Frankfurt 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Frankfurt has asked for

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

• Bank statements / financial evidence — 3 requests
• Additional documents (unspecified) — 2 requests

7 of 62 tracked Frankfurt cases were asked to submit by email. Slip colours seen here: white.

Frankfurt and the immigrant visa pause

At least one applicant who is not a plaintiff has received a case-specific instruction here. Last reported movement 2026-10-27.

Another non-plaintiff CR1 approved at a second interview on 16 October, pending manager sign-off: the public-charge questions included where the couple is looking for an apartment, whether there is a job offer, and debts; a document bundle handed in at intake helped. The officer said the medical, due to expire within a week, need not be redone because it only has to be valid when the visa is printed. Pause-country cases are being issued: a CR1 first interviewed 2 July and refused on nationality had a second interview on 6 October (insurance plan named and the petitioner's card shown, education, bank accounts with a statement ready, the car loan's size and term, no property) and the visa was issued on 8 October, package arriving 12 October. Second-interview emails went out 8-9 October to an August 221(g) CR1 (insurance estimate, household returns, cash-assistance and debts question) and to a 17 February Thai spouse living elsewhere in Europe; reschedule requests refused. Earlier: a 6 October first interview for a service member's spouse with manager review; K-1s turned away 1 October. Separately, two K-1s interviewed 13 and 18 August have passports kept and CEAC stuck (one Ready, one Refused) through repeated touches with no decision as of 11 October. The 18 August K-1 adds on 14 October that finances were not discussed at all, having been shown through the I-134, W-2s and bank statements; the wait was for social media review. A second pause case with an early-October second interview read Issued on 16 October. A pause-country CR1 living in Germany (direct consular filing) had a single interview on 6 October, 30 minutes on education, job, salary, savings, assets and job plans, emailed bank statements afterwards, read Issued on 16 October and had the passport on the 20th. K-1s cancelled for 28 August and 3 September received a case ready for interview email on 20 October but cannot yet choose a date; a 7 August case that sent documents heard from the post the same day; a late-August K-1 in administrative processing was told it is still being processed. A K-1 given the final-processing email cannot get a booking through the scheduling site and the service provider has not replied (23 October). 24 October: a K-1 that never had a first appointment saw its pre-approval request approved on the portal without a ticket and booked an end-of-November interview; many dates were open. 27 October: employment-based applicants qualified in April 2026 have heard nothing; January-February qualifiers are said to have been interviewed. Around 27 October: a K-1 cancelled for 24 August, unable to rebook through the portal, was told by the scheduling provider's help line to start a new application with the old fee applied; a new date of 3 November was confirmed within 24 hours. The consulate itself says it cannot book appointments. 1 November: a German CR1 first interviewed 13 August, which sent one extra document the same day, was emailed around 20 October for a second interview on 4 November and accepted by replying; the consulate confirmed no booking on the scheduling site is needed. Reported 13 November: only cancelled appointments have been rebooked; applicants documentarily qualified in June still have no first interview.

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

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