mikeandgeraldine

Fair enough.  All makes sense.  I appreciate the guidance...and the tempering.  Maraming salamat!

OK I have a similar, but slightly different question:  Can I schedule the Interview, at risk, once I get the Case# and schedule the Medical all in the same week?  What are the downsides?  Here is the situation at hand for additional context:

• Girlfriend (Filipina) and I (US Citizen) met in Europe - been dating for 3 years
• We now have a 9 month old little girl, born in Europe (US Citizen already - as I am US Citizen - CRBA obtained)
• GF visa expired so got her back to Philippines while we process her K1 - she lives in small town about 10 hours North of Manila
• I travel to Manila now every 6-8 weeks and spend a month (I am lucky I have flexibility from work to do this - work remote US hours...hard but worth seeing my girls)
• We received our case number from NVC two days ago (27th).
• DS-160 has been filed - confirmation page in hand
• I am leaving the Philippines on December 16th - back to US

Is it worth the risk to schedule an interview with the embassy for a day or two before I leave (about 2 weeks away) in the hopes that the embassy received the case and status is changed to Ready?  And in parallel get the medical exam done while we are both here in Manila together?

I am trying to understand the downside - if for some reason the status is not Ready, would we not just reschedule? for a week or so out?  But at least we would have everything else ready to go?

I appreciate the help and guidance here!