For nonimmigrant visa inquiries the National Visa Center can be reached by telephone at , the same hours apply. For information on how to check the status of your case with the NVC click here.
For information on how to immigrate a foreign spouse please click here. Please do not include any confidential or sensitive information in a contact form, text message, or voicemail. The contact form sends information by non-encrypted email, which is not secure. Submitting a contact form, sending a text message, making a phone call, or leaving a voicemail does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Schedule a Consultation Sapochnick Home. Schedule a Consultation Phone: Family Visas. What is a priority date? The Civil Document Stage Once the National Visa Center has confirmed that they have received the immigrant visa application, the applicant can proceed with the civil document stage. What is the Civil Document Stage?
Email Processing of Civil Documents In order to streamline the immigrant visa application process, the Department of State has designated certain cases to be processed at select U. Photocopies of required civil documents should be separated by exhibit pages for each civil document enclosed in the application describing the document attached. A professional translation is not necessary, a friend or relative can translate the document for you.
Applicants should review the instructions for their specific embassy or consulate to make sure there are no additional requirements. To review country specific embassy or consular instructions please click here.
To review country reciprocity guidelines please click here. List of Civil Documents For unobtainable documentation, review country reciprocity instructions. Evidence must be provided for the termination of each prior marriage. Provide custody documentation, adoption decree, statement of dates and places the child resided with the adoptive parent s.
The amount of time it takes the NVC to process your case primarily depends on whether you have paid all of the required fees and paperwork.
The required paperwork generally include:. The longer you take to submit these items, the longer it will take for the NVC to process your case. You can check out the most recent updates on NVC processing time frames on the State Department's website.
The National Visa Center processes most cases within 2. You can learn read more about the NVC's processing times in our detailed article on how long application processing takes. When you are ready to get started, we can help you prepare your immigration paperwork for free with our simple web application.
In this section, we will walk you through how to check your case status step-by-step for USCIS and the NVC, depending on which of them has your application.
On the receipt notice, you will find your unique receipt number on the top left corner. Your receipt number is 13 characters long and has three letters, followed by ten numbers. You can access the tracker by visiting www.
You must have your receipt number on hand to use the case tracker. When you have successfully navigated to the USCIS online case tracker web page, you will need to enter your receipt number to check your case's status. You must type in all 13 characters of the receipt number into the box field shown on the web page.
When you're typing the receipt number in, make sure only to include the 13 characters provided. You should not type in any dashes with your receipt number. After typing in your receipt status and hitting enter, you should see your current case status displayed on the screen. USCIS will tell you where your application is in their process here, including information about any notices they may have mailed out to you that you need to respond to. The updates here do not always tell you exactly what your next steps are, but they will give you a sense of where your application is in the overall filing process so that you can decide what you might need to do next.
For more information, check out our article on application processing times for an estimate of how much time USCIS is generally taking to applications like yours at its offices.
Instead of a receipt number, you will need to have the visa case number they assigned to your case early in the application process. On the webpage, you will see options to check your immigrant visa or nonimmigrant visa status. Click the link that applies to you, depending on whether you're applying for an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa. When you have opened the relevant case status tracker, the next step is to enter your immigrant or non-immigrant visa number. The NVC sends you a welcome letter once they begin processing your application.
Your visa number is on the welcome letter, along with other important information about your case. An immigrant visa number is 13 characters long. It usually has three letters in the beginning, followed by ten numbers. There are a few different formats for nonimmigrant visa numbers, but the number is always 8 characters long.
It could be 8 numbers, or one letter followed by 7 numbers. Once you have located your visa number from the NVC welcome letter, enter the number in the portal without any dashes between the characters. After typing in your immigrant visa number into the tracker, you should see your NVC case status. This will be the latest update for your application.
It will not tell you exactly what to do next, but it should give you an idea of where your application is at in the process, and what your next steps will probably be. For more information about each step of the application process, check out our detailed filing guides.
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