Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	K-1 people waiting for interviews at Montreal	NOV. 9 8AM!!!!!! *happy dance*	ScooterMac	Female	Canada	2009-10-20 08:15:00
Canada	K-1 people waiting for interviews at Montreal	On hold......	ScooterMac	Female	Canada	2009-10-20 08:04:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Just received an email from NVC this morning. Our case is finally completed!!! Congrats!	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-05-19 19:47:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	So the AVR is telling me that they have received the I-864 that was sent just recently, but they haven't recieved the DS-3032 form! that was sent 1- days ago!!...I am holding right now to speak to an operator...want to ensure if things are fine before sending off the form again! Hmm, I remember my ds-3032 took a while to be inputted into the system. Took them like 2 weeks to acknowledge it.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-05-08 07:37:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Did you guys BARCODE the Case Number or just WROTE it in yourself with a marker?? I barcoded it.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-27 19:58:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Just my 2 cents...this is what the operator of NVC told me... 2010 Apr 27-- Email Addresses of Petitioner & Beneficiary given to Operator- he already had it- he told us to email the OPTIN but still wait a couple of weeks to get the DS-3032 form!??! Not sure what's that supposed to mean...I will send in the OPTIN with the attached DS-3032 form...lets see what happens... I e-mailed the OPTIN With the DS-3032 Attached to it. After two weeks I got the Optin confirm and DS-3032 accepted message. It didnt take me two weeks to get the ds-3032 e-mail from them, it took two days. And even then, they sent me the wrong ds-3032, I used the one from the site that was current.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-27 16:38:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Grrrrr, RFE's. And no email or request or anything from the NVC. Only found out because my hubby called in this morning and spoke to a supervisor. I hadn't done my 2009 taxes when I sent in the I-864 package so I sent in my W-2 for the year with tax transcripts for the previous 2 years. Now they want my 2009 tax transcript. And my hubby was in the South African Navy and they want his military record, not just the military certificate. So that may take a while to get. So question: if the tax transcript is for the I-864 package and the military record is for the DS-230 package, can we just send them in together in the same email stating they are the request for evidence? Darn it, just want to cry.... Awww sorry to hear about that. I am not sure about the whole sending one e-mail thing, But I know my military record is huge, it would take like 50 e-mails for me to send mine....wow..I cant belive that they want the whole thing..Thats alot of papers. I hope you are able to get ahold of his record very quickly. If they want everything in his record, I imagine that sending one e-mail wouldnt even be an option.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-27 16:16:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	That's what I'm going to do. I think I know what it is. I wish I had seen this site before I hired a lawyer, I would have known about stuff I needed to get while I was still in Canada (I am visiting in Houston right now) that I am sure caused this RFE. I let the lawyer do the research (which she didn't do) and I found out while here that I was going to need an RCMP criminal record check, not just the police certificate thingy. I had to tell her this. We decided to submit with just my court records, and see if we got an RFE or not. Well, we got one, and I am going to have to go back to Canada early to get my fingerprints done. I'm positive that's the RFE. Ah, well that sucks. Doesnt that RCMP check take a while to get?(Lets hope not!) I didnt use a laywer at all. I called USCIS quite a few times to understand what to do, then I stumbled accross this site when I googled immigration stuff. Yeah, this site has been a life saver. I read over the Stupid-RFE thread and followed the advice of quite a few folks on here. I too am glad I found this site	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-25 12:41:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	My AVR says I have an RFE. No email yet, my theory is that it is only going to my lawyer and I have to wait until she gets in the office. Aww, sorry to hear that. Hopefully you get it cleared up fast! Can't you call the NVC tomorrow and get an idea of what it is?	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-25 11:34:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I'd say yer comments are spot on with folks who have gone through it in prior months. There's been a coupla change-ups, new speedbumps, for March and April - --NVC Slowing Down to a Crawl --DS-3032 kit being UNBUNDLED, must ask instead for 'AOS FEE BILL VIA EMAIL', instead. --Resending email sets seemed useful. grrrr --NVC Email system changeup (NVCMontreal@state.gov shift to NVCElectronic@state.gov) Think maybe the EP slowdown is due to them merging all the e-mails from the different consulates to one e-mail? So now it takes longer for them to get to your emails? Since they do the emails...in the order they are recieved...or so the operators claim. And I am sure they didnt hire on anyone to handle the big load either.