Did you received a case number from NVC?

not yet!😔

when was your case approved?

in June

my fiance is in also in DR and our case was approved on in July

okay congratulations 🎉

i hope you hear something soon. we are also dominicanos. thank God we were approved this month.

@ A E, did you receive a case number from NVC?

Not yet, NVC has our case but they need to put it in the system

oh ok

when was your NOA1 and NOA2?

no1 was july 8, 2021 and no2 was actually yesterday September 10, 2022

Hopefully we can hear soon from them, the DR embassy has a lot of days availables for the K-1 interviews

i hope so too. we are so ready

Are you familiar with how they notify the beneficiary ? because from my understanding, they don't have mailboxes how we have here in the US. or at least my fiancé doesn't. im a little concerned with how will theu be informed on what to do

The Petioner will get the Welcome letter with the case and invoice # via mail or email, once we receive the letter we can start uploading the necessary documents and nvc has an option to add multiple emails that way when they send a notification about the case the Petioner and Beneficiary will get it.

thank you so much for clarifying

You're welcome

hey - yes you’ll get correspondence totally by email. As of yet, haven’t received any postal mail from NVC like I did with UCIS but email 100%. my husband also doesn’t have a mailbox so we’re just doing it all through email. we’re waiting for an interview now and got “documentarily qualified” Aug 18th. it’s about 90 days after you are “DQ” status until you get a CR/IR interview in Santo Domingo if the petitioner is a US Citizen. hope this helps!

I received the email from the Santo Domingo Embassy saying that the case is ready to schedule a interview

awesome ! that’s for a K visa? how long did your case take from I130 submission to interview ?

Yes, K1 We submitted the form on April of last year, we received an RFE at the beginning of June then we sent everything in July and got approved whiting 2 weeks and at the end of September we received a case number and the okay to schedule the interview but we haven't schedule the interview in DR yet, I believe we need to wait for the embassy to do it, is not like other countries that ppl are able to schedule the interview for the K1

thank you, it Feels like it has been such a long process. Do you know if at the interview is when you get approved or not? Like how long after the interview can your fiancé come to United States

The approval will be at the interview and then the person needs to wait a few days for the passport

yes that’s what I understand which means I will have to come back for my husband because we also won’t sell anything or make plans for the US until we officially know he’s able to live with me 😍😍

@Marissa LP My understanding is that your process is different because you're already married? If so, congratulations!!!!

@ A E How many days after you're N0A2 Did you hear from NVC

@Mrs Dominicana it took a little over 2 months, you still haven't heard from them?

@ A E no i have not. its been 2 months and one week to be exact. hopefully soon we will hear something. how long after you heard from NVC were you able to schedule the interview. thank you so much for taking the time to respond

@Mrs Dominicana it took less than a week for the case to be ready to schedule the interview, before scheduling the interview the DS-160 needs to be filled and paid and once they review the DS-160 you can start scheduling the appointment for Galeria 360 Biometrics first and then for the embassy

@ AE ok thank you so much I hope everything goes well for you and your fiancw

@Mrs Dominicana, Thank you!! the interview is tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻, if there anything that I can help you with let me know

@A E praying that everything goes in your favor. let us know how it goes

@Mrs Dominicana thank you so much, I'll let you know 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

How long does it take for the welcome letter to arrive or any form of communication? ds160 was done and submitted, I can't pay for it or set up the fiancée visa interview.

@Yasmin Reyes fo you have the DS160 confirmation?

@A E Yes he has a confirmation number it starts with AA

@Yasmin Reyes, how about the Case Number? is he in DR?

Mrs Dominicana visas was approved 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

A E Yes he's in DR. What do you mean by case number? he has a USCIS #

@Yasmin Reyes you need the Case number that starts with SDO (that's the Welcome letter from NVC) you'll get it by email. You can not start the DS-160 or the application for the visa without the SDO case number

@A E How long does that take? I'm so great full for your help.

@Yasmin Reyes every case it's different but for us it took a little over 2 months to get the case number, once the you get the case number it will say that it's in transit to the consulado and then it will say that the case is ready you will get an email to start the process. If you need more help with the process I can help you

A E thank you so much

@Yasmin Reyes when was your case approved?

@AE congratulations im so happy for you! thats awesome! hopefully your fiance will be here by Christmas If you celebrate. i'm so excited for you guys.

@Mrs Dominicana It all depends on the USCIS office, in what state are you?

@Mrs Dominicana the green card process is taking over a year even for ppl that are renewing it

@Mrs Dominicana what type of visa it is? K1?

