The Visa Bulletin has been released, and it is almost an exact copy of the last VB, again. This is extremely frustrating, and completely unjustified by the data. It means they will waste embassy capacity in June, just as they did in May.

In Europe in particular, most embassies are without any significant backlog, so there will not be enough cases found to fill the capacity of the embassies. This will continue the low number of 2NLs we will see in each region, which is a pattern I have shown in the report you may have seen on my live sessions, which I will show again here.

So it seems they are not doing as they promised during the pause – and clearly shows bad faith by the government in operating the DV2026 process.



Here are the VB numbers.

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. One quick point, the 2NLs tend to come out in an approximate alphabetical order, based on the city name of the embassy. So, Addis and Accra tend to be early, and an embassy such as Yaounde would be later. As ever, just be patient…

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.