US Immigrant Visa Interview Scheduling Monitor (NVC)

Your case is documentarily complete at the National Visa Center and you're waiting for the interview letter. Has NVC reached your month at your consulate yet? This Actor reads the State Department's official IV Scheduling Status Tool and tells you, per embassy or consulate, which month of documentarily complete cases NVC is currently scheduling for Immediate Relative, Family-Sponsored Preference and Employment-Based Preference immigrant visas, then:

• gives a plain-English verdict for your own case: enter your documentarily complete (DQ) date and it says whether NVC has reached your month at that post, and if not, by how many months it is behind,
• in monitor mode, reports only what moved since your last check (NVC advanced 3 months, moved back, a category appeared or disappeared),
• and, when you check several posts, ranks them most-current first.

The source is the State Department's own tool, updated monthly. The months are theirs, not an estimate; this Actor makes them scheduleable, comparable and diffable.

Who this is for

• Applicants (spouses, parents, children of US citizens, family preference, EB cases) waiting at the NVC stage who refresh the tool every day hoping their month has come up.
• Immigration attorneys and paralegals tracking many clients across many posts, every month, on a schedule.
• AI agents and workflows that need current NVC scheduling status as structured JSON.

What you get

One row per post you asked for, for example:

post	immediateRelative	familyPreference	employment	verdict
Ciudad Juarez	Aug-2025	Aug-2025	Jul-2023	NVC is scheduling Immediate Relative cases documentarily complete from Aug 2025; your Nov 2025 is 3 months later, so this post has not reached your case yet.
Manila	Feb-2026	Sep-2025	May-2023	NVC is scheduling Immediate Relative cases documentarily complete from Feb 2026, which is 3 months after your Nov 2025. Your case is in the window being scheduled, if a visa number is available.

Every month is given as the State Department's published text ("Mar-2025") and as "YYYY-MM". An older month means a longer backlog. "N/A" means the State Department did not publish a month for that post and category; the Actor never invents one.

When you check more than one post, a final comparison row (never charged) ranks them most-current first per category and names the most current, e.g. "mostCurrentPost": { "immediateRelative": "Manila (Feb-2026)" }.

Monitor mode

Turn on Monitor mode and schedule the Actor. The first run records a baseline for each post. Every later run compares against it and reports only real movement:

• Immediate Relative (spouse, child or parent of a US citizen): NVC advanced 3 months (Jan-2025 to Apr-2025).
• Family-Sponsored Preference (F1 to F4): scheduling month now published at Sep-2023 (was N/A).
• The State Department republished the tool (2026-07-08 to 2026-08-07) with no change for this post.

The State Department updates the tool monthly. A weekly schedule catches each update within days at near-zero cost. Use a different Watchlist ID per client list so baselines don't overwrite each other.

Input

Field	What to enter
Embassies / consulates	City names as on the tool, one per line: Ciudad Juarez, Manila, Mumbai, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City. Unambiguous partial names work (Juarez). An ambiguous name is reported with the candidates rather than guessed.
Immigrant visa category	all (default), immediateRelative, familyPreference or employment. Pick one category for the clearest verdict.
Your documentarily complete date	Optional, YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM. Turns on the per-post verdict.
Monitor mode	Off = one-time lookup. On = report only what moved since the last run.
Watchlist ID	Keeps separate monitor histories apart.
Reference mode	Turn on listAvailablePosts to get all 140+ post names and the category keys. Never charged.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.02 per post looked up (one-time lookup mode, verdict included)
• $0.05 per change detected (monitor mode, only when something actually moved)
• $0.005 per unchanged post confirmed (monitor mode)
• a small run-start fee that covers opening a real browser session to the State Department site ($0.04 per run at the default memory)

Posts that don't match anything, ambiguous names, the comparison row and reference mode are never charged.

What it actually costs in practice: watching your one consulate weekly is 4 runs a month, about $0.18 a month. An attorney watching 10 posts weekly: about $0.16 in run fees, $0.20 for 40 unchanged checks, and $0.05 per real change, so under $1 a month.

FAQ

Does this tell me my interview date? No. It tells you which DQ month NVC is currently scheduling at your post, which is exactly what the State Department's tool shows. If NVC has reached your month and a visa number is available (for preference categories, see the Visa Bulletin), expect a scheduling notice soon; the Actor says so in plain English but cannot see your individual case.

Why does a preference category say an older month than Immediate Relative? Preference cases can only be scheduled when a visa number is available under the monthly Visa Bulletin, so NVC is often scheduling a much older DQ month for them. Immediate Relative visas have no numerical limit.

Is this the CEAC case status or the appointment booking system? No. It reads the State Department's public scheduling-status tool only. It does not log in to CEAC, does not touch any appointment system, and cannot see, book or move individual appointments.

Why does it need a browser and a proxy? travel.state.gov sits behind a bot challenge. The Actor uses a real browser through a US residential proxy, which is why there is a small run-start fee. One session reads the whole tool, so checking 30 posts costs almost the same as checking one.

Is this legal? The data is a US Government work, in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). The State Department's own copyright notice states Consular Affairs information "may be copied and distributed without permission." No State Department seal or trademark is used.

If this saved you from refreshing the NVC tool by hand every morning, a review on the Actor page genuinely helps other applicants find it.