Finally Got to NVC Stage

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Chris or Anyone,

Chris since you have just recently navigated this process through Guangzhou, I appreciate your help and guidance. We have just received notice that NVC has received our petition and I should get a case number next week. Here is my question:

Once we have a case number, should I schedule an appointment for the interview before packet 3 arrives? I realize the case needs to be sent from NVC to Guangzhou and packet 3 needs to be sent. I'm just wondering if to speed things along, that I should make the appointment so we are in the queue as soon as possible. If the packet is delayed I can always modify the appointment to suit.

As you might be able to tell, I am trying to push this along as fast as I can, this waiting is driving both of us nuts. I hope you don't mind, but I will probably have more questions as we move along.

Anyone else with experience running this gauntlet, please feel free to chime in on what worked for you.

Thanks again for your help.

Steve and Guiying

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Chris or Anyone,

Chris since you have just recently navigated this process through Guangzhou, I appreciate your help and guidance. We have just received notice that NVC has received our petition and I should get a case number next week. Here is my question:

Once we have a case number, should I schedule an appointment for the interview before packet 3 arrives? I realize the case needs to be sent from NVC to Guangzhou and packet 3 needs to be sent. I'm just wondering if to speed things along, that I should make the appointment so we are in the queue as soon as possible. If the packet is delayed I can always modify the appointment to suit.

As you might be able to tell, I am trying to push this along as fast as I can, this waiting is driving both of us nuts. I hope you don't mind, but I will probably have more questions as we move along.

Anyone else with experience running this gauntlet, please feel free to chime in on what worked for you.

Thanks again for your help.

Steve and Guiying

I would wait to schedule until you send back packet 3. Interviews are scheduled about a month out, but any delays in finishing packet 4 will require you to reschedule the appointment, and you only have a limited amount of reschedules before you are not allowed to anymore.

Also remember it takes a month for packet 3 to arrive, so scheduling now requires one manditory reschedule, and you have to hope that you can even reschedule because if there are no appointment dates when you go to reschedule, you will be forced to cancel.

Edited July 9, 2016 by Chris and ZhiJia

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Thanks Chris for the response.

I have been looking at the recent approvals in Guangzhou and it looks like packet 3 is taking about a month to be sent/arrive once the application is received by the Consulate from NVC.

Looks like we still have plenty of time, tic tic tic.....

Steve and Guiying