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  1.    Josh B K reacted to a post in a topic: IR-1/CR-1 - Ciudad Juarez Interview Wait Times 2025-2026 [edited title]
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  6.    Cristina0123 reacted to a status update: Christina! We received our appointment notification email today! Our appointment was
  7. Josh B K
    @emeditz, we received our interview date for the consular appointment today. We will travel to the consulate on April 9th 2026. I wanted to share the happy news with you. If all goes as planned, I expect we will have our visa by the end of April 2026. In total we will have waited 2 years and 7 months.
  8. Josh B K
    Good morning, Ciudad Juarez Visa Applicants. I want to share the happy news that, today, my spouse and I received our appointment notification email. We were documentarily qualified on February 12, 2025 and received the email today, March 2, 2026 (383 days). Our appointment is scheduled for April 9th, 2026 (421 days from DQ Date). Here is my normal monthly update: Since my last update, I've tracked 6 applicants who finally received their appointment dates. The latest DQ date I have encountered so far which has received an interview assignment is March 4th, 2025. Here are my charts: You can see a slight trend downward in wait times.
  9. Josh B K

    Christina! We received our appointment notification email today! Our appointment was scheduled for April 9th 2026. We are very excited. We received the "you've got mail" ding while we were still in bed. I hope you received an email as well. If not, stay hopeful that it could arrive this week! 

    1. Cristina0123

      Cristina0123

      Hi Josh, that’s amazing news! I’m so happy for you all! We received ours today too!!! We are over the moon! Our interview is scheduled for April 7th! 😊

    2. Josh B K

      Josh B K

      Wonderful!  Ours is April 9th. If you'd like, we can plan to get together for a drink of celebration with out spouses when we are both in Ciudad Juarez.

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  12. Josh B K
    Sure, @Cristina0123! There are two facebook groups I follow where people announce appointments and questions about the Ciudad Juarez Consulate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/406904153165017 https://www.facebook.com/groups/consuladojuarez Most posts are in Spanish, but you can get a lot of value out of the group by just searching for the terms "llego cita" ("The appointment arrived"). An example of a common post is attached. In Spanish, they refer to the Documentarily Qualified date as "CC" (Case Closed). People usually share their CC date and the date of their interview. Usually, I see people announcing appointments between the 20th and 28th of each month. I assume the NVC releases appointments in batches.
  13.    Cristina0123 reacted to a reply to a status update: Hello @Cristina0123 , I hope you and your spouse are doing well. I see posts online t
  14.    Cristina0123 reacted to a status update: Hello @Cristina0123 , I hope you and your spouse are doing well. I see posts online t
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  16. Josh B K
    Oh @emeditz, I'm so happy for you guys. I can only imagine the agony you must have felt when news of pausing visa processing for certain nations was announced. I am so relieved to hear that you are together now. You also waited a long time, and you deserve this happiness.
  17. Josh B K
    Hello Friends! I see on facebook groups today that many people are reporting they received notification of their appointment date over the past days. Once I finish checking in with people from the community, I'll post my latests data.
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    Hello @RSJRGT: You made a post on the thread for appointments in Ciudad Juarez recently. I just noticed that many people with DQ dates in February and march are announcing online that they received appointment notifications in the past 2 days. I wanted to check if you have received any e-mails from NVC. 

    1. RSJRGT

      RSJRGT

      Still nothing here unfortunately. Would you be able to show me where they posted they had received interviews? Thank you for reaching out.

    2. Josh B K

      Josh B K

      Of course, check these two facebook groups: 

      https://www.facebook.com/groups/406904153165017

       

      https://www.facebook.com/groups/consuladojuarez

       

      Everyone posts in Spanish. The key phrases you are looking for are "llego la cita" or "llegó la cita". Usually every month between the 20th and 30th you will see lots of posts with people announcing their happy news. 

      This year, I see people with DQ dates in January, February, and March of 2025 receiving appointments, but there are also people with January 2025 DQ dates who still report they are waiting. 

      Good news, we are getting close! Bad news, the process is opaque, and I don't understand why they start assigning appointments for some people in February and March when people from January are still waiting .

  19. Josh B K

    Hello @Cristina0123, I hope you and your spouse are doing well. I see posts online that people are receiving interviews for DQ dates in february and march. By chance have you received an email from the NVC? 

     

    Joshua 

    1. Cristina0123

      Cristina0123

      Hi Josh! I have not unfortunately. But, I’m hopeful we will receive an email the first week of March. Have you received anything? 

    2. Josh B K

      Josh B K

      Nothing yet, but like you, I am hopeful it will be soon. I've observed that they tend to release appointments between the 20th and 28th of each month. I saw several announcements today on facebook. 

    3. Cristina0123

      Cristina0123

      I’m excited to hear this! You watch when  we wake up tomorrow there will be something in our inbox. 😉

  20. Josh B K
    @pb14mph Thank you for sharing your dates with this group! I've added you to my list, and I'll be in touch to see how the process goes for you guys!
  21. Josh B K

    Hello @UScitizen2023, Have you received notification of your interview in Ciudad Juarez? 

  22.    Josh B K reacted to a post in a topic: IR-1/CR-1 - Ciudad Juarez Interview Wait Times 2025-2026 [edited title]
  23. Josh B K
    My spouse and I are still waiting for an interview assignment in Ciudad Juarez, but based on announcements we've seen in FaceBook, we are hopeful to receive a notification of an interview date in February or March. Our DQ date was February 12, 2025. I'll announce here when we finally get an interview date assigned.
  24. Josh B K
    Welcome to our thread @Cristina0123. My DQ date is February 12, 2025; so, I expect we will both receive our appointment assignments soon. Based on my data, I expect to receive a notification in March 2026. I saw some people with January DQ dates receiving appointments this month; so, it's not unreasonable to hope for a notification in February. My spouse is Mexican and lives in Guadalajara. I am in Mexico a lot; so, we see each other regularly. My home is in Seattle, WA. Waiting over two years has been grueling, but hope is starting to spring forth as we approach 1 year from our DQ date.
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  26. Josh B K
    Happy January and Happy New Year. Today, I saw lots of announcements from people receiving their appointments in Ciudad Juarez for Documentarily Qualified (DQ'd) dates between November 29, 2024 to January 27, 2024. Below you can see my updated data charts. The average wait times chart is updated with new baselines for 2026. The gauges go red if average time to assign an interview climbs to over 450 days or average time for an appointment grows to over 550 days. The Observations gauge is reset to go green when I get more than 70 observations from real cases. Below you have a graph showing all my data points. X-axis shows the date the couple was documentarily qualified and the y axis shows the days they waited from DQ'd date to interview assignment. The trend is holding pretty steady at around 400 days.
  27. Josh B K

    Hello @UScitizen2023, I've been tracking Ciudad Juarez interviews and I've seen some people with Documentarily Qualified dates in January 2025 receiving appointment notifications.  I wanted to reach out and ask if you've received a notification of interview assignment. 

  28. Josh B K
    @Hark Z I added you to my tracking list and will stay in touch with you. Thanks for sharing your details!
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