Bogota: immigrant visa pause status
Whether the US embassy or consulate in Bogota, Colombia is calling back applicants refused under the 75-country immigrant visa pause, who has been called, and what applicants there report. Crowdsourced and anonymised. As of 13 Oct 2026.
Key facts, as of 13 Oct 2026
- Who is being called back at Bogota: some non-plaintiffs. Yes, in part. At least one applicant at Bogota who is not a named plaintiff has reported a case-specific instruction: a new medical, a second interview or a document request. The last movement reported was on 8 Oct 2026.
- Last reported movement: 8 Oct 2026.
- Pause-refused cases in the tracker: 0. Cancelled appointments logged: 2.
- Contacting the post: Case-specific emails with assigned dates; a relayed passport-only request; portal faults for self-booking.
- Source: applicant reports, read daily; the same evidence as the daily digest. Nothing here comes from the post itself.
What has happened at Bogota
Fastest post in the dataset: on 6 October two non-plaintiff spouse cases first interviewed in late April and 11 May were approved at second interviews, one with the visa collected the same afternoon. Relayed on 10 October: an IR1 interviewed around 18-19 August was contacted only to send her passport, with no second interview, because the first interview had already covered savings, assets, debts and insurance; the first passport-only request reported anywhere. A third 6 October case was sent for a joint sponsor over a negative adjusted gross income. The 23 September email cohort (January and February first interviews) is stuck behind a scheduling portal that will not open a calendar.
This is the row shown for Bogota on the status-by-embassy table, written from the latest reports and updated whenever something changes.
What the daily digest has said about Bogota
Every day this post appeared in the digest, newest first. The one-line summary is the digest’s own; follow the link for the full account.
| Date | Outcome | What happened | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026 | Covered | Relayed: mid-August IR1 asked only to send her passport, no second interview | Read |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Issued | Two second interviews approved 6 Oct; one visa collected the same afternoon | Read |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Called back | April-May cohort re-interviews 7, 14 and ~15 Oct; portal fault delaying some | Read |
| 3 Oct 2026 | Called back | May IR1 assigned a 6 October second interview directly by the embassy | Read |
| 2 Oct 2026 | No decision | Self-booking emails going unanswered for some | Read |
| 30 Sept 2026 | No decision | EB-2 cleared the re-interview; no visa numbers until October | Read |
| 27 Sept 2026 | Called back | Dates assigned with one business day's notice | Read |
| 26 Sept 2026 | Called back | Non-plaintiffs emailed to book their own follow-up | Read |
| 12 Sept 2026 | Covered | Read |
Cancelled appointments at Bogota
Immigrant visa interviews called off since the worldwide suspension began on 24 August, and whether a new date has arrived. Dates marked approximate in the report are shown as reported.
| Original date | Visa | New date | Gap | Found out via |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 | IR1/CR1 | not yet | — | |
| 2026-08-24 | IR1/CR1 | not yet | — |
Every post: cancelled appointment tracker.
Bogota pause: quick answers
Is the US embassy in Bogota calling back applicants refused under the immigrant visa pause?
Yes, in part. At least one applicant at Bogota who is not a named plaintiff has reported a case-specific instruction: a new medical, a second interview or a document request. The last movement reported was on 8 Oct 2026.
What has happened at Bogota since the pause was vacated?
Fastest post in the dataset: on 6 October two non-plaintiff spouse cases first interviewed in late April and 11 May were approved at second interviews, one with the visa collected the same afternoon. Relayed on 10 October: an IR1 interviewed around 18-19 August was contacted only to send her passport, with no second interview, because the first interview had already covered savings, assets, debts and insurance; the first passport-only request reported anywhere. A third 6 October case was sent for a joint sponsor over a negative adjusted gross income. The 23 September email cohort (January and February first interviews) is stuck behind a scheduling portal that will not open a calendar. The tracker holds 0 pause-refused cases and 2 cancelled appointments at Bogota.
How do I contact Bogota about a pause case?
What applicants at Bogota report: Case-specific emails with assigned dates; a relayed passport-only request; portal faults for self-booking. Across posts, emails usually return nothing or a copy of the cable, and a congressional inquiry has so far returned one line. A moving CEAC last-updated date after you write means someone opened the file; it is not a decision and has not preceded one in any case we hold.
If you are waiting on Bogota
- Expect a new medical to be the first request if yours is older than six months; ask your panel clinic whether it already has instructions before you book.
- Every approval since the cable went through a second interview about money: taxes, savings, debts, insurance, employment plans and benefits history. The list is in the re-interview guide.
- A changed CEAC date after you email the post means the file was opened, not decided.
- If your report would change this page, add your case. Rows are built from reports; a post with none cannot be shown as moving.
Related
- Bogota 221(g) tracker — 52 tracked cases of every kind, wait times and what the post asks for
- Immigrant visa pause: status by embassy — all 62 posts side by side
- Public-charge re-interview: questions asked and what to bring
Other posts where the picture is the same: some non-plaintiffs
- Bangkok, Thailand — last movement 13 Oct
- Amman, Jordan — last movement 12 Oct
- Warsaw, Poland — last movement 12 Oct
- Guangzhou, China — last movement 11 Oct
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — last movement 11 Oct
- Tokyo, Japan — last movement 10 Oct
VisaMoves is a free, anonymous community data project. Not legal advice, and not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State or the post in Bogota. Court filings are described as reported by applicants who read them.