The specialist site Netvistos published its twice-daily scrape of the U.S. State Department’s appointment portal at 09:00 BRT today (13 November), giving Brazilian applicants the most up-to-date picture of how long they will wait for a B1/B2 interview. While São Paulo still shows the country’s longest queue—an estimated 98 days to get before a consular officer—the surprise leader is Porto Alegre, where first-time applicants can secure an interview in about 19 days. For those eligible for the Interview Waiver (IW) programme, Recife currently offers the quickest turnaround, with passport-submission slots in as little as two days. Why it matters: Demand for U.S. visitor visas has soared since Washington re-imposed the requirement for Brazilians in April 2025, and corporate‐travel teams have struggled to predict lead-times for urgent assignments. Netvistos’ data, scraped every 12 hours, provides rare transparency into a system where official wait-time charts lump all Brazilian posts together and update only weekly. Trends: Compared with yesterday’s reading, São Paulo’s queue shortened by seven days, partly because hundreds of applicants rescheduled after the city’s consulate added extra Saturday interview windows. Brasília, by contrast, lengthened by three days after security staffing issues forced the cancellation of an afternoon shift earlier this week. Tips for employers: • Consider flying assignees to Porto Alegre or Recife if travel dates are tight; round-trip airfare often costs less than the productivity lost during months of waiting. • Beware of over-rescheduling: the Department of State has no hard cap, but excessive date changes trigger manual review. • Do not buy non-refundable tickets until the passport is back in hand—the published queues exclude post-interview processing. What’s next: Netvistos will issue a fresh snapshot at 21:00 BRT. If Saturday overtime continues, industry observers expect São Paulo’s queue to dip below 90 days for the first time since June.
Source: Netvistos
