Immigrant visa pause: status by embassy
The 75-country immigrant visa pause was vacated on 21 August and posts were told on 10 September to review every case refused under it. This page tracks what each post has actually done since, from what applicants report. Crowdsourced and anonymised; updated every day from the same evidence as the daily digest. As of 14 Oct. Each post name opens that post’s own page, with its cases, cancellations and every digest mention.
64posts tracked
33calling non-plaintiffs
4plaintiffs only
17nothing reported
Key facts, as of 14 Oct
- 64 posts tracked. 33 are calling at least one non-plaintiff, 4 have called plaintiffs only, 10 show movement without a clear pattern, and 17 have no callback of any kind reported.
- Moving most recently: Cotonou (14 Oct), Bangkok (13 Oct), Bogota (13 Oct), Rio de Janeiro (13 Oct), Addis Ababa (13 Oct), Belgrade (13 Oct).
- Scale: the Department’s own 6 October court declaration counted about 706 pause cases adjudicated between 21 August and 30 September, 318 approved and 388 refused, out of roughly 43,000 refused under the pause.
- Source: applicant reports, read every day; this table is the same evidence as the daily digest. Nothing on it comes from the posts themselves.
What the table means
- Plaintiffs only: every callback reported at the post has been a named plaintiff in one of the four suits. The government has told a court that posts may not resume immigrant visa processing until public-charge training is complete, with named plaintiffs as the exception.
- Some non-plaintiffs: at least one applicant who is not a plaintiff has received a case-specific instruction, usually a new medical or a second interview.
- No callbacks reported: applicants at the post report no email, no instruction and no status change. Absence of reports is not proof of absence, but at posts with dozens of applicants writing in, it is close.
- Posts marked not a pause post are included because the worldwide suspension of immigrant visa interviews since 24 August affects them too.
Status by post
| Post | Who is being called | Last movement | Pause cases held | Cancellations | What has happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok Thailand 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 13 Oct | 6 | — | First-hand second-interview outcome: an IR1 first interviewed 27 January was re-interviewed in mid-October and handed a refusal letter citing 212(a)(4) with a request for a US lease or proof of housing and a job offer letter. The couple has lived abroad together for five years, the petitioner works remotely for a US company at under 25k a year, a joint sponsor earns many times the guideline but was not discussed, and an invitation letter from a sibling was called insufficient; commenters read it as domicile. Relayed earlier: re-interviews began Tuesday 6 October, a handful each week, one moved from 13 to 27 October. 27 October first interviews were cancelled on 1 October; a late-August K-1 has no date. Applicants add on 14 October that the post is re-interviewing everyone in order, a handful each Tuesday, and that an employment-based applicant who wrote in September has had no reply; EB re-interviews may not have started. Contacting the post: Second interviews on Tuesdays; refusal letters with document lists; generic replies to email. |
| Bogota Colombia 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 13 Oct | 12 | 2 | First employment-based second interview reported, around 13 October: a non-plaintiff EB-3 (other workers) family first interviewed 28 January was told the case is approvable but that no visa numbers are available in the category, so it waits for numbers with passports left at the post. The officer checked English first, asked about the job offer, the spouse's work plans, salary and childcare, looked at the health insurance research (credit-card travel cover and a US quote satisfied him) and asked about savings and assets without documents. A March EB-3 and a 27 January child case are still waiting to be scheduled; applicants say scheduling is not chronological. Fastest post in the dataset: on 6 October two non-plaintiff spouse cases first interviewed in late April and 11 May were approved at second interviews, one with the visa collected the same afternoon. Relayed on 10 October: an IR1 interviewed around 18-19 August was contacted only to send her passport, with no second interview, because the first interview had already covered savings, assets, debts and insurance; the first passport-only request reported anywhere. A third 6 October case was sent for a joint sponsor over a negative adjusted gross income. The 23 September email cohort (January and February first interviews) is stuck behind a scheduling portal that will not open a calendar. Contacting the post: Case-specific emails with assigned dates; a relayed passport-only request; portal faults for self-booking. |
| Rio de Janeiro Brazil 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 13 Oct | 5 | 2 | Relayed 13 October from a screenshot: a January first interview has a re-interview on 10 November. Another applicant hears the post is working both ends of the backlog, not strictly in date order, so that recent interviewees do not also lose their medicals. A family case went to Issued on CEAC with an email asking for the passports around 11 October (second interview not stated). Chronological re-interviews are reaching January and February first interviews, so later cohorts expect expired medicals. One jump in the queue: a non-plaintiff IR1 first interviewed 9 April, whose second child is due 24 November, got a 28 October second interview on 8 October, a day after the post told a senator's office that rescheduling is chronological. A June case is waiting. Earlier: the 29 September second interview issued in two days; about thirty January employment-based families emailed for after 20 October. Contacting the post: Short-notice emails; chronological order with humanitarian exceptions via a senator. |
