exactly what it states, you have your case with National Visa Center and they require more documentation from you (which l am sure they listed in the letter) your case has moved from USCIS to NVC, once all documentation is sent they will place you in line for a visa. you should have a NVC number, go online and sign up for an account under NVC you can follow your case there.

we already sent in everything we also so get our case number@CC B

then I guess you will need to use the tracker abs track your case. use the link that gave you in the line where they stated : “ NOTE: “ if you already sent NVC…………..”

does someone file for you or you filing for someone?

I guess your I-130 was approved but the process is not yet done . you will have to pay some fees AOS fee and visa application fee. it’s a lot of work if you don’t understand you can have someone do it for u…

all fees already payed

think they asking you for documents for your affidavit of support

that already sent in as well @tommy young.

guess we can’t help you because we don’t know what you’ve submitted I know all these documents was submitted with the I-130 but u will need to submit them again to NVC

when did you file ?

October 22 @Mrs shanty

where did you submit these documents?

the may need proof of income from your affidavit… the list that is stated above state specifically what they asking for . I know the will want last 3year tax return plus about 3-6 months pay subs and proof that they citizen of resident .

I think I understand your question. My lawyer sent everything in as well. It shows up on the CEAC dashboard where you pay your fees, complete your 260, and submit the AOS documents and civil documents. Once we uploaded everything, it shows “submitted”. But if I go to the application status, the generic warning message you posted earlier comes up for me too. My lawyer said not to worry, because it’s referencing the date the app was received, not the date you uploaded documentation. Also, they may not even look at what you submitted until the time they begin actively reviewing your application materials. Hope this helps.

ok

Did you complete DS260?

yes @dann smith

That’s from Lawfully, not from NVC. (I didn’t read all responses, sorry if I repeated anyone).

Hello has anyone had an update I’m encountering the same I had already sent everything (ds260-support w2s etc) and paid fees and my case status is showing at NVC. anyone know why???

nothing is wrong you just have to wait ok

I am already through that stage. did my interview and medical already by the end of week I will be getting back my passport

congratulations! did your status ever change?

it is saying administrative processing

mine says at nvc and this …If you case is processing electronically, please log into your CEAC account at ceac.state.gov/iv with your NVC case number and 16 digit Invoice ID for case status and to learn what steps you must take to advance your case. Disregard the instructions below, they do not apply to electronic processing. If your case is processing on paper (you mailed paper documents to NVC for review), then the case status and instructions below apply to your case. Please follow the instructions you received from the National Visa Center (NVC) that list the six steps you must take before NVC can schedule your visa interview appointment. This includes submitting to NVC various fees, forms and documents. Once NVC has received all the required items, they will let you know if anything is missing or incomplete. You can also find these instructions online at http://nvc.state.gov (English) and http://nvc.state.gov/espan

when did you send in your documents to nvc?

sept 4 2021

my status changed to this last message on February 24 2022 and it says at nvc

that mean you should already get DQ mine was the 22 of October 2021. you should've get DQ from November

that is if you sent in everything

I did send everything they asked for but my husbands 1864 was showing before at nvc update and is not showing anymore at ceac.

you to call them or email them

I agree my husband is sponsoring his self. I need to make sure everything is ok.

thank you for your time !

Laura, just log into CEAC and check your status as the instructions says.

yea just check if he sent in everything because if he don't won't get an update until everything send in

