foobaz123
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Would it be evil of me to program a payment portal check script?
Now if only that AOS bill would show up... never thought i'd be excited for a bill to show up and for it to hurry up and do so...
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How did you guys manage to get an IIN out of them? They just keep telling me it isn't available
ETA: NM, I got it from them
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It also comes with the latest versions of MS Office, but the thing is, when you print the forms as PDF, then they're not fillable anymore. Well, that's what happens to me.
That is true. Though, at that point one would imagine you'd be done filling them out, no?
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For those lucky Linux users, printing to PDF is a standard feature.
So, fill out the form.. print to PDF.. have drinks
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on top of that, they ask me to call next week....
That's their boiler plate response. I wouldn't put any stock in it.
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I talked to a very nice man at the NVC today and got my case number and IIN. Also gave him our e-mail addresses. It's so nice to feel like something is actually happening with our case!
Hahaha.. now you're ahead of me.. I'm still waiting for my IIN and AOS bill
Grrrr....
"We're sorry sir, we just entered this case and nothing is available yet."
I'm starting to wonder if my quick conversion to EP is causing a delay....
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I'll email them, thanks for the support everyone.
I thought the day I get the missing Turkish pcc would be the day the worries would go away. I should've been counting on those bureaucrats typing with 2 fingers on their keyboard...
It is the fervent belief of some that the purpose of Governments and those who work in them is for the betterment of mankind; to faithfully serve and carry out their duties in an expeditious manner without error. That it is a noble enterprise worthy of both expansion and reverence. The cosmic irony is that reality is nearly the polar opposite.
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I sure hope they will be ok with it...
It's also not a particularly grievous typo or surprising. 9 and 0 are right next to each other.
Have you emailed the US consulate and asked them?
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The problem is that the consulate is just a proxy, the document was made in Turkey and signed there by a judge. I'm going back tomorrow to order a replacement, but it's going to take around 2 months again, and I won't have it in time for the interview.
So what they finally offered was to correct the mistake by hand and sign and put the consulate stamp next to the correction. I guess it's the best thing I can have right now...
Still gonna request a new one but at least I'll have something in my hands for the interview.
Speaking in general for other US Government stuff, correcting a minor error with a strike through and initials (stamp in this case) isn't unusual and usually accepted. I imagine you can email the US consulate and ask them if it is okay, assuming you haven't already.
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FWIW to you, I had the same dilemma on whether or not to send relationship evidence to the NVC so I started a thread on CFL about it and based on the replies that I received, I decided to only send what the NVC asked for. Nothing more, nothing less.
The NVC operators only know that the file is in the building, they will not know the specific contents of the file.
In the end, it is your call whether or not you wish to submit relationship evidence to the NVC.
If what I submitted before actually makes it all the way to GUZ, I think we'll be fine. I had never really considered the possibility that USCIS might do something mindnumbingly stupid like just forward the minimum and drop all the evidence out. It turns out that after printing everything off I rescanned it into master PDFs. I had forgotten having done that before. What I'm pondering doing is attaching the master evidence PDF as a backup. It's right at the 10MB limit.
On the subject of more, I'm not sure it would be necessary. Prior to the creation of the initial package I had been over there six times and that was all documented in the initial package. Pictures, stories and all that. I can't imagine the VO, having read all that, would reject us because there was nothing in there from the last two trips. Especially not with my passport positively stacked with stamps in their hand and me down stairs for trip number nine.
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Okay, thanks. I was just wondering because I hadn't seen paperwork like that mentioned before. It's purpose makes total sense though
My Senators (who were useless) required such a form. My Representative's staff, who got the job done, didn't.
To anyone else still waiting, at this point you're almost certainly going to have to hammer your Senator's and/or Representative's staff every day. After all, they do work for you.
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Oh, it turns out I had forgotten that after printing off all the bits for the initial petition I had scanned it all back into master PDFs for later use. They aren't as high quality as the originals, but they are far far smaller. The largest being just a hair over 10MB
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Well.. now I don't know what to do... I decided to call NVC and see if maybe they could give some indication whether some, or any, of the evidence got to them... and I don't know if i just got a clueless operator or what.. but she was indicating that none of the evidence would have gone to them (because they don't adjudicate or request relationship evidence)... so either it all got there.. or none of it did (in which case I'm back to square one)....
