The second government agency involved in the immigration process is the National Visa Center (NVC). The purpose of this agency seems to be to collect money as inefficiently as possible.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service sent our paperwork to the NVC in August 2004, it arrived in October 2004. By pony express obviously!

At this point we started the actual process of getting the visa. A call to the NVC gathered the information that everything should take from two weeks to 45 days. Unfortunately, things didn