Moving CR1 interview to K3 date....

[A_I_S 0]

Ok, how the hell do people manage to do this?

I just got off the paid call to Moscow embassy where they flat out told me that there is no way they would move the interview date to an earlier date, unless there was a medical reason (with papers to prove). Kind of a bummer, since it seems everyone here has been doing it...

So...any tips or tricks on how to get the embassy to move up the date?

[Brian&Mel 0]

It would depends on the embassy availibity interview slot. For instance, the embassy in KL is not busy with immigrant visa and therefore they are more flexible with the interview date.

Good luck!

[canadian_wife 1,829]

Just out of curiousity, I've read lots of posts about people trying to move K3 interview dates to CR1, who do you want to do the opposite?

[A_I_S 0]

Just out of curiousity, I've read lots of posts about people trying to move K3 interview dates to CR1, who do you want to do the opposite?

Perhaps I wasn't clear (it was midnight when I was posting this), but I do want to move CR1 interview to K3 date...so I'm trying to do exactly what everyone else is doing. Interview 3 weeks earlier for a better visa.

As for slot availability...we have a slot assigned to us already, we're just trying to do a different interview at that time. And in my mind, a CR1 interview should be faster/easier to do than K3 since all the paperwork is the same and has already been approved by NVC...

[frali 2]

Is your CR1 case complete as well and the embassy has received the package and every thing?

When is your K3 interview date and when is your Cr1 interview date?

[Ling Ling 22]

As Frali is starting to suggest...

If your CR-1 is complete, and your case (package) has already been sent to the Embassy,

there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to locate the case when you arrive for your K-3, and switch it for the CR-1.

If the paid number you call in Moscow is anything like the paid number in Tokyo (and other places) they don't know anything

outside the manuals.

If you really want...you could explain the situation to NVC and ask that they send a request for expedite (they'll instruct you to send

an email, and advise the appropriate supervisor). However, as said before, if your CR-1 paperwork is there, there's no reason why

they wouldn't be able to process the CR-1 instead of the K-3.

Good luck, and congratulations.

Edited October 16, 2008 by Ling Ling

[A_I_S 0]

As Frali is starting to suggest...

If your CR-1 is complete, and your case (package) has already been sent to the Embassy,

there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to locate the case when you arrive for your K-3, and switch it for the CR-1.

If the paid number you call in Moscow is anything like the paid number in Tokyo (and other places) they don't know anything

outside the manuals.

If you really want...you could explain the situation to NVC and ask that they send a request for expedite (they'll instruct you to send

an email, and advise the appropriate supervisor). However, as said before, if your CR-1 paperwork is there, there's no reason why

they wouldn't be able to process the CR-1 instead of the K-3.

Good luck, and congratulations.

Thanks. I'll try talking to NVC again, although their operators have told me (before the case was completed) that they don't deal with rescheduling appointments to an earlier date, only the embassy does that. So it's kind of a closed loop, where one party points to the other one. The embassy operator told me that even if my wife showed up at the embassy on the K3 date and asked to be interviewed for CR1 they would deny it. But I agree, it sounds like the operators can't make any decisions and are just reading off of the screen (sort of makes sense, it distributes everyone the same information).

As for previous poster: K3 interview is on Oct 29th, CR1 interview is on November 18th. It's just 3 weeks, but it's OUR 3 weeks.

I am currently trying to figure out when NVC mailed the papers. I already have the interview appt letter on hand, that was mailed on the 10th. However, the AVR is still giving out the fake RFE message (missing DS230), and NVC operators can't tell me straight when they mailed the case to Moscow.

Edited October 16, 2008 by A_I_S