What if your embassy closes?

[Kabedi3166 5]

My husband's CR1 interview was scheduled for this month...and then our embassy (Kinshasa, DRC) has closed due to growing unrest in the country and has suspended all visa interviews. What options do we have at this point? Do we just wait for the embassy to reopen, or can we transfer to another embassy? Do embassies ever outright cancel visa interviews and not reschedule them in this situation? Thanks for any help from folks with experience of this. 

[Kabedi3166 5]

No one has responded, we are going to try transferring to another embassy. Is there truly no one with this experience? 

[daigo1 2]

I don't have personal experience with this, but I know people that had their CR1 interviews scheduled in Libya last year were able to transfer their petitions to a different country (Tunisia in particular) due to similar circumstances with the Libyan embassy being evacuated. If you did not receive any phone calls from the Consular Section, please check your e-mail associated with the CR1 application for further instructions. If you haven't received anything, then you can try and take proactive initiative on rescheduling, but transferring the interview to another embassy is 100% a viable option (and probably the only one).

[pushbrk 13,181]

Contact NVC about transferring the case to a neighboring country.

[Kabedi3166 5]

Thanks for the responses, we'll be trying to transfer to another embassy this week. 

[Kabedi3166 5]

Do you know, if you transfer to another embassy, do you go back to the end of the queue for interview scheduling? We've just completed 9 months of waiting for IL.

[SalishSea 18,225]

13 hours ago, Kabedi3166 said:

Do you know, if you transfer to another embassy, do you go back to the end of the queue for interview scheduling? We've just completed 9 months of waiting for IL.

No one here would have any way of knowing internal operations of particular consulates.

[Kabedi3166 5]

8 hours ago, SalishSea said:

No one here would have any way of knowing internal operations of particular consulates.

I was asking if anyone has experience transferring embassies and what this meant with regards to timing of the interview. If they had to undergo the same wait time as newly DQed applicants 

[Kabedi3166 5]

We reached out to NVC visa public inquiry form to request a transfer to another embassy and got a non-response that didn't take into account that our interview was cancelled (even though we'd received a phone call from NVC saying so). Do you think we can just reach out to nearby embassies even if my husband doesn't have residency in those countries?