Ciudad Juarez 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Ciudad Juarez has asked for

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

• Passport — 4 requests
• Birth certificate — 2 requests
• Photographs — 2 requests
• Police certificate — 2 requests
• W-2 — 2 requests

1 of 47 tracked Ciudad Juarez cases were asked to submit by email. Slip colours seen here: green, blue, white.

Ciudad Juarez and the immigrant visa pause

Movement has been reported here, but who is being called is disputed or unknown. Last reported movement 2026-10-23.

Not a pause post, and nothing is moving: on 13 October applicants with original dates of 27 August, 14, 24 and 28 September all report no reschedule and no contact. One reschedule went wrong earlier: an IR1 cancelled for 14 August was rebooked for 8 October, the applicant attended with no cancellation email, and was told it would be rescheduled again. A 2 October interview was pulled the day before; a 21 August approval went Issued then back to Ready. Applicants describe the post as almost without movement. Pause cases are held here too: an applicant interviewed 23 February was told the case was fine and has sat in 221(g) under the pause since, with nothing by 16 October. An immediate-relative case whose 30 June interview was derailed by a sputum test, cleared on 28 August, is still without a date and has a medical expiring in December. Two approvals are stuck before passport return: a 17 August parent approval with no collection email by 16 October, and a case that went Issued then back to Ready on 30 September with the passport not at the Tijuana collection centre. Not a pause post: a spouse case given a 221(g) for administrative processing on 24 July, passport kept and nothing requested, is still Refused with no CEAC change on 22 October; the post says keep waiting. Relayed 23 October: the post has begun rescheduling immigrant visa appointments, so far for two Colombian applicants whose pause-country cases have earlier documentarily-qualified dates (the status tool shows December 2024 for the post); applicants read it as the public charge training being complete, others as too small to count. 6 November: the monthly scheduling tool for new immigrant visa interviews moved backwards, from December 2024 to April 2024. 10 November: an IR1 first interviewed in mid-August, just before the hold, is still in administrative processing; inquiries from the petitioner, a lawyer and a congressional office all got the same reply about delays from global training. A case documentarily qualified in August was told by its lawyer to expect 12 to 14 months. Second-hand: an acquaintance of one applicant has an interview booked for February. 11 November: an IR1 whose 1 October interview was cancelled for training has a medical with TB results that expires in December. The couple's attorneys say it will not need redoing; other applicants say a visa cannot be issued on an expired medical and that validity runs from the negative TB result.

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

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