Visa interview rescheduling risks

[aderan 0]

In May 2005 I was given an appointment for an immigrant visa interview at the Montreal US consulate (Canada) for an employment-based immigrant visa (E3). However, I was not able to attend and sent them right away a letter requesting to re-schedule such interview for December 2005 (I was working in a project in Australia and had a ticket to return to Canada for x-mas).

Months passed without any news about my re-scheduling request and in May 2006 I decided to call the immigrant visa section of the Consulate. They told me that my case was about to be terminated by lack of contact on my part!!

I told them about my letter requesting re-scheduling for December 2005, which they apparently did not have on their system, but managed to locate in some folder after 30 minutes of heated discussions over the phone.

They apologized for misplacing the letter and, in order to continue my application, asked me to immediately re-submit a new DS-203, which I did. I called them a week later and they confirmed that they did receive my new DS-203 on June 10th, 2006. I was told that I would be re-scheduled for a new interview once they received confirmation from the NVSC.

I hope that somebody would be able to answer the following questions:

1. If I already was given a visa number and was scheduled for interview in 2005, how come I need to submit a DS-203 again? Do I need a new visa number?? I thought I had one already...

2. My cut-off date is December 2002 and my first interview had been scheduled about one month after I submitted the first DS-230 to the Consulate (which I did in April 2005). How come now is taking more than three months??

3. What type of communication the consulate needs to establish with the NVSC after receiving my new completed DS-230 in order to re-schedule my immigrant visa interview??

Thank you very much in advance to anybody that could help me understand this process!!!

[Yodrak 7]

aderan,

1. There's no visa number until there's a visa - you must be thinking of some other kind of number. New DS-230 to ensure that they have current information on you and to document for the file that you still want the visa.

2. Greater workload and/or fewer people in the IV unit now than the last time?

3. Maybe the approved pettion has already been returned to the USA and needs to be sent back to the consulate, or maybe the process for returning it has been initiated and needs to be halted. (What facility are you referring to when you write "NVSC"?)

Yodrak

In May 2005 I was given an appointment for an immigrant visa interview at the Montreal US consulate (Canada) for an employment-based immigrant visa (E3). However, I was not able to attend and sent them right away a letter requesting to re-schedule such interview for December 2005 (I was working in a project in Australia and had a ticket to return to Canada for x-mas).

Months passed without any news about my re-scheduling request and in May 2006 I decided to call the immigrant visa section of the Consulate. They told me that my case was about to be terminated by lack of contact on my part!!

I told them about my letter requesting re-scheduling for December 2005, which they apparently did not have on their system, but managed to locate in some folder after 30 minutes of heated discussions over the phone.

They apologized for misplacing the letter and, in order to continue my application, asked me to immediately re-submit a new DS-203, which I did. I called them a week later and they confirmed that they did receive my new DS-203 on June 10th, 2006. I was told that I would be re-scheduled for a new interview once they received confirmation from the NVSC.

I hope that somebody would be able to answer the following questions:

1. If I already was given a visa number and was scheduled for interview in 2005, how come I need to submit a DS-203 again? Do I need a new visa number?? I thought I had one already...

2. My cut-off date is December 2002 and my first interview had been scheduled about one month after I submitted the first DS-230 to the Consulate (which I did in April 2005). How come now is taking more than three months??

3. What type of communication the consulate needs to establish with the NVSC after receiving my new completed DS-230 in order to re-schedule my immigrant visa interview??

Thank you very much in advance to anybody that could help me understand this process!!!

Edited September 15, 2006 by Yodrak

[aderan 0]

Hi Yodrak,

Thank you very much for your explanations. Perhaps I did not express myself properly. By "visa number" I meant the approved petition. The immigrant visa section of the consulate received my approved petition in April 2005 and scheduled the interview for May 2005, which I could not attend and quickly requested to re-schedule.

When asked to re-submit the DS-230, they mentioned that they were to make a request again to the US and that "the machine" (sic) which the operator referred as NSVC would assign a new interview date in about a month or so (which was about the same time it took for schedulling the first interview). However, and this is what I do not understand, three months have passed and they have not called me. Was perhaps my petition returned to the US and now they are claiming it back? Is this possible? If so, have you have any experience or reference on how long it could take to be returned? Do you have any other possible explanation?

thank you very much in advance for your nice assistance.