Last updated: 10-25-2024

The estimated wait time to receive an interview appointment at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate can change weekly and is based on actual incoming workload and staffing. These are estimates only and do not guarantee the availability of an appointment.

Note: Embassies and Consulates may have a separate process for visa cases where the in-person interview requirement is waived.  In general wait times for those cases are shorter, but they are not reflected in the table below.  Please check the individual Embassy or Consulate website to determine if your case is eligible for a waiver of the in-person interview. 

Applicants scheduling visa appointments in a location different from their place of residence should check post websites for nonresident wait times.

City/Post	Interview Required Student/Exchange Visitors (F, M, J)	Interview Required Petition-Based Temporary Workers (H, L, O, P, Q)	Interview Required Crew and Transit (C, D, C1/D)	Interview Required Visitors (B1/B2)
Abidjan	93 Days	24 Days	8 Days	280 Days
Abu Dhabi	22 Days	95 Days		348 Days
Abuja	3 Days	2 Days	77 Days	77 Days
Accra	179 Days	87 Days	109 Days	460 Days
Adana				Closed
Addis Ababa	169 Days	169 Days	81 Days	176 Days
Algiers	99 Days	3 Days	1 Day	108 Days
Almaty	7 Days	5 Days	5 Days	17 Days
Amman	34 Days	1 Day	1 Day	78 Days
Amsterdam	18 Days	18 Days	17 Days	65 Days
Ankara	9 Days	57 Days		574 Days
Antananarivo	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Apia	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Ashgabat	120 Days	120 Days	120 Days	120 Days
Asmara	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Astana	14 Days	3 Days	3 Days	30 Days
Asuncion	49 Days	2 Days	2 Days	20 Days
Athens	9 Days	1 Day	43 Days	62 Days
Auckland	7 Days	7 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Baghdad				Emergency Appointments Only
Baku	3 Days	1 Day	1 Day	3 Days
Bamako	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	141 Days
Bandar Seri Begawan	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Bangkok	10 Days	10 Days	11 Days	137 Days
Bangui				Non-Visa Processing Post
Banjul	47 Days	47 Days	62 Days	47 Days
Barcelona				Non-Visa Processing Post
Beijing	4 Days	4 Days	7 Days	11 Days
Beirut				Closed
Belfast	17 Days	17 Days	17 Days	8 Days
Belgrade	1 Day	18 Days	1 Day	3 Days
Belmopan	7 Days	7 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Berlin	8 Days	43 Days	2 Days	37 Days
Bern	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	22 Days
Bishkek	7 Days	7 Days		111 Days
Bogota	3 Days	6 Days	5 Days	710 Days
Brasilia	1 Day	1 Day	3 Days	41 Days
Bratislava	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	22 Days
Brazzaville	84 Days	310 Days	84 Days	310 Days
Bridgetown	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	56 Days
Brussels	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Bucharest	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	150 Days
Budapest	30 Days	30 Days	22 Days	34 Days
Buenos Aires	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	55 Days
Bujumbura	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Cairo	5 Days	5 Days	27 Days	27 Days
Calgary	15 Days	77 Days	828 Days	828 Days
Canberra				Non-Visa Processing Post
Cape Town	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	4 Days
Caracas				Closed
Casablanca	10 Days	203 Days	203 Days	203 Days
Chengdu				Closed
Chennai ( Madras)	46 Days	42 Days	35 Days	484 Days
Chiang Mai	7 Days		7 Days	21 Days
Chisinau	7 Days	7 Days	23 Days	42 Days
Ciudad Juarez	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	308 Days
Colombo	81 Days	2 Days	23 Days	121 Days
Conakry	18 Days	18 Days	18 Days	18 Days
Copenhagen	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	14 Days
Cotonou	208 Days	208 Days	208 Days	208 Days
Curacao	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	40 Days
Dakar	10 Days	10 Days	12 Days	73 Days
Damascus				Closed
Dar Es Salaam	64 Days	1 Day	1 Day	84 Days
Dhahran	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Dhaka	236 Days	11 Days	6 Days	313 Days
Dili	Same Day			Same Day
Djibouti	10 Days	50 Days	50 Days	50 Days
Doha	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	107 Days
