The visa bulletin for October interviews has been released – this being the first for DV2025. The numbers are pretty generous given the assumed case number ranges from the survey, however, we should not make the mistake (as many will) that this means we can calculate the final cutoff as 12 x these numbers. The visa bulletin doesn’t work like that. The numbers are increased (or not increased) based on visa availability, embassy capacity, and a little touch of chaos added in sometimes).

This visa bulletin also has the DV2025 selectee numbers. It looks like we have another overselected year at 131K, but I will be taking a closer look and publishing some analysis asap.

Best of luck to DV2025!!

Those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, can normally expect their 2NL in the next 2 to 3 weeks from now. This is supposed to be the same every month. VB from the 8th to the 15th of each month, and 2NLs in the second half of the month. For the last few months there have been 2NLs in daily batches, but we seem to be moving to a more normal procedure where almost all the 2NLs are sent before the end of the month, with just a handful being sent earlier this month. I would normally expect all the interview 2NLs to have all been sent by the end of this month, but we can see recently they are exceeding that to try and get as many interviews in as possible. They can be sent right up until the last day of the month, and even the first few days of the following month during exceptional times.

To those new to looking at VBs, let me explain what the “except” XXX country means – and you can also read this post on how to read the visa bulletin.