Congratulations Kemar 🥳🎊👏🏽🎉

@shamondy oyelowo thank you very much

it just says this Summary Information Once your case is received at the National Visa Center (NVC), there are six steps you must take before NVC can schedule your visa interview at a U.S. Embassy overseas. You should complete steps one through three online using the table at the bottom of this page: Step 1: Click the “Start Application” button under “Choice of Address & Agent” to complete Form DS-261. Use this form to tell NVC who they should send instructions to about your case. Please provide their e-mail address, if available. More details are online in English and Spanish. Step 2: There are two types of fees. Click the “Pay Now” buttons to pay any required Affidavit of Support fees or Immigrant Visa Application fees. Note the application fee must be paid by each person who is immigrating, and cannot be paid until after NVC has reviewed the Form DS-261 you submitted in Step 1. More details are online in English and Spanish. Step 3: After you pay the Immigrant Visa Application fee, please allow NVC one week to process your payment. You will then be able to access the visa application form online (Form DS-260). Click the “Start Now” button to begin. Instructions are online in English and Spanish. After you have completed these three steps, you should gather and submit all required documents to NVC: Step 4: Your petitioner should complete the appropriate Form I-864 (Affidavit of Support) and collect evidence of his/her income. Instructions are online in English and Spanish. Step 5: Each visa applicant should collect the required civil documents, such as birth certificates. Instructions are online in English and Spanish. Step 6: Submit all of the required documents from Steps 4 and 5 together in one package to NVC. Instructions are online in English and Spanish. NVC will review your forms and documents once you have completed all six steps above. NVC will contact your agent to tell you if there are additional items required or if visa pre-processing is complete. You can find out how long it is taking NVC to review applicant documents at the links provided in Step 6 above. CHOICE OF ADDRESS & AGENT (DS-261) COMPLETED my name APPLICANT INFORMATION Status IV Fee IV Application husbands name PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL APPLICANT PAID COMPL

No. Turn your attention to the messaging area on the top right side. Then also give attention to the diagram below the verbiage you just posted. Also, the area where it says “PAID”, it might turn to “N/A” which indicates your documents are now processing. Familiarize yourself with the website.There are so many tutorials and YouTube videos that can help you understand the CEAC website. Don’t frustrate yourself without cause. Be Blessed My Sister.

thank you for your advise I do know what message center you are taking about however it does not show on my side. I will need to contact nvc to adjust this. thank you !

@Laura, if you don’t see any messages then there are no changes on the case as of yet. NVC will notify you and your husband when changes are made: either by email or text. Best wishes

thank you @shamondy

I submitted all the forms online through CEAC NVC portal. The forms include AOS from the Petitioner, Joint sponsor, our DS-260 as well as all required civil documents. Since then, Lawfully keeps saying "Action required: Submit required documents". It does not seem to understand that the documents are already submitted. Next is that this message is saying, we should mail the documents to NVC? Seems pretty outdated message. Any thoughts?

I went through the same thing a couple of weeks ago! I mailed everything they asked for and 15 days later they answered me with and email and now my case is complete and is at nvc!

I am not sure why it was very confusing. however it quickly moved when I send in the required forms.

The link clearly says do not mail anything to NVC. So it is conflicting message. Let me wait for a few days and see :-)

@Laura, please explain what you mean “my case is complete and at NVC”. Are you referring to what Lawfully is showing or are you referring to what NVC says in the CEAC portal?

@shamondy a couple a weeks ago my ceac status was asking for me to submit documents like @prabu. I had submitted everything electronically however this message kept appearing when I contacted nvc they ask me to please submit a what was being asked for.( joint sponsor info, ds 260, etc) Nvc sent me an email and 15 days later stating they had received all the submitted paperwork and that I was now on Queue for an appointment. my status changed to at Nvc on my ceac portal. And lawfully. I am now on what is called Documentary Qualified (DQ) and on queue waiting for an appointment! https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=NIV I

@Shamondy This is a little of what the email starts of with! Dear Sir/Madam, The National Visa Center (NVC) received all the requested documentation for this immigrant visa case. The applicant is now in the queue awaiting an interview appointment overseas, where a consular officer will adjudicate the applicant’s visa application.

oh. this is very weird. thanks @laura. I am planning to speak to the number given to see what needs to be done from my side. Did you physically mail all the documents from your country to the USA?

@Laura, thanks for the information

@Prabu yes very weird. I wish I would have known sooner. I kept waiting for a status change. and finally decided to contact them. yes I did physically mail everything to NVC @ Document Review Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I am my husbands petitioner and we are both in the US.

@Laura, has the status of your documents in CEAC changed from “Submitted” to Complete or Qualified?

@Shamondy it has remained in Complete.

@Laura, this is wonderful. very happy for your progress. Glad you and your husband are already together. We are hoping to be reunited. Thanks for the information again.

@Shamondy. thank best of luck to you!

