I applied for AT Kearney Middle East in summer and, after a successful phone screening call, I got invited for 1st round interviews over phone. Though HR said a couple months later that my 1st round interviews will be scheduled after January 2020 (I think it's not only me who is facing this problem here).

Now I'm thinking of applying for my home country's office in the meantime and was wondering whether it would have any negative consequences for my current application (e.g. getting a rejection email although having been confirmed 1st round interviews just because I applied for another country afterwards).

I think it is allowed to submit multiple applications at ATK, since the vacancies are being posted separately by each country's office on their website (I could try as well with a different email/my nickname though).

The two advantages of this would be that the interview process would probably be faster and the interviews will be face to face and not over phone, as it is the case in the Middle East (I already had a phone case interview with another company and bad experience with sound quality, so I would like to avoid this in the future).

Would you suggest me to do this? I tried to contact HR in my home country but got no response yet.