US Immigration from Philippines

Hello,

I am currently after NOA2 (since May 2020) and waiting for NVC to send my application to the US Embassy in Manila. Perhaps my emails weren t good enough, but I have tried expediting to the Manila embassy a few times already due to Financial Hardship and because I was having a surgery and all times they denied me. This is what the NVC emails usually say:

"Dear Sir/Madam:

Thank you for your patience. We sent your request to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in PHILIPPINES. However, they cannot expedite this case. To be fair to all applicants, the Department of State schedules immigrant visa interviews in the order that the cases complete processing at the NVC.

You will be notified once this case is transferred to the U.S Embassy/ Consulate.

Please note only the U.S Embassy or Consulate has the ability to approve or deny expedite requests.

To learn more about NVC processing, please visit: http://nvc.state.gov/ for English or http://nvc.state.gov/espanol for Spanish"

Does anyone have any suggestion on how to get past this wall?

Has anyone tried doing the covid test at PAL Learning Center (Manila) or PAL Gate 3 (Pasay)? How true is their turnaround time of 24 hrs to release the results?

Is there any place available to book in ermita or manila relatively close to SLEC and USEM to go get medical and get interview done? My wife has called all over and each place says they only accept quarantine people no outside bookings of any sort. Medical has to be done now 2 weeks before interview and we scheduled for march 9th at Slec and interview is march 26th, we are having problems finding a place for her to stay now for 3 weeks cause of the BS.

Wife's Passport expired in Sept 2020. Due to "Covid" consulate was shut down. Now, they open up for appointments for March and April. Knowing they have a faulty system, they recommend hitting refresh all day and maybe you can get on line. The better part of 10 hours spent refreshing. We did make it to the April calendar but would not load. Some said they actually made it to the captcha before freezing. Our last attempt got us the welcome screen from Wordpress. I can't believe a gov org is running their website on WordPress? FB is on fire with complaints. Oh well, Maybe in April we can get her an appointment for May or June. I read that there are over 1.2 million Filipinos in SoCal, SoNev, and Az.. We will be filing her ROC here in a month or so, perhaps she will eventually get a US Passport long before a Philippine Renewal. I thank God everything is ok that she does not have to travel anywhere. (Ok, Rant mode off!) LOL

My spouse is former Filipino, born here but raised as USC. We have not seen him in a year. There is no embassy in Afghanistan, where he is working. What does he need to do to come home to see us?