Last updated: 11-22-2024

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	34 Days	75 Days		343 Days
Abuja	77 Days	46 Days	109 Days	109 Days
Accra	179 Days	87 Days	109 Days	460 Days
Adana				Closed
Addis Ababa	128 Days	205 Days	86 Days	205 Days
Algiers	84 Days	2 Days	1 Day	107 Days
Almaty	7 Days	7 Days	5 Days	16 Days
Amman	26 Days	3 Days	2 Days	68 Days
Amsterdam	5 Days	6 Days	10 Days	20 Days
Ankara	13 Days	63 Days		583 Days
Antananarivo	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Apia	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Ashgabat	90 Days	90 Days	90 Days	90 Days
Asmara	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Astana	14 Days	1 Day	1 Day	40 Days
Asuncion	17 Days	3 Days	3 Days	15 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	17 Days
Bamako	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	157 Days
Bandar Seri Begawan	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Bangkok	1 Day	3 Days	4 Days	183 Days
Bangui				Non-Visa Processing Post
Banjul	100 Days	100 Days	100 Days	100 Days
Barcelona				Non-Visa Processing Post
Beijing	4 Days	3 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Beirut				Closed
Belfast	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	76 Days
Belgrade	1 Day	18 Days	1 Day	3 Days
Belmopan	7 Days	7 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Berlin	11 Days	57 Days	7 Days	17 Days
Bern	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	16 Days
Bishkek	2 Days	2 Days		118 Days
Bogota	3 Days	13 Days	3 Days	678 Days
Brasilia	1 Day	1 Day	3 Days	21 Days
Bratislava	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Brazzaville	64 Days	309 Days	64 Days	309 Days
Bridgetown	4 Days	3 Days	15 Days	46 Days
Brussels	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Bucharest	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	150 Days
Budapest	23 Days	24 Days	20 Days	23 Days
Buenos Aires	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	48 Days
Bujumbura	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Cairo	32 Days	32 Days	32 Days	32 Days
Calgary	48 Days	55 Days	684 Days	684 Days
Canberra				Non-Visa Processing Post
Cape Town	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Caracas				Closed
Casablanca	50 Days	299 Days	299 Days	299 Days
Chengdu				Closed
Chennai ( Madras)	31 Days	123 Days	32 Days	515 Days
Chiang Mai	7 Days		7 Days	63 Days
Chisinau	7 Days	7 Days	9 Days	58 Days
Ciudad Juarez	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	293 Days
Colombo	17 Days	2 Days	51 Days	116 Days
Conakry	22 Days	22 Days	22 Days	22 Days
Copenhagen	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	14 Days
Cotonou	215 Days	215 Days	215 Days	215 Days
Curacao	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	75 Days
Dakar	10 Days	10 Days	12 Days	64 Days
Damascus				Closed
Dar Es Salaam	30 Days	7 Days	7 Days	78 Days
Dhahran	1 Day	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Dhaka	211 Days	40 Days	7 Days	334 Days
Dili	Same Day			Same Day
Djibouti	10 Days	50 Days	50 Days	50 Days
Doha	3 Days	2 Days	2 Days	82 Days
Dubai	14 Days	18 Days		351 Days
Dublin	8 Days	8 Days	8 Days	15 Days
Durban	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Dushanbe	51 Days	51 Days	51 Days	51 Days
Edinburgh				Accepting Appointments
Erbil				Emergency Appointments Only
Florence	2 Days	2 Days	1 Day	8 Days
Frankfurt	4 Days	15 Days	17 Days	50 Days
Freetown	170 Days	170 Days	170 Days	170 Days
Fukuoka				Non-Visa Processing Post
Gaborone	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Georgetown	2 Days	Same Day	2 Days	79 Days
Guadalajara	6 Days	14 Days	14 Days	198 Days
Guangzhou	4 Days	13 Days	4 Days	19 Days
Guatemala City	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	46 Days
Guayaquil	23 Days	14 Days	23 Days	224 Days
Halifax	12 Days	14 Days	647 Days	647 Days
Hamilton	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days	12 Days
Hanoi	2 Days	2 Days	5 Days	2 Days
Harare	14 Days	5 Days	14 Days	18 Days
Havana				Emergency Appointments Only
Helsinki	8 Days	8 Days	9 Days	21 Days
Hermosillo	1 Day	6 Days	6 Days	324 Days
Ho Chi Minh City	27 Days	13 Days	13 Days	28 Days
Hong Kong	3 Days	3 Days	2 Days	4 Days
Hyderabad	8 Days	64 Days	1 Day	441 Days
Islamabad	3 Days	4 Days	4 Days	308 Days
Istanbul	62 Days	76 Days	25 Days	732 Days
Jakarta	21 Days	21 Days	58 Days	73 Days
Jeddah	3 Days	1 Day	3 Days	23 Days
Jerusalem				Emergency Appointments Only
Johannesburg	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	6 Days
Juba				Closed
Kabul				Closed
Kampala	99 Days	8 Days	9 Days	268 Days
Kaohsiung				Non-Visa Processing Post
Karachi	71 Days	2 Days	1 Day	337 Days
Kathmandu	194 Days	22 Days	43 Days	303 Days
Khartoum				Closed
Kigali	52 Days	85 Days	85 Days	85 Days
Kingston	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	8 Days
Kinshasa	57 Days	7 Days	7 Days	88 Days
Kolkata	87 Days			499 Days
Kolonia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Koror	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days
Krakow	4 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Kuala Lumpur	17 Days	22 Days	8 Days	8 Days
Kuwait	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Kyiv				Closed
La Paz	7 Days	7 Days	85 Days	85 Days
Lagos	222 Days	245 Days	245 Days	332 Days
Lahore				Closed
Libreville	14 Days	14 Days	14 Days	100 Days
Lilongwe	101 Days	101 Days	101 Days	216 Days
Lima	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	449 Days
Lisbon	16 Days	17 Days	23 Days	22 Days
Ljubljana	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Lome	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