| Amman Jordan 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 12 Oct | 2 | — | Relayed on 12 October from a local intermediary: the embassy is open and interviewing immigrant cases in small numbers each day, taking cancelled first interviews before refusals. Applicants in the thread say nearly everyone contacted gets a re-interview only, with three or four visas actually issued and the rest in administrative processing for about two weeks; an email to the scheduling vendor around 7 October was told officers are training for public charge. A non-plaintiff spouse case first interviewed in February had a five-minute second interview in late September: passport kept, no 221(g), CEAC moved from Refused to Ready. First interviews cancelled for 5 and 25 March were still without dates on 12 October. Contacting the post: Re-interviews in small daily numbers; few issuances; vendor says officers are training. |
| Warsaw Poland 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 12 Oct | 5 | 3 (2 rebooked) | Relayed on 12 October from a Russian-language group: K-1 interviews have been rescheduled since the retraining, with applicants asked for the beneficiary's savings, assets, education, proof of not using benefits at home, employment history and a health insurance plan. Second interviews for non-plaintiffs continue: two IR1s first interviewed in April have new medicals and second interviews on 19 October, a Russian sibling case (F4) is invited for mid-October with 'financial statement documents', and parents refused in March are invited for 6 October. Applicants report only October slots were offered when scheduling. An EB-3 from a non-pause country interviewed 28 September was told everything looked good and still left with a 221(g). The 28 September EB-3 still read Ready on 14 October after one CEAC touch, with an inquiry unanswered. Contacting the post: Scheduling emails; live agent reachable; post emails silent on pending cases. |
| Guangzhou China 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 11 Oct | 0 | — | A Bangladeshi EB-2 NIW applicant placed in administrative processing after a May 2025 first interview, with police certificate and CV supplied in June 2025, was emailed in October for a second interview and told to bring 'evidence of financial plan in the USA', an updated police clearance and a new medical. Whether the year-long hold was the pause or a field check is not stated. Not a plaintiff. Contacting the post: Second-interview email naming a financial-plan document. |
| Tokyo Japan 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 10 Oct | 4 | 8 (2 rebooked) | A K-1 applicant says no Tokyo interviews had been rescheduled as of 13 October. Mid-October immigrant interviews are being cancelled: an applicant due in the week of 12 October found the mass 'rescheduled, do not appear' notice in the scheduling site's message centre on 10 October, with no new date. A spouse interviewed 21 July, refused under the pause and asked for more of the petitioner's financials, has had the passport held since July with no contact. The 5 October form letter about training remains the only reply; August cancellations wait. A non-pause New Zealand-passport case went Issued on 1 October without a second interview. Contacting the post: Mass cancellation notices in the message centre; form letter about training; passports held. |
| Almaty Kazakhstan 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 1 | — | First non-plaintiff re-interview reported, and it ended in a refusal: a 64-year-old IR5 parent first interviewed 17 February was emailed at short notice in the week of 5 October for a follow-up interview with a new medical and a document list (credit report, certificate of any social assistance received, asset valuation with translation, bank and pension statements, a US health insurance plan, a job offer or work plan). The I-864 was above the guideline, but no insurance plan or work plan could be shown; she was handed a 212(a)(4) paper with no explanation and her visitor visa was cancelled. Earlier: plaintiffs scheduled first, per relayed reports; a non-plaintiff CR1 interviewed 30 March had no contact as of 6 October. RE-INTERVIEW DATE APPROXIMATE. Contacting the post: Short-notice email with a document list; refusal paper at the window. |
| Johannesburg South Africa 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 0 | — | Second interviews are happening and one ended in a refusal: a Ghanaian spouse of a US-born citizen (income about $92,000, insurance in place) was refused 212(a)(4) at his 9 October follow-up interview after answering truthfully that the petitioner had received food assistance and WIC in 2017-18; the interview stopped at that answer, no documents were reviewed, and a second 221(g) put the case back in administrative processing with advice to consult a lawyer. Earlier: a one-line acknowledgement to an email, CEAC touches stopped 11 September. Contacting the post: Second interviews on the public charge questionnaire; one 212(a)(4) refusal. |
| Kathmandu Nepal 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 3 | 1 | First first-hand non-plaintiff callback: a parent case (IR5) first interviewed 27 January, which had supplied extra documents in July, was phoned on 9 October and then emailed a re-interview with a long list: resume, education certificates, bank balance and assets, a health insurance plan and a job offer. A bulk CEAC touch moved many cases to a 6 October last-updated date; relayed EB-3 phone calls on 7 October. A 28 January spouse case still reads 5 February. Emails to the post otherwise go unanswered. Contacting the post: Phone call then email with a document list; bulk CEAC touch; emails unanswered. |
