Bangkok 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Bangkok has asked for

Every document request recorded on a Bangkok 221(g) so far, grouped by type and most frequent first. Document types only — never anyone’s actual documents.

• Employment letter / job details — 2 requests

No tracked Bangkok case has reported an email submission request. Slip colours seen here: white.

Bangkok and the immigrant visa pause

At least one applicant who is not a plaintiff has received a case-specific instruction here. Last reported movement 2026-11-05.

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. Observers add on 15 October that the post takes about four re-interviews each Tuesday and that on 13 October two were approved and two refused, one for public charge and one for public charge and domicile. Applicants called in are told to upload the refreshed documents to CEAC before the day; one was sent out of the building mid-check to do so. An EB-3 refused solely for the pause has had no instruction at all. Re-interviewed applicants are being asked to update and re-sign the DS-260 (a new siblings question) and upload fresh proof of assets; sign the form first or the upload fails. 19 October: the first visa without a second interview: a spouse interviewed 30 June, whose service-member petitioner had asked for an exception to policy in July and an expedite after the vacatur, was phoned and emailed that the visa is ready and the passport is wanted; no new medical. The same day CEAC last-updated dates moved for March, April and June first interviews (spouse and employment cases); one applicant says the call came after such a touch. Applicants describe the post as scheduling February cases in order, on Tuesdays. A 24 February interview reports nothing. Relayed in translation from another forum: a spouse re-interviewed 20 October was refused on public charge although the petitioner earns about 5,000 dollars a month; readers conclude the gap was evidence that his employer insurance actually covers her, since the couple brought quotes for unrelated plans. An applicant at the post cautions that many refused there did not ask what was missing. Two Thai spouse cases have re-interviews in the week of 26 October; one is bringing gap insurance, long-term plan quotes, employment letters, tax transcripts, asset proof, a housing affidavit and job postings, the other is a retired-military household worried about domicile. A second IR1 interview is set for 24 November. A DV-2026 case refused under the pause says the post sent one invitation and approved one person in ten days, citing staff shortage; the court's ten-day extension ends 23 October, a Thai public holiday. 23 October: one officer re-interviews four or five applicants a week, Tuesdays only, now into February first interviews with a couple of March cases, and some people in each week's range are skipped; an April first interview expects nothing before January. 5 November: an EB-2 NIW applicant from one of the proclamation-ban countries, first interviewed in March, was phoned for a re-interview in the last week of December and told to bring proof of assets, pay stubs and an employment letter, with the spouse attending.

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Full picture for this post, with its pause cases, cancellations and every digest mention: Bangkok immigrant visa pause status. Every post side by side: status by embassy.

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