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NVC Processing Timeframes Over Time

Weekly series of the National Visa Center's published processing timeframes: for case creation, document review and inquiry responses, the date NVC was working on as of each date it gave. Covers 2020-02-10 to 2026-10-13 (121 as-of dates). NVC overwrites the page in place, so weeks before collection began are recovered from Internet Archive captures. Until 2021 NVC published an email response time, recorded as email-response, where it now publishes a Public Inquiry Form response time.

Release 2026-10-13-v1 · Published 2026-10-13 · Retrieved 2026-10-13 · United States (National Visa Center) · Coverage 2020-02-10/2026-10-13

StepAs ofWorking on items dated
case-creation2020-02-102020-01-15
document-review2020-02-102019-12-10
email-response2020-02-102019-12-16
case-creation2020-08-102020-06-30
document-review2020-08-102020-06-07
email-response2020-08-102020-08-04
case-creation2020-08-172020-08-04
document-review2020-08-172020-06-09
email-response2020-08-172020-08-11
case-creation2020-10-132020-10-05
document-review2020-10-132020-07-31
email-response2020-10-132020-10-06
case-creation2020-10-192020-10-09
document-review2020-10-192020-08-04
email-response2020-10-192020-10-09
case-creation2020-10-262020-10-19
document-review2020-10-262020-08-08
email-response2020-10-262020-10-19
case-creation2020-11-022020-10-23
document-review2020-11-022020-08-16
email-response2020-11-022020-10-26
case-creation2020-11-092020-11-02
document-review2020-11-092020-08-20
email-response2020-11-092020-11-02
case-creation2020-11-162020-11-06
document-review2020-11-162020-08-27
email-response2020-11-162020-11-07
case-creation2020-11-232020-11-12
document-review2020-11-232020-09-04
email-response2020-11-232020-11-17
case-creation2020-11-302020-11-20
document-review2020-11-302020-09-06
email-response2020-11-302020-11-23
case-creation2020-12-142020-12-02
document-review2020-12-142020-09-21
email-response2020-12-142020-12-10
case-creation2020-12-212020-12-04
document-review2020-12-212020-09-24
email-response2020-12-212020-12-17
case-creation2020-12-282020-12-09
document-review2020-12-282020-09-30
email-response2020-12-282020-12-22
case-creation2021-01-112020-12-21
document-review2021-01-112020-10-12
email-response2021-01-112020-12-31
case-creation2021-01-252021-01-05
document-review2021-01-252020-10-25
email-response2021-01-252021-01-19
case-creation2021-02-082021-01-28
document-review2021-02-082020-11-16
email-response2021-02-082021-02-01
case-creation2021-02-162021-02-08
document-review2021-02-162020-11-16
email-response2021-02-162021-02-06
case-creation2021-02-222021-02-12
document-review2021-02-222020-11-16
email-response2021-02-222021-02-11
case-creation2021-03-012021-02-18
document-review2021-03-012020-11-20
inquiry-response2021-03-012021-02-18
case-creation2021-03-082021-02-25
document-review2021-03-082020-12-07
inquiry-response2021-03-082021-02-25
case-creation2021-03-152021-03-03
document-review2021-03-152020-12-08
inquiry-response2021-03-152021-03-02
case-creation2021-04-052021-03-23
document-review2021-04-052021-01-25
inquiry-response2021-04-052021-03-23
case-creation2021-04-122021-03-30
document-review2021-04-122021-02-07
inquiry-response2021-04-122021-03-30
case-creation2021-04-262021-04-14
document-review2021-04-262021-03-18
inquiry-response2021-04-262021-04-13
case-creation2021-05-032021-04-21
document-review2021-05-032021-03-27
inquiry-response2021-05-032021-04-19
case-creation2021-05-102021-05-03
document-review2021-05-102021-04-02
inquiry-response2021-05-102021-04-27
case-creation2021-05-172021-05-12
document-review2021-05-172021-04-10
inquiry-response2021-05-172021-05-04
case-creation2021-05-242021-05-13
document-review2021-05-242021-04-17
inquiry-response2021-05-242021-05-11
case-creation2021-06-072021-05-27
document-review2021-06-072021-04-30
inquiry-response2021-06-072021-05-22
case-creation2021-06-212021-06-16
document-review2021-06-212021-05-24
inquiry-response2021-06-212021-06-01
case-creation2021-06-282021-06-22
document-review2021-06-282021-05-27
inquiry-response2021-06-282021-06-07
case-creation2021-09-202021-09-07
document-review2021-09-202021-07-08
inquiry-response2021-09-202021-08-25
case-creation2021-10-122021-10-05

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