Immigrant Visa Pause Update, Sept 23: A Non-Plaintiff Clears Her Re-Interview at Tbilisi, London Turns Two Away
Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, a shorter window than usual. Court matters are secondhand.
The first non-plaintiff to get through a second interview
The diversity visa selectee at Tbilisi we reported yesterday, interviewed on 11 August and not a plaintiff in any suit, had her second interview this morning. The officer told her there was no reason for refusal and kept her passport. One thing was asked for afterwards, by email: proof of the US health insurance plan she will use. She is still outside the country, so she is sending a plan quote showing premium and benefits. That is the first time insurance has been requested as a separate document rather than a question, and it is now in the re-interview guide. Seven days remain in the diversity visa year.
Two days after the government told a court that every post must adjudicate, this is the shape of the first non-plaintiff result: a review that finds nothing, followed by a document the applicant cannot hold yet. It is also, so far, one case.
Islamabad begins, with a caveat
Applicants report that Islamabad has started sending interview schedules and re-interview invitations. Every invitation confirmed so far is a named plaintiff, and readers there disagree about whether anyone else is included; one relays that non-plaintiff re-interviews begin on 1 October. We record the post as moving and the scope as unknown. Dhaka, by contrast, has not started: the panel clinic said so again today, and the scheduling vendor's support address answered an applicant's enquiry after 22 days with general guidance.
London: two turned away in one morning
Two spouse-visa applicants arrived at London today with live appointments, no cancellation email, and both websites still telling them to attend. One had travelled from Wales; the other had completed the medical two weeks earlier and is a Canadian whose UK permission runs out within months. Both were told at the door that every interview to 30 September is cancelled and to wait for an email. That is the tenth and eleventh turned-away case we hold, and the first two at London. The advice stands, because a post-cable interview has gone ahead for others at other posts, but the price of being wrong is a wasted journey.
Elsewhere
Manila tells callers immigrant visas are paused until 1 October and, separately, that 1 October is not guaranteed. Mumbai applicants qualified in March are still waiting for a first letter. An H-1B applicant who interviewed at Bogota as a third-country national on 11 August is at six weeks with a white slip and no request. A family-preference case at Yerevan from May has had nothing, while a spouse case there was called yesterday.
Where the numbers stand
Ninety-three cancellation reports across 30 posts. Sixty-two were September appointments and three have replacement dates. Ten confirmed pairs. Three records added and three updated today. The re-check covered 27 older open cases and found two resolved, a J-1 issued at Oslo on day 21 and a dependent visa approved within a week. The pause status page changed for Tbilisi, Islamabad, Dhaka, London and Manila. The figures are crowdsourced and anonymised; they describe what people chose to report.