Last updated: 6-27-2024

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	92 Days	2 Days	2 Days	253 Days
Abu Dhabi	52 Days	60 Days		458 Days
Abuja	190 Days	28 Days	521 Days	521 Days
Accra	382 Days	101 Days	47 Days	447 Days
Adana				Closed
Addis Ababa	65 Days	152 Days	54 Days	152 Days
Algiers	10 Days	1 Day	1 Day	87 Days
Almaty	28 Days	15 Days	8 Days
Amman	29 Days	7 Days	21 Days	225 Days
Amsterdam	32 Days	3 Days	27 Days	118 Days
Ankara	57 Days	101 Days		558 Days
Antananarivo	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Apia	45 Days	45 Days	45 Days	45 Days
Ashgabat	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Asmara	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Astana	38 Days	36 Days	36 Days	48 Days
Asuncion	7 Days	3 Days	3 Days	7 Days
Athens	45 Days	45 Days	45 Days	45 Days
Auckland	10 Days	10 Days	36 Days	36 Days
Baghdad				Emergency Appointments Only
Baku	3 Days	1 Day	1 Day	30 Days
Bamako	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	87 Days
Bandar Seri Begawan	42 Days	42 Days	42 Days	42 Days
Bangkok	28 Days	21 Days	15 Days	77 Days
Bangui				Non-Visa Processing Post
Banjul	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	120 Days
Barcelona				Non-Visa Processing Post
Beijing	9 Days	7 Days	14 Days	30 Days
Beirut	25 Days	18 Days	153 Days	153 Days
Belfast	22 Days	29 Days	29 Days	110 Days
Belgrade	4 Days	24 Days	3 Days	7 Days
Belmopan	7 Days	7 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Berlin	4 Days	64 Days	8 Days	42 Days
Bern	3 Days	3 Days	14 Days	3 Days
Bishkek	59 Days	3 Days	3 Days	98 Days
Bogota	4 Days	7 Days	4 Days	647 Days
Brasilia	1 Day	7 Days	1 Day	42 Days
Bratislava	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Brazzaville	91 Days	91 Days	358 Days	358 Days
Bridgetown	15 Days	15 Days	22 Days	101 Days
Brussels	29 Days	29 Days	29 Days	29 Days
Bucharest	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	175 Days
Budapest	50 Days	40 Days	40 Days	150 Days
Buenos Aires	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	79 Days
Bujumbura	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Cairo	5 Days	5 Days	1 Day	1 Day
Calgary	43 Days	57 Days	889 Days	889 Days
Canberra				Non-Visa Processing Post
Cape Town	7 Days	8 Days	8 Days	23 Days
Caracas				Closed
Casablanca	41 Days	312 Days	312 Days	312 Days
Chengdu				Closed
Chennai ( Madras)	31 Days	147 Days	73 Days	522 Days
Chiang Mai	4 Days		6 Days	43 Days
Chisinau	22 Days	22 Days	22 Days	58 Days
Ciudad Juarez	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	598 Days
Colombo	55 Days	30 Days	45 Days	155 Days
Conakry	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Copenhagen	10 Days	3 Days	3 Days	30 Days
Cotonou	250 Days	250 Days	250 Days	250 Days
Curacao	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	40 Days
Dakar	10 Days	10 Days	12 Days	128 Days
Damascus				Closed
Dar Es Salaam	6 Days	4 Days	4 Days	151 Days
Dhahran	9 Days	2 Days	16 Days	16 Days
Dhaka	223 Days	19 Days	68 Days	283 Days
Dili	Same Day			Same Day
Djibouti	10 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Doha	58 Days	6 Days	5 Days	125 Days
Dubai	33 Days	48 Days		364 Days
Dublin	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Durban	9 Days	20 Days	20 Days	22 Days
Dushanbe	66 Days	66 Days	66 Days	66 Days
Edinburgh				Accepting Appointments
Erbil				Emergency Appointments Only
Florence	4 Days	4 Days	8 Days	22 Days
Frankfurt	21 Days	34 Days	34 Days	48 Days
Freetown	107 Days	148 Days	148 Days	148 Days
Fukuoka				Non-Visa Processing Post
Gaborone	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Georgetown	1 Day	Same Day	1 Day	72 Days
Guadalajara	3 Days	35 Days	35 Days	619 Days
