Who is waiting for an interview date?

[missvrapter 9]

i dont understand why for some of you and others it takes so long for them to process forms, i had my medical tuesday 8th and the embassy had received the reports and mailed me my interview date for the 29th october all in the same day, the have a very weird way of organizing and doing things fairly!!

[jola83 19]

Jola I'm going absolutely mental waiting on this interview! 6 weeks since we sent packet 3 forms off now and nothing! Was so hoping to head into the weekend with a date on the calendar

:-( I had high hopes that you would off heard around the same time as me.I know how it feels to be left behind as its happened to me time and time again on here .since its now gone six weeks have u tried emailing the embassy again? I mean they do tell u to inform them after six weeks.I really hope you hear soon as I know that feeling of dread when another weekend creeps up and you still don't know.

I was frantically worrying for weeks and this week I've put it as far back in my mind as possible and things took a turn for the better .you'll get there it wouldn't hurt to email them though

[jola83 19]

i dont understand why for some of you and others it takes so long for them to process forms, i had my medical tuesday 8th and the embassy had received the reports and mailed me my interview date for the 29th october all in the same day, the have a very weird way of organizing and doing things fairly!!

That's a question I often ask myself,I don't think we will ever know the answer

[Avery Cates 1,141]

Still no ###### interview date. -.-

They received the medial results on September 16th.

[Lemon75 7]

I am super happy for you Jola83! Congrats. Your approval gives me hope that they are working on our case possibly, and lets me know for sure that they aren't at a complete stand still and are still working and processing visas.

My fiance and I are still waiting for an interview, the last update to our case was Sep 16th. They received packet 3 on the 27th of August, but still haven't logged our DS-2001 so we are waiting. Our wedding was supposed to be in 6 days, but since I didn't hear anything I moved it to December 10th just to be safe. I hope we hear something from them next week, and that all of you do as well.

Its been such an emotionally draining experience for us. I found myself arguing and blaming my fiance for little things that weren't his fault out of my own powerlessness, pain, and frustration. We've hung in there, and I've apologized, but this situation waiting for our interview after applying back in January really has brought us to the breaking point many times.

I think when you're far apart its easy to hyper focus on everything wrong in the relationship in situations where you feel helpless and powerless. I've apologized to my fiance, he's forgiven me and we're working to make this remaining time apart go smoothly as possible.

But I love him, I miss him, and this is a very tough process emotionally when other things like illness of family members, work issues etc are also in our lives crying for attention. Just a note to let you all know that I get it, and we'll get through this.

You're not alone everyone, this process is painful and frustrating. I can especially understand the go-getters like I am, people that pride themselves in having earned success and worked hard for it, to find yourself "waiting" for an interview without having a direct effect on it is hard. To know your loved one needs you physically for a hug (or you needing them for one) and not being able to do anything about it is hard. To realize that you may be blaming, acting jealous, acting hurtful, acting naggy or other negative things to someone you love based on the stresses of this processes is hard, and takes a lot of soul searching and self honesty.

I just wanted to let you all know that I get, and we'll get through this! Anyone that need to talk please PM me, it'd do me good to help others as I learn how to handle helping myself through this process.

[jola83 19]

I am super happy for you Jola83! Congrats. Your approval gives me hope that they are working on our case possibly, and lets me know for sure that they aren't at a complete stand still and are still working and processing visas.

My fiance and I are still waiting for an interview, the last update to our case was Sep 16th. They received packet 3 on the 27th of August, but still haven't logged our DS-2001 so we are waiting. Our wedding was supposed to be in 6 days, but since I didn't hear anything I moved it to December 10th just to be safe. I hope we hear something from them next week, and that all of you do as well.

Its been such an emotionally draining experience for us. I found myself arguing and blaming my fiance for little things that weren't his fault out of my own powerlessness, pain, and frustration. We've hung in there, and I've apologized, but this situation waiting for our interview after applying back in January really has brought us to the breaking point many times.

I think when you're far apart its easy to hyper focus on everything wrong in the relationship in situations where you feel helpless and powerless. I've apologized to my fiance, he's forgiven me and we're working to make this remaining time apart go smoothly as possible.

But I love him, I miss him, and this is a very tough process emotionally when other things like illness of family members, work issues etc are also in our lives crying for attention. Just a note to let you all know that I get it, and we'll get through this.

