foobaz123

Got home at 2305... hit a rock on the interstate... blew out a tire.. destroyed a wheel... will cost less to buy a new car...

Still no appointment....

If anyone replied to anything I said today... I haven't read it.. no energy.. try again tomorrow

yes almost ready.As soon as i get the no i will apply for expedite.So i need the case no first.

Is it possible you could ask for an expedite prior to having the number?

Also, if i may ask, what is your reason for an expedite?

Why is it taking forever to provide a simple case no?Nvc recieved my case at 5 March but not giving the case no.I call Nvc 4 times a day.Also at 11.30pm

It's not uncommon to take that long. It took around that long for mine. In the mean time, do you have all your information ready to go as soon as you do have your case number? Supporting documents ordered and available?

Wow.... they are... really strange...

It's weird talking to them after talking to NVC. NVC may give us wrong information and such from time to time but they don't seem spaced out and barely there.

In any case, no interview information from them either.

Calling DoS now... They are certainly... different... from NVC.. that's for sure...

I gave the lady who answered the case number... and then she said "hold please" and put me on hold for several minutes.

And then..... silence..... I think they forgot about me...

I guess I'll just try again and hope they don't forget about me this time...

50/50, although it may be worth a shot calling them.

Sounds like a post-lunch task, no?

Have you guys continued, compiling more "EVIDENCE" after I-130 was submitted?

(such as more skype logs, phone records, email etc etc...after I-130 was submitted?)

Wondering if we need or its a good idea to have MORE evidence for the Interview?

or do we just take duplicate of what we sent to USCIS when I-130 was submitted?

If the question is: "How much evidence is enough?"

The answer is: "More"

I wonder if DoS might give me a different answer....

Oh, #######, really?! Never mind, I recant my statement. It'll probably be a century before USCIS gets everything automated, and error-free

Yep... part of the Department of Homeland Security (a name that has always bothered me.. sounds far too much like something else).

We're lucky that TSA feelups aren't required just to get the visa... though, it does kill me that I'm going to have to apologize to Sue for the TSA when she comes here..

Just got off hold... no date scheduled, but also no "We're done with April" nonsense either.

I guess I'll just call back this evening and see if anything has changed by then...

And tomorrow...

And the next day....

That's pretty much how the system should be at USCIS for petitions. But, alas, even though we have that kind of technology, they're not implementing it.

The good news is that NVC is starting to roll out EP and online forms to more and more countries. When I was at NVC last year, only two or three countries were eligible. Now the list has grown to about 10 countries or so. Within just one year. I'm sure NVC still has a ways to go to implement both EP and online forms to ALL countries, but it's getting there, albeit slowly.

Hopefully, USCIS will see how effective the EP and online forms are and will then start rolling it out on their end, most likely slowly as well.

I'm sure (hopefully) in a decade or so, this whole immigration process will be as automated as it can be, or at least more so than it is now.

Don't forget... USCIS is part of the same Department that gave birth to the TSA.....

I'm thinking they'll give you the garbage line about April being full. I'm betting you'll get your interview date set this Thursday

Okay, Saylin is in for 10 on the BS bet... any other takers? (I'm still on hold....)

It is time to call NVC! Anyone want to take bets on whether we have an interview date set? Will they tell me "April is full, no interview for you!"? In mere minutes (or so) we'll know!

Unfortunately, that's true. If I automate everything, there will be hundreds of (slow reviewing) people without jobs

The unions would eat you alive for that. Increase efficiency and save money... heresy!!

That's the general sentiment everyone feels about it...

Perhaps, I'll work for USCIS and NVC and re-haul everything to make it more automatic, thus speeding up the process for everyone

Yeah, but then they'll remind you that you're working for fed.gov now and that efficiency and speed is not allowed. So slow down and start making random errors!

Just re-send the DS-3032 if you think something is wrong.

It could be possible. But I'm from Canada and it took 5 months to get our NOA2. All my documents were in English, and are similar to American documents. According to your logic, it should have been extremely easy to verify documents and should have flown thrown CSC.

There is that. There were also cases where people from the UK and such also inexplicably slowed to a crawl. In any case, they clearly have some serious load balancing issues. Of course, being the government there is no incentive to sort it out and fix the issue. As I used to say in the CSC July thread: "They get to go home to their families at night, so why should they care?"

It actually doesn't. It depends on USCIS's workload and which desk your case landed on, whether it was a fast reviewing officer or a slow reviewing officer.

I'm not entirely certain about that though. During the slog through CSC there were some definite patterns to who tended to fly through CSC faster than others and there did seem to be a possible link to the beneficiaries country. Of course, we all know that correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the service centers are generally organized into groups who do certain regions. It would only make sense to avoid endless "Is this really a marriage document from country X?" type questions. Such organization alone could lead to patterns of speed and/or slowness.

When we were at this stage I paid the AOS fee no problem with Firefox but a few days later I couldn't pay the IV fee so ended up using Google Chrome. Are you sure you have your head at the correct angle when you are paying the fees and clicking with your right index finger.

That's how it was for me too. Bright sparks that they are, seems they decided to use different code for each bit.

Called to see if the interview day is out yet...did not get the "done w/April thing" but heard the same about scheduling on the 2nd week of the month bla-blah-blah...

ok,will call later

P.S.like this stage much more than at USCIS ,at least there is communication going on

Yeah, that's a plus. Too bad it is full of so much inaccurate information though, no?

They just told me the same thing "they are done with April's scheduling and there's a chance for the 2nd week of May to be " appears to be generic response as we are within different Embassies and got the same answer.

I thought it might be just a generic response. Just like '20 business days'. What's bad is that it is one thing to give out incorrect information from time to time, it's a whole other to systematically give generic responses that are in effect lies.

I'll call them again later and I imagine I'll get "lied" to again, unless I'm lucky like Ryan H was...

I've been there. I called the NVC one evening and I was told what you were told; the very next day I called the NVC and was told an interview had been scheduled.

Hopefully it is the same for me.

We'll find out in 12 hours or so....

Well, I'll re-haul it to the best system They obviously need help over at NVC

Just please tell me it won't be an IE dependent ASPX ball of Epic Fail!?

Perhaps once I get my Programming degree, I'll work for NVC and re-haul their entire system

Why would you want to subject yourself to such an obviously broken and terrible code base? Clearly the best option is just NFO.

Care for a chuckle?

There are no staples to be used for NVC Electronic Processing.

There are too! Electronic staples! You mean you didn't use them! Nooooooooo!!!

Well, it would have helped, had you bagged a deer and made 300 venison jiaozi, and donated them all to a homeless shelter.

See, Zen is really cool and interesting, if'n ya know what yer doing.

But in the meantime -

Relax, you. The cogs are spinning in overdrive, back at NVC, for yer casefile.

If you need a timekiller, please read all 120 pages of the DJ Walker Thread over at

DJ Walker - http://www.visajourn...1451-uscis-nvc/

LoL

<-- sneaks into NVC with a bottle of oil for the cogs and some nitro for the engine...

whew - dodged a bullet.

Lebanon interview in Beirut - is not any rehoming to Palestine, which is rehomed to Israel.

My apologies for my confusion.

but do contact an NVC Supervisor - get some sense of what's what, where the casefile will be headed, where the interview will occur.

How many jiaozi you make this weekend?

Did you skip a deposit into the Zen Bank ?

That's no help!