Depends on if sydney allows you to interview without it, some embassies do, some don’t. If they allow you in, you’d be put on AP pending submission of the medical. If the AP goes over a month end you lose your allocated visa number and would have to rely on another one being available when your visa is finally approved - probably not an issue this year but people have lost out on their visas this way in fully subscribed years in the past.
Thanks. Let's see how the timeline goes and if I need to look into this option. I would rather keep things clean but....
They could have, should have, etc are all personal opinions being expressed with no insight to what is really going on. Ever heard of the expression “orders from above”? To put it mildly, KCC staff are merely “foot soldiers” who do what they’re told to do by their superiors. These are contract employees who could have been pulled out to support some other under-staffed sections or initiatives once Trump’s PP were enacted. As contract employees, they could have been laid off. Yes, I’m aware of DV2020 and DV2021 selectees plights and dilemmas, I am not insensitive to their situations, it however doesn’t justify the opinions being expressed about KCC not doing anything. People honestly think the US government will continue paying workers to do nothing? I don’t think so.
Bingo. No way to know, but y’all will sit and criticize them to high heaven anyway.
my possibly flawed understanding was that scheduling is largely complete before the VB is released, so most of it for June interviews should have been done before the 9th. Why those 2 weeks? surely a whole month is more representatIve of a cycle in KCC’s (or NVC’s) life? I don’t understand the time frame. If we want to be critical then we need more data.
Back in the day they used to send all 2NLs in two batches in between release of the VB (usually mid month) and the end of the month. Lately they've been trickling a couple dozen cases per day, sometimes a bit more. That's how scheduling for both April and May looked like. They managed to send out around 700 cases each of those months. For June interviews (which is work done between April 9 and yesterday), they've send 135 cases so far.
Thankyou for the information. This is very crucial to know
For your question (in case your mad that we criticize them)
Rather than your one example, why don’t you tell us exactly what the situation of all of the 23000-odd already DQ people are, so we can list all the relevant factors and then figure out how KCC are doing it? Oh, you don’t know. Or are you just going to continue ranting based on the couple of cases you know about? Tell you what, can you guys maybe start a separate “bash KCC” thread and leave this one to constructive posts?
I will give this one (didn't know about the cases)
sorry while asking questions is one thing, it really does sound like a few of you are ranting, accusing KCC of being lazy, not doing their work, are doing almost nothing (these last being your particular words) etc. It‘s very tiresome and unconstructive. Not to mention hugely insulting to a very small amount of people with a very large amount of work.
This is very unfortunate news. KCC only do what they are told to do, and they can only schedule interviews for the slots that the embassies provide for them. So it seems that rather than sitting on their butts being lazy and doing nothing, if there is any sharp slowdown in scheduling it is actually due to orders from above and what they are allocated from embassies. Extremely disappointing news that makes the decision to go current and raise everyone’s hopes even more perplexing.