Official DOS data · Nepal
Kathmandu: immigrant visa interview scheduling
In the State Department's October 7, 2026 update, NVC was scheduling immigrant visa interviews at Kathmandu for immediate relative cases from December 2025 (10 months before the update) and family-sponsored preference and employment-based preference cases from January 2026 (9 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
December 2025
10 months behind. The median post is 3 months behind.
Family-sponsored preference
January 2026
9 months behind. The median post is update month.
Employment-based preference
January 2026
9 months behind. The median post is update month.
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Earlier updates for Kathmandu
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 | December 2025 | January 2026 | January 2026 |
| June 4, 2026 | December 2025 | December 2025 | December 2025 |
| April 2, 2026 | November 2025 | November 2025 | December 2025 |
| March 4, 2026 | November 2025 | November 2025 | March 2026 |
| February 3, 2026 | October 2025 | November 2025 | February 2026 |
| January 8, 2026 | September 2025 | November 2025 | January 2026 |
| December 8, 2025 | August 2025 | November 2025 | December 2025 |
| November 12, 2025 | July 2025 | October 2025 | November 2025 |
| October 9, 2025 | June 2025 | September 2025 | October 2025 |
| September 2, 2025 | May 2025 | August 2025 | September 2025 |
| July 2, 2025date of archive copy | March 2025 | June 2025 | July 2025 |
| June 3, 2025 | January 2025 | June 2025 | June 2025 |
| May 2, 2025 | December 2024 | March 2025 | May 2025 |
| April 28, 2025 | December 2024 | March 2025 | April 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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