Mychal

7 hours ago, Bh_sarah said:

Oh wow. I am so sorry about your situation. It somehow looks like the embassy simply forgot to reach out to you. And a phone call... that is the first one I see that makes phone calls. But they won't accept phone calls in return, funny.

They won't reply to any email at all either? I wonder if you can just go to AIS, schedule your interview far ahead and then contact them through that google forms that they have there to reschedule it. See if they will acknowledge it. It's hard to be kept in limbo with no one to contact. I mean, you might as well keep waiting forever if you don't poke them! I am not absolutely sure of the process and the risks though, seeing you do have to pay a fee there on AIS.

They also have a "ask the status of my visa" on Google Forms. Would it be useful to try it too? It leads me to this info here:

EMAIL US at IVNassau@state.gov with the following information:

• USE THIS SUBJECT LINE: M22 - STATUS UPDATE - YOUR FULL NAME
• Last Name
• First Name
• U.S. Embassy Nassau Immigrant Visa Case Number (starts with NSS)
• Date of your interview

Wishing you luck!

I've emailed an address similar to that asking for similar information.

VisaNassau@state.gov 

Why it's so similar to the one you have, I have no idea. Best to give it a try though, thanks!

Thanks Sarah. We completed the DS-160 right when the CEAC said our case was ready.

I just hit nothing but dead ends and get caught in endless loops of links. "Click here to learn more" and "There is no information here regarding Nassau. For more information go to the consulate website" but the consulate website requires an interview date to create and account or register anything. The websites are so convoluted and are constantly saying to go somewhere else for information and before you know it you've arrived back at the same webpage you initially started on.

But the embassy also won't take visa related questions.... So it's like a perfect dead end. There's no one to call, no one to write, nowhere to register or create an account because to do so it requires information they are supposed to provide us, and they aren't providing it.

The person from Nassau I'm in discussions with received a phone call for their interview. The embassy reached out to them. Which I'm happy for them, but what about us?

On 8/17/2023 at 12:29 PM, Bh_sarah said:

What do you know about your case so far? I'm trying to understand it too so I can see if I can help.

What do you call a "weird notice of NVC sending your information off"? An email to the petitioner with an attachment called K1-FTP?
Do you have your case number (you should if you got that email above)? What is the status of your case number on CEAC? At NVC, In Transit or Ready?
What is your fiancé's embassy? Do they let you schedule your interview as soon as it's ready or not?

You don't submit anything to NVC ever. They just forward your case to your embassy.

Hi Sarah,

We have our NVC number. I did receive the K1-KTP. Status of CEAC is "Ready" (see below).

Basically we are 1 month behind the timeline for number 7 and/or 8 provided on Visa Journey HERE. It has been a month since the CEAC has updated our case status to "Ready." From what I can tell, the Embassy in Nassau schedules the interview but I really don't know. More on that below.

Number 7 in the Visa Journey timeline says we can contact the embassy for updates but we do not get any responses from the email or any answers from the phone number. My fiance has received nothing regarding what the timeline says.

*** Quick side note, I read that the K1 visa is a Non Immigrant Visa, but the CEAC will only accept our case number if we call it an Immigrant visa. Otherwise we get an error saying our case doesn't exist.

The CEAC notification says the following, and this is the last update we received:

"Your case is ready for your interview when scheduled at the U.S. Consular section. If you have already scheduled an appointment for an interview, please prepare your documents as directed in your appointment letter and appear at the consulate on the appointed date and time. Otherwise, please wait until you have been notified of your interview appointment. Additional information about how Immigrant Visa interview appointments are scheduled can be found at: http://nvc.state.gov/interview"

Purple Text: We haven't scheduled anything. The Nassau Embassy website says either the consulate or NVC does it...

Blue Text: Haven't heard anything and its been a month since the embassy has received our application when the timeline says it should take a week. In addition, I am in contact with another fellow applicant from Nassau who has long since had their interview scheduled by someone in Nassau I think, and my fiance and I were ahead of them in the timeline processes up to this point. That makes me worried that our case is lost or something.

Red Text: The link takes me to a place where I have to register my appointment online that I get from the embassy. An appointment we aren't receiving and can't get any updates on because all the contact information is broken or something. 

TLDR: Just looking for a reliable place to contact the embassy to get an update. We are stuck with not receiving an interview appointment, which is required to do any kind of tracking or registration for the US Embassy Nassau.

