Forward Motion

The long awaited for packet (email really) with instructions has arrived!  Awesome news!  Now we can submit the last set of papers that will bring me and honey closer together and away from NVCland.  Oops!  What’s this?  Police clearance?  If your spouse has been overseas away from their country for more than a year you need a police clearance?  Wait.  Let me get this straight…  We have to submit ourselves to another foreign government?  Subject ourselves to the whim of another government bureaucracy and their mail delivery system?  Great!  My beautiful wife spent years in Korea and Taiwan.  Time to go to visajourney.com for advice!

The $400 Immigrant Visa Bill payment is accepted into NVC sytem. You’d think with technologies today this would be an instantaneuos transaction. Go figure.  Another positive step in the right direction.

After calling the automated system for nearly 2 days just to get a busy signal, I was able to get through.  6 days after mailing in my AOS I-864EZ, it was accepted into the NVC system.  The automated voice system announced it was waiting for the Choice of Address and Agent form before it could generate the Immigrant Visa bill.  Once that bill is paid my package will hopefully soon after arrive at the U.S. embassy in Manila (USEM).  Things are moving exceedingly well.  Wolverine!

I order to speed things along I decided to choose a not to often talked about form.  Instead of the I-864 (Affidavit of Support) form, I decided to go for the I-864EZ.  Per the instructions accompanied by the I-864EZ, I qualified to submit it.  It is a few pages less than its parent form and I believe simplicity is the way to go.   The scary part is the form instructions and other sources have contradictory information regarding supporting documents to be sent in with the I-864EZ.  In this case, I just sent in the last three years tax transcripts.  The total package looked pretty light and I am hoping it is sufficient enough to satiate the NVC machine. Well, off to the post office!  Bonzai!

After work, this morning I set about with my wife to tackle the second of three obstacles.  Using the DS-3032 email format provided by a fellow VJer, my wife and I collaborated and sent our DS-3032 Choice of Address and Agent form via email.  Once the NVC accepts our request, I will be able to pay the $400 for the immigrant visa.  As a back up, I scanned the DS-3032 provided in the AOS bill packet and emailed it to Jenny for her to sign and overnight mail back to the U.S..  You can never be to careful my friend!  Excelsior!

DS-3032 Hardcopy

Pounced on a chance to speed things up today!  The long awaited for (well not really but it feels like it) AOS bill arrived.  I went out to the mailbox at 2:00pm and just knew that the fat envelope inside  had to be it.  Unfortunately, I had to be at work tonight.  However, I was too excited and went online to pay the bill which amazingly in this day and age takes 2-3 days to process.  One of 3 tasks completed in our NVC journey.

Tonight during the lull in the action at work, I placed a call to the NVC’s automated voice system.  I was ecstatic to find out that on the 2nd of October the NVC had mailed the Ds-3032 aka Choice of Agent form to my sweetheart.  Simultaneously, the NVC had mailed the Affidavit of Support bill to me.  The quicker I pay the AOS bill, the quicker I will get permission to fill out and return the form to the NVC.  On Jennifer’s side of things, the quicker she lets the NVC know who her agent is going to be, the quicker I will get the IV (Immigrant Visa) bill and pay for it.  Once the AOS is submitted and the Immigrant Visa bill is paid our packet will be on its way to the U.S. embassy in Manila…  Things are finally moving quick now…  Dare I say she might be here in November?  Probably just wishful thinking!  Excelsior!