| London United Kingdom 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 13 | 27 (8 rebooked) | Relayed 14 October: the four 1 October K-1 refusals were 221(g)s rather than denials (two students with a joint sponsor earning over 200k, one homeowner on about 70k with insurance and no debt), and K-1s interviewed on 6 October were approved. An immigrant-visa applicant says the post is not working in chronological order. K-1 public charge refusals are being reported, relayed on 12 October: a K-1 interviewed 1 October was refused on public-charge grounds despite a petitioner earning over 65k with a home and insurance ready, after the fiance's own finances were questioned; one telling says four of four interviews that day, the first after the training, ended the same way, and observers say beneficiaries' savings, debts and Universal Credit use are weighed regardless of the petitioner's income. Rescheduled pause cases are being interviewed: a spouse first interviewed in January had its rescheduled interview on 9 October and left with a 221(g) for an updated I-864, tax transcript and W-2, passport kept. Reschedules continue (10 September CR1 to 21 October, 16 September IR1 to 27 October, September K-1s to 23 and 26 October, relayed); the 8 October K-1 was turned away. Relayed from a K-1 group: interviews held since 1 October are running about half approved, half not, with no leniency for young couples. Approvals: the 8 July case re-interviewed 2 October has its passport ready; a 6 October approval on a rough savings figure; an O-1 in a white 221(g) from 3 September went Issued 30 September after the passport was recalled. A UK spouse who had claimed UK benefits while working was approved after the public-charge additions; she credits the petitioner's high earnings, an established home and US medical insurance (date not stated). Contacting the post: Re-interview emails with dates; K-1 public-charge refusals relayed. |
| Naples Italy 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 3 | 7 (1 rebooked) | Not a pause post, but relayed from a social media post: a Thai national living in Italy, first interviewed 5 May under the pause, was emailed to redo the medical and given a second interview on 9 October. A Pakistani spouse interviewed in July has had no CEAC change or contact. Military-spouse cases are expedited (the 23 September IR1 went Issued 6 October). Everyone else, including 25 and 26 August and 16 September cancellations, has nothing after six weeks, and emails go unanswered. Contacting the post: Military spouses rebooked and issued; one relayed pause re-interview; others unanswered. |
| Tbilisi Georgia 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 9 Oct | 4 | 1 | A parent case read Issued on CEAC on 9 October a few days after a second interview that covered the parents' potential employment, education, work history and bank accounts, the petitioner's job and finances, assets at assessed value and health insurance (the petitioner will buy a plan until they find work); passport not yet back. A K-1 rescheduled two days before its 2 September date still has nothing. Earlier: diversity visa applicants told to collect passports without visas on 1 October. Contacting the post: Second interviews for parent cases; CEAC Issued within days; K-1 reschedules absent. |
| Casablanca Morocco 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 4 | 6 (1 rebooked) | First dated non-plaintiff instruction: an IR1 first interviewed 20 January (documentarily qualified July 2025) was phoned on 8 October for a second interview on 20 October, told to bring everything from before and anything else that helps on public charge, with no list; medical rebooked for 14 October at the full $400. A February IR1 is still waiting. Against that, a non-plaintiff refused 9 January collected his passport on 5 October with no visa and was told by phone on 6 October that immigrant visas are still paused. Relayed: others re-interviewed the week of 5 October, one approved. Contacting the post: Phone calls with dates; vague document guidance; medicals redone at full price. |
| Frankfurt Germany 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 5 | 4 (1 rebooked) | Pause-country cases are being issued: a CR1 first interviewed 2 July and refused on nationality had a second interview on 6 October (insurance plan named and the petitioner's card shown, education, bank accounts with a statement ready, the car loan's size and term, no property) and the visa was issued on 8 October, package arriving 12 October. Second-interview emails went out 8-9 October to an August 221(g) CR1 (insurance estimate, household returns, cash-assistance and debts question) and to a 17 February Thai spouse living elsewhere in Europe; reschedule requests refused. Earlier: a 6 October first interview for a service member's spouse with manager review; K-1s turned away 1 October. Separately, two K-1s interviewed 13 and 18 August have passports kept and CEAC stuck (one Ready, one Refused) through repeated touches with no decision as of 11 October. Contacting the post: Generic second-interview emails a week out; issuance within two days; no rescheduling. |
