Pause Ledger

Tracks US immigrant visas — from the consular interview to the movement of the queue in the Visa Bulletin. It looks more closely than most at where the interview pause actually comes from and when it's genuinely lifted, rather than simply removed from a State Department page. Readers leave with a checked sequence, not rumors: what a cancelled or paused interview means for a given visa category and when to expect a new date. The focus stays on updates to the 75-country visa pause, how the Islamabad embassy behaves during cancellations, and practical matters like calculating a child's CSPA age or the new Public Charge bond requirement. It also walks through getting the Welcome Letter and filing a public inquiry with the NVC. Student or work visa questions outside this context aren't part of it.