Our NOA-2 has an expiration date of April 7, and on that date we received a 4 month extension which will expire on the 7^th of August, the extension to our understanding that this is a one time only non renewable extension. According to the last conversation I had with a consulate representative on or about May 16^th we are looking at a interview date 6 months in the future, if this date is 6 months from the time of our conversation in May that will place us somewhere in November which also places us 3 months beyond the expiration date of the 4 month extension we received in April. If the 6 months is from the April 7^th date that would place us in October still beyond the 4 month extension by 2 months.

What happens to our petition if we do not get a pre July 7 interview date.

The consulate can extend the expiration of a NOA2 infinitely depending on the reasons behind the delay...

As the delay is due to the fact that they are behind schedule, I don't see why they would not continue to extend....

The first delay was the CDN police certificate which took almost 3 months to get , which I received in April a few days after the NOA-2 expired and presently the doctor that did the examination is delaying matters further by seeking 30+s of year background documentation.

Thank you for the answer this just may go on indefinately

Ours passed the deadline too but they kept it going because they were so far behind schedule.

Thanks for the replies. When I last called about a date they gave none, so I ask them the quesion I asked here and was told that on the day of the interview I would be given a 4 month extension, which to me now is quite funny since why would I need another extension if I am being interviewed. I do think the newer extension would be to cover the time between the elapsed one and the interview date which should be in the area of 30 to 60 days including any RFs that could add further delays.

We had a similar situation, albeit with only our first extension. C. returned the checklist & form about six weeks after he received them, so our interview ended being two days after the NOA2 expired. They extend the validity at the interview; I guess their thinking is that the NOA2 needs to be valid for the visa to be valid, and since they're checking anyway, might as well just update it then.

In any case, you returned the original stuff within the four-month window, so the delay as far as the validity of the NOA2 is on their end in the long time it's taking to get an interview.