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    Cotonou: immigrant visa interview scheduling

    In the State Department's October 7, 2026 update, NVC was scheduling immigrant visa interviews at Cotonou for immediate relative, family-sponsored preference and employment-based preference cases from October 2026 (the month of 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

    October 2026

    update month. The median post is 3 months behind.

    Family-sponsored preference

    October 2026

    update month. The median post is update month.

    Employment-based preference

    October 2026

    update month. The median post is update month.

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    Earlier updates for Cotonou

    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 updateImmediate relativeFamily-sponsored preferenceEmployment-based preference
    July 8, 2026July 2026July 2026July 2026
    June 4, 2026June 2026June 2026June 2026
    April 2, 2026April 2026April 2026April 2026
    March 4, 2026March 2026March 2026March 2026
    February 3, 2026October 2025February 2026February 2026
    January 8, 2026April 2025January 2026January 2026
    December 8, 2025March 2025December 2025December 2025
    November 12, 2025February 2025November 2025June 2023
    October 9, 2025February 2025October 2025June 2023
    September 2, 2025February 2025September 2025September 2025
    July 2, 2025date of archive copyNovember 2024July 2025July 2025
    June 3, 2025November 2024June 2025June 2025
    May 2, 2025November 2024May 2025March 2023
    April 28, 2025November 2024April 2025April 2025

    Every post's scheduling month →

    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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