MTL (and others) Waiting for an interview date

[L_n_O 3]

Hello Everyone,

This is a great forum you guys have going. I have been a "on-looker" for a bit, as I am to waiting to the golden ticket.

WaitForever: Could you please add me to your spread sheet? My time line is below...

Thanks,

Anthony

you're already on my spreadsheet...

[WaitForever 0]

Bump. Just making sure that if you do have an interview letter from Montreal for Sept/October that you a. report it here as soon as you get it and b. update your time line. Our sanity depends on it!

Edited September 15, 2008 by WaitForever

[WaitForever 0]

ACCIDENT MIRES MONTREAL CONSULATE

Special To The Montreal Gazette: (Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Sep 15th, 2008) - A concrete truck crashed into the US consulate here in Montreal at 1155 rue St-Alexandré, spilling its contents. The amount of concrete, which was substantial, flooded all three floors of the consulate, but hardest hit was the Visa Processing Center, where hard working processors were actually frozen in place by the fast flowing and fast setting concrete. Operator 5, one of the hardest working processors, was actually walking towards the mail room with a huge stack of interview letters when she was literally frozen in place by the concrete. "It happened so quickly, we barely had time to react" she said, still clutching the stack of letters for visa applicants interviews in her hand. Workers will be toiling day and night to free the trapped consulate workers. "This is almost as bad as the molasses spill last year, and the Super Glue spill the year before" recounted Operator 4. While another consulate worker who was on a smoke break offered to take the letters out of Operator 5's hand and mail them, she demurred "Once I'm free, I'll mail them" she said. Such dedication! The Montreal Search and Rescue Team hopes to have the workers freed by the end of this week. And possibly have those letters in the mail by then.

...jk

[L_n_O 3]

hehehe

good work

[ChasingAmy 0]

ACCIDENT MIRES MONTREAL CONSULATE

Special To The Montreal Gazette: (Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Sep 15th, 2008) - A concrete truck crashed into the US consulate here in Montreal at 1155 rue St-Alexandré, spilling its contents. The amount of concrete, which was substantial, flooded all three floors of the consulate, but hardest hit was the Visa Processing Center, where hard working processors were actually frozen in place by the fast flowing and fast setting concrete. Operator 5, one of the hardest working processors, was actually walking towards the mail room with a huge stack of interview letters when she was literally frozen in place by the concrete. "It happened so quickly, we barely had time to react" she said, still clutching the stack of letters for visa applicants interviews in her hand. Workers will be toiling day and night to free the trapped consulate workers. "This is almost as bad as the molasses spill last year, and the Super Glue spill the year before" recounted Operator 4. While another consulate worker who was on a smoke break offered to take the letters out of Operator 5's hand and mail them, she demurred "Once I'm free, I'll mail them" she said. Such dedication! The Montreal Search and Rescue Team hopes to have the workers freed by the end of this week. And possibly have those letters in the mail by then.

...jk

LOL that was awesome! I liked it so much I just forwarded it to the Montreal Consulate so they could get a giggle out of it. I made sure to include your info so you can get proper credit for that. Who knows they might even put you on the top of their pile to speed things up. I mean...I'm sure they have a good sense of humor right? Hmmm. (jk)

I still haven't received any info from them letting me know if they are working on my file or not. No mail at all. No RFE's. Nothing that would help to acknowledge our existance or progress.

How does one plan a wedding for December when they don't even know if they will have access to the country before then? This is stressing us out. Family can't book time off work or schedule flights with only a couple weeks notice. Crazy.

Edited September 16, 2008 by ChasingAmy

[adibiase 0]

WaitForever,

That was priceless...

[WaitForever 0]

How does one plan a wedding for December when they don't even know if they will have access to the country before then? This is stressing us out. Family can't book time off work or schedule flights with only a couple weeks notice. Crazy.

Glad you liked it! Have to try and keep our spirits up somehow! Seems like they are stuck in concrete now, whereas in the summer there was a oil spill and appointment letters were flying outta there in 20-35 days! So, we wait. And Wait. We are trying to hit 11/18 for our wedding date, so cross fingers. I mean someone said on some other forum there is a backlog for interviews? What, in typical government style, they were being TOO efficient and making others look bad so they had to ratchet it back? Who knows?!

I know the flight feeling. Mary is in Toronto, and will probably drive or train to Montreal. But there's others who have to fly. And the Whites only had 3 days notice via email. Syphyre's letter got lost in the mail. Us Montrealers don't seem to be having much luck lately. Mary and I joke that the only reason they are in concrete now is because WE are on the list. Its our luck. Once we get on a list, it slows down. I'm planning to fly to Buffalo and she's going to pick me up in Ft. Erie before we drive down. It would be nice to have some notice so we can plan movers, flights etc.

[ChasingAmy 0]

They are now processing Feb 01 2008 apps it seems. I'm almost 2 months behind that (March 28th). I wonder if I'm going to get married this year

[WaitForever 0]

Burnsis (IR/CR-1) got an interview letter for an end of October interview date. ####### is up with Montreal? Where are OUR letters!?! GRRRRRRRRRR. This is driving us crazy over here.

[suzukiwookie 1]

I hope that when the letters finally do come, the interview won't be set to, like, next week. Cause then that will make it difficult to get everything (including fiancee's plane ticket, hotel booking, etc.) together. So I'm hoping that they still give atleast a month between letter and appointment.

[Izoom 0]

One can only hope that they are that generous. Here's to continued waiting...

*tapping fingers on desk*

[WaitForever 0]

I hope that when the letters finally do come, the interview won't be set to, like, next week. Cause then that will make it difficult to get everything (including fiancee's plane ticket, hotel booking, etc.) together. So I'm hoping that they still give atleast a month between letter and appointment.

It's been like that - but the last folks on VJ having a K1 interview (The Whites) got notified via email 3 days(!) before the interview. While we can scramble and make it in 3 days, others can't. I have no idea whats going on over there and its getting pretty frustrating. Its almost like they have just decided to stop having interviews, period. I hope not. I hope they haven't decided to stop doing them in Montreal and are in the process of moving them to some other consulate. Be just our luck.

If they don't get here this week, I'm losing hope that it will be October after all :(

Edited September 17, 2008 by WaitForever

[MrsCat 6]

I hope that when the letters finally do come, the interview won't be set to, like, next week. Cause then that will make it difficult to get everything (including fiancee's plane ticket, hotel booking, etc.) together. So I'm hoping that they still give atleast a month between letter and appointment.

It's been like that - but the last folks on VJ having a K1 interview (The Whites) got notified via email 3 days(!) before the interview. While we can scramble and make it in 3 days, others can't. I have no idea whats going on over there and its getting pretty frustrating. Its almost like they have just decided to stop having interviews, period. I hope not. I hope they haven't decided to stop doing them in Montreal and are in the process of moving them to some other consulate. Be just our luck.

If they don't get here this week, I'm losing hope that it will be October after all :(

Just and FYI, I had my interview the same day as The Whites. They had 3 days notice because they had an expedited interview. The consulate called them to discuss this. This was by no means standard operating procedure - Montreal was kind enough to get their interview scheduled at the earliest convenience for this couple - for which they seemed most grateful.

[ChasingAmy 0]

If my interview was for tommorrow I'd be very happy. I would gladly skip work..fill up my tank and head on over.

[Pandora01 0]

WaitForever - Great joke you posted two days ago. Loved it!

ChasingAmy - You said "They are now processing Feb 01 2008 apps it seems." You mean according to the date you filed the I-129? If that's the case, I'm getting concerned right now 'cause we filled ours in January and got our NOA2 in June