| Kingston Jamaica 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 2 | 1 | CEAC touches without contact for the early cohort: an IR1 interviewed 10 March, untouched until an email in September, was touched 14 September and 1, 2, 7 and 8 October with no call; a 2 February IR-1 touched 23 September and 6 October; a second-week-of-February applicant has had no call, email or questionnaire. The twenty-question public charge questionnaire reached a March case around 4 October; second interviews by phone appointment continue for the June cohort. Contacting the post: Emailed questionnaire; phone-appointment second interviews; CEAC touches for January-March cases. |
| Managua Nicaragua | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 0 | — | First report from this post: a CR1 first interviewed in April was contacted on 8 October with a second interview on 30 October. Contacting the post: Dated second-interview email. |
| San Jose Costa Rica | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 1 | — | First report from this post: a Nicaraguan spouse resident in Costa Rica, refused 221(g) on 17 March expressly for Nicaragua being a pause country, was emailed 30 September for a second interview on 8 October with instructions to redo the medical and police certificate and bring proof of health insurance and housing. The panel physician said the embassy had sent an 'emergency priority list' to be scheduled immediately, and the intake desk at the interview held a separate list of those cases. The interview covered the petitioner's benefits history, the applicant's balances, assets, debts, work and study plans and the relationship; passport kept pending a Nicaragua police certificate, with the officer hoping no further interview is needed. Not a plaintiff. Contacting the post: Dated second-interview email with a document list; priority list shared with the panel physician. |
| Stockholm Sweden 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 0 | — | First interviews are being rebooked: a K-1 (Norwegian beneficiary, not DCF) cancelled for 21 September was emailed a new date of 22 October on 8 October, and a second Stockholm K-1 first interview was rescheduled the same day. An early-October immigrant interview cancelled on 29 September and a 24 August K-1 are not yet reported rebooked. A 4 August immigrant case still awaits a decision; an 11 September questionnaire went unanswered. Contacting the post: Reschedule emails for K-1 first interviews, about a month out. |
| Sydney Australia 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 8 Oct | 4 | 4 | Pause-country second interviews continue (relayed: a few more in the week of 5 October, one a military-spouse CR1), and the 6 October case reads Issued. Everyone else waits: a direct-consular-filing IR1 cancelled for 2 September, a 26 August interview and a 15 September first interview have no dates as of 8 October. Contacting the post: Second interviews for pause-country cases only; cancellations without dates. |
| Paris France 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 7 Oct | 3 | 7 (1 rebooked) | Re-interviews have begun and one was refused: a pause-country national living in France, F11 family case first interviewed in June and told everything looked fine, was phoned for a re-interview the week of 5 October, questioned mainly on his own salary, savings (under 5,000 euros) and assets rather than on sponsors earning five times the requirement, and emailed a refusal worksheet with only public charge ticked and no explanation. K-1s cancelled for 1 and 2 September had CEAC touches on 30 September and no dates as of 5 October; applicants elsewhere say Paris has started rescheduling, but two K-1s cancelled for 29-30 September still had no date on 11 October. On 14 October the 30 September K-1 still has no date, and a group of K-1s with interviews around 1 September report none either. Contacting the post: Re-interviews arranged by detailed phone call; one public charge refusal; reschedules reported second-hand. |
| Kigali Rwanda 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 6 Oct | 0 | — | First report from this post: a non-plaintiff IR1 given a public charge 221(g) at a February interview was emailed in early October with a re-interview date at short notice, which the applicant may not be able to make; the thread's view is that declining could cost months. Two other IR1s first interviewed on 17 and 24 February are still waiting. Contacting the post: Short-notice re-interview email to a non-plaintiff; others waiting. |
| Ulaanbaatar Mongolia | Some non-plaintiffs | 5 Oct | 1 | — | Fast movement reported: a pause case first interviewed 9 February was phoned by the embassy on 1 October and re-interviewed on 5 October; outcome not yet stated. First report from this post. Contacting the post: Phone call from the embassy; re-interview within four days. |
| Beirut Lebanon 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 2 Oct | 0 | — | One callback only: a Lebanese spouse refused at a 28 January interview was emailed on 2 October, after the petitioner wrote, for a second interview on 20 October with a new medical. Other applicants asking on 8 October have seen nobody else from Beirut emailed, and every inquiry draws the same reply that the case is in administrative processing. Contacting the post: One dated callback after an inquiry; otherwise the standard administrative-processing reply. |
| Bridgetown Barbados 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 2 Oct | 1 | — | A Jamaican applicant living on another paused-country island, first interviewed in January, was emailed on 2 October for a follow-up interview one week later. The email gave no instructions, CEAC lists no new document requests, every medical and police document has expired, and questions to the post drew only an auto-reply. A commenter says the embassy in Jamaica is actively rescheduling people. Contacting the post: One-week-notice email, no instructions; auto-reply to questions. |
