Haitian Embassy Policy Change

[JR loves JR 196]

As many of you are aware, the Haitian Embassy is going to start using www.ustraveldocs.com/ht to schedule interviews. That means that when you're ready, you're responsible for booking your own interview slot rather than them booking it for you. Anyway I was hoping to be done with this stage by the time the new website went live... but it took them 2 weeks to decide that my fiancé was missing some stuff and that they couldn't schedule without it.. So I'm in the middle of the conversion which is not exciting and here's the long and short of it... The new system requires you to print off a special deposit slip and take it to a Sogexpress site - no longer a Sogebank location. They then stamp your deposit slip with a number and you need that number to verify that you paid the fee. After verification, you will be able to book your appointment the next morning. That's all fine and good unless you're like us. My fiancé paid his visa fee three weeks ago at a Sogebank and has a receipt to prove it but that receipt isn't any good in the new system.

So for those of us in the middle of this process (aka already paid the fee w/o the deposit slip but without an appointment) the question is what do we do now? Will the embassy book our interview or will we have to go to Sogexpress with the Sogebank receipt and the special deposit slip to get it stamped and THEN go try to register for an appointment? And the really frustrating part to me is that no one can actual provide an answer. I did email the embassy tonight but we all know how that's going to go... I'll hopefully have an answer in a month or maybe two And I'm going to have my fiancé call them on Monday (though it's a Federal holiday or maybe Tuesday) to see if he can get a better answer. If anyone stumbles across the answer or has been caught in the middle of a conversion like this before, please share! - And yes, this post was more about venting my frustration at the moment than it is actually getting advice as it seems pretty unlikely that there's any to be had.

And the new call center is open from 8 am to 7 pm ET (I'm pretty sure) and the contact numbers are:
Haiti: +(509) 4744-4444
USA: 1-703-544-7842

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

Thanks for letting us know, I can't help you but hope somebody can. I know the embassy is closed Monday because of a U.S. Holiday and they are closed Friday because of a Haitian Holiday.

[JR loves JR 196]

Here's my update... My fiance called the Haitian embassy and it sounds like they are still planning on scheduling all those who paid their fee before the website went live.