US Immigration from Vietnam

So after numerous months our K-1 Visa is finally moving past the NVC stage to the embassy consolate in Ho Chi Minh. When checking the status on CEAC website it states:

"Your case is in transit to the Consular Section. Your interview date was provided to you by the National Visa Center."

I just have a few questions:

1. I was under the impression that we got to choose the interview date online. Although not necessary, I was hoping to attend the interview with my fianc e in order to score extra brownie points, but it will be borderline impossible to get the time off with my employer unless we have some flexibility to choose the interview date.

2. I also thought that submitting fees and affidavit of support was done online as well. When signing online, it states to do DS-160 (which I did already) where do I go about making payments?

3. @Greenbaum I was told a while back there was a welcome type letter for the embassy in Ho Chi Minh that you might have for me? If that could answer my questions that would be great!

Not too long ago, I think about 2 or 3 wkks ago that the Ho Chi Minh consulate website mentioned

"The Consulate is conducting interviews for holders of IR-1, IR-2, CR-1, and CR-2"

I checked today and the wesite now states:

"The United States Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City remains unable to resume full routine immigrant visa services at this time." With no mention of the other visa types anymore.

I've been patiently waiting for k1 visas to start processing again but my case is still stuck at NVC. I expedited my case but the NVC emailed me stating K-1 visas are already expedited? Im getting mixed messages here.

sorry for dumb question. do i pay for i-485 and i-765 all on one check or do they need to be seperate?

Dear all,

I am so excited to have just received the interview letter(email). I am a US citzen my wife is a VN citizen. We are going to HCMC.

Can I accompany my wife to her appointment? Also can our 4month old daughter come aswell(she is already a USA citizen)? I thought I could, but online it mentions translators or aids only. Did something change, because I thought family presence(husband and children) was encouraged.

Thanks for all the help in this process

I have interview appointments for my wife and her daughter scheduled. I'm trying to cancel them and reschedule for a later date. When I logged into the site to do so I'm getting this message:

So based on this I have to wait to miss our appointment to reschedule. Do we just flat out ignore the appointment? We don't need to notify anyone that we are missing the appointment? Seems like it would be better and cleaner to be able to cancel. It would open the appointment slot for someone else.

There's no negative ramifications about missing an appointment? After all of this time I don't want to do something stupid and not be able to recover.