Time frame

[lou]

The NVC mailed out the ds-3032 and affidavit of support bill on Dec. 26th so I should get them in another day or so. I have the form filled out and signed by my wife so all I have to to is date it and send it in. After this is sent in, How long before I receive anymore paperwork. I'll be leaving for Nanning in two weeks and I will not be back for about a month and I'm worried that the NVC might send me the I-864 form and the bill for the IV processing fee while I'm away.

 

As everyone knows, the process is long enough. Two weeks, two days or two hours, I'm just trying to avoid any delay!

[tywy_99]

I got the I-864 package about 2 weeks after sending in the Choice of Agent form and the I-864 fee.

[tywy_99]

but hey! there's a fast track form-fill-it to NVC forms here somewhere but I don't recommend it.

[shyaushu]

This is just my two cents, but so far almost everyone's visa time frame has been in the one year range (plus or minus a few months, of course). We all know the feeling: you receive a form on Saturday and you rush around frenetically trying to have it in the mail Monday morning.

 

After a while, it becomes pretty obvious that relaxing and filling out the forms carefully and accurately, then sending them off confident they are correct, is more productive in the long run.

 

Considering the time frame with this -- many,many months -- a day or two one way or another is pretty meaningless.

 

There's no point in stressing yourself out more than necessary.

[obxtrainman]

This is just my two cents, but so far almost everyone's visa time frame has been in the one year range (plus or minus a few months, of course).  We all know the feeling: you receive a form on Saturday and you rush around frenetically trying to have it in the mail Monday morning.

 

After a while, it becomes pretty obvious that relaxing and filling out the forms carefully and accurately, then sending them off confident they are correct, is more productive in the long run.

 

Considering the time frame with this -- many,many months -- a day or two one way or another is pretty meaningless.

 

There's no point in stressing yourself out more than necessary.

178933[/snapback]

It's just that part where I saw a man gets his to CSC 2 days before mine, then they came to a schreeching halt. His I-130 was approved months before mine. It's all a crap shoot. My theory is they ensure everyone, but a few lucky ones, works out about the same. If you get through part A quickly, they screw you on part B, if you get through A, and B, quickly, they screw you on part C. Just an observation on my part. NVC speeds up, Guz slows down. The only winners are those that go through VSC. My guess is they don't send overloads to them because the poloticians marrying foriegn wives don't want thier center slowed down.

Edited December 30, 2005 by obxtrainman (see edit history)

[mercator]

This is just my two cents, but so far almost everyone's visa time frame has been in the one year range (plus or minus a few months, of course).  We all know the feeling: you receive a form on Saturday and you rush around frenetically trying to have it in the mail Monday morning.

 

After a while, it becomes pretty obvious that relaxing and filling out the forms carefully and accurately, then sending them off confident they are correct, is more productive in the long run.

 

Considering the time frame with this -- many,many months -- a day or two one way or another is pretty meaningless.

 

There's no point in stressing yourself out more than necessary.

178933[/snapback]

It's just that part where I saw a man gets his to CSC 2 days before mine, then they came to a schreeching halt. His I-130 was approved months before mine. It's all a crap shoot. My theory is they ensure everyone, but a few lucky ones, works out about the same. If you get through part A quickly, they screw you on part B, if you get through A, and B, quickly, they screw you on part C. Just an observation on my part. NVC speeds up, Guz slows down. The only winners are those that go through VSC. My guess is they don't send overloads to them because the poloticians marrying foriegn wives don't want thier center slowed down.

178948[/snapback]

VSC doesnt send their stuff to California. I think that is the biggest thing. No idea why they don't while the others do, or why the others do in the first place...

[obxtrainman]

I said, except for a few lucky ones. 2 fast ones in 2 years doesn't help thier record. Why are ALL of Vermont's Fast, is one of the points I was trying to make. Why don't they take any of the overload cases? The other service centers moved cases among each other.

 

Does it make more sence to do business with a service center that is on the other side of the country? No, it doesn't. Who is in charge of seeing the cases are distributed evenly? I'm about 60 miles from the border of Virginia. My case went to Texas, then Calafornia. Both places are overloaded. Why not send the cases on the east coast, to the east coast.

 

All I was saying is that one has to wonder why this is. Let's see, from NC and down, the east coast is inundated with immigrants. Both legal, and illegal, from south of the border. They are a terrible drain of resourses to the immigration system. Why is it all being put off on two service centers. Especially, If the state that you reside in is a lot closer to Vermont, than the west coast.

 

Washington DC is covered by the VSC. Think about.