You're not alone everyone, this process is painful and frustrating. I can especially understand the go-getters like I am, people that pride themselves in having earned success and worked hard for it, to find yourself "waiting" for an interview without having a direct effect on it is hard. To know your loved one needs you physically for a hug (or you needing them for one) and not being able to do anything about it is hard. To realize that you may be blaming, acting jealous, acting hurtful, acting naggy or other negative things to someone you love based on the stresses of this processes is hard, and takes a lot of soul searching and self honesty.

I just wanted to let you all know that I get, and we'll get through this! Anyone that need to talk please PM me, it'd do me good to help others as I learn how to handle helping myself through this process.

Thank you so much I'm guessing you didn't send your Ds-2001 form the same time as the other forms? How long ago did you send it ?

I definitely know what you mean through frustration there have been times I've taking things out on my fiance but he understands ,I think we both felt as helpless at each other.when we started this journey I couldn't wait for our file to reach London as I thought this was going to be the quicker/easier part ,but I've actually found it the most emotionally draining but I did when I changed my attitude this week and came to terms with the fact that the embassy will assign me a date whenever they feel good and ready that's when things started to change and I got my date!!

It's so so hard but when your waiting it's really best to try and put it to the back of your mind ,the more you think about it the longer it seems to take .

[Lemon75 7]

I am going to take your advice 100%, and stop stressing myself out waiting for the date. They logged packet 3 Sep 16th, but they didn't include DS 2001 when they logged it which we have receipt they signed for on Aug 27th. So it's been quite awhile. And yes, I thought London would be the quick and easy part so it hit me harder too emotionally at how things have been.

Edited October 12, 2013 by Lemon75

[Charlene17 5]

Well I'd emailed them at exactly 4 weeks and got the approximately 4 weeks response. Emailed them yesterday and just got an automatic response that they will respond to my email in 2-3 days. I had high hopes that my senators office would add a little political pressure as they were very willing to help, but it just so happened that right after they received authorization forms to look into the case that we had the government shutdown and their office is now closed. So it's just waiting.

I know it will eventually come but its so difficult waiting! We started the whole process back in December thinking that it may be done sometime this summer, but we were quite ignorant to the process and feel like we hit every bump in the process possible. Our petition was in that dreadful Texas transfer group and it alone took 8 months to be approved!

While it's nice to see that things have sped up in the USCIS phase and some people are very fortunate to get through the embassy portion fairly quickly, but it's very easy to grow bitter during the process. I'm glad that lots of couples have had a smooth journey with their k-1's as I wouldn't wish anyone to have to be away from their significant other any longer than necessary. At the same time, I really feel as through the embassy should have some sort of system to ensure that cases are being processed in the order in which they are received.

Wish I could just flick an off switch and be surprised when it comes but I have 2 small kids that ask every morning how long until Wyan (Ryan lol) has his special paper to move here? Even kids in my class asking how much longer until your you're married and we have to call you a different name? So besides the normal empty side of the bed reminders, there's always more throughout each day. It's a painful process for us all...but we all chose to go through it and it'll be well worth it in the end

Roll on next week...and hopefully a date!

:-( I had high hopes that you would off heard around the same time as me.I know how it feels to be left behind as its happened to me time and time again on here .since its now gone six weeks have u tried emailing the embassy again? I mean they do tell u to inform them after six weeks.I really hope you hear soon as I know that feeling of dread when another weekend creeps up and you still don't know.

I was frantically worrying for weeks and this week I've put it as far back in my mind as possible and things took a turn for the better .you'll get there it wouldn't hurt to email them though

[Azsara 110]

I am super happy for you Jola83! Congrats. Your approval gives me hope that they are working on our case possibly, and lets me know for sure that they aren't at a complete stand still and are still working and processing visas.

My fiance and I are still waiting for an interview, the last update to our case was Sep 16th. They received packet 3 on the 27th of August, but still haven't logged our DS-2001 so we are waiting. Our wedding was supposed to be in 6 days, but since I didn't hear anything I moved it to December 10th just to be safe. I hope we hear something from them next week, and that all of you do as well.

Its been such an emotionally draining experience for us. I found myself arguing and blaming my fiance for little things that weren't his fault out of my own powerlessness, pain, and frustration. We've hung in there, and I've apologized, but this situation waiting for our interview after applying back in January really has brought us to the breaking point many times.

I think when you're far apart its easy to hyper focus on everything wrong in the relationship in situations where you feel helpless and powerless. I've apologized to my fiance, he's forgiven me and we're working to make this remaining time apart go smoothly as possible.

