Postponing the interview in Manila

[seekingthetruth 1,246]

Any recent experiences of postponing the interview in Manila?

[marriedtomrg 141]

On 1/21/2023 at 11:14 PM, seekingthetruth said:

Any recent experiences of postponing the interview in Manila?

If you already have completed the medical exam, you run the risk of remedical - results expire within 3 to 6 months.

 

If you haven't scheduled the medical yet, you can postpone/reschedule for a limited number of times. Not sure of the official number but a cursory search suggests 2 to 4 times.

 

Just keep your case active.

[seekingthetruth 1,246]

8 hours ago, marriedtomrg said:

If you already have completed the medical exam, you run the risk of remedical - results expire within 3 to 6 months.

 

If you haven't scheduled the medical yet, you can postpone/reschedule for a limited number of times. Not sure of the official number but a cursory search suggests 2 to 4 times.

 

Just keep your case active.

Yes, I meant before medical and if anyone had some tips on rescheduling.  Thank you!

[top_secret 2,417]

3 hours ago, seekingthetruth said:

Yes, I meant before medical and if anyone had some tips on rescheduling.  Thank you!

Have you even been scheduled yet?   No need to worry about rescheduling unless you have a scheduled date that will not work.  With all these unrequested expedites being issued by USEM lately, it is beginning to look like just about everyone will be self-scheduling in which case they could just hold off self-scheduling until they want to up to a year from when the Embassy receives the case.

[seekingthetruth 1,246]

1 hour ago, top_secret said:

Have you even been scheduled yet?   No need to worry about rescheduling unless you have a scheduled date that will not work.  With all these unrequested expedites being issued by USEM lately, it is beginning to look like just about everyone will be self-scheduling in which case they could just hold off self-scheduling until they want to up to a year from when the Embassy receives the case.

No, we are still at NVC.  I have been postponing at NVC but now we are ready to move forward.  Hoping to time things, again, to work with the kids schooling.

[seekingthetruth 1,246]

2 hours ago, top_secret said:

With all these unrequested expedites being issued by USEM lately

Have there been unrequested expedites in Manila?  I have not been following closely.  Good to know if I need to try and expedite.  I just put the house here in Subic Bay Freeport for sale today.

[Dave Knapp 47]

4 hours ago, seekingthetruth said:

Have there been unrequested expedites in Manila?  I have not been following closely.  Good to know if I need to try and expedite.  I just put the house here in Subic Bay Freeport for sale today.

We were notified on Jan 9 by NVC that our (unrequested) expedite request was approved by USEM.  We didn't do that, so it appears they are issuing them to folks who have been in the system too long. Our priority date is 10/03/2021. hope this helps.

[seekingthetruth 1,246]

1 hour ago, Dave Knapp said:

We were notified on Jan 9 by NVC that our (unrequested) expedite request was approved by USEM.  We didn't do that, so it appears they are issuing them to folks who have been in the system too long. Our priority date is 10/03/2021. hope this helps.

Thanks Dave!  Our priority date is 11/20/2020, so I wonder if that will help us get quick processing when I finish the NVC documents stage???  I have everything ready but need to go through it for any updates needed.  Sounds like it might help, so if the interview is too early for us, that is when we might need to reschedule it.

[top_secret 2,417]

11 hours ago, seekingthetruth said:

Have there been unrequested expedites in Manila?  I have not been following closely.  Good to know if I need to try and expedite.

Since about the beginning of this year there have been a number of anecdotal reports, here and elsewhere, of couples receiving unsolicited expedites from USEM for CR/IR interviews.  Presumably, this also opens the door to these couples self scheduling their own interviews on https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/ .   Logging in there shows wide open availability for IV interviews in the immediate future so it seems USEM is not operating with any type of backlog whatsoever of available CR/IR interview slots.