Interview has been cancelled...

[dhyun4]

Hi,

I had been scheduled to have an interview today, but received a letter a few weeks ago that my interview has been cancelled due to.....
I called, and they told me I just need to wait until I receive a new interview date. I've submitted my application around at the end of Feb 2012. When I received my interview letter around April, I was very happy that the process seemed to be going fast and smooth...until I received the letter.

Does anyone here also happen to have the same situation as mine? Do you know how long on average does it take to receive a new interview date?
I'm in VA.

Thanks all.

 

[Marusia_GC]

Hi,

I had been scheduled to have an interview today, but received a letter a few weeks ago that my interview has been cancelled due to.....
I called, and they told me I just need to wait until I receive a new interview date. I've submitted my application around at the end of Feb 2012. When I received my interview letter around April, I was very happy that the process seemed to be going fast and smooth...until I received the letter.

Does anyone here also happen to have the same situation as mine? Do you know how long on average does it take to receive a new interview date?
I'm in VA.

Thanks all.

Why they have cancelled the interview? Is this their own technical reason, or something related to your case?

 

[kurdsin1]

Hi,

I had been scheduled to have an interview today, but received a letter a few weeks ago that my interview has been cancelled due to.....
I called, and they told me I just need to wait until I receive a new interview date. I've submitted my application around at the end of Feb 2012. When I received my interview letter around April, I was very happy that the process seemed to be going fast and smooth...until I received the letter.

Does anyone here also happen to have the same situation as mine? Do you know how long on average does it take to receive a new interview date?
I'm in VA.

Thanks all.

Hi i'm also in VA and have had my interview at Fairfax Do , it took me 5.5 months before I've had my interview .

 

[dhyun4]

Have no idea - I don't remember exactly what it said, but it was something like "due to extraordinary or unforeseen blah blah blah..."

I called them and they just said, "wait"..

Why they have cancelled the interview? Is this their own technical reason, or something related to your case?

 

[WBH]

gusoco Simpkin

Hi,

I had been scheduled to have an interview today, but received a letter a few weeks ago that my interview has been cancelled due to.....
I called, and they told me I just need to wait until I receive a new interview date. I've submitted my application around at the end of Feb 2012. When I received my interview letter around April, I was very happy that the process seemed to be going fast and smooth...until I received the letter.

Does anyone here also happen to have the same situation as mine? Do you know how long on average does it take to receive a new interview date?
I'm in VA.

Thanks all.

My interview was cancled by USCIS three times before I eventuall went thru.
I personally beleive in my case it might be due to my FOIA request intefering
with my alien files

 

[dhyun4]

My interview was cancled by USCIS three times before I eventuall went thru.
I personally beleive in my case it might be due to my FOIA request intefering
with my alien files

OMG....Hope that mine doesn't take that long.
My case is pretty straightforward - nothing special and no name change...
Hopefully I get a letter from them.

 

[baikal3]

Hi,

I had been scheduled to have an interview today, but received a letter a few weeks ago that my interview has been cancelled due to.....
I called, and they told me I just need to wait until I receive a new interview date. I've submitted my application around at the end of Feb 2012. When I received my interview letter around April, I was very happy that the process seemed to be going fast and smooth...until I received the letter.

Does anyone here also happen to have the same situation as mine? Do you know how long on average does it take to receive a new interview date?
I'm in VA.

Thanks all.

There were quite a few cases reported in this forum where an interview was scheduled and then cancelled.
Typically, it happens for one of two reasons:

1) The background checks (primarily the FBI Name Check) are not yet completed. The USCIS is not supposed to schedule an interview until all the background checks have been completed, but occasionally they make a mistake and schedule an interview before that happens. When such a mistake is discovered, they have to cancel the interview and wait until the background checks are done before rescheduling the interview.

Long delays due to FBI Name Checks were quite common before mid-2008, but these days they are a rarity, although it still happens occasionally.

2) The applicant has more than one A-file (e.g. this happens if by mistake the same person was assigned two different A-numbers at some point in their immigration history), or some components of the applicant's A-file have separated from the main A-file (again, this occasionally happens, usually because of some sort of a bureaucratic mistake). The A-file needs to be unified before the case can proceed. It sometimes happens during the interview itself that the IO notices that some part of the A-file is missing - in which case there is a significant post-interview wait while the A-file is unified. But if they discover this kind of an issue before the interview takes place, they do cancel the interview and wait until the A-file is unified before re-scheduling
the interview. This kind of delay could take from a couple of weeks to a few months or even longer, it is hard to predict.

 

[WBH]

There were quite a few cases reported in this forum where an interview was scheduled and then cancelled.
Typically, it happens for one of two reasons

It is said USCIS is not good at handling exceptions (like a if - if else - if else sequwnece in computing code. Last else is missing in USCIS). Once one exception happens, it mess up the system for a long time. That is why there is strong advice against those who choose to cancel their interview themselves.