| Budapest Hungary | Some non-plaintiffs | 2 Oct | 1 | — | First first-hand issuance at this post: a Pakistani spouse whose visa was close before the January pause was re-interviewed after it lifted and asked for documents not requested before: prospective US health insurance coverage, a potential job offer letter and evidence of financial support or assets, plus a new medical and new police certificate within about 10 days. Passport returned with the visa around 2 October after almost two years in process. Another spouse interviewed in January has a re-interview on 21 October (post not confirmed). Contacting the post: Re-interview with new public-charge document requests; issuance after file completion. |
| Guatemala City Guatemala 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 2 Oct | 3 | 2 | First non-plaintiff approval reported first-hand: an IR1 first interviewed 15 April, whose family had filed an individual lawsuit in April, was phoned on 30 September, hours after government lawyers asked for a 30-day extension, and offered a second interview on 2 October. A 35-minute interview with one officer and two observers covered assets, health history, prior public benefits, length of marriage, the petitioner's monthly income, car loans, retirement and health insurance plans; approved at the window, passport pickup 5 October, told to travel before the medical expires on 8 October. A spouse refused 26 March has still heard nothing. On 14 October applicants say nothing appears to be moving at the post, with one issuance reported since. Contacting the post: Phone call from the post to schedule; approval at the window. |
| Cairo Egypt 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 1 Oct | 5 | 1 | Re-interview emails are going to family cases first interviewed in January, including non-plaintiffs who never wrote to the post; one preparer reports eighteen. A spouse case re-interviewed the week of 28 September has no outcome yet, and the petitioner's read is that the post is scheduling but not issuing much. A plaintiff interviewed in January was refused on public-charge grounds on the 28th and says everyone that day was. A parent case from 16 April has no email. Contacting the post: Case-specific re-interview emails to the January cohort; other emails read, not answered. |
| Dakar Senegal 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 1 Oct | 2 | — | A non-plaintiff parent case (Guinean national) interviewed two days into the pause was emailed on 1 October a re-interview for 19 October, with a questionnaire and a request for a police certificate from a prior country of residence; the post said it is calling applicants in the order they were refused. A Guinean diversity visa applicant, not a plaintiff, went to Issued on 30 September. Diversity visa second interviews on 25 and 28 September ended in 221(g)s. Contacting the post: Case-specific emails in refusal order; questionnaire attached. |
| Lima Peru 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 29 Sept | 0 | 5 | Diversity visas are being issued at the deadline: an applicant interviewed 28 September showed Issued by 13:00 on the 29th, and another who submitted documents on 15 September was called to an additional interview on the 25th and issued by the 29th. But a selectee interviewed 17 July who submitted missing documents on 7 August has heard nothing, and the 1 September interview cancelled two days ahead was never rebooked; calls get 'we do not handle that' and 'do not come without an appointment'. Applicants say priority is going to those who already had second interviews. Contacting the post: Phone answers without information; do not attend without an appointment. |
| Pristina Kosovo | Some non-plaintiffs | 26 Sept | 1 | — | CEAC updates reported by 26 September, no emails. A non-plaintiff spouse-of-resident case interviewed in January was told to redo the medical, by the panel clinic rather than the post, after phoning the clinic. Contacting the post: No replies reported. |
| Tunis Tunisia | Some non-plaintiffs | 17 Sept | 0 | — | A diversity visa applicant, not described as a plaintiff, scheduled for a second interview in the week of 21 September with a request to show means of support. |
| Auckland New Zealand 221(g) tracker | Some non-plaintiffs | 14 Sept | 1 | 1 | A DV-2026 selectee whose 4 September interview was cancelled has no new date as of 5 October despite the court order allowing post-fiscal-year processing. Earlier, a third-country applicant interviewed in February was emailed on 14 September to submit a new medical, the first case-specific instruction after the cable. Contacting the post: Re-medical email to one case; DV cancellation unanswered. |
| Tashkent Uzbekistan 221(g) tracker | Plaintiffs only | 6 Oct | 5 | — | The plaintiff re-interviewed in late September at one day's notice is, two weeks later, still in 221(g) for an expired medical while the embassy has told the panel clinic he does not need a medical at this time (relayed by a friend). The EB-1 plaintiff re-interviewed 23 September got a new 221(g) with a medical referral to follow. An IR1 refused under the pause reports nothing. Contacting the post: Re-interviews for plaintiffs; medicals not being referred. |
| Yerevan Armenia 221(g) tracker | Plaintiffs only | 6 Oct | 2 | — | CEAC touches without contact: a non-plaintiff IR1 interviewed 8 May had last-updated change to 6 October with no email. A spouse case with a 17 March interview has had silence since a 25 September touch, an expired medical and no instruction to renew it; an August email went unanswered. The only dated instruction remains a 22 September second-interview email to a suit registrant, plus a relayed report of a plaintiff asked for 2025 tax returns and a new medical. Contacting the post: Replies after four weeks, if at all; CEAC touches; dated instructions only to suit registrants. |
