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How does anyone know whether making these calls sped up the process or not? Has anyone actually said "If you had not called we would have taken longer"? Maybe it slowed down the process because they have to answer so many phone calls.

Hey Guys/Gals,

Just wanted suggestions on where to get documents (diplomas) officially translated.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I know an individual that will do it for a very reasonable price. If you are interested and send me a message I will reply with her email address. She will certify that she is competent to translate them but not notarized.

And actually the person that asked the question was not on the consulate staff, but a Vietnamese translator.

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Congratulations!

Well (to all of us who are still waiting), I think when we see five or six CSC approvals in one week we'll know they are starting to flow. In July they did about 21 per week. Also sulamita's took five and a half months, so us June filers should probably count on at least another month by that standard.

Either way, though, congrats! Good news for one of us is good news for all of us!

Looks to me like there were a larger number of March and April filers than May or June by far. Maybe if we're lucky it's just a case of a temporary increase in work at CSC.

Guys, got another touch today 10/03/2010 - Good or bad?

Loto

Don't know about good or bad, but it's strange that people in the federal government are working on the weekend.

Looking at this page it look like the June processing time is around 100 days, so I am only 3 days away, I don't believe that for a moment , I think it will take a minimum of at least one month but probably more like two and a half months more.

I don't see 100 days...I see CSC processing at 158 days. About 4-5 days more than what they tell everyone it takes, 5 months.

What is preventing work?

Well, if someone was being rude I would tell them to stop. Or would I tell them to stop.

Or maybe tell it to stop, so it doesn't think I am accusing it of multiple personalities

lol it is plural it is an object pronoun of they and refers in a sentence when the object of the sentence is plural this in English which we are talking about....

just is offensive what the person who wrote ignore THEM both ,wrote... nothing else, nothing personal all right!!

Well, if someone was being rude I would tell them to stop. Or would I tell them to stop.

"THEM" IS PLURAL AND ONE PERSON SAID THAT. I DIDNT GET THAT PART OF APRILS HAVENT BOTHERED TO FILL THE TIMELINE, CUS I SAW MOST OF APRILS HAVE FILLED THEIR TIMELINES THATS HOW WE KNOW 51% HAS BEEN COMPLETED, SO DO NOT GENERALIZE!!!!!!!!! IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THEIR NAMES SO WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT WAITING ANYMORE AND IN MY CASE I AM A MAY EARLIER FILER HAVE A STIMATE WHEN I WILL GET MY NOA2......

Them isn't plural, it is non-gender.

Think.

What are the Immigration people afraid of? That somebody from Russia would stay in the US, correct? In fact, those folks are trained to assume that anybody who wants to travel to the US is not ever going to come back to the bad, cold, and communist Mother Russia, even if that's completely nonsense.

Not only trained to assume that nobody wants to leave the US and go back home, but by law they are required to have this presupposition no matter what citizenship the visa applicant holds. I assume it is because once someone is here and wants to stay it's too late for CIS to do anything about it.

Weird...I'm in North Carolina and I am an RBC customer

My wife has recently changed her surname while we await our I-130 approval. Is there any procedure necessary for informing the USCIS of this or should we just keep a record of the change?

Our NOA1 date is June 3

I was referring to a K-1 visa. Are you getting a different kind of visa? If yes, you should specify. In your link, it shows that NVC receives documents from USCIS. You don't send anything yourself to NVC. NVC simply looks over what they get from USCIS, enters your info into the computer system and generates a case number for you. As your link says, this step usually flies by. There is nothing for you to do in the NVC step.

Not sure what you are reading:

"b. Send your IV Package (USPS Express mail gives tracking and essentially insures delivery)

Below are the package contents:

BARCODED Cover Sheet (to be printed from web when your status is PAID online for IV bill)

You OWN cover sheet listing what documents are in the package, so they're easy for the reviewer to locate

Completed DS-230 part I & II and ONLY part I signed by beneficiary.

Photocopy of the beneficiary's passport biographic data page.

Original/certified copy of beneficiary’s birth certificate.

Original/certified copy of beneficiary’s and petitioner’s marriage certificate.

Original police certificates of the beneficiary.

Original/certified copy of military record, if applicable.

Original/certified copy of divorce decree, death certificate, etc. of previous marriage, if applicable.

Make 2 extra copies of this package. Send 1 copy to the beneficiary

Once everything has been sent in, it's time to wait.

Send the package to:

National Visa Center

ATTN: CMR

31 Rochester Ave. Suite 100

Portsmouth, NH 03801-2914"

The visa I am trying to get is clearly displayed underneath my username on my post, just like most people that are members of this site. Thanks for the help.

If memory serves me correctly, Homeland security processes the petition for a fiance visa, and charges a fee. If it is approved, it is forwarded to NVC (without any fee), but the case usually sits at NVC for only a few days unless they find some problem or suspicion about which they want to do further research. Then they will forward your case to the consulate in the country in which your fiancee lives, and another fee will be charged for the interview as well as for a medical exam that must be done prior to the interview. Does that answer your question?

Not really. There are two different ways documentation is processed. Application processing requires most documents to be sent to the NVC and Standard processing is handled primarily at the consulate level:

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/LingChe_NVC_ShortCut

Maybe nobody is answering because they don't understand what you mean by Standard and Application Post processing.

Could be wrong about the "post" part, but I understand Application processing is when most documents are sent directly to the NVC and Standard processing is when most documentation is received by the consulate and the NVC simply handles the fees.

Hello! Does anyone know if the consulate in Moscow uses Standard or Application Post processing?