Dubai	14 Days	30 Days		293 Days
Dublin	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	3 Days
Durban	1 Day	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day
Dushanbe	25 Days	25 Days	25 Days	25 Days
Edinburgh				Accepting Appointments
Erbil				Emergency Appointments Only
Florence	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day	8 Days
Frankfurt	13 Days	16 Days	21 Days	51 Days
Freetown	156 Days	156 Days	156 Days	156 Days
Fukuoka				Non-Visa Processing Post
Gaborone	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Georgetown	2 Days	Same Day	1 Day	86 Days
Guadalajara	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	381 Days
Guangzhou	4 Days	5 Days	5 Days	11 Days
Guatemala City	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	199 Days
Guayaquil	30 Days	7 Days	43 Days	227 Days
Halifax	6 Days	6 Days	850 Days	850 Days
Hamilton	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days
Hanoi	5 Days	5 Days	2 Days	5 Days
Harare	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	33 Days
Havana				Emergency Appointments Only
Helsinki	20 Days	21 Days	20 Days	52 Days
Hermosillo	1 Day	1 Day	8 Days	316 Days
Ho Chi Minh City	27 Days	6 Days	6 Days	27 Days
Hong Kong	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Hyderabad	29 Days	16 Days	1 Day	444 Days
Islamabad	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	312 Days
Istanbul	41 Days	69 Days	102 Days	713 Days
Jakarta	19 Days	36 Days	19 Days	39 Days
Jeddah	1 Day	10 Days	3 Days	8 Days
Jerusalem				Emergency Appointments Only
Johannesburg	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Juba				Closed
Kabul				Closed
Kampala	198 Days	22 Days	29 Days	274 Days
Kaohsiung				Non-Visa Processing Post
Karachi	30 Days	1 Day	1 Day	337 Days
Kathmandu	222 Days	85 Days	64 Days	316 Days
Khartoum				Closed
Kigali	52 Days	85 Days	85 Days	85 Days
Kingston	7 Days	4 Days	7 Days	14 Days
Kinshasa	140 Days	7 Days	7 Days	238 Days
Kolkata	70 Days			499 Days
Kolonia	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Koror	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Krakow	1 Day	1 Day	8 Days	8 Days
Kuala Lumpur	9 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Kuwait	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Kyiv				Closed
La Paz	3 Days	2 Days	78 Days	78 Days
Lagos	400 Days	400 Days	400 Days	400 Days
Lahore				Closed
Libreville	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	100 Days
Lilongwe	101 Days	101 Days	101 Days	216 Days
Lima	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	450 Days
Lisbon	2 Days	2 Days	3 Days	1 Day
Ljubljana	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Lome	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	89 Days
London	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	73 Days
Luanda	5 Days	1 Day	1 Day	20 Days
Lusaka	6 Days	365 Days	365 Days	365 Days
Luxembourg	14 Days	7 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Madrid	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	164 Days
Majuro	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days
Malabo	90 Days	90 Days		90 Days
Managua	3 Days	1 Day	3 Days	3 Days
Manama	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	18 Days
Manila	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	49 Days
Maputo	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	14 Days
Marseille				Closed
Maseru				Closed
Matamoros	1 Day	1 Day	2 Days	219 Days
Mbabane	14 Days	14 Days		75 Days
Melbourne	23 Days	17 Days	8 Days	77 Days
Merida	1 Day	7 Days	7 Days	297 Days
Mexicali Tpf				Closed
Mexico City	1 Day	8 Days	8 Days	263 Days
Milan	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	10 Days
Minsk				Closed
Monrovia	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Monterrey	1 Day	2 Days	1 Day	350 Days
Montevideo	1 Day	1 Day	71 Days	71 Days
Montreal				Emergency Appointments Only
Moscow				Closed
Mumbai (Bombay)	64 Days		16 Days	468 Days
Munich	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	21 Days
Muscat	168 Days	168 Days	168 Days	168 Days
N`Djamena	39 Days	185 Days	185 Days	185 Days
Naha	4 Days	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days
Nairobi	63 Days	22 Days	51 Days	98 Days
Naples	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	10 Days
