Rio de Janeiro 221(g) Tracker: Wait Times

What Rio de Janeiro has asked for

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

• New medical exam — 2 requests

1 of 45 tracked Rio de Janeiro cases were asked to submit by email. Slip colours seen here: white.

Rio de Janeiro and the immigrant visa pause

At least one applicant who is not a plaintiff has received a case-specific instruction here. Last reported movement 2026-11-10.

Relayed 13 October from a screenshot: a January first interview has a re-interview on 10 November. Another applicant hears the post is working both ends of the backlog, not strictly in date order, so that recent interviewees do not also lose their medicals. A family case went to Issued on CEAC with an email asking for the passports around 11 October (second interview not stated). Chronological re-interviews are reaching January and February first interviews, so later cohorts expect expired medicals. One jump in the queue: a non-plaintiff IR1 first interviewed 9 April, whose second child is due 24 November, got a 28 October second interview on 8 October, a day after the post told a senator's office that rescheduling is chronological. A June case is waiting. Earlier: the 29 September second interview issued in two days; about thirty January employment-based families emailed for after 20 October. Conflicting 14 October reports: one applicant lists Rio with Bogota as the active posts, another says it is at a full stop. K-1 cancellations have reached October: a 13 October interview was cancelled by email and applicants say November and December K-1 dates in Brazil are also affected, with no clear answers. 22 October: observers say the post is working through cases first interviewed from mid to late February, slowly; a chat group counted a single CR1 re-interview that day among employment-based interviews, and another says it is not moving at all. Relayed 23-24 October, unverified: employment-based second interviews are said to be ending in refusal about three times in four, with officers re-examining the whole case including national-interest waivers, and applicants told to resubmit the full file digitally. Relayed 24 October from messaging groups, unverified: of more than ten EB-2 national-interest-waiver re-interviews, two approvals; four to six officers sometimes question one applicant together and re-examine the approved petition's merits. Family cases are said to fare better. 21 October: a returning-resident (SB-1) interview set for 17 November was rescheduled with no new date, so the hold reaches that class too. Relayed 29 October: the post is said to be prioritising re-interviews. 3 November: an immigrant visa first interviewed 2 February was approved at its second interview. 10 November, reported by a friend: a CR1 spouse with three children, first interviewed in January, was approved at the second interview the same day; the post asked only for updated financial documents, a letter confirming the US spouse still has the same job and a new medical. Applicants in Brazil report EB-2 NIW re-interviews ending in refusals (second-hand).

5 readers at Rio de Janeiro reported being documentarily qualified with no interview yet, a median of 8 months since DQ. Add your DQ date, anonymously.

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

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