Daily Digest, September 13, 2026: Two Days After the Cable, the Queue Is Uneven — DV First at Amman, Silence in Kathmandu
Two days after the implementation cable, the honest summary is that the queue is moving at different speeds in different places, and in several places not at all. Saturday was quiet. What did arrive is mostly about order: who a post is looking at first, and who is still waiting for any sign that it has started.
Amman: diversity visas first, September written off
An applicant who asked the post in Amman when it would reopen got a reply that rules September out entirely, with October as the earliest plausible movement. Separately, another applicant reports an email from the post saying it has begun reviewing diversity visa cases refused under the pause. Both can be true, and the likely reason is the calendar: the diversity visa year ends on 30 September, so those cases expire if they are not decided, while an immigrant visa case does not. If your post is doing the same, a DV-first order is not a signal about your case; it is a signal about theirs.
Amman also had a second layer that most posts did not. Immigrant interviews there were paused for security reasons on top of the nationality pause, so the cable removes one hold and leaves the other.
Where nothing has moved
Kathmandu: zero movement since 21 August, no case updates, no passport or medical requests, and emails to the post return an automated pointer to the visa navigator. Dhaka and Cairo: applicants asked again today and the answer from both is still nothing. Baghdad: an IR1 applicant interviewed on 18 February wrote to the post and received a standard note about resuming processing, with no instruction for the case. We record these because a tracker that only logs movement flatters the process. As of today the posts with confirmed issuances are two; the posts with confirmed silence are at least four.
London has not sent a letter since July
A separate problem is building behind the reschedule queue. Applicants documentarily qualified in the last two months report that no interview letters have gone out from London since the start of July. One qualified in April and was given 23 September, which was then cancelled with no replacement. A Tokyo applicant qualified in April, received a letter on 1 July for 27 August, was cancelled, and has since been moved to 10 September, one of the ten confirmed pairs we hold. The distinction matters: people already holding a cancelled date are in one queue, and people waiting for a first letter are in another that has not been mentioned in any filing we have seen reported.
What re-interview preparation is starting to look like
Two small things worth knowing before a second interview. First, a post has issued a 221(g) asking for an I-864A from a joint sponsor's spouse where the sponsor filed a joint return, even though the sponsor's own income qualified; other applicants report their post did not ask. Whether the spouse's form is required appears to vary by post, and the safe assumption is that a sponsor's 2025 return will be requested. Second, an applicant describes receiving twelve pages of instructions on finances and health insurance ahead of the review. That is consistent with the public charge questionnaire we described yesterday.
Where the numbers stand
Sixty-two cancellation reports across 22 posts, unchanged today. Thirty-seven were September appointments and three have replacement dates. Ten confirmed pairs, gaps of 8 to 70 days. Two records added: Baghdad and the I-864A variant. In the re-check of 36 older open cases, none newly resolved. The figures are crowdsourced and anonymised; they describe what people chose to report.