Interview date expedite

[HighlandScott 7]

Yesterday I emailed NVC a request for an expedited interview date; tonight when I called NVC they advised that they had heard back from the London Embassy that the request had been approved. When I started this process I never imagined I'd be making any such request, but a genuine medical emergency has arisen and if we can save even a couple of weeks by this, it can make a big difference.

All the NVC could tell me was that there is nothing more they will do with our case, that it's up to the Embassy now. Does anyone know the process for a situation like this? I know the case is being sent to London- will the Embassy contact the Beneficiary directly? How is the interview scheduled? Does anyone know if these expedites, once granted, really do make a difference in time... or not? I imagine if I tried to call the Embassy to find out how the process works, they'd not be able to tell me anything as they don't have the case yet. Will probably try calling anyway!

If anyone has any experience with something like this, please let me know

[VeraVimes 5]

Have the NVC sent your case to the embassy? If so, it could be worth your while to call them anyway. I assumed it would take my (Amsterdam) embassy at least a week to receive my case and start working on it. When I called them a week later, they said it had also been sent to them electronically and they had received it the same day (so a week earlier) and were already working on it.

Then again, it's certainly a smaller embassy. I would say, call them, see how helpful they are in answering your questions. Once they start to process your case, they should contact you through your mailing address (this might differ for each embassy, I don't know), but they will definitely contact you. Still, I and many others have found that, with these people, it generally can't hurt to badger them a bit.

Good luck with everything, I'm sorry you're going through a rough time.

[HighlandScott 7]

Thank you Vera! And good point about electronic sending. I'm not sure how London works, but I'll give them a couple days to receive it/get it logged in/etc and then contact them.

...Does anyone know- will the embassy speak with/provide information to the Petitioner, or do they only want to deal with the Beneficiary?

Would be good to know before one of us calls up and pays the extortionist fees for the embassy's customer service line!

[Mahmo 0]

I got myself expedited @ Sydney. The consulate contacted me(beneficiary) 10 days after case completion via email, confirming the interview. I was assigned a date 5 days later for the interview.

I'll suggest u call them to confirm a date for early interview, though I understand u have to pay a few quid for a 3 min call. But still worth it!

Good luck

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

Yesterday I emailed NVC a request for an expedited interview date; tonight when I called NVC they advised that they had heard back from the London Embassy that the request had been approved. When I started this process I never imagined I'd be making any such request, but a genuine medical emergency has arisen and if we can save even a couple of weeks by this, it can make a big difference.

All the NVC could tell me was that there is nothing more they will do with our case, that it's up to the Embassy now. Does anyone know the process for a situation like this? I know the case is being sent to London- will the Embassy contact the Beneficiary directly? How is the interview scheduled? Does anyone know if these expedites, once granted, really do make a difference in time... or not? I imagine if I tried to call the Embassy to find out how the process works, they'd not be able to tell me anything as they don't have the case yet. Will probably try calling anyway!

If anyone has any experience with something like this, please let me know

Here's a starter page for London http://london.usembassy.gov/imnvcoct.html The last thing on the page "What happens next" is where you are. It says NVC will schedule the interview. I don't pretend to know the CR1 process details like I do London K1, but know you need the medical exam. So if that hasn't been done, get that appointment asap to speed up things. If London (not the NVC) is scheduling the interview they will wait until they have your medical results.

The embassy will take calls from the USC. It costs a flat $16.00 for 7 minutes for them to answer your call. They don't always give great information either. From the UK it's 1.23/min. They can give you the email code whereby you can get a better answer to the specifics you need to know like who will schedule the interview (NVC or embassy) since you were informed an expedited interview was approved.

[HighlandScott 7]

No contact from the Embassy yet. We will give it until Thursday and then call them.

Here's a starter page for London http://london.usembassy.gov/imnvcoct.html The last thing on the page "What happens next" is where you are. It says NVC will schedule the interview. I don't pretend to know the CR1 process details like I do London K1, but know you need the medical exam. So if that hasn't been done, get that appointment asap to speed up things. If London (not the NVC) is scheduling the interview they will wait until they have your medical results.

The embassy will take calls from the USC. It costs a flat $16.00 for 7 minutes for them to answer your call. They don't always give great information either. From the UK it's 1.23/min. They can give you the email code whereby you can get a better answer to the specifics you need to know like who will schedule the interview (NVC or embassy) since you were informed an expedited interview was approved.

My medical appointment is already schedule for 28 September, this was arranged long before got an expedite on the basis that we knew it'd be at least October before an interview. I hope we don't have to wait until the medical is done before scheduling the interview - in some ways that's worse because it'll be at very short notice (and isn't likely to be much quicker than it would have been if we'd not had the expedite). Hopefully we can speak to the Embassy soon, tell them the interview date, and then book the interview for soon after (like 10 October or something).

[HighlandScott 7]

Update- because of of the expedite, we have not had an interview date scheduled yet (we'd have had it by now if we didn't get expedite). Embassy has our file but will do nothing until I've had the medical (we called them to ask), which was originally booked for 28 Sep but I've now changed it to 14 Sep. Once Embassy gets medical results they will give us an interview date.

I hope the interview date, bearing in mind our expedited status, is very soon after the medical. Presumably we are looked at seperately from those waiting to get a interview date scheduled in the regular way. The downside is- we have uncertainty for longer.

[HighlandScott 7]

Kinda talkin' to myself here lol...but maybe it'll help someone in the future.

It turns out the Embassy just went right ahead and booked us an interview date without waiting for any medical results. As I mentioned above, I brought forward my medical to 14 Sep (wednesday just passed - all went well). Well the Embassy sent me a letter on the same day that I received today (no link between that happening and the medical) with an interview date of 27 Sep - so the expedite really did work and saved us somewhere between 3-6 weeks going by the dates other (non-expedited) people are getting.

[nomadnoor 29]

So I just want to clarify - you got a letter with your interview date - was it by email or by postal mail?

My husband's case just got expedited due to my pregnancy and financial hardship.. The person who called my husband from the consulate said he didn't need an interview letter because the case was expedited?

I am so confused.

Ally & Omar