same issue with my husband. We didn’t have app in yet when given exclusion order. We have gotten aor now but from my understanding,it’s aip that may or may not help. We are April applicants and some others from April have gotten theirs. Still nothing for us yet though. We have the 2nd meeting to discuss the enforcement of removal order/or other options ( prra for example) tomorrow. Officer here in our city that we saw 10 months ago who gave the exclusion order thinks we will be ok, despite not having aor before the exclusion order was issued or even aip before this next interview, which gives us some hope. but I would feel a lot safer with aip right now lol
I’m guessing, and reading, it really all depend on ur situation and the officer in charge. Good luck. Fingers crossed
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It took 10 months from the time of exclusion order to next interview for us. Apparently not everyone is so lucky to have so much time, but hoping u are so that ur app can progress a little more before the time comes