Guides
Guides
Three explainers on what the numbers on this site are and are not. None gives advice; each says where the Department's own explanation can be found.
- Issuances are not applications: what a monthly issuance count includes and leaves out.
- What wait times measure: next available appointment versus average wait, and how the table has changed.
- How the Diversity Visa program is counted: entries, selectees and visas are three different numbers.
- Methodology and data sources.