US Embassy changes interview Scheduling process starting September 28th

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On 1/22/2025 at 3:40 PM, top_secret said:

What has been happening with CR1/IR1 and some other family category cases at US Embassy Manila for a while now is so called "mass expedites' whereby the embassy has been sending out large batches of unrequested approved expedites as a way of repurposing the expedite system to allow self scheduling of ordinary cases.  It introduces an additional layer of chaos but many CR/IR cases are self scheduling now and the embassy does seem to be making huge inroads into their backlog.   The backlog does now seem to be well under the 8-12 months it was recently. 

I have seen the mass expedites yes. OP was referring to initial process, unless a mass expedite goes out he would not be able to schedule an appointment due to being CR1/IR1. Good to hear the backlog is getting cleared though, our 130 should be done processing soon (March 2024) and both of us are getting anxious to finally be together.