| Ankara Turkey 221(g) tracker | Plaintiffs only | 30 Sept | 4 | 2 | Fifty days after Ankara began cancelling interviews, applicants on 12 October report nothing: a June immigrant interview refused under the pause is still Refused, an Iranian spouse (minority group) interviewed 27 February and an Iraqi spouse interviewed 10 August have had nothing from four emails, and a K-1 set for 23 October was cancelled by email on 1 October with no new date. Observers say only diversity visa applicants are being re-interviewed. A K-1 interviewed 19 September flipped from Approved to Refused on 30 September. Only plaintiffs have received immigrant visa emails. Contacting the post: No replies to non-plaintiffs reported; DV re-interviews only. |
| Brussels Belgium 221(g) tracker | Plaintiffs only | 25 Sept | 0 | — | Diversity visa plaintiffs are being re-interviewed: one given a second interview about 18 September was handed another 221(g) with the passport kept and had heard nothing a week later, while two others interviewed on 25 September were approved at the window, one told to collect by the following Monday. Contacting the post: Not reported. |
| Cotonou Benin | Movement, unclear who | 14 Oct | 1 | — | Relayed 14 October by a spouse case transferred from Accra: Cotonou is scheduling re-interviews, but out of order, taking June first interviews and then jumping back to March. A Ghanaian spouse case interviewed in June and refused under the pause has uploaded police certificates and passport and receives only generic replies; unclear whether new certificates are wanted before a second interview. Contacting the post: Generic replies; scheduling reported secondhand. |
| Addis Ababa Ethiopia | Movement, unclear who | 13 Oct | 2 | — | First re-interview invitation reported around 13 October: an IR1 with a January medical was given 1 December, with no mention of the expired medical; plaintiff status not stated. Batch CEAC touches on 23 September: a spouse and child refused after a 16 March interview both had case-last-updated changed after nearly seven months, status still Refused, no email. Applicants say the touches are not chronological, with some January interviews untouched. No re-interviews reported. Contacting the post: One re-interview email; otherwise no replies reported. |
| Belgrade Serbia 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 13 Oct | 1 | — | Re-interviews and visa issuances are happening, but not in date order: a pause case first interviewed in December 2025, with a valid medical, is still waiting on 14 October while applicants first interviewed both earlier and later were re-interviewed and issued this week, some after renewing an expired medical. Plaintiff status of those issued not stated. Contacting the post: Not reported. |
| Islamabad Pakistan 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 9 Oct | 15 | 2 | The early-February cohort is waiting behind late January: four applicants first interviewed on 2 and 24 February report Refused on 12-13 October, with CEAC last-updated touches on 6 and 9 October for some and none for others, and emails to the post unanswered; commenters expect the post to work chronologically after the relayed re-interview emails of 7-8 October to applicants interviewed 21-26 January (dates 15-19 October, five or six people in one telling; no first-hand copy yet). A 3 February case and a July case have nothing. The email navigator still bounces inquiries. Contacting the post: Relayed re-interview emails for the late-January cohort; CEAC touches for February; navigator inquiries bounce. |
| Manila Philippines 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 8 Oct | 1 | 15 | No reschedules: K-1s cancelled for 27 August and 1 September, a CR-1 for 25 August, an IR-5 and a 21 September interview all report nothing on 8 October, with nobody at the post seen getting interviews this month; the medical for a cancelled 1 September K-1 expires 14 January. Relayed: EB-3 re-interviews in early October. An O-1 given a 221(g) on 27 August is still Refused six weeks on. Contacting the post: Nothing since the cancellation notices; EB-3 re-interviews relayed. |
| Nairobi Kenya 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 8 Oct | 1 | 3 | An IR-2 cancelled for 31 August has no update on 9 October, though another applicant says Nairobi has some reschedules. Relayed earlier: the post appears to be processing pause-country cases and nothing else so far. Contacting the post: Reschedules reported second-hand; cancellations waiting. |
| Dhaka Bangladesh 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 6 Oct | 9 | 4 (1 rebooked) | Who is being re-interviewed is disputed. One observer says the calls are going to cases placed in administrative processing after 2025 and 2026 first interviews, not to the remanded pause cases, and that some re-interviewed applicants were given 212(a)(4) public charge refusals with a few passports kept; a relayed group figure puts it at two or three passports kept out of fifty to sixty seen. Others say the post has not started at all and the reports are false. The 1-2 October re-medical emails to a few January cases remain the only first-hand contact. A February IR1 with an expired medical and a 221(g) solely for the pause has had nothing. First interviews cancelled for 9, 20 and 29 September have no dates. Contacting the post: Re-medical emails to a few January cases, relayed; re-interview reports disputed; no visa reported. |