Guangzhou	12 Days	13 Days	12 Days	77 Days
Guatemala City	2 Days	15 Days	18 Days	609 Days
Guayaquil	29 Days	28 Days	91 Days	263 Days
Halifax	60 Days	90 Days	150 Days	850 Days
Hamilton	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days
Hanoi	3 Days	5 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Harare	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	71 Days
Havana				Emergency Appointments Only
Helsinki	36 Days	20 Days	13 Days	100 Days
Hermosillo	2 Days	1 Day	1 Day	576 Days
Ho Chi Minh City	22 Days	6 Days	6 Days	27 Days
Hong Kong	3 Days	3 Days	5 Days	70 Days
Hyderabad	30 Days	38 Days	1 Day	506 Days
Islamabad	2 Days			410 Days
Istanbul	108 Days	97 Days	70 Days	738 Days
Jakarta	14 Days	21 Days	21 Days	42 Days
Jeddah	7 Days	5 Days	5 Days	30 Days
Jerusalem				Emergency Appointments Only
Johannesburg	3 Days	9 Days	9 Days	9 Days
Juba				Closed
Kabul				Closed
Kampala	30 Days	60 Days	30 Days	240 Days
Kaohsiung				Non-Visa Processing Post
Karachi	45 Days	1 Day	3 Days	252 Days
Kathmandu	301 Days	22 Days	57 Days	308 Days
Khartoum				Closed
Kigali	70 Days	84 Days	84 Days	84 Days
Kingston	9 Days	8 Days	2 Days	15 Days
Kinshasa	60 Days			434 Days
Kolkata	39 Days			373 Days
Kolonia	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Koror	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Krakow	1 Day	1 Day	3 Days	3 Days
Kuala Lumpur	3 Days	2 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Kuwait	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Kyiv				Closed
La Paz	7 Days	2 Days	90 Days	90 Days
Lagos	107 Days	35 Days	442 Days	442 Days
Lahore				Closed
Libreville	119 Days	119 Days	119 Days	119 Days
Lilongwe	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days	203 Days
Lima	8 Days	8 Days	8 Days	365 Days
Lisbon	43 Days	37 Days	9 Days	7 Days
Ljubljana	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Lome	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	112 Days
London	15 Days	15 Days	15 Days	110 Days
Luanda	21 Days	1 Day	1 Day	20 Days
Lusaka	47 Days	213 Days	213 Days	213 Days
Luxembourg	20 Days	13 Days	20 Days	20 Days
Madrid	8 Days	11 Days	11 Days	247 Days
Majuro	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Malabo				Emergency Appointments Only
Managua	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Manama	4 Days	11 Days	4 Days	32 Days
Manila	45 Days	38 Days	7 Days	85 Days
Maputo	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	58 Days
Marseille				Closed
Maseru				Closed
Matamoros	2 Days	7 Days	2 Days	406 Days
Mbabane	14 Days	45 Days	45 Days	45 Days
Melbourne	22 Days	29 Days	14 Days	103 Days
Merida	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	728 Days
Mexicali Tpf				Closed
Mexico City	3 Days	7 Days	7 Days	709 Days
Milan	4 Days	4 Days	8 Days	22 Days
Minsk				Closed
Monrovia	7 Days	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Monterrey	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day	480 Days
Montevideo	8 Days	7 Days	53 Days	53 Days
Montreal				Emergency Appointments Only
Moscow				Closed
Mumbai (Bombay)	101 Days		62 Days	443 Days
Munich	25 Days	25 Days	25 Days	52 Days
Muscat	163 Days	163 Days	163 Days	163 Days
N`Djamena	32 Days	178 Days	178 Days	178 Days
Naha	26 Days	47 Days	47 Days	47 Days
Nairobi	74 Days	73 Days	92 Days	133 Days
Naples	4 Days	4 Days	8 Days	22 Days
Nassau	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	86 Days
New Delhi	50 Days		84 Days	204 Days
Niamey	115 Days		115 Days	115 Days
Nicosia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Nogales	1 Day	7 Days	7 Days	494 Days
Nouakchott	16 Days	16 Days	16 Days	16 Days
Nuevo Laredo	8 Days	3 Days	430 Days	430 Days
