Hi folks (and Candace in particular),

Just wanted to let the Frankfurt folks know that if you are not in a big hurry to get your interview, they may take a while scheduling it (ok, not "a while" in the scheme of things but "a while" compared to people who are trying to leave quickly and the ones we have seen lately). We faxed our last stuff 4 weeks ago and still no letter in the mailbox . I think it is known that they take into account when you want to leave the country, and since we said mid-October, we were not top prio. Everything seems to be in order though, see timeline.

Also, we put some info on our fax cover letter as to when we would be out of the country and unavailable, and the person who ended up with the file didn't have that information, so it looks like the cover letter got ditched and it was lucky we called. I don't know if it maybe makes sense to write that sort of info on the OF-169 form itself.

Anyway we were hoping to get our interview date before we went on honeymoon but unless it comes tomorrow morning, it's not gonna happen. I assume they now have our schedule now and they won't pick the date for sometime in 2 weeks we are gone, ack! I would not be happy if we were denied due to missing the interview & had to reopen the case! We'll have a friend check the mail

Hi Suzy,
Thanks so much for posting this. The only indication we gave was on the OF-169 where it says date of departure is I wrote 'Jan-Mar 2007' - I guess this means that we'll be in the same boat as you. There's no great problem but I'm sure you feel the same in that I want to get it sorted sooner rather than later - the paperwork I have gathered is relevant now; Chris will be earning a different salary etc come later this year and I guess that means filling out another I-864 etc.
I will let you know as and when we hear anything. Oh, and have a great honeymoon!
~Candace

I got Packet 4 in the mail today with my appointment date - 10th October. They seem to have taken my anticipated travel date of January-March '07 noted on the OF-169 into consideration, which is great.

My appointment is at 7:30am (yuck!) so we will most likely go to Frankfurt the day before, and I guess I might not be going for the medical the same day. However, on the appointment letter it seems to suggest I can go there after the interview - I shall be contacting the Doctor about this, as I would much rather go to the medical after the interview and only have one trip to Frankfurt. I am still in two minds about it though, and just may go for the medical sometime between now and then so it's over and done with.

We got our appt letter while we were on vacation-- it's Sept 11 at 8:30am. This is one of the 2 dates we requested so we are pleased! Booked up our DeutscheBahn advance summer saver train tickets as well so things are moving along. It's just over a week from now!

Yay! Good luck!! Let me know how it goes