Show up no more than 15 minutes before interview?

[mehogany 0]

My fiancé's interview is tomorrow at 12:30PM. Should he only arrive at 12:15? Can you show up too early? When should he be in line? We just want to be sure as he's traveling four hours to get to London.

Thanks.

[Ryan H 3,812]

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It doesn't matter when one shows up as long as they are not late.

[SimonSailor 4]

I Showed up a little over 45 minutes early to London last week and went right on in.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

It's kinda first come, first served in London so do you want to wait an hour outside to be early in the line or wait longer seated inside because you weren't first in line? Even if you show up late, like 12:45 or 1:00, you still get to interview. They don't take you by appointment time. It's a bit more like take a number at Argos and wait to be called up. Yes, you get a number when you enter.

If you show up too early, they will probably run you off because they don't want a line forming 2-3 hours early before they put personnel out there to process the line. They will start letting people in about 30 minutes before they open up the windows for business. I don't know what time that is on the afternoon appointment summer switcheroo. When it's all morning appointments, the line starts forming by 7 am, they start working the line at 7:30 am and call the first number inside at 8 am (which is the first scheduled appt.). Maybe the summer schedule is first appointment at 12:30.

[Markip1 71]

It's kinda first come, first served in London so do you want to wait an hour outside to be early in the line or wait longer seated inside because you weren't first in line? Even if you show up late, like 12:45 or 1:00, you still get to interview. They don't take you by appointment time. It's a bit more like take a number at Argos and wait to be called up. Yes, you get a number when you enter.

If you show up too early, they will probably run you off because they don't want a line forming 2-3 hours early before they put personnel out there to process the line. They will start letting people in about 30 minutes before they open up the windows for business. I don't know what time that is on the afternoon appointment summer switcheroo. When it's all morning appointments, the line starts forming by 7 am, they start working the line at 7:30 am and call the first number inside at 8 am (which is the first scheduled appt.). Maybe the summer schedule is first appointment at 12:30.

Don't know if this helps, but my interview is on July 27th, and the time slot is at 12:00pm.

[Rmmm12345 15]

Don't know if this helps, but my interview is on July 27th, and the time slot is at 12:00pm.

I had a 12:30 pm appointment last week and arrived at 11:35 and was out by 12:40. So it's worth going along as early as you can. They don't really care when it's scheduled for as long as you aren't late.

[mehogany 0]

Thank you guys!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Thank you guys!

A tip: there could be a LOT of people queuing up, but most are there to see the non-immigrant people. They may be organizing by times. Don't just get at the end of the long line. Go up to the table and tell them you have an immigrant appointment. They should put you in a shorter immigrant line or send you straight to the security hut regardless of your appointment time. It can vary day-to-day depending on the crowd, but you probably can get the short-cut entry.

[Nathan&Emily 10]

It's kinda first come, first served in London so do you want to wait an hour outside to be early in the line or wait longer seated inside because you weren't first in line? Even if you show up late, like 12:45 or 1:00, you still get to interview. They don't take you by appointment time. It's a bit more like take a number at Argos and wait to be called up. Yes, you get a number when you enter.

If you show up too early, they will probably run you off because they don't want a line forming 2-3 hours early before they put personnel out there to process the line. They will start letting people in about 30 minutes before they open up the windows for business. I don't know what time that is on the afternoon appointment summer switcheroo. When it's all morning appointments, the line starts forming by 7 am, they start working the line at 7:30 am and call the first number inside at 8 am (which is the first scheduled appt.). Maybe the summer schedule is first appointment at 12:30.

London has changed a bit now. Immigration visas start from 12pm now. You can queue up about 45 minutes before that. I got there at 10.55 and they still let me in with the tourist/work visa people though as there wasn't that many. I had to wait until 12 until they started calling any I/K visa interviews but I was 5th in line and seen really early then

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

London has changed a bit now. Immigration visas start from 12pm now. You can queue up about 45 minutes before that. I got there at 10.55 and they still let me in with the tourist/work visa people though as there wasn't that many. I had to wait until 12 until they started calling any I/K visa interviews but I was 5th in line and seen really early then

Yes, it is a summertime change.

They switched to afternoon appointments last summer 2015 for two months (confirmed as 12 noon for first appointment of the day). Then they went back to morning appointments with first appointment at 8am. This spring/summer 2016 they are doing the noon start again, but may go back to 8 am like they did before.

They seem to allow a line to start about an hour before the first appointment, start sending people through security about 30 minutes before the first appointment, but do not light up the screens inside and start calling numbers until the first appointment time, currently noon.

Edited June 22, 2016 by Nich-Nick

[Nathan&Emily 10]

Yes, it is a summertime change.

They switched to afternoon appointments last summer 2015 for two months (confirmed as 12 noon for first appointment of the day). Then they went back to morning appointments with first appointment at 8am. This spring/summer 2016 they are doing the noon start again, but may go back to 8 am like they did before.

They seem to allow a line to start about an hour before the first appointment, start sending people through security about 30 minutes before the first appointment, but do not light up the screens inside and start calling numbers until the first appointment time, currently noon.

They were calling numbers and had the screens lit the whole time I was in there from 11. The first I/K visa interviews were called about 11:40 but the screens had V/W numbers on the whole time being called while we were there. They also let immigrant visas in earlier than 30 minutes before the appointments time of 12. At least half a dozen went in before me before 11am. This was 2 weeks ago. Just my observations from the day I was there. All seemed a lot more relaxed and less organised than I expected.