Phone number for London USA embassy

[globetrotter 0]

Doeas anyone have the phone number for the US embassy in London? and do you think 16 days after sending of packet 3 stuff is too soon to call them and ask if I have been assigned a date? Just that I need to make work related travel plans which I will have to plan around the date given to me by the embassy.

I do remeber another thread where a VJer reported calling the embassy about the date of her interview and actually being given a choice of dates over the phone.....

[Anyta Holland 1]

It took us nearly a month to have packet 4 from the Embassy, so I guess that the answer to your question is yes.. It might be too soon to call them. I suggest to send them an email.

I have never heard of anyone calling the Embassy and being given a choice of dates... But it might have happened...

Good luck!

[ladybird216 2]

I think the phone # for the London Embassy is 020 7499-9000....but I wouldn't phone them as it is a premium rate number (the last I heard it was about 1.60p a minute) and when I tried to call them I had to listen to 5+ minutes of recorded rubbish then had to do the keypad options etc., If I remember correctly, I was up to about 10mins and hadn't even spoken to a human! In the end I hung up and sent an email...it took a few days for them to reply, but it answered my questions and didn't cost an arm and a leg

Jen

[globetrotter 0]

ok... thanks for the advice... I will wait.

[Anyta Holland 1]

Send them an email @ londonconsular@state.gov and put your case no on the subject line.

[gym 0]

I would definately email them....when i called them 2 weeks after i sent in my packet 3 they still had nothing on their system to say that they had even received it...they seem to be weeks behind on the phone and also they dont know many answers to any questions...emailing them is definately the way to go...i am expecting that you will get your interview date any day now

[yabasta 0]

I would say never phone them. Write to them via snail mail if all else fails but callign them is pretty much pointless from my experience. I got a human being briefly who sent me straight back to a recording on the actual number and the other number was a Glasgow call centre who could not help me at all. Email is best way to contact them.

[NYPeach 13]

We found them to be very responsive to emails. It can't hurt.

[globetrotter 0]

Just got a reply to e-mail which said...

No further action can be taken on your application until the Immigrant

Visa Unit is in receipt of the document checklist form IV-15. If you

have already sent this form, please note that there is a delay of

approximately 4 weeks from the date on which the forms are mailed to

this office and the applicant's file is update.

I did send the checklist in 2 weeks ago. So replied to say I had done so and that if they had not received it to please let me know so that I could send in another ckecklist......

Man! timing is getting tight. I have to fit in 6 weeks of final data collection for my PhD in the Dominican Republic before the wedding on the 21st October. Dum de dum..... Of course cannot buy any flights yet.

[Anyta Holland 1]

Hi,

I hope they come back to you soon so you can sort your stuff out...

Ana

[pnd629 0]

Globetrotter,

Did you guys get an interview date yet?

[globetrotter 0]

Globetrotter,

Did you guys get an interview date yet?

no, still nothing!!! nail biting stuff......

[globetrotter 0]

so I gave in and called!! and it was relatively painless... I called 09042 450100 and selected option 2 and was speaking to someone immediately. A very nice scottish sounding lady.

Anyway she informaed me that the system is still not showing up receipt of my checklist so on her recommendation I have done two things:

1. sent an e-mail explaining why I urgently need to hear of my interview date (she gave me a ref to put on the subject line)

2. I sent a letter with similar information signed listing the items on the checklist I had in my possession. Running off now to send that recorded delivery.