The Consular Section will host a live Q&A session on US Immigrant Visas and the Diversity Visa Program this Friday at 10am GST on Instagram and Facebook. Submit any questions you have ahead of time on the Embassy’s Facebook page.

Channel
US Embassy Abu Dhabi - Immigrant Visa Unit
@abudhabiiv
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
4,272subscribers
-25 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001419855958 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @abudhabiiv |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 4 August 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 27 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 27 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/abudhabiiv |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug 2026, 03:44 | 4,272 | -3 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 04:16 | 4,275 | -9 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 21:24 | 4,284 | -2 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 15:18 | 4,286 | -6 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 09:27 | 4,292 | -4 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 08:23 | 4,296 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:15 | 4,297 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:05 | 4,297 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 4 August 2021 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 3 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 June 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
We have additional interview capacity from March 6 to March 9. Please go to Yatri to schedule your interview today! https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ae/iv/users/sign_in
Due to overwhelming demand and the lack of available medical treatment for Iraqis with certain conditions in the United Arab Emirates, we strongly suggest Iraqi applicants currently resident in Iraq who have their interview in Abu Dhabi schedule their medical exam in Iraq to avoid medical exam-related delays. These applicants from Iraq can visit https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Suppleme…
Security Notice: All visitors to the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi must follow certain security procedures. To avoid delaying your entry, please bring only what is required for your interview. No bags are allowed other than items required for baby or hygiene care; please carry the papers you need for your interview in a clear plastic bag. Cell phones and other electronics, including any battery-operated items, are not al…
Need to schedule or reschedule your immigrant visa interview in Abu Dhabi? Did you miss your interview date because of an illness or an unexpected emergency? You may seek a new date online at https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ae/iv/users/sign_in and seek availability in the calendar. No availability in the calendar? You may contact our customer service center if you require assistance: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ae/…
Did you know that the expiration date for your immigration visa is set to the expiration date of your immigration medical exam? Medical examination validity dates are typically six months from the examination date so therefore your visa’s validity will be set to that date.
In observance of Labor Day, the Consular Section at the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi will be closed on Monday, September 5.
The Embassy district in Abu Dhabi has lots of parking options. There are paid parking zones that are just a short walking distance from the U.S. Embassy. To avoid penalties, remember to purchase sufficient time for your parking. If you take a taxi or if a friend is dropping you off, avoid getting out of the vehicle directly in front of the Embassy. Stopping a vehicle, even temporarily, is prohibited in front of the U…
It’s super exciting to be able to finally attend your visa interview, but you must resist that urge to take a selfie with the U.S. Embassy in the background - photography is strictly prohibited in the Embassy district in Abu Dhabi. DO NOT take photographs of the U.S. Embassy prior to entry or after you exit the facility. Violators will be apprehended by the Abu Dhabi Police.
No one likes crying babies in crowded waiting rooms! Did you know that any family members between the ages of 0 and 13 years old listed in your immigrant visa/diversity visa case DO NOT need to come to the interview? You must, however, bring the requested documents for ALL family members, even those that do not have to come to the embassy.
The temperature outside is hot and space inside the Abu Dhabi Consular Section’s waiting area is limited, so the best strategy to avoid long wait times outdoors is to arrive at your scheduled appointment time, NOT earlier. For example, if your interview is at 9:00 a.m., we advise that you DO NOT come to the embassy before that time. Here’s a tip: bring a water bottle - there is a water fountain in the consular sectio…
Dear Applicants: for the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Program, Entrant Status Check on the E-DV website is the ONLY means by which the Department of State notifies selectees of their selection. If you receive notification through the Electronic Diversity Visa website that you have been selected for further processing in the DV Program, you must successfully complete the steps outlined at travel.state.gov before a co…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @abudhabiiv. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 27 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“US Embassy Abu Dhabi - Immigrant Visa Unit” (@abudhabiiv), 4,272 subscribers as measured 27 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/abudhabiiv.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.