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GUZ IV is one hard sumb|tch - this is mentioned often, not just by me. I say add more at DS-230 time. Have a read? http://www.visajourn...ost__p__4100571
Good Luck !
Call once a day about it , circa 3:30 to 4:30 PM EST, until you DO have it in yer email box. Ask Specifically - Please send me the AOS FEE BILL via email to my email address .
Damn man.. after reading that I'm all nervous. As I mentioned earlier, I sent in 230+ pages of evidence. One of those was a 21 page 'photo essay', for lack of a better term, to back up our EOR letter. It weighs in at 61MB and I'm not entirely sure it would be possible to make it any smaller to fit in their tiny little 10MB attachment limit... nevermind the rest of the 230 pages of evidence...
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Along these lines... when I sent in the relationship evidence to USCIS, it was obviously a long time ago.
Since then, I've been back over to China two more times. The initial evidence dump was around 230 pages or so. Anyone think I need to send in more at DS-230 time?
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ni zhi dao 'SAFEFILE' ma
woo hoo ! gzo numbers rock! yay!
rather than 'cough up' the IIN via telephone - push, instead, to have the AOS fee bill emailed out to you.
That's a big valve opening, really - as once you have it in yer email inbox? NVC is officially turned on for 'looking for files' and 'looking for payments'.
It's not enough to have the IIN.
Whilst yer waiting - read all of this one? -> DJ Walker - http://www.visajourn...1451-uscis-nvc/
If I start asking them for the AOS Fee bill on the phone, will they generate it? When I called them earlier they were just saying things like 'we just got the case yesterday' and 'please wait 10 days' blah blah blah.
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Excellent! Are you going to OPT IN for NVC Electronic Processing, or NO ? there's a CHINA EP link in post #1 here.
Already in. Got the GUZ number on the 6th and pushed through the EP enrollment last night, confirmed this morning with GZO number.
Trying to get them to cough up the IIN so I can pay the AOS bill now.
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Damn, just got off the phone with NVC. Still no IIN... can't pay the bills yet
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I wish my optin had been accepted so fast when I was in NVC! I had to wait like 16 days for mine!
By the way, don't forget to update your signature with all the events that happened this week! And your 'NVC received' time tick on your timeline
On the todo list for this morning
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When did NVC receive your package? they received mine January 31st
Day before that.
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Finally, congrats!
And multi-lingual too! Even better Wow, they already replied to your optin and accepted it? That was fast
Grats though!Yep.
Next up, hammering the AOS bill through the system.
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I called NVC again this morning, no case number yet, i am being anxious now
Call them again this afternoon or so. I just got my case number yesterday and you're running about a day or so behind me. So, yours should be assigned soon I would think.
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For the information of all hands....
We've successfully enrolled in the electronic processing system and have our new case number!
That is all...
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My friends, I just got a phone call from the Turkish consulate and MY TURKISH POLICE CLEARANCE HAS ARRIVED!!!
:dance: 
:dancing: :jest: 
The last reason to worry is going away and I'd be shouting my joy at the window if it wasn't 20°F and I wasn't sick with a bad cold and in bed!!!
They even told me on the phone that it's multi-lingual, so I don't even need to have it translated. I'm gonna go get it tomorrow morning!
And then, throughout the land of SoandSo, there went up a great cry of rejoicing and jubilation...
Congrats
IR-1/CR-1 July 2011 Filers
in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports
Posted · Edited by foobaz123
You really want to get pissy with someone who waited just a hair bit less time than you when dozens of people are getting processed in a matter of a couple of weeks or no more than a month? I started hammering my people (congressmen and senators) and going to USCIS the day after it ticked past 150 days.
Should I feel bad that my people are, for whatever reason, more effective than others?
No, I shouldn't.
Do I feel bad that you, and others, are still waiting?
Damned right I do. Just yesterday I told my wife that I feel bad for everyone still waiting.
But, I can't do anything about that. What I suggest you do is pour your anger and angst into hammering your people for results. It may be far more productive and will certainly make more sense. Please remember, these people work for us.