Interview Scheduling - Black Hole

[RTam 7]

Hi, Brand new to this site so please forgive in advance for my clumsiness and stark honesty.....After 12 months, finally at the stage where we (my future hubby and I) can finally be together, INCHALLAH!  But OMG. I do NOT understand the Casablanca Consulate At ALL! We got the USCIS I-129F approval, went through NVC and docs were forwarded to Casablanca, we were instructed to go to the consulate website. We went through the whole process of signing up for the USTravelDocs website, filled out the DS-160, paid the interview fee at Banque Populaire, got the receipt number, filled in the receipt number back on the website to finally get us to the interview scheduling page and WHAM!! Full stop. Message on the screen is "There are currently no appointments available."  And no other info. No instructions to keep trying. No instructions saying we are on a waitlist. Nothing! Then when I try to call the consulate to get more info, the front office message says Press 1 for English or 0 for Operator etc  - it doesn't work - I try pressing the buttons, call 4 times - and I get disconnected. So I don't give up, I call the Embassy in Rabat, tell them I can't get through to the Consulate in Casa, and they seem to know the problem and without saying anything, just connect me to American Citizen Services person in Casa. But I tell her I have a K1 Visa interview scheduling question and she says she knows nothing about that - call the Visa Processing Center in Cairo, Egypt - gives me the number. I call and on hold for 2 hours, no answer. So my fiance and I try to send emails. No answer. #######? Is anyone else hitting a wall to schedule the interview????? Are there any insider tricks??? Do I have to bribe someone (it is Morocco after all)??? hahahahah ( please don't take offense)  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated?

[RJandHamid 1,133]

What is your current case status? It's very typical for it to take Casablanca 1-2 months from when the status first appears as "Ready" to send out the K-1 interview date. You don't set it up yourself, they will email you a packet with details and an interview date and time. If it's been awhile, you can also try emailing K1Casablanca@state.gov to try to speed things up. Hope you get an interview date soon!

[RTam 7]

15 hours ago, RJandHamid said:

What is your current case status? It's very typical for it to take Casablanca 1-2 months from when the status first appears as "Ready" to send out the K-1 interview date. You don't set it up yourself, they will email you a packet with details and an interview date and time. If it's been awhile, you can also try emailing K1Casablanca@state.gov to try to speed things up. Hope you get an interview date soon!

Thank you for the reply!! I’m not sure how to say “current status”. We are approved by USCIS and NVC. Our case was sent to Casablanca 30 Aug 2021.  Where do we look for status? And if it is “ready”?. We were simply told in an email to our immigration lawyer from the NVC, to contact the consulate. Which we tried and with no success, followed the steps on the “US travel docs” website which NEVER said we are supposed to wait to hear from the consulate BEFORE we fill out the DS160 and pay the fee and attempt to schedule an interview. How do you know what you know? When did you complete the k1 process? It kind of makes sense to wait to hear FROM the consulate since we had to wait to hear FROM USCIS and NVC, but sadly we never got that kind of instruction. 

[JeanneAdil 6,511]

https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx

 

leave it on immigrant 

and put in your case #

 

You have not recd the email with instructions for the medical exam,  list of drs ,   and the 2 criminal reports that will be needed ?n 

 

BTW Rabat has no information whats so ever about visas and appointments /  they are solely done by Casa

 

and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a timeline

 

 

Edited September 24, 2021 by JeanneAdil

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.

[TLG 3]

Funny, your story could have been written by me......except my future wife is in Vietnam. 

 

We have had the exact same issues for months trying to schedule an appointment in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam for her K1 visa. You do everything like you are asked to do, pay all the fees and submit every document known to man.........then you are stopped dead in your tracks when you try and schedule an interview.

 

Oh.......and you are only allowed to login (3) times each day to check and see if there is an open interview schedule to book a date, login more than that and they will lock you out for a few days. They are nice enough to NOT tell you this upfront by the way, you have to figure it out on your own like with most of the rest. 

 

Yep.......our lovely government isn't so good at providing instructions, unless they want more money and then you will easily be able to do that.

 

One shouldn't have to wait months just to schedule an interview date.........it's sad, very sad.

 

You have a better chance of winning the lottery then you do setting up an interview date..........at least in Vietnam anyway. 

 

I think that they would love it if people would just give up and go away, they already have your money and they really don't care what happens to you.

 

 

Good luck with your visa journey!!!