I have the same issue on my application starus. could you tell me how you solved it

@ali nouri, that status is just the information from Lawfully because you may have completed your submissions electronically. Just wait until NVC notifies you about the status, or continually visit the CEAC site for case status.

anyone knows how long will it take for NVC to process a missing documents ?

i have the same problem so stressing . but i think we have to just wait

NVC notified just now that our cases are now DQ’d 🙏🙏

@Prabu which date did u submit ur documents in nvc ?

16-Mar-2022. it takes 75 days for the DQ

congratulations

Thank you for this post and congratulations! It gives me some hope. My case sat at ucis for almost 7 months, is now at nvc, submitted all the documents, paid etc on April 11th 2022. I hope I hear soon! How long once documents are DQ, until interview? My interview location is in Madrid, but I’m here in the USA visiting right now, was told that adjusting status would delay it….if nvc are working to 75 days… I should hear at the end of the month…ish…I hope!

I keep seeing the same message, ‘submit documents’ but all has been submitted 😔

same @raquel I have been seeing the same message however I have been DQ since feb 22 2022

Have did the nvc let you know? Are you at interview stage? Thank you

@Raquel Moore, you should get an email saying document “READY”. If you have not, check CEAC for any messages and follow directions. You will have to click the link in messages to access the note.

The Submit Documents will be there until your documents are reviewed. once READY, that note will change to AT NVC

@raquel I received an email stating they did not need anymore documents from me and that I was on queue for my interview. Now every 60 days I receive the same email saying I am still on queue and to keep waiting.

I have paid all the fees and submitted all the requested document, still yet I'm getting getting "action required, submit requested document, its been 8month my document has been with the NVC" its really confusing I don't even know what to do anymore if I'm to mail the document to their office or just keep waiting

@daniel yes it is very confusing mine still says to submit documents to nvc but i am in queue for an interview. I received the email that i was on queue and that nvc did not need anything else from me. When i reached out to nvc in January they said they were having problems with the status updating on page. However i would recommend submitting an inquiry if you have been waiting with no response or update on page!

@Daniel, that’s a generic message that practically everyone gets. I had same until about a few days ago. I got DQ on 6/18/2022. Don’t stress yourself. If you are really concerned, then give a call to NVC for clarity or submit an inquiry. I submitted an inquiry back in March about the same message and just got a response a few days ago about the status of my file. Again, do not stress yourself.

If someone can answer this I’d really appreciate the help. We were DQ’d Aug 9,2021. Our CEAC has been saying “At NVC”. We got 5 emails of 60 days. I’ve been checking the CEAC website every day. Last Friday 7/29/22 our status changed from “At NVC” to “Action Required” “Sumbot requested documents”. Weird, we’ve already been DQ’d. I’ve been seeing everywhere on my Facebook feed for the group that I’m in that this means our case is being transferred to Ciudad Juárez and soon it will say “In Transit”. Anybody have an idea what this means? Our lawyer has never seen anything like this before I did write to the NVC in an inquiry but of course it takes a while for them to get back to you. Please help

@Christina M, have you checked the messages to see what documents are required? It does not mean your case is moving forward. You should be checking your messages. Also, if you have a lawyer, why aren’t they guiding you through this process.

@Christina that is very interesting that your lawyer has never seen it. However . In Transit status indicates your case is being sent to a U.S. embassy or consulate. Once the embassy receives the application, applicants will receive an appointment letter.

@christina your appomtment is about to arrive congratulations my changed today as well!

im sorry i wanna clarify my first message mine said "no action required: review in progress" now it says "in transit" i am waiting for letter/email of actual date!

@Laura F, our status has not changed to “In transit” yet. we already have been documentarily qualified so I don’t think we have to send any updated taxes. I know we will have to bring them to Juarez. I’m waiting for it to change to “In Transit” but it has not since Friday. when should I expect it to change?

@Christina according to my fb group your day is getting closer i have seen cases starting to become scheduled. its been a year i would expect it to move in the next couple of months. Good luck. and to answer your question better i filed an inquiry because my status showed as submit documents action required for many months. they explained that they were having issues with status updates. this response was given on feb 2022. i wouldnt worry so much if you have everything in place. specially since you have been DQ.

@Laura F, how long did it take for your status to change from “action required, submit documents” to “In transit”?

