I need help with scheduling my appointment, how many days there?

[pinkpoka 0]

I have the appointment dates available to choose from, how many days should i expect my trip to take? If I understand correctly I need 1 day for interview, 1 day for doctors visit, 1 day to stop in at the consulate for them to check over my papers. So should I expect about 5 days-7 days?

Any info would help

[paojack 41]

I would suggest at least 3, one day for the medical, one for Biometrics and the Interview day. The rest depends wether u will be waiting for the visa in Juarez or not. If you won't, you can leave as soon as your done with the interview. If u decide to wait for the visa its hard to tell how many days it will take. In my case it took like a week to arrive so I spent about 10 days total in Juarez, which was no fun at all!. Good luck!

[pinkpoka 0]

Thanks for the info, do i need to call and schedule the medical and biometrics interviews, or just show up?

[Dan C. 18]

You don't have to schedule your medical — that's a walk-up service. You will have to schedule biometrics, and that can be done on the same website that you use to schedule your interview. Ideally, you should have your medical one day, your biometrics another day, and then your interview.

My wife applied for a CR-1, so perhaps that's different, but she was able to schedule a biometrics appointment in her hometown. Your fiance may be able to do the same. Medical and the interview will definitely have to be done in Juarez.

The Juarez consulate page has more information:

http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Mexico&cty=Juarez

Edited March 6, 2012 by Dan C.