Requesting K-1 interview in person at Lagos embassy

[Denica 1]

Hello everyone,

 

This question is specifically for people with experience scheduling K-1 interviews in Lagos. Somewhere someone suggested going to the Lagos embassy in person to request scheduling an interview. We would love to hear specifics for those of you who have attempted this or can speak to it. Is this a good idea? When is the best time to go during the day? Other than proving that we have all the documents required what should we be aware of or consider?

 

We have completed all of the steps required for the interview, including police reports and physicals for my fiance and his children. Our deadline is December 26, 2018  and despite daily checking of the website as many times as we are allowed for the past 6 weeks there has never been an interview available.

 

We inquired with our senator and I recently spoke to a very friendly lady at the embassy who at the end was not able to help me schedule our interview and suggested I keep checking the website.

 

Thank you everyone for giving us hope in this process  and realizing we are all on this journey together.

Dennis and Erica

[geowrian 22,335]

I'd be interested to know if this is possible as well. That said, I would presume not....how would you even get in the embassy without a scheduled appointment?

[ayobammy 14]

Hello, 

 you need to schedule appointment online but when filling the form you should go under immigrant category and you should be fine. All the best. 

[Ryan H 3,790]

Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to US Embassy and Consulate Discussion.

[Denica 1]

On 11/17/2018 at 2:44 PM, ayobammy said:

Hello, 

 you need to schedule appointment online but when filling the form you should go under immigrant category and you should be fine. All the best. 

Thank you for your response and positive wishes!  When filling out the online website I did go into the immigrant category to proceed because I did not see the K-1 visa in the non-immigrant category. I went back and checked after your suggestion hoping there was maybe something I missed and this would help us but it seems to be how it should be!?  It all works fine except when I get to the scheduling appointment page there have not been any appointments available.

[dwheels76 5,459]

No it's not possible they won't even  talk to you. Scheduling an interview you just have to keep on looking. You might have to consider to schedule further out. But I know many have said they just keep checking. Cancellations happen every day so you just have to keep trying.

 

But why would you get physicals before you even have an interview. The clock starts ticking for the 6 months validity of the Visa to exit the country you are making it a very small window jumping the gun so soon.

 

Just keep checking the schedule is all you can do I mean like you and your finance both have 24 hour watch on the schedule.

[Denica 1]

6 hours ago, dwheels76 said:

No it's not possible they won't even  talk to you. Scheduling an interview you just have to keep on looking. You might have to consider to schedule further out. But I know many have said they just keep checking. Cancellations happen every day so you just have to keep trying.

 

But why would you get physicals before you even have an interview. The clock starts ticking for the 6 months validity of the Visa to exit the country you are making it a very small window jumping the gun so soon.

 

Just keep checking the schedule is all you can do I mean like you and your finance both have 24 hour watch on the schedule.

I appreciate your reply. We decided to finish all the physicals because we were realistically expecting to be able to get an interview before our Dec 26th deadline and just can't give up hope on that. Not sure where you are in your process but we log in and only get 5 tries before being done for the day. We tried originally logging in with multiple devices to see if we could get more chances. We have yet to see a single interview available so would jump at just about anything. Any suggestions on best time of day to increase our luck (Nigeria time)?

Thanks again

[Rmbatcho 1]

Where you able to schedule an appointment. I just checked and they have open spots now

[dwheels76 5,459]

On 11/19/2018 at 11:01 PM, Denica said:

I appreciate your reply. We decided to finish all the physicals because we were realistically expecting to be able to get an interview before our Dec 26th deadline and just can't give up hope on that. Not sure where you are in your process but we log in and only get 5 tries before being done for the day. We tried originally logging in with multiple devices to see if we could get more chances. We have yet to see a single interview available so would jump at just about anything. Any suggestions on best time of day to increase our luck (Nigeria time)?

Thanks again

There's no deadline. Don't worry about the expiry date the embassy extends that. Just get that interview date as soon as possible. 
But you should have waited for medicals now you have started the 6 month clock to leave Nigeria.

 

You have to keep trying. Sorry.

[LivFavor 17]

12 hours ago, dwheels76 said:

There's no deadline. Don't worry about the expiry date the embassy extends that. Just get that interview date as soon as possible. 
But you should have waited for medicals now you have started the 6 month clock to leave Nigeria.

 

You have to keep trying. Sorry.

Hi Dwheels, 

 

Please when do you advice someone goes for his or her medicals? A month before interview date? 3 weeks? 2 weeks? 

[Teetop 4]

Please call them, they might have a date for you.. also make sure you schedule interview appointment before the expiration of petition approval.. best of luck 😉

[Denica 1]

On 11/30/2018 at 10:10 AM, Rmbatcho said:

Where you able to schedule an appointment. I just checked and they have open spots now

It was sweet of you to say that and try to help. We finally got one for early April. Last week was the first time in almost 5 months of daily checking that I could see a calendar. It shocked me to actually see it. Good luck with your process and thanks