Osaka/Kobe	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	101 Days
Oslo	4 Days	14 Days	3 Days	10 Days
Ottawa	60 Days	90 Days	150 Days	850 Days
Ouagadougou	231 Days			343 Days
Panama City	15 Days	2 Days	2 Days	464 Days
Paramaribo	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	5 Days
Paris	3 Days	8 Days	4 Days	281 Days
Perth	79 Days	79 Days	79 Days	79 Days
Phnom Penh	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Podgorica	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Ponta Delgada				Non-Visa Processing Post
Port Au Prince				Emergency Appointments Only
Port Louis	37 Days	37 Days	37 Days	37 Days
Port Moresby				Emergency Appointments Only
Port Of Spain	14 Days	14 Days	2 Days	31 Days
Porto Alegre				Closed
Prague	21 Days	38 Days	65 Days	65 Days
Praia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	71 Days
Pretoria				Non-Visa Processing Post
Pristina	3 Days	79 Days		79 Days
Quebec	60 Days	150 Days	150 Days	710 Days
Quito	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	365 Days
Rangoon	150 Days	150 Days	150 Days	150 Days
Recife	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day	79 Days
Reykjavik	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Riga	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Rio De Janeiro	3 Days	16 Days	36 Days	37 Days
Riyadh	2 Days	9 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Rome	4 Days	4 Days	8 Days	22 Days
San Jose	11 Days	7 Days	7 Days	528 Days
San Salvador	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	178 Days
Sanaa				Closed
Santiago	35 Days	37 Days	37 Days	37 Days
Santo Domingo	3 Days	3 Days	1 Day	214 Days
Sao Paulo	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	45 Days
Sapporo	60 Days
Sarajevo	79 Days	10 Days	10 Days	110 Days
Seoul	9 Days	24 Days	18 Days	31 Days
Shanghai	38 Days	65 Days	25 Days	92 Days
Shenyang	2 Days	2 Days	36 Days	36 Days
Singapore	28 Days	38 Days	8 Days	28 Days
Skopje	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days
Sofia	30 Days	18 Days	20 Days	89 Days
St Georges				Closed
St Petersburg				Closed
Stockholm	15 Days	15 Days	1 Day	70 Days
Surabaya	6 Days	1 Day	6 Days	33 Days
Suva	31 Days	31 Days	31 Days	38 Days
Sydney	56 Days	58 Days	38 Days	109 Days
Taipei	32 Days	53 Days	25 Days	60 Days
Tallinn	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	3 Days
Tashkent	16 Days	16 Days	21 Days	16 Days
Tbilisi	7 Days	3 Days	3 Days	120 Days
Tegucigalpa	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	426 Days
Tel Aviv	42 Days	60 Days	60 Days	154 Days
Tijuana	1 Day	2 Days	1 Day	430 Days
Tijuana Tpf	1 Day	2 Days	1 Day	437 Days
Tirana	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	78 Days
Tokyo	6 Days	30 Days	34 Days	98 Days
Toronto	7 Days	39 Days	858 Days	858 Days
Tripoli				Closed
Tunis	10 Days	3 Days	2 Days	150 Days
Ulaanbaatar	33 Days	20 Days	20 Days	55 Days
Usun-New York	7 Days	7 Days		7 Days
Valletta	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Vancouver	27 Days	44 Days	44 Days	868 Days
Vienna	57 Days	16 Days	16 Days	63 Days
Vientiane	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	19 Days
Vilnius	1 Day	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day
Vladivostok				Closed
Warsaw	16 Days	16 Days	16 Days	15 Days
Washington Refugee Processing Center	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days
Windhoek	72 Days	72 Days	72 Days	72 Days
Wuhan	8 Days	8 Days	8 Days	65 Days
Yaounde	40 Days	6 Days	53 Days	54 Days
Yekaterinburg				Closed
Yerevan	133 Days	27 Days	27 Days	127 Days
Zagreb	3 Days	14 Days	3 Days	14 Days

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