Interview Date....the waiting game

[JamieCambs 0]

Hello all, final stage of the long process, and yet more problems.

The Embassy requires additional information from me, including my passport. I phoned DX couriers the company the embassy told me to use with no joy there! They sent me to another company in which they told me they don’t take passports to the embassy. I have searched the net for answers with no luck. No one seems to have an answer. Could anyone please help me?

Thank you Jamie

[srvman 38]

I am presuming the embassy gave you an address to send your passport and info to. Just send it via registered snail mail.

[Davesings 30]

Happy to report our interview is scheduled for January 23rd. Found out by calling DOS. Fiance has not yet received the letter.

[Vanitas 310]

I am presuming the embassy gave you an address to send your passport and info to. Just send it via registered snail mail.

Misinformation. If you read the Embassy site it says they do not take documents (e.g. passports) from anyone except DX Secure since August 2013.

[JamieCambs 0]

I know i have had 10 calls 10 diffrent people say they do not take passports to the embassy!!! this is crazy i have been trying for 10 hours for someone to give me some information on how to send my passport to the us embassy. Joke

[Vanitas 310]

Including the depot closest to you today? Jeez.. right, nothing for it then. Try sending an email to the Embassy using the form I gave you (or ring them on that 020 number). Ask them what they want you to do, explain that DX Secure is outright refusing to take in your passport and you've literally been refused service every single time. They might just repeat that it's DX Secure who has to do it but alternatively they might say to send it in another way. I'm half-tempted to tell you to send it to them RM Special Delivery, put all the stuff inside and also a letter telling them DX Secure has said they do not take passports into the Embassy, but that's risky as they might not accept it.

Give the embassy a call first and see what their instructions are. And if they keep saying "Use DX Secure", you keep repeating back "I have, and they've told me they won't do it".

Edited January 10, 2014 by Wheatley

[srvman 38]

Do you need to tell them what they are courier-ing? if that is a phrase? can you not just call them give them a sealed envelope with a letter inside with instructions for whoever is opening? This isn't an answer, just a few questions that might help trigger someones memory of using them maybe. Apologies for the misinformation, I am interested in the outcome of this. good luck

Happy to report our interview is scheduled for January 23rd. Found out by calling DOS. Fiance has not yet received the letter.

One step closer bud. Good Luck.

[Davesings 30]

One step closer bud. Good Luck.

Thanks! Good Luck to you too!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Do you need to tell them what they are courier-ing? if that is a phrase? can you not just call them give them a sealed envelope with a letter inside with instructions for whoever is opening? This isn't an answer, just a few questions that might help trigger someones memory of using them maybe. Apologies for the misinformation, I am interested in the outcome of this. good luck

One step closer bud. Good Luck.

I posted something this morning about the courier in the thread JanieCambs started.

[PalmTrees 34]

I just completed my applicant readiness form even though my medical is at the end of the month. I am aiming to travel by the end of March and hope that things go smoothly. There's no way the Embassy will schedule my interview before the medical results right? Regardless of already completing the readiness form?

[Davesings 30]

I just completed my applicant readiness form even though my medical is at the end of the month. I am aiming to travel by the end of March and hope that things go smoothly. There's no way the Embassy will schedule my interview before the medical results right? Regardless of already completing the readiness form?

They do not schedule the interview until the medical is logged into the system. It takes 4-5 business days from the medical to be logged in. You will see a CEAC status update. After that, it seems like a variable amount of time. In our case it was a month after the medical we got the notice of the interview date, which will be 6 weeks after the medical.