Work backward,
start early enough

Every step between a Ukrainian document and a US visa interview has its own waiting time — and the interview itself now happens in another country. This works backward from your deadline to the latest safe date to begin each step, so nothing runs out of road.

Two different plans, not one. Preparing documents for your applications happens on one schedule, driven by your earliest application deadline. Getting the visa after you are admitted happens on a completely separate schedule, driven by your program's start date. This tool keeps them apart on purpose — pick the phase you are actually in right now.

Phase A · Step 1

Your earliest deadline

Documents like an apostilled, translated transcript are prepared once and reused across every application — so the binding constraint is the earliest deadline on your list. Enter a date for each school you are applying to; the schedule plans against the soonest.

Step 2 · Which documents you need to prepare

Each document is apostilled first, then translated — that order matters for the schedule. Untick a step a document doesn't need, or mark a document already done to take it off the plan.

Step 3 · Translation speed
This is a planning estimate, not a guarantee, and it assumes normal operating conditions. Every lead time here is a conservative range compiled from public guidance and carries its own source and date; real processing times vary, and appointment availability can change weekly or be paused entirely by policy with no notice. Confirm current visa wait times on the State Department page and current consular status for Ukraine before booking any non-refundable travel. Weekends are accounted for; public holidays are not, so leave a little extra room around them.

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