We had been 149 days in the long wait GE renewal process when we received our conditional approves last week. We were getting ready for work but I went ahead and checked available interview slots at our closest GE office which is San Antonio International Airport (SAT) a mere nine miles from our house. When trying to pull up the SAT appointment calendar the system immediately showed no appointments available at SAT, in fact didn’t even show me the calendar, and pointed me to the “closest” offices with available slots. One of those was Laredo, about a two hour drive from our house, so I discussed a road trip with the wife and what would be the best day or days for her. She checked her work calendar and gave me a couple dates. Logged in to look at the Laredo calendar and amazingly the SAT appointment calendar appeared with literally days and days of open appointments. This over a matter of two hours where no appointments were available to there were plenty. I can only think that it was a computer glitch or since SAT is not a 24/7 operation somebody had come to work that morning in the CBP office and turned on a computer that had their appointment calendar on it. I stayed with one of our agreed upon dates and scheduled two back-to-back lunch time appointments and we’ll turn it into a nice lunch date. Point is keep checking.