Has everyone else in this group got there interview dates? Or are we the only ones to have heard nothing?

What has happened so far in how we have been notified and the manner in which information is sent from the USCIS, NVC, and US embassy in my finances country hasn't followed the processes listed here on this website at all, and now we are completely in the dark, months after a weird notice of the NVC sending our information off, which itself is weird because we never submitted anything to the NVC before they told us they sent our case to the embassy, with no agency responding to any request we send for or try and call about.

Nothing is playing out as we have researched and been informed, and now we feel like sitting ducks with no agency to answer us.

6 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:

Can you try now?  I increased the time limit to 120 days (from 60).

Yep! I was able to make the correct changes. Thank you!

9 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:

 

How are you getting the receipt date (just want to ensure I'm aligned) versus the "approved date"?  60 days to mail it there is a long time.  Are you using a later notice date for them (or is there no indication of received date until a later activity occurs)?

There was no indication of received date until later activity occured.

I'm not sure what was going on between the USCIS and the NVC. In my actual NOA2 approval letter (which I received March 23 or so) they said they had sent my petition to the NVC, but for about 100 days the NVC always responded to me saying they hadn't received it from the USCIS yet. It's as if it was in transit for the entirety of that time.

Then suddenly all at once on July 3 they notified me that they received my petition, processed it, gave me a case number, and then sent it off again to the embassy in the Bahamas.

On 7/16/2023 at 8:38 PM, Captain Ewok said:

So which is the issue?  The time to ship it from the SC to the NVC or processing time at the NVC?

Just seconding Sarah's post. It is the "Date Package Received By NVC" box.

Thank you Capt!!!!!

On 7/13/2023 at 7:06 AM, GinoNiña said:

Im having same issue. I had to lie 1 day short of 2 months for the  system to accept. In reality, it took more than 2 months.

Are we the only one having this technical  issue? 

 

 

Yes, apparently we are the only ones. I have looked into this a little more but found no information. 😑

I messed around with the dates. It appears that it will not let you set an NVC Package Received date if it is 2 months or more after the NOA2 approved date. I set it for 1 day before the 2 month anniversary of my NOA2 date and it let me save my timeline.

I have no idea why the system would not allow this to be a free-to-set date. Seems weird. If it took 14 weeks then it took 14 weeks. I shouldn't have to lie and say it only took 8 weeks just to update my timeline. 😅😐

As the title says, I cannot update my timeline. I have just received notice from the NVC that they received my petition from the USCIS, provided me my case number, and said they have sent my petition to the embassy in my fiance's home country all in one response email. This was on July 3. However when I go to update my timeline in my profile it will not accept the date I enter, and puts "ERROR" on both my "Date I-129F NOA2 Approved" box  (March 24, 2023) and "Date Package Received By NVC" box (July 3, 2023. I don't know exactly the day the NVC got my petition because I was never told when they got it).

Are the two dates too far apart or something? I'm entering in the date using the calendar provided by the site. I'd like to keep my timeline up to date just to keep the record.

8 hours ago, GinoNiña said:

How did you contact NVC? my noa2 is May 02...

I used the email nvcresearch@state.gov. Enter your USCIS receipt number as the subject of the email.

I just kept it as polite and professional as possible, giving them my NOA2 date and asking if they received my petition from the USCIS yet.

All their responses start with "To Whom It May Concern" which kinda made me think there wasn't a real person responding. But hey, eventually I got a response saying everything was received and sent off.

I followed up with the NVC at the 90-ish day mark (a little passed it), and I got a response the next day saying "Hey we received your petition from the USCIS, here's your case number, oh and by the way we also sent it off to the embassy where your fiancé's interview is."     Uh, ok! Great? Kinda thought I would be notified in stages, but this works I suppose. I was under the impression I had to submit a few more things before they would send it to the embassy.

I also can't update my timeline. Best I can figure is that the time between my NOA2 and NVC receiving my petition is too great. Both lines have "error" next to them when I try to update it but it won't tell me why its an error.

15 hours ago, dferrer00 said:

Hey yall, fiance had her interview today, approved!! Our NOA2 was Feb 2nd.

Woooo Congrats!

We are passed our 60 days of waiting for the USCIS to send our petition to the NVC... was hoping for better timing.

2 hours ago, GinoNiña said:

hello, just got my noa2 1min ago. what is the next step? there is no instruction on what to do...

Apparently the National Visa Center (NVC) will contact you at some point and give you further instructions. I say "at some point" because some of us are waiting longer, and some much longer, than we were originally told it would take.

