sweetie, you know i nothing about the crazy system over in the US.

the only thing i could suggest is to fill out the form + send it in anyway. most bureaucracies state an upper limit for timeliness, but the forms could be processed much faster. where i work, we say 30 days, but most stuff gets processed in 2-3 days.

hopefully someone else will have a better suggestion, but it could be the fall back plan should nothing else eventuate?