badwolf3304

5 hours ago, TimF74 said:

Hi Annikka, my advice would be to keep checking Ceac website. As soon as the status changes from in transit to ready you can register on the UK American consulate Web page, which will then take you through all the next steps. You just need to complete you DS160 for the ref number they give you for this, and have your NVC Case number.

I had my medical Tuesday and Interview booked for the 24th April. As of yet have not recieved a welcome letter.

That's great that you got an appointment

We were too nervous to register for the account you need to schedule after fiance went to his medical appointment because it asked us to certify that we had received the packet from the immigrant visa unit. We read some older threads saying embassies/consulates were canceling interviews that were scheduled too close to petitions arriving at the immigrant visa unit.

Kind of wish we'd just went for it because there haven't been any openings 😕 I'm guessing they were canceling those during covid.

4 hours ago, Anikka said:

 

An okay. Thank you for that info on the ACRO.

 

Register with courier? What is this for? As of yesterday, we only received an email stating that they received our petition and are forwarding it to the Consulate. I assume we’ll be getting more information at some point, either by mail or email?

We just got the letter from the embassy today and the nvc email saying our petition was sent on March 15th. 

The courier is for how the passport will be sent back after the interview. You register at the time you get sign up for your interview. We've be trying to sign up all day without luck. 

We did see that someone who had their packet sent the same day as us had signed up for an interview the day after they saw ceas status change to ready but we weren't comfortable checking the box that says we certify that we recieved the instruction letter from the immigration visa unit.

7 hours ago, badwolf3304 said:

Our status changed to ready on the 22nd and we haven't received anything from the embassy yet. Someone else who had theirs received on the same day looks like they've scheduled an appointment already which is super confusing.

 

My fiance was able to get their ACRO but it I think the site went down shortly after. I looked at their Twitter and it looks like they are saying in some of the comments that they can take requests via email. @ACRO_Police_CST

 

You do need your ACRO to go to the medical and can pay to have it expidited.

 

I agree that it's super confusing. When you go to sign up to register with courier it asks if you've received your instruction letter from the consular section or immigrant visa unit. The links that came from NVC said we could start the process to schedule interview.  The site said we can contact 2 weeks after noa2 without receiving our instruction letter so we're going to submit and inquiry tomorrow.

 

Hope that helps a little.

Sorry! NVC notice not NOA2 

9 hours ago, Anikka said:

Okay. Do I need to wait for more information from NVC/Consulate before booking anything?

 

As I mentioned before, we’ve literally just received the email from NVC stating they received our petition and will now send it to the Consulate as of  3 hours ago. Do I need to slow down and wait for more information from them? I read from the gov website that we’re supposed to received a “Welcome Letter” from NVC stating the documents she needs to bring…salamat po

Our status changed to ready on the 22nd and we haven't received anything from the embassy yet. Someone else who had theirs received on the same day looks like they've scheduled an appointment already which is super confusing.

My fiance was able to get their ACRO but it I think the site went down shortly after. I looked at their Twitter and it looks like they are saying in some of the comments that they can take requests via email. @ACRO_Police_CST

You do need your ACRO to go to the medical and can pay to have it expidited.

I agree that it's super confusing. When you go to sign up to register with courier it asks if you've received your instruction letter from the consular section or immigrant visa unit. The links that came from NVC said we could start the process to schedule interview.  The site said we can contact 2 weeks after noa2 without receiving our instruction letter so we're going to submit and inquiry tomorrow.

Hope that helps a little.