| Buenos Aires Argentina 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 5 Oct | 1 | 2 | A CR1 cancelled for 23 September (not a pause nationality, not DCF, not a plaintiff) still had nothing on 11 October beyond a CEAC touch on 5 October, status Ready. On 28 September the post said by phone it had started rescheduling August cancellations; no confirmed date yet. Contacting the post: Phone says dates are being sent; CEAC touches; none confirmed. |
| Bucharest Romania 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | 29 Sept | 0 | — | A diversity visa interview cancelled for 26 August was rebooked by email for 29 September with a public-charge document list; at the window, after ninety minutes, the applicant was told a directive from Washington meant the interview could not take place. Not a plaintiff. One day before the statutory deadline. Contacting the post: Rebooking email, then turned back at the window. |
| Accra Ghana 221(g) tracker | Movement, unclear who | — | 3 | — | No contact reported. Last-updated dates stopped on 3 September; a February interviewee and a July case report nothing since. Ghanaian applicants describe the post as not answering email. Against that, a spouse applicant who transferred to Cotonou says on 14 October that Accra is re-interviewing in chronological order; one relayed line, no first-hand callback yet. Contacting the post: Unanswered. |
| Ciudad Juarez Mexico 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 8 Oct | 0 | 16 | Not a pause post, and nothing is moving: on 13 October applicants with original dates of 27 August, 14, 24 and 28 September all report no reschedule and no contact. One reschedule went wrong earlier: an IR1 cancelled for 14 August was rebooked for 8 October, the applicant attended with no cancellation email, and was told it would be rescheduled again. A 2 October interview was pulled the day before; a 21 August approval went Issued then back to Ready. Applicants describe the post as almost without movement. Contacting the post: Reschedule emails without dates; a rebooked date cancelled at the door. |
| Mumbai India 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 7 Oct | 4 | 20 | Not a pause post; affected by the worldwide suspension. As of 7 October no reschedule emails for IR1/CR1 interviews cancelled on 25 and 31 August and 4, 8, 15 and 24 September; applicants compare notes daily and nobody has one. Separately, F2B cases are sitting in administrative processing: a 4 May interview given a 221(g) for a French police certificate (submitted 7 May, passport back 14 May) is five months in with a home visit by an inquiry officer, and a case approved 12 June then re-interviewed on 15 June over DS-260 corrections has had silence since. A parent case with a public-charge notice from before the suspension is still pending. On 14 October an F3 applicant reports no rescheduled interview or new letter either. Contacting the post: No reschedules reported; AP cases told they will be contacted when review ends. |
| Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 2 Oct | 3 | — | A paused-country national's case had CEAC touches three times in September and on 1 October, then on 2 October received the same generic 'processing in order' email that Tirana and other posts sent that day. A Bangladeshi-passport spouse case interviewed in June has had no re-interview as of 6 October, and none is reported at this post. Malaysian passport holders are not subject to the pause. Contacting the post: Generic email; CEAC touches; no re-interviews. |
| Madrid Spain 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 2 Oct | 4 | 2 | A pause 221(g) from a 3 February interview had its third CEAC last-updated change on 2 October; emails to the post go unanswered and another applicant's September touch led nowhere. An immigrant visa interviewed in July went Refused, administrative processing, then Ready on 1 September and still reads Ready; by phone on 2 October the post said all immigrant visas are paused everywhere. September appointments were cancelled earlier with no dates. On 14 October the July case still reads Ready, while other applicants at the post report October updates in the portal. Contacting the post: Phone: all immigrant visas paused; CEAC touches only. |
| Tirana Albania 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 2 Oct | 1 | — | On 2 October the post sent the same generic 'processing in order' email to several spouse applicants interviewed in February, some after four inquiries and congressional contact. CEAC last-updated dates changed up to three times in September and again on 1 October for the same cases. No re-interview, medical or passport request reported. Contacting the post: Generic email after repeated inquiries; CEAC touches. |
| Yaounde Cameroon 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 2 Oct | 1 | — | Cameroonian pause cases report only the automated email everyone received; an August interview had a CEAC touch on 2 October and no contact. Applicants debate renewing expired medicals before being asked. Contacting the post: Automated email only; CEAC touches. |
| Montreal Canada 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 29 Sept | 3 | — | K-1 applicants report no reschedules at Montreal as of 8 October while London and Paris move. CEAC touches on 29 September for pause-refused January (EB-2 NIW) and February cases led nowhere; a parent interviewed 30 July with a document request is still pending. Contacting the post: No replies reported; no K-1 reschedules. |
