From what I was told by NVC is that there's a limited # of appointment slots that consulate gives to NVC each month. NVC told me they will schedule thru tomorrow for December. No appointment by tomorrow then will be January or later. For CDJ, it looks like the modern trend from the spreadsheet here on VJ is that CDJ will send appointment notices around the 25ish end of thr month to the first week of the next month. For CDJ it looks like there's about a 100 day average between case complete and appointment.