Steps Five, Six And Seven - NVC Receives Case, NVC Forwards Case to Foreign US Consulate and Foreign US Consulate Receives Case

These 3 Steps Take Place Between September 8th and September 16th.

These 3 steps are really short, unless you get unlucky.

Thankfully, I did not.

On September 8th, we got a touch. I mentioned it in the last post, but I thought I'd mention it again anyway. I know the dates here kinda smush in with the ones in the last post, but that's how stuff works.

I'm unsure if that touch was the case being sent to the National Visa Center (NVC) or it was the NOA2 being mailed, but whatever.

On September 10th, our case was received at the NVC.

What does the NVC do? Not much for K-1 cases. All they really do is assign a new case number depending on your consulate. Mine has MTL at the beginning, since it went to Montreal.

We got lucky though, we weren't put into Additional Processing. Additional Processing (or AP) is a random process in which random cases are pulled from the piles and are given extra checks. Not sure what exactly, but we managed to escape that.

We called the week after it was sent away, since I didn't really want my fiance having to call them alot trying to see if it had been sent off or not. He couldn't get through until September 15th, which was good timing. They had sent off our case that day to Montreal. We didn't get stuck in AP. Thank goodness.

NVC sends their cases to consulates via DHL shipping, so I was able to follow it through that. It was very fast, the petition arrived in Montreal the next day, September 16th.

First one of that shipping date to get to the consulate.

It was good to know it got there... but it got to consulate hell.

Montreal is known for being one of THE slowest consulates in the world.

I don't get why really, since you'd think we'd have semi fast processing. It must be because Montreal is the only place that CR-1 visas are processed, thus slowing everything else down.

Vancouver's K-1s are pretty fast though.

Time for more waiting.

Steps of a K-1 Visa:

• US Petitioner and Foreign Beneficiary Collect Needed Documents
• I-129F Package Sent
• Notice Of Action 1 Received by US Petitioner
• Notice Of Action 2 Received by US Petitioner
• Case Forwarded to the National Visa Center
• Case Forwarded to the Foreign Beneficiary's US Consulate
• Case Received by Foreign Beneficiary's Local US Consulate
• Forms and Checklist Sent to Foreign Beneficiary
• Foreign Beneficiary Compiles Needed Forms
• Foreign Beneficiary Sends Completed Forms to US Consulate
• US Consulate Issues Interview Date
• Interview Conducted at the US Consulate

Legend: Strikethrough + Blue show past steps, Bolded + Red shows current step