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-23 14:08:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Now that there are a few of us sitting and playing the wait for interview letter game, What did you all think of EP? I thought it was kinda..different. No guidance from the nvc,I followed the EP Wiki guide. The NVC Seemed very inconsistant with EP. Sometimes it took two weeks to get to your e-mail, sometimes it took 4 days or so. Also, felt like I had to Keep up with my case...and kinda push it along. And when talking to an operator you kinda needed to explain things to them...I am not sure why they didnt understand the words "e-mail" or "Electronic Processing" Lol. The other thing is, you had to keep calling the nvc to "catch" your case when it first got entered in, so you could give them your e-mails and avoid them sending you anything in paper. Also keep in mind, they dont really tell you when they get things...you just have to hope its there. Atleast for me the AVR never got updated. So I called them ocasionally and asked...even then it was "Well the system shows we got something, but I dont know what, it doesnt say" Lol I just sent things when I was able to get the coversheet. They did seem kinda "Po'ed" to the fact that folks were not waiting for the OPTIN e-mail confirmation before sending in their I-864's (Lol, yeah the lady was very fustrated over that) The upside of all this - Didnt have to pay for the overnight mailing, Scanning and e-mailing is super easy (Follow the EP wiki, it works great) I really could see EP being a huge difference in reguards to a RFE. But if you look at the timelines of the folks in the NVC thread, they seem to be getting Log in fails/ Case completes in less/or about the same ammount of time. (Ones without RFE's) What did you guys/gals think? Edited by FireRay, 23 April 2010 - 12:38 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-23 12:37:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Oops. I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... LOL I noticed my wife made an account and posted it. I was talking to her and saying...how the heck did people on VJ find out before I did, and she was like..oh well I made an account and told them. I was so excited I had to tell someone since I couldnt tell you. LOL	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-22 18:33:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I hear FireRay has a login fail now. Congratulations! Bwoo, FireRay, did you submit your DS-230's on April 9th? Or was it later? Yup log in fail!! But how did you find out before I did? Lol! The nvc recieved my DS-230 on 4/16 Edited by FireRay, 22 April 2010 - 05:03 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-22 17:01:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	where do I find the phone number for NVR thanks for your help?? If you mean NVC its - 603-334-0700	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-21 20:39:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	OK, the AVR has updated saying they have received my documents, wait 6-8 weeks, yada yada yada. Fingers crossed no RFE's... YAY! Welcome to the waiting club! Good luck!	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-21 17:21:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	We re-sent the I-864 and for the first time sent in the DS-230 on the 12th (in two seperate emails), and on the 13th the AVR said it had received documents. I have never received an auto-response email or any emails asking for either of those documents. We are giving it until this Thurs or Fri then will call in and ask for a supervisor to find out what they have received. All this uncertainity is driving me nuts!! Good luck with that, They tell me "They see that something is there, but they dont know what" And that if they are missing any information they will let me know what it is. In asking what my AVR message ment in the NVC thread, they told me it ment that everything was at the nvc and to just sit back and wait now.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-19 18:55:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I know! They enjoy confusing us I think. Anyway, at least there is some consistency between FireRay and my case with AVR and the random emails (requesting the DS-230)! LOL! Yes, I am glad that it is not just I who am getting the randomness too. I got that same e-mail...and then a PDF attachment as well.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-19 16:16:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I think the biggest issue facing EP right now relates to whether it makes for expeditious processing or not when we send NVC documents prior to being asked for them. In previous posts I note this. Specifically, it's the DS3032, I 864 and DS230. All of us have done that and shortly thereafter we get emails from NVC asking for those documents as per their linear process. That said, it may not change the speed of processing, only that we send them in again and wonder if something is wrong or if they've somehow 'lost' them in cyberspace. Given our EP status, it's simple enough to resend the documents. But I'm just wondering as we are the next in line and to give feedback to the EP filers of the future, and to inform the WIKIs and those who guided us, that perhaps we don't send the DS3032 with the OPTIN, that we don't send in the I864 immediately after payment status of the AOS and that we don't send in the Ds230 