@christina here is my timelime. PD april 20th 2016 visa type: IR 1 we are together in the us. 1601a was aproved april 19 2021 action required submit documents sept 4 2021 (status changed after inquiry on) at nvc feb 1 2022 DQ feb 24 2022 my status remained at NVC i recieved (2) 60 day emails after this -april 24 2022 - june 24 2022 (email dates) status changed july 29 2022 to "no action required: review in process" Aug 1st 2022 to "in transit" Aug. 3rd 2022 our case has been expedited and we just received an email that we are waiting for juarez to send appointment and that it can take several weeks!

@Laura F, wow that was kinda fast for you once it got going. We started July 2017 I 130 approved 4/2018 I 601A approved 5/2021 after RFE 4/2021 DQ 8/2021 5-60 day emails 7/29 status changed from @ NVC to Action Required, Submit documents. nothing else yet. Still says Action Required, Submit Documents. Who knows. I may just stop checking.

@christina wow our cases are so much alike im sure your status will change soon. i have been wanting a status change for so long and now all these changes in less than a week have me very anxious! we are doing this process alone. no lawyer. best of luck to you and your spouse! 🤞🏽🤞🏽

Hello Guys, I will be happy if I can get a straight answer to my case. I petitioned for my wife and two kids and case is now with nvc. NVC requested for 2020 w2 form /1099, which I sent with applications initially and has been accepted. They requested for same documentation in June 2022, I resend it again with up to date w2 forms and year to date pay stubs to show my financial stability. But to my surprise, they accepted all documents and still requested for it again today. I’m tired, what should I do?

@Gbenga ADEOGUN you either do not have enough income or need to give another form of proof such as your tax transcript. Make sure that the sponsor has enough income for the number of dependents in the home and you. There are guidelines that must be followed. Also, request the past three years tax transcripts and send those. They are easier to read that the W-2/1099. I hope this helps.

@shamondy, thanks for your reply. I do have enough income for 4 of us according to the guideline. I will attach the tax returns documents tomorrow.

@Gbenga ADEOGUN tax return documents and tax transcripts are different.

@shamondy, thank you. I will get tax transcripts and send it to them. Should I upload it or mail it to nvc?

@Gbenga ADEOGUN upload as you have in the past. there is a drop down for tax transcripts.

@shamondy, thank you

@shamondy, upon checking my application, I see that I’ve previously submitted the tax transcript and they accepted it.

@Gbenga ADEOGUN then it is better you contact NVC immediately to know the problem. I heard an attorney say many people are getting this issue. You just have to contact NVC and tell them you submitted the required documents and there are no other documents. Also put a note on those same documents in CEAC. But check with NVC before you do the note.

@shamondy, Thank you for your response. I just submitted an inquiry and hopefully they can fix it soon because I don’t know what else to give to them.

@Gbenga ADEOGUN I suggest you call then (if possible). I know at some point they were not accepting calls from the general public. I am not sure if this is still the same. But be of good cheer. Be encouraged. This will not last always. Please be sure to return with your success story.

@shamondy, thanks for being responsive. I submitted an inquiry on Sunday and also reported the issue to the congress office in my county, and to my surprise they emailed me today that the 2020 w2 forms I uploaded was under the applicants name, that I need to upload it under my name/ the petitioner name. I wonder what difference it make or why couldn’t they explain that to me since march when I’ve been uploading it same way and they’ve also been accepting it like that without further explanation but I’m glad they finally reply with full explanation today. All uploaded accordingly, fingers crossed!

@Gbenga ADEOGUN this is wonderful news! I’m glad to hear you have resolved the issue. Best Wishes

this thread is extremely confusing. no one has given a straight answer. it is frustrating. the original question is: the person submits all documents (civil and financial) on CEAC. the status still says to physically send documents to NVC address. is this really required, or is the NVC status website old/outdated/not applicable? I don't think this question has been clearly answered anywhere in this thread. is this required? I just don't want to voluntarily mail/email the NVC things, and have my case slow down. can someone just please give a straight answer already!

Did anyone get answeres from nvc yet? I already submitted everything, and i still got this message since 8/8/22 NVC cannot review your submitted documents until we have received all of the required documents DS-260, Civil Documents and Financial Documents. Once these documents have been submitted, we will review your case. Please follow your CEAC Home page and https://nvc.state.gov.