| Algiers Algeria 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | 15 Mar | 1 | — | A CR1 interviewed 15 March 2026 received a 221(g) citing the 75-country pause with no documents requested and is still waiting for the embassy to make contact after the suspension was lifted. No callbacks reported at this post. Contacting the post: Not reported. |
| Baghdad Iraq | No callbacks reported | — | 1 | — | A February spouse case wrote to the post and received a standard note about resuming processing, with no instruction for the case. Contacting the post: Standard note. |
| Jerusalem Israel | No callbacks reported | — | 1 | 1 | A spouse case interviewed before the pause was vacated asked for its status and got a generic reply that the post is not processing immigrant visas at this time. A 3 September appointment was cancelled earlier. Applicants are asking about transferring to Amman. Contacting the post: Generic reply: not processing immigrant visas. |
| Lagos Nigeria 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 0 | — | A K-1 cancelled for 1 September has nothing as of 9 October; no re-interview or reschedule reported from this post. Contacting the post: Nothing reported. |
| Lome Togo | No callbacks reported | — | 1 | — | A Ghanaian spouse case refused 221(g) in March under the pause has had no reply since August; on 28 September an automatic reply said the post is no longer processing immigrant or diversity visas. Applicants had understood it to be one of the regional immigrant visa hubs. Contacting the post: Auto-reply: not processing immigrant or diversity visas. |
| Phnom Penh Cambodia 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 0 | 1 | K-1 applicants report no new interview dates released since August: October was the last month scheduled and November has not been opened. A 25 August cancellation is still without a date. No re-interviews or callbacks reported. Contacting the post: Not reported; scheduling frozen. |
| Riyadh Saudi Arabia 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 1 | — | The post's website says routine visa processing is not available in Saudi Arabia at this time, and the embassy itself is closed until further notice with inquiries routed to a visa navigator that leads nowhere; Amman sends the same note citing regional tension. No re-interviews reported. Applicants are asking for an alternative post. On 14 October an applicant repeats that nothing is being worked at the post. Contacting the post: Website: processing unavailable; embassy closed until further notice. |
| San Salvador El Salvador 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 0 | 1 | Not a pause post; affected by the worldwide suspension. An IR1 cancelled for August and at least one other immigrant case stuck since August report zero news or movement as of 11 October. Contacting the post: Nothing since the cancellation notices. |
| Seoul South Korea 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 1 | — | No re-interview reported. A pause-country EB-2 applicant's inquiry from 22 August was answered on 14 October with a template: a global training initiative began in early August, immigrant visa appointments are being adjusted, and rescheduled applicants will be emailed as appointments become available. October immigrant visa interviews were cancelled. Contacting the post: Template reply citing the training, seven weeks after the inquiry. |
| Tegucigalpa Honduras 221(g) tracker | No callbacks reported | — | 0 | — | Not a pause post. An IR1 cancelled for 27 August (documentarily qualified March 2026) has no reschedule on 9 October. An immigrant visa approved 29 July, with a 21 August email promising courier delivery, had not arrived by 6 October. Contacting the post: No reschedules; an approved visa undelivered for seven weeks. |
What the callbacks have looked like
- A new medical first. Most medicals from before March have expired. Posts at Auckland, Amman, Pristina, London and Dhaka asked for a new exam before anything else, and at two of them the panel clinic knew before the applicant did.
- Then a second interview about money. Every approval we hold since the cable went through one: taxes and W-2s, savings and assets on both sides, debts, health insurance, employment plans, English, and whether either party has used public benefits. The full list is in the re-interview guide.
- Refusal without the conversation. Two pause cases ended in refusals on public-charge grounds after a short phone call, with no request for a joint sponsor.
- Diversity visa first. Posts with diversity visa cases are working those before family cases because the visa year ends on 30 September. Government status reports count hundreds of diversity re-interviews a day and a refusal rate above eighty percent.
If your post says nothing
- A moving last-updated date on CEAC after you email the post means someone opened the file. It is not a decision and it has not preceded one in any case we hold.
- Emails to most posts on this list return either nothing or a copy of the cable. A congressional inquiry has so far returned one line. Neither has moved a case.
- If your medical is older than six months, expect a new one to be the first request. Some panel clinics will not redo an exam without the post's approval, so ask the clinic whether it has instructions before you book.
- If your post is not on this list, or your report would change a row, add your case to the tracker. Rows are built from reports; a post with no reports cannot be shown as moving.
Keep reading
- Public-charge re-interview: the questions asked and what to bring
- Cancelled appointment tracker: every affected post, original and replacement dates.
- DV-2026 interview cancelled: the 30 September deadline.
- Daily digest: what changed today, every day.
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