Daily Digest, September 19, 2026: Four Weeks of Cancellations — Who Got a Date Back, and Who Did Not
Four weeks after immigrant visa interviews were suspended for training, this is a Saturday stocktake of what the tracker holds on cancellations: seventy-five reports across twenty-five posts, gathered since late August. No new reports were collected today, so this issue looks at the whole set rather than the day's movement.
Where the cancellations are
London accounts for fourteen reports, Mumbai eight, Ciudad Juarez six, and Warsaw, Manila and Casablanca four each. The rest are spread thinly, one or two per post, from Kingston to Kathmandu. That distribution says more about who reports than about who cancels: London and Mumbai are large posts with applicants who write in English. Treat the counts as a floor.
By date, the wave has a clear centre. Forty-two of the seventy-five appointments fell in the two weeks beginning 24 August and 31 August, the fortnight after the suspension began. Ten were in the week of 14 September and twelve are dated 21 September or later, the furthest a 30 September appointment at Dhaka. The first October date was reported pulled at Cairo this week. Everything with a date still ahead of it is, so far, cancelled rather than rescheduled.
How people found out
Fifty-two were told by email. Eight were told by nothing at all: they travelled, some for hours, and learned at the window. Two more were told at the post, and two saw the change only on the scheduling site. Eight interviews went ahead despite the suspension, all between 31 August and 14 September and mostly at two-stage posts where the document stage had already been passed. If you hold a date and have heard nothing, the record says go, with everything, and expect either of the two outcomes.
Who got a date back
Ten of the seventy-five have a replacement date. The gaps run from 8 to 70 days, with a median of 17. Seven of the ten were appointments from the first week of the suspension, 23 August to 2 September; nobody whose date fell after 2 September has yet been given a new one. The one 70-day gap is London, from 24 August to 2 November. The longest silences are at Casablanca, where three K-1 dates from 1, 8 and 15 September have no replacement, and Manila, where a 27 August date is still open after three weeks.
The diversity visa clock
Four of the cancellations are diversity visa interviews, at Frankfurt, London, Tokyo and Kyiv. None has a date. Tokyo's was reissued for 17 September and then cancelled again the next day. The visa year ends on 30 September, eleven days from now, and a diversity visa not issued by then is gone. These four are the cases where a cancellation is not a delay.
What to do with this
If your post is London, Warsaw or Frankfurt, replacement dates have been issued and the gap has been two to three weeks: ask, and cite that. If your post is Casablanca, Manila, Kingston or Nairobi, nobody has reported a new date; an email will get a form reply, and a congressional inquiry gets a one-line one. If your case is a diversity visa, contact the post in writing now and say the date.
Where the numbers stand
Seventy-five cancellation reports across 25 posts. Forty-eight were September appointments and three have replacement dates. Ten confirmed pairs, gaps of 8 to 70 days. The figures are crowdsourced and anonymised; they describe what people chose to report.