Dhaka 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Dhaka has asked for

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

• Social media links / handles — 4 requests
• New medical exam — 3 requests
• Passport — 2 requests

3 of 53 tracked Dhaka cases were asked to submit by email. Slip colours seen here: white.

Dhaka and the immigrant visa pause

At least one applicant who is not a plaintiff has received a case-specific instruction here. Last reported movement 2026-10-15.

A relayed non-plaintiff issuance without re-interview: a spouse case given a 221(g) around February had a new medical about four weeks before 16 October, sent the passport two weeks later and moved from Refused to Issued on 15 October, reported through family. Secondhand, but the first issuance claimed at this post. Who is being re-interviewed is disputed. One observer says the calls are going to cases placed in administrative processing after 2025 and 2026 first interviews, not to the remanded pause cases, and that some re-interviewed applicants were given 212(a)(4) public charge refusals with a few passports kept; a relayed group figure puts it at two or three passports kept out of fifty to sixty seen. Others say the post has not started at all and the reports are false. The 1-2 October re-medical emails to a few January cases remain the only first-hand contact. A February IR1 with an expired medical and a 221(g) solely for the pause has had nothing. First interviews cancelled for 9, 20 and 29 September have no dates. Two more conflicting lines on 15 October: one observer says applicants with unexpired medicals were called back and nearly all refused again, with no issuance seen; another, in a large applicant group, says nobody has been called. One applicant adds that the re-interview call came eight days after the new medical. 22 October: an applicant canvassing for any re-interview, passport or re-medical request or CEAC change reports hearing of no meaningful movement from the post. 23 October: an IR1 interviewed 17 August saw its CEAC case update that day, no other contact. 2 November, relayed: a handful of applicants first interviewed between 20 January and 3 February had a new medical and then re-interview dates by email; nobody reports a visa without a second interview. 3 November, relayed: an F4 family first interviewed in January was issued after a second interview; before it they uploaded property valuations, bank statements and the petitioner health insurance card to CEAC. Relayed 9 November, unverified: Dhaka is contacting applicants first interviewed in early February and asking them to redo their medicals. An F2A interviewed in June has had no call yet. Reported 12 November: applicants say new re-medical and re-interview emails have stopped; an IR1 first interviewed 3 February has had no re-medical request.

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

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