How to change interview date at embassy in London?

[suric01 0]

Hello, my fiance received his interview date in the mail. However, he will be in the U.S. on that date for a job interview. They london embassy website says to call to reschedule interview. We called today but they said they cannont change the interview date and that we should e-mail them instead to change the date? Does anyone have experience with this? I thought the embassy automatically deletes e-mails.

Also, since our interview date will be past the expiration of our NOA2 form, I am going to write a letter of my intent to marry my fiance. Do you know if this letter needs to be notarized?

Thank you so much for your help!

[qwerty1974 11]

Well they''ve certainly always answered mine, albeit it up to five working days later, but they seem pretty on it with interview times and the like. I emailed them regarding the interview we have at londoniv@state.gov. I think this routes it to the department dealing with packet IV (the interview times). I used it to cancel my daughters part of our interview (she's staying on to do undergrad Here).

If in doubt call that extortionate 0904 number, depends on how soon the interview is that you are trying to reschedule. We are providing new letters of intent but not notarizing them and I have it on relatively good authority that this is not necessary. its just that the signature needs to be original and not a print off.

Are you K!, can he even work when he arrives on a K1. I only ask as I believed you could not in which case then maybe he'd be better doing the interview anyway instead.

Good luck with the rest of your journey!!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

No he can't work on a K1. He will need to marry and apply for AOS and EAD and wait for approval. I know of a VJ member that was turned away and sent back to England when they found job contacts and copies of his CV in his luggage before he had a visa. They suspected that he was intending to stay and work without work authorization so refused entry to the US.

Edited November 17, 2011 by Nich-Nick

[qwerty1974 11]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Nightmare scenario with the VJer and the CV's and work contacts....probably better off avoiding that when so close to the end of the journey.

@Suric01....I shouldn't wonder if your fiance wouldn't be better of choosing the visa interview over a job interview in light of the last post?

[JoannaV 174]

You can reschedule the interview via email. Seems sometimes they reply and other times they only reply when there is a code given in the subject line. Not sure exactly what they're doing now, but back when I was interviewing one person told me to email and then when I phoned again after not receiving a reply I was told to email with a code, and they denied that anyone could ever have told me to email without a code So you may want to phone again just to check, and if possible to get a code. The sooner you can contact them the sooner the rescheduled interview will be.

[qwerty1974 11]

The code thing might well be right. i was given codes for the subject line for a few emails but for the packet IV email they gave me no code....hope they got it okay?!

[suric01 0]

Thank you so much for your e-mails! My fiance e-mailed them and they responded the next day with a new interview date in January that works. Hes actually interviewing for medical residency positions and the job doesn't start until July 2012. So that should be OK right? We are planning to get married end of January so we should have our EAD and adjustment of status by July 2012.