How to receive Email alerts for visa slots availability

Email Alerts Not Received

Email alerts will be sent only when we see (from our contributors) there is a slot available in your preferred window and you have a contribution from the CGI Email ID registered with us. Please check the subscription page to find recent notifications sent to ALL users under "Notifications History" section. Look for the "Reason" column in the section which shows the reason why you did not receive it, from the subscription page.

In most cases, it will one of the below 2 reasons for not receiving an email alert

  1. Your contributions were zero at the time when the email alerts are sent
  2. As agents are impersonating visa applicants, Contributions for the email alerts/ranking MUST come from the US Visa portal Email ID that was registered with checkvisaslots.com 
  3. The available slots were not in your preferred region

You can also track the last seen availability on https://checkvisaslots.com/last-us-visa-availability.html


If you registered with an incorrect email ID, here is how we can help with changing the email ID: https://support.checkvisaslots.com/portal/en/kb/articles/change-my-cgi-email-id-registered-with-checkvisaslots-comOtherwise, please email us at support@checkvisaslots.com with your access code.

Email alerts are sent to the subscribed users who contribute regularly. You can purchase the subscription here.

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