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On 10/7/2022 at 5:29 PM, DrJayRough said:

Okay, sounds good! I dm'ed you the link

Hey! COuld you please send me the link to the group too? Thanks!

7 minutes ago, DrJayRough said:

Hi, 

 

I think this is an outdated information. From what I am seeing now, it takes them 2 months to schedule a date (maybe even longer). I mean specifically for the immediate relatives category (yours might be different).

 

I requested an expedite right after the first review at the NVC. It was denied. The second time I requested the expedite around 1.5 months into our second NVC review. It was approved.

 

Yes, I did contact the Embassy directly and they scheduled the interview for us earlier than what the NVC´s email was suggesting.

 

Best of luck!

Hello

Thanks a lot for your response! I'm employment-based so timing might be different, but at least it gives me an idea about the general backlog on Madrid's embassy. I think it might be worth it to try the expedite request again once the documents have been reviewed, it may save a month of waiting for the interview.

Thanks

On 9/1/2022 at 11:33 AM, DrJayRough said:

Hi All,

 

First of all, thanks to all VJ members for their unmatched support and knowledge of the process! Without you our journey would be a lot harder and unpredictable. 

 

We are getting close to having our interview appointment at the US embassy in Madrid. We asked to expedite NVC stage second time on Aug 29 and got approved on Aug 31, but when we got an email from NVC they mentioned the following: ¨Please be advised that the earliest Madrid can schedule this case is November given current scheduling.¨ (also see the attachment). This is really weird as we know that Madrid embassy is being very quick these days and takes 1-1.5 months to schedule interviews after DQ. Without the expedite request we were expecting to be DQ´ed around Sep 20, so we would probably be scheduled for the interview in Nov anyways (I understand it is speculations, but it is based on data from 7 people, so there is some legitimacy for that assumption). This basically seems to cancel any time advantage that we may gain after getting expedite approval.

 

The email was received from NVC. How much am I supposed to trust it? Can we ask the Embassy to speed things up? CEAC status check says ¨Ready¨.

 

Thank you!

 

Hello

I’m doing Consular Processing in Madrid too and I’m waiting for the NVC to review my civil docs. My sponsoring employer requested an expedite before submitting the docs and got denied, but the plan is to try again once they are reviewed, and I’m  trying to understand the timeline from this point on...

You said that you know other cases that were scheduled in 1-1,5 months? 

You mention you requested the expedite “second time”, did you get denied the first time? Did you request the expedite before of after the review?

Once you got the request approved and NVC sent you that email, did you contact the embassy to get an earlier appointment?

Thanks in advance for your help, I haven’t been able to find many other cases from Spain and reading about a first hand experience is really useful!