Hi all!
Just wanted to share a few email responses we got. My fiance was placed in AP in November 2023 for what we believe was traveling to the Middle East. Our wedding date is scheduled for November 2024, we set the date after scheduling our interview and before we knew about the ds-5535. We set the date a year and a half in advance because we didn't think there would be any delays (haha). Anyway, here we are. A lawyer advised us to email the consulate and explain our situation, show them proof of contracts, deposits etc due to not being able to change the wedding date. In the Jewish religion, once you set a wedding date that is your destiny and you cannot change it. I think I emailed the consulate about 5 times since but the last 2 emails I wrote explained how we have a wedding date set with contracts signed and deposits put down. Yes, maybe we shouldn't have have set a date until the visa was issued that was our mistake. We had no clue about this possibility and were eager to start our lives. So here are the responses I got after about 3 weeks of waiting lol