London	3 Days	2 Days	2 Days	76 Days
Luanda	3 Days	1 Day	1 Day	20 Days
Lusaka	20 Days	42 Days	42 Days	42 Days
Luxembourg	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Madrid	14 Days	16 Days	16 Days	140 Days
Majuro				Closed
Malabo	90 Days	90 Days		90 Days
Managua	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Manama	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days
Manila	14 Days	14 Days	3 Days	31 Days
Maputo	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days	60 Days
Marseille				Closed
Maseru				Closed
Matamoros	1 Day	6 Days	6 Days	247 Days
Mbabane	14 Days	14 Days		75 Days
Melbourne	25 Days	45 Days	9 Days	141 Days
Merida	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	315 Days
Mexicali Tpf				Closed
Mexico City	1 Day	8 Days	8 Days	365 Days
Milan	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	28 Days
Minsk				Closed
Monrovia	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Monterrey	1 Day	4 Days	1 Day	216 Days
Montevideo	1 Day	1 Day	63 Days	63 Days
Montreal				Emergency Appointments Only
Moscow				Closed
Mumbai (Bombay)	67 Days		42 Days	413 Days
Munich	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	10 Days
Muscat	176 Days	176 Days	176 Days	176 Days
N`Djamena	39 Days	185 Days	185 Days	185 Days
Naha	7 Days	17 Days	17 Days	17 Days
Nairobi	79 Days	28 Days	70 Days	77 Days
Naples	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	28 Days
Nassau	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	5 Days
New Delhi	42 Days		45 Days	410 Days
Niamey	85 Days		85 Days	85 Days
Nicosia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Nogales	13 Days	13 Days	13 Days	265 Days
Nouakchott	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days	28 Days
Nuevo Laredo	2 Days	7 Days	274 Days	274 Days
Osaka/Kobe	10 Days	10 Days	10 Days	101 Days
Oslo	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days
Ottawa	1 Day	160 Days	647 Days	647 Days
Ouagadougou	340 Days	90 Days		340 Days
Panama City	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	85 Days
Paramaribo	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Paris	60 Days	50 Days	50 Days	200 Days
Perth	125 Days	125 Days	125 Days	125 Days
Phnom Penh	17 Days	22 Days	22 Days	22 Days
Podgorica	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Ponta Delgada				Non-Visa Processing Post
Port Au Prince				Emergency Appointments Only
Port Louis	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days	21 Days
Port Moresby	75 Days	75 Days	75 Days	75 Days
Port Of Spain	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	8 Days
Porto Alegre	14 Days	3 Days	1 Day	17 Days
Prague	2 Days	3 Days	65 Days	65 Days
Praia	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	59 Days
Pretoria				Non-Visa Processing Post
Pristina	3 Days			57 Days
Quebec	28 Days	81 Days	850 Days	850 Days
Quito	13 Days	5 Days	3 Days	281 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	1 Day	5 Days	1 Day	64 Days
Riyadh	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Rome	4 Days	4 Days	4 Days	28 Days
San Jose	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	214 Days
San Salvador	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	110 Days
Sanaa				Closed
Santiago	11 Days	16 Days	16 Days	35 Days
Santo Domingo	28 Days	2 Days	2 Days	247 Days
Sao Paulo	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	70 Days
Sapporo				Accepting Appointments
Sarajevo	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	5 Days
Seoul	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	2 Days
Shanghai	6 Days	59 Days	10 Days	57 Days
Shenyang	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days	5 Days
Singapore	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Skopje	9 Days	9 Days	9 Days	9 Days
Sofia	3 Days	7 Days	7 Days	16 Days
St Georges				Closed
St Petersburg				Closed
Stockholm	1 Day	3 Days	2 Days	15 Days
Surabaya	1 Day	1 Day	9 Days	28 Days
Suva	30 Days	30 Days	15 Days	30 Days
Sydney	23 Days	25 Days	23 Days	87 Days
Taipei	17 Days	52 Days	22 Days	43 Days
Tallinn	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days	3 Days
Tashkent	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	12 Days
Tbilisi	7 Days	3 Days		21 Days
Tegucigalpa	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	365 Days
Tel Aviv	23 Days	2 Days	2 Days	106 Days
Tijuana	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	266 Days
Tijuana Tpf	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	266 Days
Tirana	26 Days	24 Days		89 Days
Tokyo	11 Days	9 Days	9 Days	25 Days
Toronto	11 Days	63 Days	654 Days	654 Days
Tripoli				Closed
Tunis	7 Days	3 Days	2 Days	150 Days
Ulaanbaatar	16 Days	14 Days	14 Days	62 Days
Usun-New York	7 Days	7 Days		7 Days
Valletta	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days	30 Days
Vancouver	6 Days	83 Days	48 Days	226 Days
Vienna	4 Days	5 Days	4 Days	4 Days
Vientiane	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days	6 Days
Vilnius	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day	1 Day
Vladivostok				Closed
Warsaw	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days
Washington Refugee Processing Center	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days	54 Days
Windhoek	7 Days	7 Days	7 Days	51 Days
Wuhan	8 Days	8 Days	8 Days	37 Days
Yaounde	41 Days	41 Days	41 Days	41 Days
Yekaterinburg				Closed
Yerevan	61 Days	67 Days	67 Days	97 Days
Zagreb	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days	2 Days

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