Switching Consulates

[Delicia 1]

I am investigating switching the final interview for my husband's IR-1 from the Montreal Consulate to the Santiago Embassy. Unfortunately, I can't find many VJ members applying for an IR-1 through Santiago with any current history, so perhaps this is new ground. Anyway, I emailed the Santiago Embassy and inquired if there is a possibility of having the interview conducted in Chile instead of Canada (my husband is a Canadian LPR and a Chilean citizen). Here is there response:

As your spouse is a Chilean National, we would be able to process him in Chile. In order to do that, we need to receive his approved petition. If the petition is at the NVC, you need to contact them in order to request them to send the file to us for processing. We do not have the exact information regarding the time processing since the NVC completes its part, and the final interview is scheduled in Santiago. The NVC is scheduling final interviews.

So, question 1 down, the possibility exists. There still remains the question of the time frames and if Santiago is really significantly faster than Montreal (but at this point, I haven't seen many Embassy/Consulates be much slower than Montreal) as well as the other questions I have regarding the medical exams. I found this time line of a Santiago K-1 (yes, I know, K-1 is a completely different beast from an IR-1, but its the best I can find right now) and they have their interview already scheduled for April 30 so perhaps this might be worthwhile in pursuing.

I fired off another response to Santiago trying to pin them down a bit more on their wait times as well as inquiring about if the Santiago Embassy would accept a Canadian Panel Physician medical exam or if the exam would have to be performed in Chile. Anyone have any clues where I could investigate the medical exam question?