Mumbai 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Mumbai has asked for

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

• Passport — 8 requests
• Social media links / handles — 8 requests
• Police certificate — 7 requests
• Marriage / relationship evidence — 6 requests
• Tax returns / transcripts — 6 requests
• Photographs — 5 requests
• Additional documents (unspecified) — 4 requests
• Birth certificate — 4 requests
• DS-260 confirmation page — 2 requests
• I-20 — 2 requests
• New medical exam — 2 requests
• vaccination worksheet — 2 requests
• W-2 — 2 requests

7 of 248 tracked Mumbai cases were asked to submit by email. Slip colours seen here: white, blue.

Mumbai and the immigrant visa pause

No callbacks of any kind have been reported at this post since the cable. Last reported movement 2026-10-07.

Not a pause post; affected by the worldwide suspension. As of 7 October no reschedule emails for IR1/CR1 interviews cancelled on 25 and 31 August and 4, 8, 15 and 24 September; applicants compare notes daily and nobody has one. Separately, F2B cases are sitting in administrative processing: a 4 May interview given a 221(g) for a French police certificate (submitted 7 May, passport back 14 May) is five months in with a home visit by an inquiry officer, and a case approved 12 June then re-interviewed on 15 June over DS-260 corrections has had silence since. A parent case with a public-charge notice from before the suspension is still pending. On 14 October an F3 applicant reports no rescheduled interview or new letter either. Applicants documentarily qualified in March still have no interview letters on 17 October; a call to the post said a date would come by email and text, and reschedules for August and September cancellations are expected first. On 17-18 October no cancelled interview has a new date; a 22 September IR1 is still waiting and calls to the post get generic replies. 19 October: a 31 August interview and a 17 September stepchild IR2 interview, both rescheduled by the post, still have no dates; the child is in India with a caretaker and the petitioner is asking for a humanitarian reschedule. 21 October: parents interviewed 10 July and asked for tax transcripts (sent 20 July) still read Refused; a 2 June immigrant case has read Ready for three and a half months with repeated date changes, and applicants believe the post has issued nothing for two months. 22 October: the visa service desk and the consulate itself tell IR1, IR5 and F4 applicants that all immigrant visa appointments are on hold and rescheduled, with no resumption date; a family third-preference case whose re-interview after a year-long medical clearance was cancelled has a medical expiring 2 January. 26 October: spouse and F4 interviews cancelled in August and September still have no new dates; inquiry emails get a form reply citing the global training initiative and promising contact as capacity allows. 29 October: an F4 case (priority date October 2006) cancelled from 25 August still has no new date; F4 applicants expect nothing before the new year. 12 November: still no reschedules or new interview dates. An IR1 cancelled for 24 September was told by phone on 11 November there is no update, and a CR1 documentarily qualified 3 April has nothing. The scheduling tool has shown March 2026 for immediate relatives for three months without letters going out.

10 readers at Mumbai reported being documentarily qualified with no interview yet, a median of 6 months since DQ. Add your DQ date, anonymously.

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

Related

Mumbai by visa type

• F-1 221(g) at Mumbai — 57 cases, 37 resolved
• B-1/B-2 221(g) at Mumbai — 42 cases, 29 resolved
• H-1B 221(g) at Mumbai — 15 cases, 8 resolved

Posts with a similar wait

• Manila 221(g) tracker — median 1d, 91 cases
• Kingston 221(g) tracker — median 1d, 37 cases
• Singapore 221(g) tracker — median 1d, 17 cases
• Karachi 221(g) tracker — median 1d, 14 cases

Recent Mumbai case reports

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