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    Johannesburg: immigrant visa interview scheduling

    In the State Department's October 7, 2026 update, NVC was scheduling immigrant visa interviews at Johannesburg for immediate relative cases from July 2025 (15 months before the update), family-sponsored preference cases from March 2025 (19 months before the update) and employment-based preference cases from August 2023 (38 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

    July 2025

    15 months behind. The median post is 3 months behind.

    Family-sponsored preference

    March 2025

    19 months behind. The median post is update month.

    Employment-based preference

    August 2023

    38 months behind. The median post is update month.

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    Earlier updates for Johannesburg

    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 2025July 2026August 2023
    June 4, 2026July 2025March 2025August 2023
    April 2, 2026July 2025March 2025May 2024
    March 4, 2026July 2025March 2026June 2024
    February 3, 2026July 2025February 2026June 2024
    January 8, 2026July 2025January 2026April 2024
    December 8, 2025July 2025December 2025April 2024
    November 12, 2025June 2025November 2025June 2024
    October 9, 2025May 2025October 2025June 2024
    September 2, 2025April 2025September 2025June 2024
    July 2, 2025date of archive copyApril 2025July 2025May 2024
    June 3, 2025May 2025June 2025March 2025
    May 2, 2025April 2025May 2025March 2025
    April 28, 2025March 2025April 2025March 2025

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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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