US Visa Timeline Calculator

Build a planning scenario from your stage, a published estimate or your own interview date, and assumptions you can edit.

Need the published estimates first? See current US visa wait times at all Indian consulates, then come back to build your planning scenario.

Where are you in the process?

I have not booked an interviewUses a published estimate for your consulate and visa class.I have an interview dateUses the date in your booking account. No estimate is needed.

Consulate

Visa class

Travel or programme start date

Assumptions you can edit

Days to prepare before you book

Documents, DS-160 and fee payment. Replace with your own plan.

Days from interview to passport back

Passport return only. Administrative processing is not included and has no standard length.

Choose a consulate, a visa class and your target date to build a planning scenario.

Estimates are State Department figures read by WaitDelta on the date shown beside them. Confirm availability at travel.state.gov and in your booking account.

How the planning scenario works

The calculator starts from your stage. If you have not booked, it uses a State Department estimate for your consulate and visa class, read by WaitDelta on the date shown beside it. If you have an interview date, it uses that date and needs no estimate. H-1B and other petition-based classes are not listed while their figures are withheld; the interview-date stage works for any class.

Every date is labeled by where it comes from: a sourced estimate, a date you supplied, or an assumption you can edit. Preparation time and passport return are assumptions with no source behind them, so they are inputs you set, not a fixed buffer. The arithmetic is plain: interview = booking date + estimate, and passport back = interview + your passport-return days.

The scenario leaves out administrative processing. It has no standard length and can follow an interview, and if it applies to your case no date in the scenario holds. The estimate itself describes a published State Department figure, not the dates your booking account offers. How WaitDelta measures visa interview wait estimates explains what each figure is and is not. For every stage from documents to passport return, read How long does a US visa take from India?.

The scenario also leaves out the State Department's online presence review. As of March 30, 2026, social media vetting now covers U visa applicants as well as F, M, J, H-1B, H-4 and other categories, and no source publishes how long the review takes.