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How long is between the interview letter and interview date?

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bounrith Rookie

bounrith   0

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Filed: Country: Australia
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In general, how much time given between getting the interview letter and the interview date? My fiancee needs to travel to Sydney and I might just take a vacation with her there, if enough time given to plan the trip.

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Colombia
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Usually a month. I got the interview letter on the 24th of July. My interview is on the 26th of August. Try calling the U.S. State Dept. Visa office they get the interview date too.

K-1 Timeline

I-129F Sent - 3/4/2008

I-129F Recieved - 3/5/2008

I-129F Approved - 5/7/2008

Interview Date - 8/26/2008 - (Asked for petitioner to be interviewed as well, new interview Date 9/18/2008)

Interview 2 Date - 9/18/2008 - (Case Sent to review, and not DENIED as I orignally thought)

Gave up on K1 process - 9/19/2008

Canceled K-1 Petition - 5/1/09

Married - 5/30/2009

Recieved K-1 2nd Approval (HA!) - 6/6/2009

Long Honey Moon - 5/30/2009-10/14/2009

I-130 Timeline

I-130 Sent - 12/22/2009

I-130 Recieved - 12/23/2009

Received NOA1 Hardcopy - 1/4/10 (Dated 12/29/09)

NOA2 - 3/9/2010

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Penguin_ie   5,994

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ireland
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In the Packet 3 documents I got, it says one month or more notice will be given But when I git the appointment letter, I actually only had 4 business days notice!

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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kaffy Proficient

kaffy   2

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (pnd) Country: Australia
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In my experience it is a little less than 3 weeks - I received my interview date from the Sydney Consulate on 23 July and my interview is scheduled for 12 August.

In the Packet 3 documents I got, it says one month or more notice will be given But when I git the appointment letter, I actually only had 4 business days notice!

I cant believe how quick yours was!

DCF Timeline here

POE Timeline

08/24/2008 POE Seattle

08/29/2008 SSN assigned

09/08/2008 SSN (Card) received

09/29/2008 Green Card received

I-90 Timeline (USCIS error)

11/10/2008 Send I-90 to Texas service center

12/xx/2008 NOA1

01/07/2009 Card production ordered

01/14/2009 Card mailed

01/xx/2009 Card received

I-751 Timeline

06/02/2010 Send I-751 to California service center

06/04/2010 Received at CSC

06/07/2010 NOA1

06/09/2010 Check cashed

07/27/2010 Biometrics

07/28/2010 Touch

09/02/2010 Approved

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J_Girl Apprentice

J_Girl   0

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Australia
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I had 4 days notice! Waiting at the interview I asked a few people around me how long they knew before hand it most seemed to be about 2 weeks.

AOS

05/17/2008 AOS/EAD Sent

05/20/2008 Paper work recieved at Chicago office.

05/25/2008 Notice of receipt received

05/29/2008 Check cashed

08/21/2008 No action for 90 days, (including Biometrics) called USICS to start an inquiry, so much for reviewing cases as they are filed!

09/19/2008 Made info pass apointment....no touches since May 29th!!

09/25/2008 Recieved a letter to tell me my EAD was approved on Aug 28th however Phoenix Office is still too backlogged to take my biomertrics!

09/29/2008 Revieved letter for Biometrics appointment for Oct 8th

10/08/2008 Biometricts

10/09/2008 Touch on AOS

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Danyel y Miguel   0

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (pnd) Country: Venezuela
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I recieved my interview letter August 22nd, and my interview is September 4th!

wouldn't say there is a lot of time between the two.

My Timeline

USCIS

11/23/2007 - Married in Venezuela

02/07/08 - I-130 Sent

02/09/08 - recieved in Chicago at 10:09pm by R Mercedo

02/21/08 - I-130 NOA1

02/25/08 - Case Entered Online

06/13/08 - Case Approved

NVC

Case Recieved at NVC - 6/24/08

Case Number assigned - 6/24/08

Received DS-3032 / I-864 Bill - 6/30/08

Paid AOS - 07/03/08

AOS Bill Accepted - 07/04/08

Sent DS-3032 (usps) - 07/12/08

Sent I-864 - 7/12/08

NVC Recieved AOS & DS3032 - 07/14/08

IV Bill Paid - 07/17/08

DS-230 Sent - 07/26/08

DS-230 Entered Into System - 07/29/08

Case Complete - 08/06/2008

VISA APPROVED- 09/04/2008

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