Immigrant Visa Pause Update, Oct 8: London Rebooks September Cancellations Into Late October, Casablanca Returns a Passport With No Visa, Mumbai Still Has No Dates

This covers Wednesday. Two court dates this week: a California class action over the pause has a hearing today on a preliminary injunction and class certification, with the government's stay request also pending there, and the main case's oral argument on enforcement is set for 14 October.* Court items are asterisked and come from community summaries, not our reading of the dockets.

London rebooks September into late October

The reschedules that began on Monday with a 21 October date for a 10 September CR1 continued. An IR1 for a British spouse, documentarily qualified in April, cancelled for 16 September and not a direct consular filing or military case, was emailed a new date of 27 October. Relayed from other forums, four or five K-1 applicants cancelled in September received 23 and 26 October on 7 October. Not everyone: the 9 September IR1 and the 17 September and 13 October K-1s have nothing, and some August cancellations are still waiting, so the post is not working strictly by original date. The 8 October K-1 whose cancellation email the portal never reflected attended anyway and was turned away.

Two approvals round out London. The 8 July spouse case re-interviewed on 2 October now reads Issued, with an email two days later that the documents are ready for collection at the courier point: about five days from second interview to passport. Another spouse approved on 6 October was asked how much the couple had in savings and gave a rough figure, between five and ten thousand dollars, with no statement shown; they already own a home in the US. One commenter watching several posts describes London as moving slowly through everything including K-1s, and Nairobi as processing only pause-country cases so far.

Casablanca: a passport back, nothing in it

A Moroccan spouse of a US citizen, not a plaintiff, lays out a full timeline. Biometrics and a request for more financial documents on 25 November 2025, interview 2 December, joint-sponsor documents received 6 January, CEAC Refused on 9 January, five days before the pause was announced, then touches on 15 January, 13 March and 23 June and nothing after the ruling. On 29 September the post wrote that his passport had been sent by courier and returned because he failed to collect it; no courier notice, call or text had ever reached him. He travelled four hours each way on 5 October to collect it in person. No visa. On 6 October the post told him by phone that immigrant visa work is still paused. His medical and police certificate have expired while waiting. A second Casablanca spouse, interviewed 20 January, has had two different generic replies to August and September emails and no CEAC change since 9 March. Against that, a relayed report from a chat group says pause-refused applicants at Casablanca were re-interviewed this week and at least one approved; whether they were plaintiffs is disputed in the same thread. The guide now carries the Casablanca case under its warning about CEAC statuses: a returned passport tells you nothing about the case.

Mumbai: six cancellation dates, no reschedules

IR1 and CR1 applicants at Mumbai compared notes on 7 October: interviews cancelled for 25 and 31 August and 4, 8, 15 and 24 September, and not one reschedule email among them. Four rows added to the cancellations tracker. One applicant in the thread did get a date, 13 October, for a spouse first interviewed on 27 January and held under the pause, but did not say which post. Mumbai's administrative-processing cases are also stuck: an F2B applicant interviewed 4 May was given a 221(g) for a French police certificate from a 2023 stay, handed it in with her passport on 7 May, got the passport back on 14 May and has waited five months since, including a visit from an inquiry officer who asked her neighbours whether she was married. Another F2B, approved on 12 June then re-interviewed on 15 June over DS-260 corrections, has had no CEAC change in three and a half months. And a Mumbai B1/B2 refusal for a senior hospital doctor visiting her brother, a permanent resident who had listed himself as sponsor, with no prior international travel: 214(b) after seven questions and no documents.

Touches, relays and one first-interview 221(g)

Yerevan touched a non-plaintiff IR1 interviewed on 8 May on 6 October with no email; a March case at an unnamed post saw its fourth or fifth touch the same day. Relayed and unverified: a non-plaintiff first interviewed at Islamabad on 21 January received a re-interview email on 7 October, which if confirmed first-hand would be the post's first non-plaintiff instruction. Relayed from a social media post: a Thai national living in Italy, first interviewed at Naples on 5 May under the pause, was told to redo the medical and given a second interview on 9 October, the first pause re-interview reported at Naples, while a Pakistani spouse interviewed there in July under a security screening has heard nothing. Sydney's first interviews are not moving: a 15 September case cancelled for the training, promised a reschedule on 14 September, has no date. Guayaquil IR1 applicants report nothing. A K-1 applicant at an unnamed post was handed a 221(g) asking for the petitioner's 2023 and 2024 tax transcripts and proof that a court judgment for a debt collector against him has been resolved; he owes about $50,000 and is considering bankruptcy. The thread's advice is a joint sponsor, and it is the first time we have seen a petitioner's debt raised as a document request. A service member's spouse at a first interview got administrative processing only because the petitioner's 2025 return was not showing in the post's system.

Outside the pause

A Chennai B1/B2 family of three was approved although the husband had three refusals from before the marriage: questions on harm or danger at home, purpose, itinerary, travel history, both jobs and whom they know in the US; employment letters, payslips and bank statements carried and not asked for; CEAC Approved then Issued within a day, passports still to arrive. An O-1 applicant in Canada has been in 221(g) for over a month after a petition approved in a week; another O-1 renewal cleared about four weeks ago. Yesterday's New Delhi B1/B2 family 221(g) and the two O-1 221(g)s at New Delhi and Manila are in the dataset.

What the day adds

Twenty-seven records added, two updated (the London 8 July case to Issued; the 8 October K-1 turned away). Casablanca, Mumbai, Islamabad, Yerevan, London, Naples and Sydney rows rewritten and Nairobi added on the status-by-embassy page. Six cancellation rows added, one London row moved to rescheduled. The guide gains the London savings answer, the K-1 debt request and the Casablanca passport return. Today's dataset is crowdsourced and anonymised.