What should I pay attention to when immigrating to the United States?

1. Received the notice of payment of visa fee from NVC, and each person paid $345. Be sure to check the number of applicants on the payment notice. Sometimes, NVC will miss applicants. Of course, if you add a baby or your marital status changes, you need to inform NVC at this stage to determine how many people apply, and then NVC will re-issue a new payment notice according to the final number of applicants, and then pay according to the instructions on the notice.

How to pay: There are detailed instructions on the payment notice. There are basically two ways. One is that domestic banks buy money orders (this method used to be possible, but now it is very inconvenient); The other is online payment, but you need to have an American bank account. If not, you can consider opening an American account, or you can transfer the money to your immigration lawyer to help you pay online.

The second way is convenient and quick. Because the first method still needs to go to the bank to buy it, and it will hit a wall. In addition, the original draft must be sent to NVC in the United States, and NVC cannot proceed to the next step until the original is cashed, which takes a long time and a long way.

2. After payment, you can log in to NVC official website and enter the case number starting with GUZ and the invoice ID number on the payment notice to check the payment status. After the payment is successful, it will be updated from in progress to paid, which will take several days. Once "Paid" is displayed, you can click "Start Now" to start filling out the DS-260 immigrant visa form and preparing NVC documents.