Please share your experience in getting Schengen visa to get to the interview in Warsaw. I've heard that Poland doesn't issue any visas to Russians at all and best chance (50/50) would be Italy. I wonder if the following would help when applying for a Schengen visa from Italy:
Attaching interview invitation letter from NVC.
Attaching copy of US passport of a spouse traveling with an applicant.
Related question: when the packet of documents arrives to the applicant before the interview, what it contains? I've specified my US address as a mailing address for that packet because Russian Post Office is notoriously unreliable. Re-sending those packets by DHL to Russia is currently impossible, but they can make the scanned copies for me over there. Will the copies be accepted to get to the interview? Or maybe NVC also emails those documents to the applicant?