US visa appointments
Stop refreshing CGI Federal at 3am. Get pinged the moment a slot opens.
SlotOwl is a Chrome extension that watches CGI Federal, ais.usvisa-info.com, and other US visa scheduling portals from inside your already-logged-in browser tab. The instant a B1/B2, H1B, F1, or J1 interview slot becomes available at your selected consulate, you get a desktop notification, an email with a calendar invite, and a push notification on every device you've linked.
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Portals SlotOwl monitors out of the box
The built-in workflow targets common selectors across the entire CGI/AIS portal family. If your consulate uses a layout we haven't tested, the visual recorder lets you teach it in three clicks.
ais.usvisa-info.com
The CGI Federal portal used by most US embassies and consulates worldwide for nonimmigrant visa scheduling.
cgifederal.com
Country-specific subdomains (India, Mexico, Brazil, UAE, Philippines, etc.) all run on the same scheduling engine.
Specific consulate dashboards
Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, Manila, Rio, São Paulo and more.
How it works
SlotOwl runs entirely inside your own Chrome browser. We never log into the portal as you, and we never see your password.
Log into ais.usvisa-info.com yourself
Same as you do today. SlotOwl never asks for your portal credentials and has no way to obtain them.
Open SlotOwl and pick "US Visa — CGI Federal / AIS"
Click "Start monitoring." The extension polls every 20-60 seconds (depending on your plan) by clicking through to the schedule page exactly the way you would.
Get the alert the instant a slot opens
Desktop notification fires immediately. An email with a calendar invite (.ics) arrives within seconds. Web push notification lands on every linked device. You click in, book the slot, done.
Why this works (and won't get you banned)
The CGI Federal scheduling portals are unusually hostile to traditional scrapers — they block known datacenter IP ranges, rate-limit aggressively, and increasingly serve a "no appointments available" modal as a soft block when traffic patterns look automated. This is precisely why every "free Telegram bot" promising US visa alerts eventually disappears: the portal sees them coming and blacklists them.
SlotOwl avoids the entire problem by running where you are. Each check is a click that originates from your IP, your browser, your authenticated session — indistinguishable from a manual refresh. Polling defaults to one check per minute on Free, three checks per minute on Pro. Both rates fall well inside the range of someone tabbing back and forth between the schedule page and other tabs.
One caveat: if you have already triggered a soft block on your account from refreshing too aggressively yesterday, SlotOwl can't undo that. Wait 24-48 hours and try again with our default polling rate.
Common questions about US visa monitoring
I'm in India waiting on an H1B B1/B2 dropbox. Will this work for me?
Yes — the most common use case. Log into ustraveldocs.com / ais.usvisa-info.com / cgifederal.com (whichever your consulate routes you to), navigate to "Schedule Appointment" or "Reschedule Appointment", and start the workflow. The built-in selectors target the calendar component used by Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, and Kolkata.
What about EVUS, ESTA, or visa renewal interviews?
EVUS and ESTA do not have appointment scheduling — those are travel authorizations, not interviews. For visa renewal where the consulate offers an in-person option, the same workflow applies as long as the scheduling page uses the standard CGI/AIS calendar component.
Can I monitor multiple consulates at once?
On the Free plan, one workflow at a time. On Pro, you can run as many as you have Chrome tabs open. People monitoring across cities (e.g. Mumbai + Chennai + Hyderabad simultaneously) typically run Pro.
What if the portal asks me to re-authenticate?
SlotOwl will surface a "session expired" status in the popup. Sign back in, then resume monitoring — your workflow is preserved. We can't auto-handle the login because we deliberately never see your credentials.
How fast is "the moment a slot opens" really?
From the portal returning "available" to your phone vibrating: usually 5-15 seconds. The monitoring loop catches it within one polling cycle (20s on Pro), the alert fan-out (email + push) takes 2-5 seconds, and your phone's push delivery is sub-second. You should get an alert before most other people refreshing manually do.
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