Official DOS data · United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi: immigrant visa interview scheduling
In the State Department's October 7, 2026 update, NVC was scheduling immigrant visa interviews at Abu Dhabi for immediate relative cases from March 2025 (19 months before the update), family-sponsored preference cases from August 2025 (14 months before the update) and employment-based preference cases from October 2023 (36 months before the update), counting from the month each case became documentarily complete.
Source: U.S. Department of State: IV Scheduling Status Tool · Published 2026-10-07 · Retrieved 2026-10-15 · Coverage 2026-10-07
Immediate relative
March 2025
19 months behind. The median post is 3 months behind.
Family-sponsored preference
August 2025
14 months behind. The median post is update month.
Employment-based preference
October 2023
36 months behind. The median post is update month.
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Earlier updates for Abu Dhabi
The State Department replaces this table each month and keeps no archive. Earlier months come from our monthly collection and, before it began, from Internet Archive copies of the same page.
| DOS update | Immediate relative | Family-sponsored preference | Employment-based preference |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 8, 2026 | March 2025 | August 2023 | October 2023 |
| June 4, 2026 | March 2025 | August 2023 | October 2023 |
| April 2, 2026 | March 2025 | August 2023 | October 2023 |
| March 4, 2026 | March 2025 | March 2026 | September 2024 |
| February 3, 2026 | March 2025 | July 2024 | July 2024 |
| January 8, 2026 | February 2025 | November 2024 | July 2024 |
| December 8, 2025 | August 2024 | July 2024 | May 2024 |
| November 12, 2025 | January 2024 | July 2024 | May 2024 |
| October 9, 2025 | January 2024 | July 2024 | January 2024 |
| September 2, 2025 | December 2023 | January 2024 | December 2023 |
| July 2, 2025date of archive copy | December 2022 | March 2023 | April 2023 |
| June 3, 2025 | November 2022 | March 2023 | March 2023 |
| May 2, 2025 | October 2022 | March 2023 | March 2023 |
| April 28, 2025 | September 2022 | January 2023 | February 2023 |
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How to read these months
NVC schedules an immigrant visa interview once your case is documentarily complete, meaning NVC has determined that you paid the fees and submitted every required document. NVC emails you that date. If your date falls in or before the month shown for your post and category, NVC is scheduling cases like yours. It is the month NVC is scheduling most interviews from, not a date for any one case, and NVC says it cannot predict precisely when a case will be scheduled.
Family-sponsored and employment-based preference cases also need a visa number to be available, which the monthly Visa Bulletin sets. Immediate relative cases do not.
Before a case is documentarily complete, NVC has to create it and review its documents. NVC publishes how far behind each step is in its weekly processing times.
Cite this data
Visa Interviews Research. (2026). U.S. Immigrant Visa Interview Scheduling by Embassy (Version 2026-10-07-v1) [Data set]. VisaMind. https://www.visainterviews.com/datasets/us-immigrant-visa-interview-scheduling
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