Never Hurts to Ask!!!

We received a notice from the Department of Homeland Security to come in for our I600A. The appointment date was for October 5th. That's another 3 weeks away. So, after talking to other families and a call to our agency, we decided we were just going to show up and ask to be seen earlier than our Oct. 5th appointment.

We showed up and were asked "Do you have an appointment?" by the guard at the door. When I told him yes and handed him the appointment papers, he looked up at me and said "These are for October 5th" and I said, "yes, but we are hoping we can be seen earlier". He asked us to hold on and he went off to talk to a supervisor. He returned with a lady in a suit and she asked if she could help us. We just explained that Michael had a work conflict on the 5th (which he REALLY does, so the 5th wouldn't have worked for us either way) and we were hoping that we could be seen for our appointment earlier. She said she couldn't get us in at that moment, but to come back later in the afternoon at 1:30 and asked if that would work for us. Um, yeah, compared to October 5th, that'll work just fine.

Just goes to show that it never hurts to ask!

~paula