For many people, it's difficult/expensive to get to/from SFO during the hours that BART isn't operating.

Maybe this is old news, but I noticed today that SFO has appointments around the clock now. This morning there was an appointment available this Friday. That's gone now, but I see several available between 1:30AM and 5AM on Sunday, July 24th. I rescheduled and got my wife an appt in the late evening in early August to replace her original mid-October appointment.

Thank you for sharing. It has already been mentioned in this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=22732

This is supposed to be an experiment for two months started on 12 June 2016.

If you continuously search for a new appointment date and time, you are very likely to find a close in slot in the next two weeks, especially SFO is now open 24/7. Good luck.

Interesting evolving timeline for SFO. When I started looking for open appointment times in mid-June for SFO, there were a lot of openings in early August. As of this morning the soonest there are any openings is December 4. So in less than 3 weeks, SFO has filled up 4 months of appointments.

As I have watched the trending over the past few week, this heavy load on SFO led me to believe their 24-hour interviewing would continue until not needed. But it looks like they are cutting back hours at the end of summer to 12-16 hours each day. Ouch!

Heads-up that EWR has opened up a bunch of GE interview slots early in the morning and later at night. I just grabbed one for this weekend after 9pm. May also be available elsewhere, I only checked EWR. Every day I checked from 7/2 through 7/31 had multiple slots available.

I was just about to post the same thing as above. EWR was booked out till end of august and now theres super eary 5-6am and after 9pm availability pretty much everyday in july.

I checked JFK and they are still booked out till september

The NYC Bowling Green (?) interview site had been showing better availability than JFK, so that might work for you.

The appointment availability has just been expanded even further at EWR. Appointments all day everyday starting tomorrow through at least July. I just switched my nighttime appointment to a nice late morning one on Saturday.

They just opened up a whole # of slots all day in EWR for July/August now.

I just scrambled to get my interviews setup for my wife, kids and myself when I could have waited and scheduled all of us on 1 day.

Oh well.

August slots at SFO (just now!)
 

For anyone looking for SFO appointments soon, at this moment there are multiple early morning openings August 7, 8, 9, 10. It seems like they must have just added more staff or extended hours. More most of the dates I looked at there have at least 10 or more slots. This is as of 1600 PDT, June 29. Hopefully there will be more here and at other sites.

Try to all go in at first appointment. Many reported success. Good luck and let us know your result.

SFO is open 24/7 for two months since 12 June 2016. Have you tried their early bird specials yet?:)

SFO - I successfully moved my appointment up a couple months thanks to the 24/7 change. I'm wondering if the 24/7 thing has made it easier for walk-ins...? My new appointment is inconveniently timed, and I'm tempted to make the trip up there late one night or early one morning just to see how it goes.

Checking for Available Appointments
 

I live in NYC. I applied on June 14 and got my provisional acceptance on July 7. I was able to schedule an appointment at Broad Street for August 15.

I am going to Paris on July 20 and was wondering if it is possible to check for last minute cancellations without giving up the appointment I currently have?

Also,does it pay to try a walk in?

Thanks!

Yes you can check for availability without giving up your current appointment.

There is a thread about walk-ins but I don't think you can get into the building in lower Manhattan without an appointment so that's kind of a nonstarter.