@ AE yes the k1

@Mrs Dominicana, you will need to push it back once your fiance enters the US you guys will need to get marry here and start AOS process right away, hopefully USCIS can start speeding up the process soon

after they have the AOS and all the necessary things, when can they travel back to DR? I really want to have ca church wedding there

Once the conditional Green Card is issued

@ AE thank you sharing everything you know

@ yasminreyes You can apply for a parole To travel outside the United States before you get the green card but from what I read it's best not too even if you get approved for the parole. The parole from my understanding is permission to leave the United States while your case is processing however, you don't ever want to jeopardize your case. I assume often times people will apply for the parole in emergency cases to leave, however I don't think this particular document is processed quickly either

A E THANK YOU YOU SO MUCH

help please! i finally heard from NVC. we filled out the ds-160. can you please tell me the next step? I read through our feed that we pay and schedule appointments. how do we do that? where do we pay? thank you so much for helping us

Hi @Mrs Dominicana, you'll need to go to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/do/ create an account and start applying filling out the form and pay for the visa, make sure to add your email instead of your fiance email. Make sure have all of the information that they ask for and also if he doesn't have a record of the regular vaccines, make sure he gets them that way he doesn't have to pay extra at the time of the medical exam, he'll need to take record of the covid and record of the others vaccines.

@ Mrs Dominicana what do you do once your file has arrived in NVC? what are the steps?

@ A E my nvc email did not have an invoice number and when i went to traveldocs.com it asked if i heard from the embassy and i have not. was an invoice number included in your email from nvc or was that from the embassy email?

@Mrs Dominicana, you don't need an invoice number only the case number that starts with SDO

@ kmbr ll i think i have to wait for the embassy email. my nvc email gave no instruction. it only had a case number and said it was transferring to the embassy and to wait for the embassy email. that was literally it

@A E thank you so much i will try again tonight. you have no idea how much i appreciate your help. thank you sooooo much

@Mrs Dominicana did you tracked the case to see if is at the consulado?

@A E when i try, it says no status

and when i go to ceav.state.gov it asks for the invoice number

When did you received your Case number? there is no Invoice Number for K1 Visas only the case number

on Tuesday

Do you have the link to the website where you track,

I believe is this one, you should be hearing from them hopefully by next week

when i enter my case number in the link above it days that it is ready

i was able to pay but when was trying to schdule an appointment for the interview, it said your request has been received and will be reviewed. You will receive an email went to request is approved. Thank you so much for helping me.

Do you have the DS-160 confirmation #? they need to review the form and then they will tell you when you can schedule the biometric and the interview

yes i do have that confirmation number for ds 160. Do you know when we have to fill out form I – 134

When I scheduled the interviews they didn't asked for the I-134 only the I-864 and that's the one that my fiance took to the interview

once you schedule the biometric and the interview they will tell you what to bring to the interview, just make sure you have everything including pictures, the police paper, birth certificate ect.. everything needs to be translated to English

ohh and the passport style pictures at least 4

thank you sooo much!!!

i hope your fiance is here with you now

you're welcome 😊, he's coming next month 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

congratulations!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you 🤗🤗🤗 if there's anything else that you need help with, let me know

thank you so much

AE hello again. I'm not sure why I'm not able to pay the fee I have the case number but not the welcome letter from nvc or the embassy.

Hi Yasmin, did you received the case number through email?

@ A E where did your fiance get his birth certificate and police paper translated?

For his birth certificate he needs to go to the Junta Central Electoral and for buena conducta paper he can get it online at https://pgr.gob.do/

thank you so much

The case number that starts with AA. nvc case status says no status

That's not a case number that is the confirmation for the DS-160, The case number should start with SDO and they send it through email

it says to go to the embassy website but no status

on the cgi portal ican see to make the payment of 265.00 but I don't know how to pay or set up the appointment.

@Yasmin Reyes did you received the case number (welcome letter) from the embassy?

@AE. No not yet. Is it an email or a physical letter in the mail?

@Yasmin Reyes you can not pay or fill out the DS-160 until you receive the case number from NVC, once you receive the case number you can track it down, and then you will need to wait for them to tell you that you can start applying for the visa, start then form DS-160 form. pay for the visa once you do that they will review your application and tell you that you start scheduling the biometric and interview appointment.

@AE The DS-160 and all other paperwork are done and filled I did receive an AA number that's all. ok. thanks

You can not fill out the DS-160 until you receive the DS-160, Your case is a K1 correct?

AE yes

Once you receive your welcome letter through email, you can start the DS-160 form and apply for the visa at https://www.ustraveldocs.com/do/ creating an account and enter the the DS-160 confirmation number and follow all of the steps. As I mentioned before you can not fill out the DS-160 until you receive the Welcome letter from NVC. When was your case approved?