London approved expedite...no appointment yet

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Hello everyone,

I have been very impressed with the amount of information and support I find on these VJ forums, and I couldn't help but want to be a part of it, and to be able to help other ppl that are on this same journey of love and happiness. Thank you all very much for what you all have been doing here.

I'm quite new here and posting for the first time, and forgive the mouth-full I'm about to spill out here...I hope I can get some valuable insight from VJers.

So, we requested an expedite at the NVC Phase, and the stupid thing was bureaucratically red-taped and delayed all the way from late February to April, and they kept giving us an impression that it would not be approved, and we accepted this. How about after the case was completed the last few days in march and was supposed to have an appointment scheduled sometime in April for May, I was told it was forwarded to London for expedite?!?!? OK GREAT...I suppose, but wait, London refuses to schedule a thing until they have the medical; WHAT? NVC Would have scheduled the interview without the medical results yet, and my hubby had been waiting for London to get the files before they receive the medical to keep the London office from losing what they don't have a file for yet. Now we are dealing with both EASTER AND the ROYAL WEDDING back to back holidays. How could the NVC do this? I know one might say we got lucky with the approval, but it really wasn't supposed to happen anymore. How is this happening. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to resolve this problem right now cos I'm supposed to be deploying in 3 weeks time which was the reason for the expedite request months ago.

Now it's just like the NVC completed the case and refused to schedule an appointment when the time came for them to do that, but rather sent the case to London for further delaying rather than the other way around. I had called London to remind them that this is an NVC-processed case and therefore should have an appointment set up without necessarily having a medical report, but the have adamantly refused to do anything else other than wait for Easter and the royal wedding. I NEED HELP, PLEEeease! Medical was done last week, and all went well with that. I dont's even know how much longer it will take for his interview to be scheduled; even though it got to London under the pretence of an expedite, they sounded very far from that on those million-dollar phone calls

On the other hand, should I be worried that hubby bears a Nigerian passport as a Uk legal resident; would this have much to do with his approval? He has been to US on visiting visas a few times in the past few years already and has never overstayed on any of the trips.

I need as many people as can give me some useful information, clue, suggestions, and advice on how to proceed with all the above information.

Thank you all for taking the time to read through all this, I know, it's a lot.

I will be working to get my timeline updated soon, just signed up.

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I thought medical reports are forwarded to embassy within a week...call Knightsbridge & find out if they did in fact send it and if so, call the NVC and tell them that its urgent they set up your interview for the next available appt because of deployment (they can get you one within 3-4 days according to the posted london timeline) ...ask for a supervisor if you have to. If you are successful & get an appt for next week, ask if they will email the appt letter since you will need it for interview & can't wait for it to come in the post. If you didn't send US sized passport photos to NVC, bring those & enough money on a debit/credit card for courier service (ask to epedite that as well). I've never tried it but that's what I would do in your situation...maybe someone with experience can suggest something more. Good Luck to you!

PS: if he's a legal resident of the UK, where his passport was issued shouldn't matter. Did you forward police certificates from all countries lived in since age 16? and court records if he had any convictions? that would probably matter.

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I thought medical reports are forwarded to embassy within a week...call Knightsbridge & find out if they did in fact send it and if so, call the NVC and tell them that its urgent they set up your interview for the next available appt because of deployment (they can get you one within 3-4 days according to the posted London timeline) ...ask for a supervisor if you have to. If you are successful & get an appt for next week, ask if they will email the appt letter since you will need it for interview & can't wait for it to come in the post. If you didn't send US sized passport photos to NVC, bring those & enough money on a debit/credit card for courier service (ask to expedite that as well). I've never tried it but that's what I would do in your situation...maybe someone with experience can suggest something more. Good Luck to you!

PS: if he's a legal resident of the UK, where his passport was issued shouldn't matter. Did you forward police certificates from all countries lived in since age 16? and court records if he had any convictions? that would probably matter.

Thanks trojam for the suggestions, and interview prep. I have tried and tried and then tried some more to have someone at the NVC make this right, but they continue to wash their hands clean of the case, claiming they no longer have the case file in their hands. knightsbridge has infact sent the report to the embassy and I think they should have this by now but they say they don't, and they had the guts to charge me for yet another empty phone call. As for the police certificates and passport photos, they been had those all the way from the NVC.

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Called again and no go. What else can I do?

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I emailed the Embassy in London, and all they replies was that they would schedule appointment shortly; what do they mean by 'shortly'? How is "shortly" defined in their vocabulary/dictionary?