Immigrant Visa Interview Schedule

The Immigrant Visa Unit adjudicates petitions and conducts immigrant visa interviews by appointment only. When your petition adjudication appointment or visa interview is scheduled, you will be notified of your appointment date in a letter from the National Visa Center (for those whose petitions were filed in the U.S., except for K visa candidates); from the Kentucky Consular Center (for Diversity Visa candidates); or from the Consular section in Cairo (for those whose petitions or SB-1 returning resident applications were filed in Cairo and for K visa candidates).

If your appointment or interview has been scheduled, you can find the date by using the Find command under the edit menu on your Internet browser and entering your case number, or you can simply scroll down to look for your case number in the appropriate section. If the appointment schedule has not been updated in the past week, please ask us to update it by e-mailing us at consularcairoiv@state.gov.

Note that the appointment time for all interviews is 8:00 a.m. If the beneficiary (and the petitioner, in for petition adjudication appointments) does not appear with all required documents and appropriate interview/issuance fees before 11:00 a.m. on that day, his/her appointment will be rescheduled for a later date. It is the applicant's responsibility to contact us, either by e-mail or in writing, to reschedule the appointment.

Important Note for Diversity Visa Applicants: Please be informed that if the principal applicant is found to be ineligible for the DV program, fees for the application will not be refunded. The criteria under which one may be found ineligible are as follows:

1. Insufficient education or work experience
2. Multiple lottery entries in the same program year
3. Failure to list a spouse or child on the initial application to the program

If you have not received your appointment letter by 3 weeks before your appointment date, please contact us by e-mail at consularcairoiv@state.gov.