Ailey & Juho

It took exactly 60 days for my approval. I will say: I contacted my local senator and explained to their office what was going on and that I didn't have a case number yet. They said they would look into it and a week later, I got the email. I am not sure if they are related (I haven't been able to contact his office to see) but I will just throw that out there as an option.

60 days since our approval on May 5th (or sixth, the website and approval notice say two different things).......and we got our NVC email today! I could not believe it when I saw the email! The National Visa Center (NVC) received your fiancé (e)’s/spouse’s approved I-129F petition from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). NVC will now forward the petition to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in Helsinki, Finland. Please note that the transfer process can take several weeks. The U.S. Embassy or Consulate will contact your fiancé (e)/spouse when they are ready to process his or her petition. Next steps: Go to our website http://nvc.state.gov/k1 to learn how to apply for a K visa and prepare for the visa interview. I am a little confused about one thing though: the tracking online says "Your case is in transit to the Consular Section. Your interview date was provided to you by the National Visa Center". We haven't gotten an interview date from the NVC....is this because we haven't filled out the DS-160 yet? Now that we finally have our case number we are trying to fill out the DS-160 tomorrow.

Where did you guys put in your email on the application? I know I put mine (the petitioner) email in but I didn't see anywhere for my applicant to put his in. Will they send the NVC case number to me then? It's been over 30 days since our approval and I don't even know if the NVC has gotten it yet as I can't call for a case number now.

We are reaching the 30 day mark since our USCIS approval but we still have not heard a peep from the NVC. We don't have a case number, I don't know if they've received it, and I don't know if I'm supposed to do something right now. Should we fill out the DS-160 before we hear anything from the NVC? Will that get us a case number? I haven't even thought about how long it will take to get to Helsinki. Helsinki seems to be the worst embassy at publishing data for K1 visas about interviews or how long it takes for them to get it from the NVC. I have no idea what to do. I think I want to do something, anything because the stress is just eating away at me and it's becoming hard to handle. I double checked that we definitely put an email address on our I127F - does that mean NVC will send me an email with our case number or notice they have gotten it from the USCIS? I've seen a lot of people say they aren't getting emails and they got their NVC number by calling but we can't call now! I don't know what to do

I was thinking the same thing! I tried to find this month's group last week and didn't see one. But in any case, I'm happy there is one. I'm currently waiting for our case number and *fingers crossed* it will get sent to the embassy soon. Is there a way to see an embassy's processing times? or even next appointments? I can't find a place for K-1 non-immigrant interview times 😕

It's been insane lately to post but we were approved! Finally! March 26 - May 6! I was started to loose all hope. But it happened! I honestly think that it's due to the "outside of processing" request. It was the second one we submitted during this process and the reply we got was different than the first one. Now onto the NVC - any clue how long that takes to get an application through that and to the embassy? I called my local rep. for help and they said it would take 10 months! Is that really how long it's taking????