immediately after payment of the IV bill. I'm not saying don't do this - I'm wondering out loud given that all of us have done this but in every case, we've been asked my NVC to send those documents. In my case as well as others, we ended up with more than one OPTIN. The problem is the Serco folks or operators don't often see anything when they query the file - so they can't advise and don't necessarily know if NVC has the doucmentation and hasn't updated the system or whether NVC doesn't have the forms etc. However, once NVC does have all the documentation, it seems to be moving a good pace to completion so that's very encouraging. I guess all in all, if we consider the past and where some folks are hung up in the process at present, we're doing fairly well. In our group of Jan filers, here we are at Apr and getting close to completion at NVC. Not bad. But then again, there is always the waiting game at every single step. And NVC completion means a few more months of waiting to the next step. I too think, that maybe waiting to e-mail off the documents until they are asked for is probably the best way. Or else you will be re-emailing everything off again. And your right, its not hard to do that...just somewhat fustrating. It also seemed like the NVC didnt care when it was sent off, just that it was sent off after they wanted it.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-18 16:10:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Really?? Snail mail is moving faster than EP? Are you sure? I would think so, Looking at folks's timeline that are not doing EP, and it seems so. Now granted, if they get an RFE it takes them a while longer. But the ones without are getting through in around a month. Look at how long its taking them to get to the documents - 2 weeks or so PER form, from when you e-mailed them. And not to mention all the trouble they seem to be with having all the documents, or loosing them. Edited by FireRay, 18 April 2010 - 11:20 AM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-18 11:19:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Haven't gotten mine, you understand, but it seems they email the interview letters to both parties. We opted for EP, and had a case complete 8 days after they received the DS-230. Then there is a glimmer of hope that e-mailed the ds-230 last week. Let us hope, because my 8 days is in a few days. I was figureing they woudlnt get to it for atleast 2 weeks, like the other things. Though I must say, the AVR does have me confused. It says that the NVC has all my documents, and to allow 6-8 weeks for a decision to be reached, so perhaps they have my I-864 and DS-230. But the e-mail they sent me was requesting my DS-230. Lol I dont know!	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-18 09:41:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I think this was a bad time to go with EP. Because of the glitches they seem to be having, I think it cost me a little bit of time. Non-EP (with no RFE) is getting through NVC in 8-11 days. I am at 16 days so far, and have no idea if they even have my documents. Sigh. Did you try calling them and talk to an operator? I did, and she was very helpful and didnt mind me asking. And she told me to call when ever I wanted. But so far, I agree. Perhaps now is a bad time to go with EP. Something is definatly going on.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-17 13:11:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	EP does seem sorta messed up at the moment. Seems like its taking almost 2 weeks for them to get to your e- now accepted my I-864, and I sent it back on the 4th,Same thing happend for my DS-3032, they accepted it 2 weeks after they got it. And now they are asking for my DS-230..but I have only sent that a week ago. And now the AVR also states that they have recieved my documents and to wait 6-8 weeks for them to be reviewed and an outcome to be reached. Lol, I will be calling on Monday.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-17 09:07:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	One thing I have noticed - hubby emailed the DS-230 to NVC on 04/06, now the AVR shows it received on 04/07. Others who have mailed it in say it has been taking a week or more for NVC to show it received (from the actual delivery date). My AVR has never been updated to say they have recieved the different things(Just that they recieved the payments.) Perhaps I should call.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-14 19:17:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Good luck, Fireray! Just an FYI...this may be self-evident to everyone, or already reported somewhere, but I really did get a very friendly, helpful operator a week ago, who went over things with a supervisor (I was wondering if I should just give up on EP since it is taking so freaking long to get an approval) and she told me that EP goes into a separate 'line' from those that are mailed in. Since the EP line is so much shorter than those that get mailed in (obviously) they go through processing much much quicker. I have to assume they don't have as many people manning the EP line, but I do think this makes intuitive sense that the actual document processing would be much faster, even though we have to wait up to 2 weeks (hopefully no more) for an email approving us for EP processing. What ticks me off is it took me a month to get the final documents for NVC, and we could have gotten our EP approval in that time. Instead, the lawyer