Is it possible to be unaware of you interview date?

[Rick&Maeve 8]

The embassy received the petition on March 7th, The Call in Letter was mailed out March 26th (still haven't received it, will be checking PO Box again this Tuesday) and there's a recent CEAC status update for March 31st? Is it possible that the March 31st update might be an interview scheduled for next week and we don't know about it? I emailed the embassy on Tuesday asking this question and this was the response:

Our records indicate that a call-in letter was mailed out on 26 March, 2014. Seeing that this was just mailed last week, please have her wait until next week to come. They may come to the U.S. Embassy Accra next Wednesday morning at 7:30 am to pick up the appointment package. The package will have the instructions necessary to proceed further with the case. Please be aware that the applicant will drop off this letter in the morning and then return at 2:00 p.m. to receive the package and interview date.

The applicant should also bring a copy of this email to be admitted to the Consular Section.

So in response to this email we assumed that we needed both the call in letter and a copy of the embassy email to pick up the appointment package. In the event that we don't receive a call in letter before Wednesday can she go to the embassy with just the embassy email? Does the Call In Letter have the interview date on it? I just want to confirm that there's no interview scheduled for next week or before she's able to pick up the interview package. I'm actually hoping she has a couple weeks of breathing room to get her medical, police reports & DS-160 complete before interview. Thank's everyone for you help, it always greatly appreciated.

[Makafui 15]

yes I went to the Embassy to get my interview date with the letter send to me from the embassy.The letter that was mailed out to me even got to me late and if i were to be waiting for that letter to come,i would have missed my interview date.So please go with the letter sent to u by the embassy.just print the email that was given to u from the Embassy and then take it with u to the embassy on Wednesday Morning at 7:30am. You will only drop that letter off with the security and then go back to the Embassy at 2;00pm to pick your interview date.And also make sure to go for ur medicals when its about 3 weeks to the interview.Do not do the medical early because it might expire few days after the interview.For the Police report,its good for 1 year so that is much better but for the medicals,its good for 6 months.

[Togbega II 25]

The embassy received the petition on March 7th, The Call in Letter was mailed out March 26th (still haven't received it, will be checking PO Box again this Tuesday) and there's a recent CEAC status update for March 31st? Is it possible that the March 31st update might be an interview scheduled for next week and we don't know about it? I emailed the embassy on Tuesday asking this question and this was the response:

So in response to this email we assumed that we needed both the call in letter and a copy of the embassy email to pick up the appointment package. In the event that we don't receive a call in letter before Wednesday can she go to the embassy with just the embassy email? Does the Call In Letter have the interview date on it? I just want to confirm that there's no interview scheduled for next week or before she's able to pick up the interview package. I'm actually hoping she has a couple weeks of breathing room to get her medical, police reports & DS-160 complete

before interview. Thank's everyone for you help, it always greatly appreciated.

U are good to go for your package by submitting the email response from the consulate. Wishing you the very best

[Rick&Maeve 8]

It sounds like I can only go to the embassy on Wednesdays so she's definitely going next Week. Is it possible to get the embassy to give me my interview date from the embassy on a Monday or ask them to give it to me via email? Thank you Mahkafui & Jahk18 for your response. Now I'm getting nervous that she's going to miss her date. I hope there is a way to get them to tell me our interview date before this Wednesday. What happens if we miss the interview? Can I show them this email I posted advising us to come this Wednesday instead of last Wednesday in the event they did schedule an interview before then? I'm really hoping we have 4 to 6 weeks from the date they mailed out the call in letter.

[Makafui 15]

Package 3 and 4 are only giving on Wednesdays.If he or she go to the embassy at any other day apart from Wednesday,the Embassy will not give her the package 3 and 4.So please just do according to what the letter stated.Thanks

[Rick&Maeve 8]

The call in letter was at the po box today and it was stamped by the post office as arriving Thursday April 3rd. So I'm assuming they wouldn't schedule an interview the week after mailing out the call in letter. We will just have to wait until this Wednesday to find out. Thanks Mahkafui & Jahk18 for the help!

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[Curry and Cherry 1]

The call in letter was at the po box today and it was stamped by the post office as arriving Thursday April 3rd. So I'm assuming they wouldn't schedule an interview the week after mailing out the call in letter. We will just have to wait until this Wednesday to find out. Thanks Mahkafui & Jahk18 for the help!

Exactly. I am sure she went to pick up the packet 3&4 today. She will have about 30 days or more to go for the interview. And within that time she can get every thing ready. All the best in your journey.

[Rick&Maeve 8]

Got my interview date today & it's two weeks from now 4/24. Not much time to prepare medicals. She's going to Trinity Clinic,has anyone gone there or know how much it costs? Mavis is going on Monday, I hope we can get the results back in less than a week?

Also, did we receive Packet 3? All she said she received today was her appointment letter and instructions. Wasn't she supposed to receive the petition I mailed to the USCIS to bring to the interview? We're having difficulty finding a photo lab in Accra that will Date Stamp out photos. One guy said he could do it and after waiting several hours Mavis learned he was typing the dates on the photos. So she's just going to use http://www.batchphoto.com/ to extract the meta data & then print out the photos again. The photo lab almost made her miss getting back to the embassy on time.

So interview date scheduled 3 weeks from receiving call in letter and roughly 6 weeks from Embassy receiving the petition. I guess this fits in with the average processing time for Ghana?

Edited April 10, 2014 by Rick & Mavis

[Aya_P 17]

I was at holy trinity, takes 2 weeks, but she can talk to the guy who collects the money and arranges the doctor's meet, so that he accelerates the process, a few extra cedis for him.

police report also 2 weeks, but can be accelerated, also a few extra cedis.

great she didn't allow them to 'edit' the photo, could be tampering in eyes of emb.

for me, I wrote the location, persons in photo and date(month and year), behind photo, and it went great.

[Rick&Maeve 8]

She just did her medicals today & she will get the results next Friday. We have the police report already. We gave up on date stamping photos in Accra, she's just going to write the date on the back of photos.

Please disregard my link for batchphoto.com! I purchased this software yesterday & it immediately told me there was an error with my card, however they charged my card for the transaction. I called them about it & there was no one to talk to and their based out of Romania. So I emailed them my concern and still no response so my apologies for suggesting this software.