🇺🇸⚡️- The Trump Administration's pause on immigration visa appointments appears to have been internally lengthened according to Embassies' data across the world.

On Aug 25th 2026, Donald Trump issued a stop to all National Visa Center applications, citing a new "global training initiative at ​all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide". This announcement came alongside new plans to tighten entry measures against applicants who held anti-Israeli stances online. Informations have been given throughout September at inconsistent rates. AP News, citing sources in early September, said the applications' interviews were to be resumed in mid-September. However, virtually no applications have moved forward since then.

Applicants from various countries (Germany, France, Turkey) told Rerum Novarum that their planned interviews in late September and early October have been rescheduled or cancelled. Online forums dedicated to legal immigration have spread rumors that most Embassies were to resume interviews as soon as October 1st, but almost no applications have moved forward since then. According to new informations, the new agent training could last up to 60 days while also allowing for an earlier resuming of interviews in certain Embassies.

Legal experts in the medias are dumbfounded at the lack of communications from the State Department regarding this matter. Certain Embassies are estimated to reach an all-time high backlog of consular applications.

Note: the interviews are rescheduled indefinitely or cancelled, but the immigration applications themselves are simply frozen. This process is adding pressure to the consular workers without reducing the amount of legal immigration. According to data from independent websites such as TrackmyVisa, there has been no increase in self-terminated visa applications.