cost me another 2 weeks, in addition to the 3 months at the beginning of the process. She does seem to be a good lawyer, they had personnel issues at the beginning and I think she is way overworked now. However, that should not be MY problem, darnit. Thanks! I am not sure which is faster TBH. If you compare Peoples EP timeline to Non-EP folks, is there that much of a difference? I dont know...to me they look very similar. I guess in the event of an RFE it might be quicker... The only thing I dont like from EP so far...is the lack of NVC communication. Im going off of what folks on VJ have been telling me. Perhaps an e-mail from the nvc saying something like...hey we got your I864/ds230 we are processing them not...or we processed them and going to continue with your case. /shrug perhaps its just me who thinks like that. Well in anycase, good luck!	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-13 16:11:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	So i sent my DS-230 in today, so now the wait game.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-12 22:22:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	FireRay when did you submit your I-864 package? It's not on your timeline. Just curious to see when you submitted it to when your IV bill came up available to be paid (today). I submitted my I-864 On 4/4/2010. I will adjust my timeline to show that date.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-08 14:33:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Awesome FireRay! Good news to hear things are moving along again. I won't resubmit the I-864 for a few days - thanks for your input on that. Also check for your IV bill. Mine was available to be paid. Which of course I did Never been so happy to pay 400$ before LOL. Edited by FireRay, 08 April 2010 - 01:42 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-08 13:38:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Ok, Just after I finished typing that. I too got my Acceptance into EP letter. Hoorah!	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-08 13:22:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Only question is.. Should I resend the I-864 packet now that we have the go ahead or will they stumble across the one I sent emailed in on Monday and use that? Awesome, so lets hope that mine is coming today too. As you and I filed on the same day. well, if the lady that I talked to was correct about them recieving alot of emails aday, and that they process them in the order they get them, that would make me say dont send another in. Reason being, that in a few days or whenever it is, they will get to your I-864. I have no plans to resubmitt it when I get my EP letter. If time passes and they havent gotten the I-864, then I would call them first. (Atleast thats what I am planning to do.) Edited by FireRay, 08 April 2010 - 01:21 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-08 13:18:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	When you call and get your NVC case number and give them your email addresses, they will email you the forms instead of snail mailing them. You aren't actually doing an OPTIN for electronic processing at that point. Any country (as I understand it) can get forms sent to them email instead of snail mail. Now the email you send in for OPTIN, that's another story. They must have not processed the OPTIN email with DS-3032 yet thus you never getting a successful EP enrollment email back. Guess they are ignoring everything else you send them until they process the DS-3032 (including the I-864 packet, which we'll have to send again maybe). I just called NVC and talked to an operator because I'm in the same boat. They have not received the OPTIN email or DS-3032 from me either and we sent it in on 3/25, almost two weeks ago! Normal processing time from these forums looks like 1 to 2 weeks for EP acceptance (or none at all like what's happening right now). Operator told me to send the OPTIN email again and the DS-3032 form! So I just sent off the email again. Grr.. There seems to be a big hiccup going on for electronic processing at the moment. I know one other person sent in the OPTIN on 3/23 and received back a successful EP enrollment email recently. Can anyone else (other than zenaxe and I) chime in on the status of their OPTIN email and DS-3032? I too called them today, the operator told me that they are backlogged right now. She didnt really seem suprised by the phone call, perhaps she talked to a few folks about it today. She did however know about the EP process. When I mentioned that I sent in an OPTIN e-mail she was like... "Ohhhhh you did that well....lately we have been recieving over 1000 emails a day" in one of those tones that you get when someone does something you woudlnt suggest....lol so I was second guessing myself at that point. But she did say, dont e-mail more than once or it could mess up the processing.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-07 23:54:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Don't expect a 'response' at all. Monitor the online payment portal, check for the 'next thing' - which in your case, I believe, is the IV bill 'ready to be paid'. If you did get a response back, IMO, it'd be a bad thing, an RFE for the I-864 set that you just sent. There are other email types coming up, after the DS-230 is received - covering a 'checklist' of documents - usually is sent after 'login fail' at the online payment portal. Ok, then lets pray for no response! No RFE's. I read over the ways to fill the form...did the wiki EP way (btw thanks, made it alot less e-mails. I only had to send 5 e-mails) And read over the "Stupid RFE" Thread. And read the actual instructions. So I am feeling confident! And to those that asked, Easter Monday is not concidered a holiday here in the states. Even for government Employees....though I must admit..it would be nice (in a money selfish way) as the holiday pay would be great.