "Do not mail documents to NVC, even if you received instructions to mail documents to NVC in the past."
 

Take any timeframe given with a grain of salt.   Timelines and timeframes are just estimates and events rarely occur on time.  If the documents were tryley expected to have been mailed you will be in the slowest lane as they are vetted.  Once you get DQ then you get to wait until the consulate has an opening.  With Covid everything is backed up, people are remote working and even call center wait times are longer.

Just to add to that, we did not receive any physical letter, only an email like the one described above.
 
@Ahmadba, did you ever receive a case creation email? How did you pay the fees, complete the DS-260, etc. if not through CEAC? And if you did use CEAC for some of the requirements but also mailed documents, do you still have a copy of what was mailed? I am wondering if at this point it might be faster to just upload the documents now, although you would want to clarify with NVC whether that is advisable.

Uh, this is the DOS, not Nordstrom.  You can't exactly take your business elsewhere.