Well after waiting one month and a day Packet 3 finally arrived from the embassy in Bogota. My
fiance(e) lives in Tulua, about 100 kilometers nothwest of Cali, famous for lost or delayed mail. We had already made an appointment with the embassy for October 10 to obtain and urn in a new packet thinking that the mail was lost in transit. The packet was actually postmarked September 11, 2006. This indicates that the packet left the embassy six days after arrival there. Now if it takes as long for packet 4 to arrive we will just go ahead and check out the website posting for the new November interview dates. Since Tulua is not that close to Bogota we are hopig for an interview date no sooner than November 3, 2006, in order to make travel arrangements. Just some information for those of you who have been waiting a long time for your packet 3.

The embassy web site has already posted interviews through 10/31, so if you don't see it yet, you might get your wish.

Best of luck!