Question about Interview.

[scientist1976 0]

Hey boys and girls...Its me again...The crazy Texan with mucho problems....Anyways here is whats going on. My fiance is having problems getting her passort in time for her interview in Manila. Well according to NVC here in the US, I received the letter on 11/07/07 that they forward my case to the Manila embassy. So I guess, people with similar timelines have there interviews as early as the first week of December. The problem is that my fiance is now in the process of getting her Birth Certificate corrected (because of a misspelling)through the NSO. She said that she should get her Birth Certificate on the third week of December. After that she has to travel to Cebu to get her CFO certificate then get her passport. So I am thinking she probably wont get her passport maybe at the end of December or even early January.....My question is that can we delay the medical and interview because of the situation with the passport...What can we do...Please any response will be greatly appreciated.

[Dakine 26]

Hey boys and girls...Its me again...The crazy Texan with mucho problems....Anyways here is whats going on. My fiance is having problems getting her passort in time for her interview in Manila. Well according to NVC here in the US, I received the letter on 11/07/07 that they forward my case to the Manila embassy. So I guess, people with similar timelines have there interviews as early as the first week of December. The problem is that my fiance is now in the process of getting her Birth Certificate corrected (because of a misspelling)through the NSO. She said that she should get her Birth Certificate on the third week of December. After that she has to travel to Cebu to get her CFO certificate then get her passport. So I am thinking she probably wont get her passport maybe at the end of December or even early January.....My question is that can we delay the medical and interview because of the situation with the passport...What can we do...Please any response will be greatly appreciated.

Yeah she can reschedule. Normal reschedules are about 2 months at USEM.

Edited November 20, 2007 by Haole

[spidergirl 0]

Don't worry about the medical and the interview yet because theres no schedule yet, focus on how to get her passport soon. Sometimes USEmbassy scheduled the interview 5 months after the approval of the petition (like what they did to me). Your papers was forwarded to the USEmbassy at 11/07/07, its impossible that you can get a December interview because of the upcoming holidays in the Philippines. If so, you can reschedule.

[Jasman0717 9]

If the NVC just assigned your case number at the beginning of November I don't think you will have the interview for a couple of months. Isn't that enough time to get a Filipino passport issued?

[TinTin and Samby 11]

Congrats on getting this far!

Some words of advise from personal experience, if I may. I would NOT count on her having her corrected BC in hand by the 3rd week in December. That process with the NSO is maddeningly iterative. With each step, 3 more steps are discovered! Also, please do use the Passport Direct Online Service for getting her passport. It is MUCH MUCH more efficient. However, regardless of what they quote you for turnaround time, bank on 3 weeks- 4 weeks, especially around the holidays. Here is the link. http://www.passport.com.ph/ Just pay the price and let the time go by, you can do all sorts of gyrations and trips back and forth to NSO and DFA, but ultimately, you will have more frustration and it will take longer than if you let the teleservice people take care of it for you. Note..also, if you do the the Passport Direct Online Service, you can also be sure you will get the new Machine Readable Passport that the Philippines just started inssuing this year. If you go to a local DFA office, you may still get the old style passport issued, as all regional dfa offices have not yet fully implemented the new machine readable passport issuances.

If i was sitting here on 21 November 2006, still needing NSO annotated Birth Certificate (they only annotate the 'correction' along the side of the Birth Certificate, they do NOT actually correct the error in the main body of the Birth Certificate Form...go figure!) and the CFO class and the CFO stamp and a first issuance of a Philippines Passport, I would be planning on not having all of those in hand until Feb 1, 2008, to be safe.

Also, if you havent yet, you can take this time to get her Cenomar, NBI Clearance, immunzation records, etc.

Good luck...just keep the patience level high and dont expect any logic from the steps required.

-Samby

Edited November 21, 2007 by TinTin and Samby