Waiting for Interview

[carolineden11 2]

Hi everyone,

I mailed my package 3 back in March and still haven't heard anything about an interview. I know they said to give them 6 weeks but I wanted to see how far into the summer they were scheduling interviews so I went online to the US visa service website. I've done this a number of times but today it said that no appointments were available. Does anyone know why?

[iampatricias 17]

Well, the last time I checked there were openings in the last week of July. Have you called the DoS to see if Packet 4 has been sent to you?

We're not sure why the appointment scheduling isn't offering any dates, but it's possible it could be related to the rumours of the government shut down from last week...? The service stopped 'working' on Wednesday, I think, which is when superiors were given instructions on how to proceed in case of a shut down and who could and could not come to work etc. etc. but now it looks like the politicians have shook hands on a budget deal, so Obama offered a 4 day extension on the old budget so that they could write the deal up and sign the paperwork for said deal on Thursday.

Possibly the service will be up and running again on Monday morning? We just have to wait (some more) at this point.

[carolineden11 2]

Thanks for the advice. It still isn't working today but perhaps tomorrow or later this week!