Vietnam is currently processing DQ from late May for October interviews. My DQ is June1 so an anticipate my wife and daughter will have thier interviews in November as long as everything holds true to form.
We are not going to move to the US until after the school year is finished so around June 1. I want to delay the visa issuance until January or even February. I was wondering if an option other than asking to reschedule the interview for a later date would be to go to the interview whenever it is scheduled and intentionally not do the medical exams for both of them. That way they can clear the interview but get 221g forms for both for the missing medical. As long as there isn't a time limit to reply to the 221g like 30 or 60 days we could wait to January, get the medicals done and then submit them on the 221g. Side benefit is the date of the medical would be very close to the visa issue date.
Is there any risk at all do doing it this way or should I just postpone the interview? According to what I read online all it says is to reschedule only if you have to because "rescheduling could result in a significant delay". I'd have basically seven months to reschedule before our planned travel date. I'm wondering if that is a safe amount of time to reschedule?
If the 221g doesn't have a time limit to exipre it appears to me that it would be safer since the interview has been conducted and all we would need to do is send in the medical reports. Anyone have any experience with this? The travel.state.gov webpage for AP isn't clear on this. I saw a reference to 30 - 60 days to reply on another site but it isn't a definitve statement.