US visa interview wait times dataset — 12 Latin American countries, daily refresh

Name: US visa interview wait times in Latin America (22 posts, 12 countries)
Creator: MigrantUSA
License: https://migrantusa.com/terms/

Downloadable dataset of US consulate visa-interview appointment wait times in 12 Latin American countries, refreshed daily from the State Department's global visa wait-times report.

US visa interview wait times dataset

Download: visa_wait_times.json · Coverage: US consular posts in 12 Latin American countries · Refresh: daily, automated

Appointment wait times for US visa interviews at the consulates Hispanic families actually use — Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Cuba routing, and Venezuela routing — parsed daily from the State Department’s global report.

What’s in each row

Per post and visa category: the current published wait (in days), the post city, and special routing notes where a country’s visa services are handled by another post (Cuba and Venezuela cases).

Method

A daily automated job retrieves the State Department report, extracts the covered posts, validates the shape, and replaces this file only when validation passes. Routing notes for closed or limited posts are verified manually against embassy announcements and re-checked when the tracker flags a change.

Where this data is used

The 13-month visa gap — all 22 posts ranked by next available B1/B2 appointment
US visa wait times cluster — live per-country pages
Consulate country hubs

A comparison table of current US visa-interview wait times across 12 Latin American countries — the soonest visitor (B1/B2) and student appointment per country, from the State Department’s own report (which updates roughly monthly). Copy this where you want it to appear:

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Suggested citation: MigrantUSA, “US visa interview wait times dataset,” migrantusa.com/datasets/visa-interview-wait-times/, retrieved [date].

Frequently asked questions

What do the wait times measure?

The State Department’s published estimate of how long a new applicant waits for the next available visa-interview appointment at each post, by visa category (visitor, student, worker, and interview-waiver where offered). They are estimates and change frequently — always check the current figure before planning.

How current is this dataset?

A daily automated job pulls the State Department’s global wait-times report and updates this file. The retrieval timestamp is in the _meta block.

Can I reuse this data?

Yes, with attribution to MigrantUSA and a link to this page. The source figures are public State Department data; this file adds the Latin America scope, post-level normalization, and a daily-refreshed stable schema.

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