This release is about the last step of a green card for anyone who finishes it at a US consulate abroad.
Every consulate, one page each
US consulates and immigrant visas reads the State Department's IV Scheduling Status Tool, the one table State publishes for every post. For each consulate it shows the month of completed cases NVC is scheduling for employment, family preference and immediate relative visas, at every monthly update this site holds back to April 2025. Beside it are the immigrant visas the post issued each month, from State's monthly tables.
State's month is NVC's paperwork queue. It doesn't say whether a post is holding interviews, and each page says so. On State's update of October 7, 2026, 105 of 142 posts read caught up for employment cases while most of them held no interviews.
The interview pause, dated
State postponed immigrant visa interviews at most posts from about August 25, 2026 for new public charge training. It hasn't published a notice, a list of posts that have restarted or an end date. So this site dates the pause from what State said under oath in court, and says when it was last checked. That line now shows wherever a green card date does: the visa bulletin pages, the green card line, the priority date tool, the NVC waiting list and the guide to waiting on your green card.
Elsewhere
- The green card planner gives no consulate date while interviews are paused, says why, and lets you pick your consulate to see where State's table puts it.
- Visas issued abroad draws the 75 countries State stopped issuing to from January to August 2026, month by month, against the year before.
- Visa interview waits now says it covers visitor, student and work visas, and points to the consulates page for green cards.
- A new guide: the immigrant visa interview pause, and what it means for you.
- The court reader now looks for opinions about immigrant visa interviews and public charge too, so they reach policy changes as CourtListener publishes them.
