Scheduling the interview for K-1

[K&MRodriguez 0]

I am a U.S. citizen petitioning for a K-1 visa for my fiance in Nicaragua. Our application is currently in transit from the NVC to the embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. I have paid the visa fee and submitted the DS-160 and have all the documents ready. I am able to schedule an interview, but on the scheduling calendar the only days available are this next week through February 29th (2016), and then March 29th and 30th. There are no other days in March and no other days the rest of the year. What I think is likely is that the Nicaraguan embassy doesn't get very many appointments (pretty much all of the days still have 2 open interview slots, which is how many I think they have total each day) and so they limit how far in advance a person can make an appointment in an attempt to fill the earlier slots. The part that has me nervous, however, are those two days at the end of March that are available for appointments. The only explanation I can think of is that Easter is the weekend before and they are closed that Thursday and Friday before, so they wanted to make those two days after Easter open, but I have no idea if that is true.

My question is, does anyone have any experience (either with the embassy in Nicaragua or another less busy embassy) as far as waiting for the future dates to become available? I already had tickets bought for March 6th-16th before we knew we would be this far in the process, and we've been thinking that we could do the interview the first Monday or Tuesday that I am there, and then if he's approved he would return with me on the 16th. But then yesterday morning I was finally able to see the schedule to make an appointment, and there is nothing during that time. I'm truly hoping that they only make the appointments visible the week or so before and that there is still hope to make our interview during that week. Especially because it has pretty much always said that the "next available appointment" is usually the next day or the day after, so it's not like it is ever booked up. I also checked, and their only closures for holidays in March are those two days for Holy Thursday and Holy Friday. I also called in, but the people who can book appointments by phone have the same calendar as I do online, and so they just advised be to keep checking.

Does anybody have any experience with this or any advice??

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[steph&max 13]

Hello, I'm not sure if Nicaragua works the same as mine in Guatemala, but in what I saw is that only certain dates were opened--a couple in Feb and a couple in March--and as the time went on, they just got filled up, I did not see any other new ones open up during FEB and MAR. So I recommend you book whatever you can now since I think if they get filled up, they will just open them at a later date not earlier. Hope this made sense.

[K&MRodriguez 0]

An update: After monitoring the appointment calendar for a few days with no changes, I booked his appointment for February 29th, accepting that I would be able to be at the interview with him. I was very glad that I had booked it, as that same day about five other appointment slots filled up. A few days more passed and I continued to check the calendar and the only date left period was March 29th, all other dates had been filled. This morning it was the same, only the 29th available, but this afternoon I checked again and about 20 new dates were available throughout March. I immediately called my fiance and then I rescheduled our appointment for Monday, March 7th so that I can be there with him.

For anyone in the future going through the same thing, I would suggest making an appointment just in case, but continue to check on it, because sometimes it pays off!