 

[dhyun4]

Seriously, if it takes more than a year, I don't know what to do. I've planned already what/when/where I'm going to do in the next few months..
Do you think it would make a difference if I make an infopass appointment and vist them?
Thanks everyone for advice and experience...

It is said USCIS is not good at handling exceptions (like a if - if else - if else sequwnece in computing code. Last else is missing in USCIS). Once one exception happens, it mess up the system for a long time. That is why there is strong advice against those who choose to cancel their interview themselves.

 

[baikal3]

Seriously, if it takes more than a year, I don't know what to do. I've planned already what/when/where I'm going to do in the next few months..
Do you think it would make a difference if I make an infopass appointment and vist them?
Thanks everyone for advice and experience...

First, hopefully it won't take over a year in your case.

Yeah, you could go for an INFOPASS appointment. That wouldn't speed up the processing of your case, but at least there is a chance that they'll tell you what's holding up your case. Fairly often they give rather uninformative non-response responses at INFOPASS, but it's still probably worth trying. You might also contact the U.S. Representative for your area and the two U.S. Senators for your state and ask them for help with finding out what's delaying your case. All members of Congress do these kinds of inquires routinely, as a part of constituent services. If you go to the official web-page of a member of Congress, there will be instructions there about how to submit a constituent services request. This way you'll get a more informative and substantive response from USCIS about what's going on with your case.

 

[BigJoe5]

Seriously, if it takes more than a year, I don't know what to do. I've planned already what/when/where I'm going to do in the next few months..
Do you think it would make a difference if I make an infopass appointment and vist them?
Thanks everyone for advice and experience...

You only filed about 3 months ago .... you are jumping the gun in worrying or complaining about anything yet. Nobody will take you seriously if you seek "help"--no Congressperson nor the Ombudsman will even give you the time of day YET.

 

[WBH]

Seriously, if it takes more than a year, I don't know what to do. I've planned already what/when/where I'm going to do in the next few months..
Do you think it would make a difference if I make an infopass appointment and vist them?
Thanks everyone for advice and experience...

It won't make any difference except for more guesses on your part. In my case, I got interview letter and then got a cancellation letter, then another interview letter, then another cacellation letter, then anoter interview letter but no
more cancellation letter so I went but was told in the office by a receptionist that they cancelled it again because My a file had not arrived. I told him this was the third time and I put on a miserable look, which I am not feigning because it was real.
So maybe I earned his symphathy and the receitonist told me to leave him a number and that he woudl personally
look into the matter. I was not sure ai should took his words but in that week I did got a phone call from him saying my interview was next week and my a-file arrived.

I did not know if the receiponist made a difference or my A file would arrive any way or not. Then that was the happy end of
a draded story. After interview, I sent a thank you card to teh receitionst.

In your case, you don't have to worry for long term because the interview will come but in short term you can get frustrated.
Just hang in there

 

[WBH]

Seriously, if it takes more than a year, I don't know what to do. I've planned already what/when/where I'm going to do in the next few months..
Do you think it would make a difference if I make an infopass appointment and vist them?
Thanks everyone for advice and experience...

If you don't mind the trouble of a trip, you can just go to yoru orginal scheduled interview even if it was cancelled.
You can even pretend as if you did not receive the cancellation letter (since you are not under the oath, I don;t think
it is legally considered lying to USSCIS) or you do not pretend and just showed the receinist cancellation letter
and inquire why. It is even said someone did that and was allowed for interview (The cancellation was due to
A file not having arrived but then it did arrive when the applicant went there regardless).

Of course this advice is only valid if you don't mind a extra car trip

 

[dhyun4]

I know that it's been only three months since I submitted the application and that it's still very early in the process...
You guys are right - I am freaking out way too early.
I will wait another week or so and see if I hear anything back from them.
Thanks everyone.

If you don't mind the trouble of a trip, you can just go to yoru orginal scheduled interview even if it was cancelled.
You can even pretend as if you did not receive the cancellation letter (since you are not under the oath, I don;t think
it is legally considered lying to USSCIS) or you do not pretend and just showed the receinist cancellation letter
and inquire why. It is even said someone did that and was allowed for interview (The cancellation was due to
A file not having arrived but then it did arrive when the applicant went there regardless).

Of course this advice is only valid if you don't mind a extra car trip

 

[dhyun4]

Follow-up

I know that it's been only three months since I submitted the application and that it's still very early in the process...
You guys are right - I am freaking out way too early.
I will wait another week or so and see if I hear anything back from them.
Thanks everyone.

So, it's been little over two months since I freaked out by the cancellation of my interview. I called a few times and they basically told me last week that I will receive an interview letter within 90...90!!! days... I've scheduled an info pass next week to ask them why it's been taking so wrong because I confirmed with the USCIS rep that the Fairfax office has received my file on May 27, 2012...

I've seen people from VA area that they finished the whole process within 5 months or so...anyway, good luck everyone who's currently going through the process.

 

[dcmetro22042]

Good luck with your infopass.