1 hour ago, Mark Hancock said:

I'm somewhat stunned but today we received an email from NVC saying they'd received our petition from USCIS and it was now waiting for data entry into their system.

Mark pulling through and giving us a glimmer of hope, haha.

12 hours ago, Kristina582 said:

As soon as I reach my 60 days, I am going to contact USCIS. Another 5 days for me…..

I just got a response back this morning again saying to check in with them again at 60 days. So another 30 day wait.

6 hours ago, ShandoMoncelle said:

Could you elaborate a bit more on how to file for an extension? I sent out another public inquiry request this morning and praying for good news but not getting my hopes up

I wish I could but I don't know at this time, I would have to research it. Currently I'm trying to help figure out how my fiancé can get a police certification from a country she no longer resides in. Fun stuff for sure!

21 minutes ago, ShandoMoncelle said:

Yeah that's exactly what we did. The response we got after that was that they would contact USCIS but will not give us any running updates so we're still completely in the dark here until we one day get a response

That's really rough... I'm guessing you're planning on filing an extension for your NOA2 approval. I think I might have to do that, since I just found out we will need additional information from the Haitian government in the form of a police certificate. Who knows how long that can take.

1 hour ago, ShandoMoncelle said:

We're basically in the same boat. Haven't heard anything from NVC since we got our NOA2 on Feb 17th. 

We tried public inquiry then emailed them after 30 days. Sent a second email after 60 days to the research@nvc email and they told us they still hadn't received anything but would look into it. We're getting close to almost 90 days now without any updates from NVC and it's so frustrating 

I just got a response this morning and they say haven't received our application from the USCIS either. They said it can take up to 6 weeks, which you are obviously well beyond, for an application to arrive. I was told to check the processing times, and as of April 24 they are working on cases they received from the USCIS on April 14th. But since my case hasn't been received at all it doesn't seem to matter what the timeframes are.

However, the email response from the NVC said that I can send them a scanned copy of my NOA2 letter to nvcresearch@state.gov, which they will then contact the USCIS to find the petition. Before sending them the email I just have to check the contents of my NOA2 to verify that they said they sent the approved application to the NVC.

11 hours ago, SaraClaire11 said:

I don't see a timeline for you. Have you tried sending NVC a public inquiry to ask for your case number? Sorry if this is redundant. 

I honestly didn't know the timeline was a thing. I just now saw that link under my name and filled out what I could.

I did send a public inquiry soon after my above post, as I tend to find and make small bits of progress after making my struggles public, lol. Of course no responses regarding it yet, as I saw it can take a week or more to get a response to public inquiries.

Its been over 4 weeks and not a peep from the NVC...

I tried going to the NVC website because I've seen other threads say that you have to sign up with an email there, except there is no place to sign up for anything on their website.

Been finding so much conflicting information I don't even know what the next step is. I see people here are getting status updates, but how? Where are these updates coming from?

On 3/17/2023 at 10:36 AM, SalishSea said:

I would make sure that everything is as up to date as possible.  When my fiance's interview was scheduled, I put everything into a PDF and sent it so he could print it out.  

 

You may be overthinking this.

 

 

I think overthinking this stuff is true for a lot of people, myself included. I'm asking myself questions like "Does this need a wet signature? Am I allowed to scan anything or does everything have to be originals? Does this letter from my employer expire????"

It doesn't help that there is the occasional conflicting information on other websites as well. Some say you should do some pretty ridiculous things. One website I checked said that filers needed a formal letter and wet signature from their flippin' regional bank manager verifying the existence of the bank account. I was like seriously? There's no way.

3 hours ago, GinoNiña said:

Is your credentials are good, like no divorced, maybe that is why they skipped him and processed you first?

Im trying to figure out reasons why they skipped and not being consistent. 
Im divorced myself so they may skip me  as well. 

I am divorced as well, so that doesn't seem to be a factor. It is odd that they would skip people.

1 hour ago, mbodwams said:

congratulations!! what was your NOA1 date?

Thank you! My NOA1 was February 7, 2022.

1 hour ago, BriannJacke said:

Congratulations Mychal 🎊 👏🏻. I'm February 2nd so hopefully soon we get the good news also. Congratulations again 👏🏻 🎊🎊🎊🎊

Thank you. It is strange that despite my case being about 1 week after yours it was approved before yours. I'm hoping the best of news for you!