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Sorry about your Mom,

You might be able to get a

Port-of-entry parole: authorized at the port upon alien’s arrival; applies to a wide variety of situations and is used at the discretion of the supervisory immigration inspector, usually to allow short periods of entry. Examples include allowing aliens who could not be issued the necessary documentation within the required time period, or who were otherwise inadmissible, to attend a funeral and permitting the entry of emergency workers, such as fire fighters, to assist with an emergency.

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Humanitarian parole: authorized at USCIS headquarters or overseas District Offices for "urgent humanitarian reasons" specified in the law. It is used in cases of medical emergency and comparable situations.

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Wow thanks good ideas - I didn't realise these possibilities existed

Our case was finally received today at NVC, but because of a data error on their side with my birthday they will not discuss my case with me until my birthdate is corrected in the system. and when I asked how long it will take to get corrected they told me to 10-15 days. Arggghh!!!

This combined with the fact that my mother will pas away any day now is just

My mom is in ICU and will pass away within days...maybe hours.

I have called both NVC and USCIS and both gave me standard response saying that even an urgent expedite request would take 5 business days to get a response. I have also written an email to the US emabssy in Paris asking for their help. Our case was finally received today at NVC, but because of a data error on their side with my birthday they will not discuss my case with me until my birthdate is corrected in the system.

What do I do? My mom is asking for Kwabena and really wants to meet him to know who will be my husband and also Kwabena and I already have a son named Benjamin. Benjamin is the first and only grandchild in our family and my mom wants to know Benjamin's father before she passes.

What do I do? What can I do?

I really need him with me right now.

We had our NOA2 on April 14th and still not received by NVC...sooooo frustrating I thought this part of the process would go quickly. How wrong was I!?

Yeah, like they can't send an email to see what the hold up is, or a ticket like you said Nat? I might call again to say that! To me, it seems that the same thing happened to the people who filed in November at the end of the month. Freaking sucks.

I filed in late November and the delay you late December files are experiencing is similair to my experience. My NOA1 was December 2nd and all other VSC VJ'ers with that date were approved at least 1-3 weeks before my April 14th approval. Most with my NOA1 were approved between March 20th-27th. It makes no sense (to me at least) as to how they process the cases....for sure though they do not process them exactly in the order they are received or else we wouldn't see such a variance.

Stay strong....my thoughts are with you.

Meanwhile it has been 2 plus weeks since my NOA2 and my case has not reached NVC yet. Arggghhhhh!!!!!!!

Hi All,

Has anyone here experienced a delay of more than a week between the approval time of your NOA2 and your case arrival at NVC? From what I can see many cases arrive within two days and most arrive within a week. So far my case hasn't arrived at NVC and it has been two weeks since my NOA2 at VSC.

Everytime I ring up NVC they tell me that 2-4 weeks is normal and that it can take up to 90 days.

Anyone else experienced this??? I feel like we are lost in some sort of immigration area 51

wow tomorrow will be two weeks since our NOA2 was approved. I just called NVC again and sadly they still do not have a record of my case. Once again I was advised that it takes 2-4 weeks and up to 90 days depending on how backlogged they are.....

Anyone else out there who had their NOA2 around the same date still waiting for arrival at NVC?

I definitely wasn't expecting this much of a delay between VSC and NVC. I thought by now our case would be well on its way to Paris...ho hum ho hum

How are we doing, December Filers & Friends?

I'm hoping that NOA2 comes tomorrow on my birthday!

Happy Bday wishes NatPatBen

Any news???

Happy birthday NatPatBen! My issue..they found our petition in Sydney and our now sending it to Montreal. The wrong Canadian consulate, at least they got the country right this time.

woohoo! At least it is on the move again...and in the right direction this time!

I called NVC again last night to check if they had received our papers from VSC yet (NOA 2 on April 14th so one week & 2 days since approval). The answer was again NO so I called USCIS as well.

Their response was just ridiculous. The first customer service agent I spoke to said K1s don't go to NVC - they go directly to the embassy so then I asked to speak to a supervisor. The supervisor came on and told me that while he knows from experience that K1s do go to NVC, instructions on the USCIS system advise all of customer service agents that K1s go directly to embassy?!?

I then ask if he can tell me where my petition is, has it left VSC and what is the delay in getting to NVC. The supervisor then says to please bear with him while he reads his notes. The line went quiet for a minute and he then said that he was going to transfer me to a higher level of support. I’m thinking great! Maybe this person will be able to tell me exactly where my petition is……

The next agent answers the line with his agent id and then goes quiet. So I ask whether or not he needs my receipt number. He replies ”You must ask me a direct question first- I can only answer direct questions.”

Who is this guy??!! I feel like I was dropped into some sort of USCIS Area 51 or something…… So then I ask:

Do you know my receipt number: “Yes”

Has my application been sent to NVC? “your application has been approved”

Is my application in AP? “There is no such process called AP”

What is the physical location of my application right now? “Probably at VSC”

He then breaks from his Q&A format and tells me that it always takes 2-4 weeks and can be up to 90 days for the application to go from USCIS to NVC. I say that I have evidence that this is not always the case I have seen that more than just a few applications have taken as little as two days to transfer between VSC and NVC.

He replied that I don’t know what I am talking about and he is sure that this not true as this never happens and it always takes min 2-4 weeks. He then finished up by saying that if other people are saying that their applications were transferred quicker than the 2-4 weeks that those people are not telling the truth.

ARGGHHHHH….did they outsource their customer service to aliens or what??!!!!

Arggghhh Just called NVC again and they still haven't received our application from VSC (NOA was April 14th - last Tuesday).

Hope everyone is doing well. Hang in there if you haven't you haven't received your NOA2 yet....I've noticed that Tuesday's are usually productive days at VSC

Update on us: I've been hounding NVC with daily calls to determine if our petition has made it there yet from VSC following our approval last Tuesday April 14th. So far NVC say they have not received it and they advised it could take 2-4 weeks and up to 90 days (Please God not that long!!!!)

Based on what I see here on visajourney some have been received in as little as two days and some have take a week or more.

Best wishes to all

OMG!!!!!!! we finally got our NOA2 approval email today. I was getting so discouraged seeing all the approvals from other filers who had filed even later than we had and up until today we didn't even have a single touch. Our NOA1 was on December 2nd, and now 133 days later we had our NOA2.

Thank you God! And thank you to everyone out there for if it weren't for the support and advice I would have certainly lost my remaining sanity long ago!

Saying prayers for the rest of December....hoping that your NOA2s come quickly.

Congrats on all the approvals guys. So glad you're that much closer to being with your loved ones.

Are there many early December filers still left without Noa2's?

My NOA1 was on December 2nd......and still no NOA2

Congrats to all December filers who have been approved

I'm having such a hard time remaining calm.....I feel so frustrated from the long wait. What I still don't get is that VSC says that it processes in the order received yet there are many with earlier dates who haven't been approved yet and some petitioners with later dates (e.g. late December) who have already been approved....and I don't even have any touches yet.

How can this be?? Argggggg....