E-mailing Consulate to Speed up Interview Date?

[matlm 1]

My wife and I spoke with an immigration lawyer-friend of ours. He suggested that writing a heart-wrenching letter to the consulate could help get us a May interview. I am a bit hesitant to do this, however. What's the conensus on doing something like this?

[daviddelen 34]

You are joking right?

[Boiler 47,328]

Must be a standard text on VJ...

[imse82 45]

It won't hurt to try. You can always ask them for earlier date if you feel the need. Worst case your reason will not seem strong enough for them and they will just schedule you when they can.

[long_ 3]

You can send an email asking for standby if they have an opening if someone cancels. That's what me and my wife did and where able to get in on an earlier appointment.

[ahsan.verma 2]

Greetings,

Interview dates are available when the consulate has an open seat on his schedule. It does not hurt to try, IF YOU ARE ALREADY COMMUNICATING WITH SOMEONE, than it makes sense to write a really needy letter requesting an interview ASAP.

Most likely, this is only available and such requests are gladly accepted most times when there is a danger of your well being, extreme hardship conditions in your society/area/city or country. Until than you should wait your turn as there are many thousands in line ahead of you waiting as well.

[Jamnan_n_Steve 17]

We wrote and asked for and received an earlier appointment. We were polite and assured them we were ready to interview and able to to travel on a few days notice. We did note that we had underestimated the time necessary to obtain the police certificate and that the original appointment date would put me into conlict between my commitment to support my fiancée and some civic duties back home. I lastly told them we had made plane reservations prior to filing the 129f (showing how naive we were when we started out) so please keep us in mind.

The appointment was moved forward and Jamnan got her greencard in the mail a day shy of a year since the day we first met.