Nassau	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	14 Days
New Delhi	43 Days		51 Days	444 Days
Niamey	78 Days		78 Days	78 Days
Nicosia	5 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Nogales	1 Day	7 Days	6 Days	245 Days
Nouakchott	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Nuevo Laredo	1 Day	1 Day	235 Days	235 Days
Osaka/Kobe	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	101 Days
Oslo	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Ottawa	28 Days	81 Days	850 Days	850 Days
Ouagadougou	340 Days	90 Days		340 Days
Panama City	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	133 Days
Paramaribo	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	12 Days
Paris	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	150 Days
Perth	132 Days	134 Days	134 Days	134 Days
Phnom Penh	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Podgorica	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Ponta Delgada				Non-Visa Processing Post
Port Au Prince				Emergency Appointments Only
Port Louis	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Port Moresby	29 Days	29 Days	29 Days	29 Days
Port Of Spain	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Porto Alegre	15 Days	11 Days	7 Days	23 Days
Prague	1 Day	4 Days	1 Day	1 Day
Praia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	68 Days
Pretoria				Non-Visa Processing Post
Pristina	17 Days	65 Days		65 Days
Quebec	28 Days	81 Days	850 Days	850 Days
Quito	17 Days	3 Days	3 Days	238 Days
Rangoon	150 Days	150 Days	150 Days	150 Days
Recife	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Reykjavik	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Riga	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Rio De Janeiro	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	77 Days
Riyadh	16 Days	11 Days	17 Days	17 Days
Rome	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day	8 Days
San Jose	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	380 Days
San Salvador	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	93 Days
Sanaa				Closed
Santiago	7 Days	16 Days	16 Days	16 Days
Santo Domingo	7 Days	28 Days	2 Days	233 Days
Sao Paulo	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	49 Days
Sapporo	27 Days
Sarajevo	10 Days	3 Days	5 Days	19 Days
Seoul	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Shanghai	2 Days	3 Days	2 Days	59 Days
Shenyang	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Singapore	4 Days	2 Days	8 Days	4 Days
Skopje	11 Days	11 Days	11 Days	11 Days
Sofia	9 Days	7 Days	14 Days	22 Days
St Georges				Closed
St Petersburg				Closed
Stockholm	9 Days	9 Days	9 Days	49 Days
Surabaya	1 Day	1 Day	8 Days	13 Days
Suva	30 Days	30 Days	15 Days	30 Days
Sydney	25 Days	32 Days	15 Days	246 Days
Taipei	3 Days	10 Days	43 Days	1 Day
Tallinn	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Tashkent	8 Days	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days
Tbilisi	7 Days	3 Days		75 Days
Tegucigalpa	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	365 Days
Tel Aviv	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	30 Days
Tijuana	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	260 Days
Tijuana Tpf	1 Day	8 Days	1 Day	280 Days
Tirana	3 Days	2 Days		87 Days
Tokyo	3 Days	2 Days	2 Days	25 Days
Toronto	31 Days	49 Days	746 Days	746 Days
Tripoli				Closed
Tunis	7 Days	3 Days	2 Days	150 Days
Ulaanbaatar	22 Days	41 Days	41 Days	89 Days
Usun-New York	7 Days	7 Days		7 Days
Valletta	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Vancouver	6 Days	86 Days	48 Days	701 Days
Vienna	14 Days	14 Days	2 Days	11 Days
Vientiane	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days
Vilnius	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Vladivostok				Closed
Warsaw	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Washington Refugee Processing Center	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days
Windhoek	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	35 Days
Wuhan	8 Days	8 Days	8 Days	37 Days
Yaounde	37 Days	23 Days	37 Days	37 Days
Yekaterinburg				Closed
Yerevan	90 Days	47 Days	47 Days	77 Days
Zagreb	6 Days	6 Days	1 Day	6 Days

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