Why are my dependents not included in the letter from the National Visa Center?

Possibly because the information was not included in the petition. Make sure you send in all the information and provide birth and marriage documents to the NVC.

The National Visa Center should know about your dependents based upon the information you would have already provided. Also, you will include information about your dependents at the time you apply for your immigrant visa at the appropriate American consulate abroad as you complete your application on Form DS-260. Yes, in order to proceed you should pay your fees and continue the process and complete your DS-260.

You should notify the National Visa Center. Your wife and child (under 21 years of age) should have also received an IV fee invoice.

First, why isn''t your I-526 attorney handling this? No one should go through the National Visa Center process on their own; it is a seemingly simple process but one fraught with various complications (and errors from the center). It is common for dependents not to be issued fee bills. You must add them if you want them to get visas and do so before you pay the fees. Call your I-526 attorney or get a different lawyer.

The National Visa Center (NVC) no longer receives a physical file or notice of dependents from the USCIS. Therefore, it is necessary for you or your attorney to notify the NVC of the dependents and provide copies of their passports and evidence of relationship to you (marriage certificate or birth certificate) so that the NVC can add them to the case and issue the immigrant visa fee bills necessary to move the case forward with them included. The NVC usually can do this in a few days to a week. You can pay the IV fee for yourself now or wait until your entire family has the fee bills.