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On 6/10/2017 at 9:28 PM, Frustrated74 said:

I'm headed to Austin. I can just imagine your paranoia. Totally sucks what happened to you. 

 

Yes, I got a letter from the consulate to say they'd received my file. It came a few days after your interview was cancelled so when I first saw the email I instantly thought the worst. I can't recall how long it took for it to say 'ready' but around the time I received the email from the consulate. If your status has changed to at least in transit you should be fine. That's the first status change once your interview is booked. 

 

And the the consulate will ask you to email them to reconfirm your interview. It's all in the email they send. 

Thanks for the heads up! I will definitely keep an eye on my email and the ceac status change.

Happy packing!

Just now, Frustrated74 said:

Yeah. It arrived on Friday so very quick turn around. Leaving in two weeks 😊

Awesome! that's great. Now, let the packing begin hehe. Btw, where are you headed to? 

NVC finally told us our new interview date of July 11th.

I'm constantly paranoid that there may be another "system/booking error"..... so still calling them every other day to confirm/follow up.

I had a question for you. After you received the email for the appointment letter, did you get any other emails following that one? If so, what was the timeline for that? And also, when did your ceac status change from "At NVC" to "Ready"? 

On 6/6/2017 at 9:20 AM, Frustrated74 said:

Visa approved!! In and out of the consulate in about an hour. I never want to go through that again. So relieved it's all over 

Congratulations on your visa approval! Have you received your passport yet?

1 hour ago, May2016 said:

Hi there, 

just to give you an update. I had cc on April 20. NVC scheduled my interview on may 5th but got cancelled on may 11th due to system error. Nothing wrong with the case. They scheduled it again on May15 and the interview date was the same date as before, there was no changes. So my suggestion would be to wait before any cancellation. You may get the same interview date. 

 

thanks for letting me know. Yes, fingers crossed that we get the same date . we had cc on April 19th. Strange, even our interview was scheduled on May 5th... there must have been quite of few glitches that day. Anyway, according to the NVC, they cancelled on 17th May, even though the same day we received an email of our appointment letter. 

the calling continues...

25 minutes ago, Frustrated74 said:

Have you still not heard anything about a new date - or hopefully the same date they originally scheduled? 

  

No, we keep calling everyday and all they say is we cannot give you a timeframe... even asked to speak to a supervisor but no luck. Same answer, "we are sorry for the inconvenience, there is nothing we can do. you just have to wait".

Was anyone's interview date scheduled on May 17th and cancelled?

We were unfortunate enough find out this week that our interview was cancelled and in line to be rescheduled due to some system error! 

The NVC said that there was no issues with our case, it is still case complete, but there was a booking error and had to be cancelled.

Our flights/hotels were booked for June 6th and medical examination done too! ughh... so disappointing.

Does anyone know what can be done in this situation?

3 hours ago, Frustrated74 said:

Has your status on CEAC changed to in transit? Mine still says at NVC but I'm not sure how quickly they send everything to the consulate once they've booked the interview. 

No, mine still shows as "at NVC". I'm assuming they should send it soon. I know that you can call them to confirm the date the p4 documents were sent to the embassy.

Also, thanks for the update with Sonic Plus! We booked our appointment and you were right, they didn't require the appointment letter. Strangely or maybe just a coincidence, after I posted the issue about the interview appointment letter, got the email around 5pm yesterday. (what a relief!)

7 minutes ago, Frustrated74 said:

Oh that's weird. With sonic health. The woman was very casual about it. The details are on the pre-interview checklist for Sydney on the NVC website. There's two different ones. One in Toorak and one in the city. 

 

Phone number is 1300 763 822 (that's the number in my confirmation email)

Thanks! Will try them tomorrow!

Just now, Frustrated74 said:

I haven't received mine either but was able to book the medical no problem. They didn't even ask for my case number but it could depend on the country. I think they're quite slow with sending the email. 

Where did you book your medical? I'm trying to book in a clinic in Melbourne and they are being really strict and are not allowing to book without the appointment letter.

Does anyone know how long it takes to get the interview appointment letter in the email?

Our interview date was scheduled on May 5th for June 6th and still haven't heard anything so it's been more than a week now.

We are getting worried because we can't schedule the medical without the appointment letter. 

We called NVC multiple times and they mentioned that they have notified the supervisor but still no progress.

Anyone in a similar situation?