Which embassies are closed

Nonetheless, the State Department is keeping the doors closed to appointments, and it has refused to waive interviews in most cases or use virtual interviews. As I explained in May , the State Department does not publish any accessible public information on immigrant i. The department fails to publish aggregate statistics on its reopening progress and only makes available information on nonimmigrant i. The statistics cited in this post come from querying that search tool on October 14 and other earlier dates.

Of the issuing posts, only 95 40 percent were scheduling all tourist, student, and all other nonimmigrant i. Meanwhile, 60 percent were partially closed. No appointments would be available outside of emergencies for at least one of those three categories. Figure 1 shows the torturously slow progress of the Biden administration in getting the consulates back to normal. In April, 76 percent of consulates were partially closed.

In April, 59 percent were fully closed. Now, 40 percent are fully closed. But the bigger problem is that there has been no change in the share fully closed since August. Based on the rate of opening between April and August, I had projected that the State Department might be fully reopened in early , but now there is no consistent progress to report.

Figure 2 shows the breakdown by type of visa. At 40 percent, student and exchange visitor visas had the lowest share of consulates fully closed to them. But in October, 60 percent of consulates were either not scheduling or only scheduling emergency B visa appointments for tourists and business travelers—again, just 2 percentage point improvement since August.

For the open consulates, the wait times have grown from 95 days in April to days in August for business and tourist traveler visas. Consulates and Embassies remain open for emergency and mission-critical visa services and will continue to provide these emergency based services.

The National Visa Center is working with reduced staff during this time. As such, NVC will not answer any general questions about case status and is focusing on urgent medical or humanitarian inquiries. More information about the NVC status is available here. Reopening will be determined based on location specific conditions for each post. As conditions improve in each location, additional services will be made available.

The U. Visa services are limited and vary by city. Check here for updated info. Embassy in London and the U. Consulate in Belfast currently are open for emergency nonimmigrant visa services only. Immigrant visa appointments are available but limited. Check here for updates. Embassy in Santo Domingo is offering limited routine immigrant visa services. Limited routine work and student visas services have resumed. Tourist visa services remain suspended although emergency appointments are available.

Learn more here. Embassy and Consulate General in Thailand has resumed routine nonimmigrant and immigrant visa services. Applicants are also able to renew their visa by mail.

Embassy and Consulates in Brazil will resume routine nonimmigrant visa appointments beginning Nov. Immigrant visa services currently are offered on an emergency basis only.