Unusual way to get interview notification!

[tony in Austin 0]

My lovely Shiyang called me this morning to tell me that she received a call from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, telling her the interview was in next Tuesday!

I have never heard of such a thing! We are very happy, but, we are a month a head of schedule!! There is no way I can breakaway so quickly to be at her interview.

Has anyone heard of this experience?

[KimandRuss 0]

I haven't but perhaps i'll move you to the China forum to see if it's common.

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Good luck in GUZ!!!

[robertcolt46 0]

In all of my reading posts here on VJ and at CFL, I have never neard of this. I have heard of the Consulate calling to verify an address to send the P3. After the P3 has been recieved and returned, the Consulate will send the the P4, with a letter that gives the intervew date. The interview date is generally about 1 month from the time she gets the P4, sometimes a bit earlier.

[pushbrk 13,102]

In all of my reading posts here on VJ and at CFL, I have never neard of this. I have heard of the Consulate calling to verify an address to send the P3. After the P3 has been recieved and returned, the Consulate will send the the P4, with a letter that gives the intervew date. The interview date is generally about 1 month from the time she gets the P4, sometimes a bit earlier.

I've not heard of this but suppose it's possible. I'd call the DOS visa information line to confirm. They'll know whether and when regarding any interview.

[tony in Austin 0]

In all of my reading posts here on VJ and at CFL, I have never neard of this. I have heard of the Consulate calling to verify an address to send the P3. After the P3 has been recieved and returned, the Consulate will send the the P4, with a letter that gives the intervew date. The interview date is generally about 1 month from the time she gets the P4, sometimes a bit earlier.

I've not heard of this but suppose it's possible. I'd call the DOS visa information line to confirm. They'll know whether and when regarding any interview.

No, it is all true! The guy on the phone told her that the papers were being sent to her address that day and she got them a day later!

She is on the docket for Tuesday!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Maybe they had a cancellation and wanted to fill the slot, so called since it was short notice. ???

[Melrose Plant 1]

I've heard of this one other time, but it was in Vietnam rather than China, and it was not a VJ member this happened to. However, that situation was a little different. They had scheduled this woman for a certain day (which was not too far off anyway), then the consulate called her and basically told her to show up a week earlier. She showed up at the earlier date, and got the pink slip. Weird, huh? So I don't think it is beyond the realm of possibility that this could happen.

On edit: Oh wow, this thread is WAY old. Sorry. Where are you China people at, anyways? How did the interview go?

Edited September 22, 2008 by Melrose Plant