My fiance and I filed in June and have recently gone through a pretty good last month....we got our NOA2...NVC has forwarded our case to the Montreal embassy and tonight I discovered that they had received it on the 26th of November...so here is my problem....I thought we were through the last of the long waits.....Tonight I thought I would check to see how long the interviews were being scheduled out....and to my horror it looks like that at the Montreal embassy it is taking 4-6 MONTHS TO GET AN INTERVIEW date.....WHAT!!!!...I was thinking at the most it would be a month and a half...but FOUR TO SIX MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone out there had any experience with this latedly...could it be true???? Any one out there have any idea on this subject??...Please respond...my fiance and I are a bit frustrated tonight and would love any responses....

Thank you....

Scott & Angelyn....

Hi Scott and Angelyn,

I wish I had some words of wisdom for you....we have just sent our package back to the embassy in London and someone told me it was taking 4-6 weeks to get the interview date, 4-6 months doesn't sound quite right.....I hope someone on here has some better information for you.

Good luck and hang in there. I feel your pain....we have been apart now for almost 7 months.....

Jodi

From what I have read here on VJ, Montreal is a loooooooong wait, soem have tried to have their case transferred to a different embassy in Canuck Land to speed up the process.

Join the club. Ghana is the exact same, 4-6 months for an interview.

Sucks big time

There has been much discussion on this topic over in the Canada forums! Montreal is taking a painfully long time to schedule interviews, although I think that they have been getting slightly faster lately...

If you have family or friends in Western Canada whose address you can use, and if you don't mind taking a long trip to attend your interview, you may be able to switch to the Vancouver consulate. They are scheduling interviews much faster. Here's a thread on the topic, if it's a possibility for you...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...witch+Vancouver

Yes Montreal took a very long time to get to my husband's and my case. It was 5 & 1/2 month wait for us after the NVC stage.

Just to follow up on my previous post after doing a bit more reading...It seems that Vancouver is cracking down somewhat on switching consulates...must have been alot of people doing it! But, if your fiance has ever considered moving to lovely Western Canada, this might be a good time to do it!

Of course the worry is that you make the switch and suddenly things slow down in Van and speed up in Montreal...it's like when you switch lines at the supermarket and the line you choose is always the slow one...

Yes, do check out the wonder-full peops over at the Canada thread at the bottom of the page of various forums.

I have befriended "Operator Number Five" at the Montreal U.S. Consulate.
She/he responds quite quickly to email inquiries.
They have stated more than once that the wait is 4-8 months.
8.

Yup!

I don't want to discuss the rage and frustration.

Nope.

I will just look at pretty flowers:

We waited almost 7 months to get an interview in Montreal.

... Don't make any plans...

Join the waiting for MTL club. We waited for 7 months for an interview.....

I'm so sorry to hear this. It's heartbreaking news, I know. I can't believe that CANADAIAN consulates would be so slow!!! It's not like they have to wait to mail packets because the mail system is so slow (like in Africa). Good luck!!!!!!

Wow... I didn't realise things were so bad... I feel blessed and I don't even have my NOA2 yet...

Thoughts are with all you guys... *hugs*

I'm so sorry to hear this. It's heartbreaking news, I know. I can't believe that CANADAIAN consulates would be so slow!!! It's not like they have to wait to mail packets because the mail system is so slow (like in Africa). Good luck!!!!!!
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Yes Montreal took a very long time, it takes 4-6 monthes thats right
we waited 5 months then we gat our interview in Montreal

Yes, I have heard that your embassy takes a long time. But, please be patient. You two will be together no matter what. And please update your timeline.

You pretty much have to expect a long wait in between every step of this process unfortunately.

Be thankful it's not like the embassy in the Dominican Republic. A good friend has been waiting for his wifes K3 interview to be scheduled now for 21 months and they are still like number 7,000 on the waiting list.

At least Canadians can come visit here easily as a tourist.

But it is amazing how some embassies get away with this, maybe the person in charge has some dirt on the administration or something so they let them slide.

Have you gotten your interview yet? We haven't recieved the packet where he is supposed to get a medical exam yet. Our case was closed and forwarded to the Montreal embassy on Dec 18th.

Let me know as we are still waiting for the medical packet and the interview still.

- Debbie