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-05 15:08:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	The petitioners name couldnt be found e-mails only showed up for me when i sent myself the reciept of my AOS bill, Other then that everything was fine. Though I did get three e-mails. Two at one time..then 5 hours later or so I got another (It was a duplicate of one I recieved earlier.) And the day after I payed my AOS bill, it showed as payed. I sent out the I-864 e-mails last night, I will let you know when I get a response to them Happy Easter! Edited by FireRay, 04 April 2010 - 05:11 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-04 17:11:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	Hey - if yer using the toolsets I've mentioned on the wiki - you can SKIP printing the I-864 instruction pages and reduce the output DPI on the PDF files to 75 DPI. Most people have found that any collection of file attachments larger than 10 megabytes gets BOUNCED by NVC email server. But - is absolutely OK to send off multiple emails, you betcha ! Good Luck ! Thanks, I ment the whole I-864 Package letter of employment, tax returns, etc..	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-03 19:19:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	FireRay - no, not wait at all. reread my prior post , though - I've added to it. Thanks The I-864 is going to be quite a few e-mails..LOL	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-03 19:04:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	If it's showed paid, then someone needs to send in the I-864 set. see http://www.visajourn...ost__p__3560467 Alternatively - you can follow these steps - see http://www.visajourn...rocessing#Steps For Montreal CaseFiles, you DO NOT NEED TO WAIT on 'EP Acceptance' email at all. Guangzhou CaseFiles, alas, must wait. grrrr. Oh, I thought you had to wait for the EP email back to send the things in an e-mail or they would be disreguarded. Thanks. I will double check that e-mail package now. Thanks	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-03 18:57:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I Sent the optin email in over a week ago. I got the automated response back, but havent heard anything else back.(My wife sent in the COA attachment along with the optin e-mail as the directions state) I have paid the 70$ bill..also been a week since it has showed paid. The IV bill still shows not invoiced. So, a week of no progress. Anyone else kinda in a holding pattern or so? Or Am I just unlucky?	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-04-03 18:48:00
Canada	Electronic Processing	I sent off the "OPTIN" e-mail with the ds 3032 attached in pdf form like the NVC website states. 2 hours later or so, i got the automated responce back. Meanwhile..my AOS bill took one day to show "PAID" I have everything in PDF format, and ready to roll..once the e-mail comes back. Edited by FireRay, 26 March 2010 - 04:13 PM.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-03-26 16:12:00
Canada	IR1 / CR1 - Montreal Timeline to Interview	I didn't get the email either. When I called the NVC, they said they don't send out an email when the case is completed. Maybe this is only for people who did electronic filing like zenaxe? I really don't know. All I know is that the AVR system says my case is complete, and all the NVC operators I have talked to over the past 2-3 months confirm (after looking at the screen) that my case is complete . . . and that "everything is set to go!" Cheers, petshop You had to call them and give them your e-mails when the NVC first got your case. (If I recall right there was a very small window to catch and call them to do EP) So basically you had to be doing the Electronic Processing to get that e-mail. I too did EP and got the e-mail	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-08-25 19:54:00
Canada	IR1 / CR1 - Montreal Timeline to Interview	And, as far as I can tell from our conversation with my husband's congresswoman's aide, there's absolutely zero interest in this situation on the part of politicians. Well, that should never have been uttered. Their job is what the people say their job is. If someone who ELECTED them needs them, they should be there to help them (within reason) Hmm, do I smell some bad press for said congress person? I would think the opposing party would eat something like that up. ------------------------------- As for the waiting period, it sucked...and the ammount of money that it costed for that trip, and hotel costs etc. It costed quite a bit, for an interview that really lasted all of 5 minutes. (Now I am not complaning that it went so smoothly LOL) I am just glad its over.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-07-29 14:14:00
Canada	IR1 / CR1 - Montreal Timeline to Interview	We were approved in Montreal today!!! More of a review later. It went really well. Thanks everyone for your help and well wishes! Awesome! Congrats! Now we just need to hear from Zenaxe.	FireRay	Male	Canada	2010-07-27 18:59:00