reschedule Appointment Cancelled by Embassy ... Reschedule PENDING

[nandojourney 13]

Hi all. Like many others, the Coronavirus impacted my stepdaughters (7 yrs old) appointment at the Embassy in Honduras. We were 3 days away before it was cancelled and we received the email stating that it was cancelled and we would be contacted once it has been declared safe. As of today it appears that Honduras is soon to drop the Red Alert and slowly get things up and running. So my questions is if anyone has any experience where an appointment had to be canceled BY THE EMBASSY and later rescheduled? My thinking is once the Red Alert has been dropped and the Embassy catches up and its safe they will resume (we hope). I know of individual rescheduling ON THEIR OWN and then it being months later. However, since this was cancelled by the Embassy, I am optimistic it will be weeks not months once things are back up.

 

A good example was when there is a demonstration like there was earlier this year and individuals threw burning ties at the entrance of the embassy, it had to shut down. My thought the people who had appointments would be rescheduled ASAP since the event.

 

Whether weeks or months, we have set expectations but would good to hear of ACTUAL experiences and not theories .

 

Thank you in advance!

[DGF 730]

I can't talk for Honduras, but Montreal had to cancel a few interviews in November when the consulate moved locations. They sent an email to those affected listing a few dates and they were asked to pick a new date from that list. That was only for a few days of cancellations though and this time they have 6 weeks worth of interviews that they had to cancel so it'll probably be handled differently. 

[nandojourney 13]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes each country can drastically be different when it comes to rescheduling . In Honduras they cancelled all appointments until the end of May (this was done Monday March 16). For Honduras they did not offer new dates which is understandable since no one knows when things would open up. Hopefully once they open up those whose  appointments were cancelled will be "first in line" but we will see. I imagine that since the US imposed the latest "60 Day hold" maybe there are openings since this is immediate family.

 

We can only wait :).

 

Thanks! - Nando