But I love him, I miss him, and this is a very tough process emotionally when other things like illness of family members, work issues etc are also in our lives crying for attention. Just a note to let you all know that I get it, and we'll get through this.

You're not alone everyone, this process is painful and frustrating. I can especially understand the go-getters like I am, people that pride themselves in having earned success and worked hard for it, to find yourself "waiting" for an interview without having a direct effect on it is hard. To know your loved one needs you physically for a hug (or you needing them for one) and not being able to do anything about it is hard. To realize that you may be blaming, acting jealous, acting hurtful, acting naggy or other negative things to someone you love based on the stresses of this processes is hard, and takes a lot of soul searching and self honesty.

I just wanted to let you all know that I get, and we'll get through this! Anyone that need to talk please PM me, it'd do me good to help others as I learn how to handle helping myself through this process.

Amazing!! Thank u for sharing!

[nancy108 1]

Our process started in Dec 2012 and Texas transfer as well, more than 7 months for approval....its been a long tough road..I've had the same thoughts this week, you are right, London Embassy doesn't have a system and its confusing, they say 2-4 weeks after being logged but some have waiting longer. We are entering our 4th week after they logged our paper work..just hoping and praying its soon. Although I know it wont be as long of a wait as the approval was which is a relief

Well I'd emailed them at exactly 4 weeks and got the approximately 4 weeks response. Emailed them yesterday and just got an automatic response that they will respond to my email in 2-3 days. I had high hopes that my senators office would add a little political pressure as they were very willing to help, but it just so happened that right after they received authorization forms to look into the case that we had the government shutdown and their office is now closed. So it's just waiting.

I know it will eventually come but its so difficult waiting! We started the whole process back in December thinking that it may be done sometime this summer, but we were quite ignorant to the process and feel like we hit every bump in the process possible. Our petition was in that dreadful Texas transfer group and it alone took 8 months to be approved!

While it's nice to see that things have sped up in the USCIS phase and some people are very fortunate to get through the embassy portion fairly quickly, but it's very easy to grow bitter during the process. I'm glad that lots of couples have had a smooth journey with their k-1's as I wouldn't wish anyone to have to be away from their significant other any longer than necessary. At the same time, I really feel as through the embassy should have some sort of system to ensure that cases are being processed in the order in which they are received.

Wish I could just flick an off switch and be surprised when it comes but I have 2 small kids that ask every morning how long until Wyan (Ryan lol) has his special paper to move here? Even kids in my class asking how much longer until your you're married and we have to call you a different name? So besides the normal empty side of the bed reminders, there's always more throughout each day. It's a painful process for us all...but we all chose to go through it and it'll be well worth it in the end

Roll on next week...and hopefully a date!

[Nickw 2]

Ok hi folks, I've been waiting for my interview date,I sent my packet 3etc on the 9/9/13 I also had do to do the new online ds260, my status on the ceac web was updated 12/9/13' then it updated 10/10/13 today I called the dos and was told my interview is 12/11/13 and the ceac was updated today so I guess that's around the 5week mark for processing then another 4 weeks to interview date, hope that helped,good luck everyone

[Avery Cates 1,141]

It's not been officially a month since the Embassy has received the medical results and they've done exactly all.

[jola83 19]

It's not been officially a month since the Embassy has received the medical results and they've done exactly ###### all.

Do you know if your ds forms have been logged or when they were logged?I had my medical 8th August and didn't receive my interview date til October 11th .it took them five weeks from receiving my forms to log them and then another five weeks after the logging before I received my interview date

[Bridget ~ Steven 3]

DoS says ours has been submitted, but she couldn't clarify if that meant *logged* or *received*. She just repeated that all paperwork had been submitted. We also had a status update yesterday, but she couldn't say what it referred to. It's really a ####### shoot on how helpful the DoS person will be.. some seem to find more info than others, when I assume they're all looking at the same thing!

[Avery Cates 1,141]

Do you know if your ds forms have been logged or when they were logged?I had my medical 8th August and didn't receive my interview date til October 11th .it took them five weeks from receiving my forms to log them and then another five weeks after the logging before I received my interview date

The last person I spoke to said we were just waiting for a date. I asked her twice to make sure they had everything, nothing was missing, and it was just a date we were waiting on.

Answers will definitely vary depending on who you get. The first time I called the guy sounded very disinterested in doing his job and I wasn't satisfied he was really putting in the effort. The last person I spoke to was marginally more helpful.